{"id":2378,"date":"2014-12-11T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-12-11T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:42:23","slug":"for-jimmy-and-my-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/for-jimmy-and-my-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"For Jimmy&#8230;and My Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In honor of one of my favorite Phillies of all time, who&#8217;s been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, I&#8217;m reviving\u00a0this Throwback Thursday post from October 2009 on The Main Stage. I&#8217;m happy to report that all is well with Mom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14yEO8nfqxE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis one goes out to the Phillies&#8217; <strong>Jimmy Rollins<\/strong> and <strong>my Mom<\/strong>. Jimmy wrapped up maybe the most amazing game I&#8217;ve seen in person. In last year&#8217;s Phils-Brewers NLDS I saw <strong>Brett Myers<\/strong> draw a 32-pitch walk off <strong>CC Sabathia<\/strong> followed by, a few batters later, a <strong>Shane Victorino<\/strong> grand slam. But there was still a lot of baseball left to play. Nevertheless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/things-as-a-blogger-i-feel-responsible-f\">a pure lovefest broke<\/a> out that seemed to follow the typically cranky town of Philadelphia through the 2008 playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s two-out, two-run gapper in the bottom of the 9th by &#8220;midget&#8221; J-Roll off giant (no quotes needed) Dodgers&#8217; closer <strong>Jonathan Broxton<\/strong> was <em>IT<\/em>, the end of a game that most teams have no business winning at this time of the year. Regardless of what happens the rest of this season, this Phils team isn&#8217;t most teams. I was there with my oldest friend, and he was there in relief of my Mom. We were supposed to attend this game together, but she&#8217;s going through some tough times at the moment and couldn&#8217;t make it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WUCC-3e8U0\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe last time my friend and I were at any sort of playoff game together it was a late &#8217;70s or early &#8217;80s Sixers-Celtics semifinals, in which the Sixers were eliminated on a last-second buzzer-beater by <strong>Jo Jo White<\/strong>. I thought of that game and I thought of my Mom as Jimmy&#8217;s perfectly placed line drive dove between the Dodgers&#8217; outfielders and rolled to the wall. All around us Phillies fans were jumping and hugging in ways that the most idealistic, hippie, free-love advocates could only dream about. As I felt last year in that game against the Brewers, any two or more of us could have ripped off our clothes and gone at it in the aisles. Sorry if I&#8217;ve tarnished these touching feelings I&#8217;m trying to express right now, but it&#8217;s only natural, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in no way intending to puff out my chest and prematurely celebrate anything. What I&#8217;m hoping to simply <em>acknowledge<\/em> is some small sense of the the battle, the ties that bond, and all that jazz. You may get it from a sporting event, you may get it from a <strong>Boss<\/strong> concert, you may get it from a quick roll in the aisles. If you haven&#8217;t gotten it lately, I hope you get it soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of one of my favorite Phillies of all time, who&#8217;s been traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, I&#8217;m reviving\u00a0this Throwback Thursday post from October 2009 on The Main Stage. I&#8217;m happy to report that all is well with Mom. This one goes out to the Phillies&#8217; Jimmy Rollins and my Mom. Jimmy wrapped <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/for-jimmy-and-my-mom\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}