{"id":441,"date":"2007-03-31T22:19:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-31T22:52:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T22:52:53","slug":"as-thoughts-turn-to-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/as-thoughts-turn-to-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Dugout Chatter: When Thoughts Turn to Baseball Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/dugout400x400.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/dugout400x400.swf\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s one of those days when thoughts turn to baseball. Take your turn at bat, take a hack, see if you can get a hit!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By what date will <strong>Ken Griffey Jr.<\/strong> land on the DL (for the first time this year)?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s sadder, another year for the Cubs without a healthy <strong>Mark Prior<\/strong> or another year for the Cubs without a healthy <strong>Kerry Wood<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>What, exactly, is the official location for the Angels this year?<\/p>\n<p>Do Nationals fans have anything to look forward to in 2007 beside <strong>Ryan Zimmerman<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t <strong>George Steinbrenner&#8217;s son-in-law<\/strong> have waited a few more years to screw up his marriage and ruin his chance to inherit the Yankees?<\/p>\n<p>Will there be any joy outside San Francisco the night <strong>Barry Bonds<\/strong> breaks Hank Aaron&#8217;s career home run record?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jFOHTnmRxQs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat will be more depressing, another inning Phillies fans have to endure of new announcer <strong>Gary Matthews<\/strong> or additional details about Gary Matthews Jr. and his alleged purchase of human growth hormone?<\/p>\n<p>What gimmick will MLB tack onto this year&#8217;s unbelievably boring <strong>Home Run Derby<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Who will be the <strong>surprise teams<\/strong> of the NL and the AL?<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree that this is the year <strong>Brett Myers<\/strong> wins the NL Cy Young Award?<\/p>\n<p>Who will win the battle of <strong>Ichiro vs Dice-K<\/strong>, when the Mariners and Red Sox square off?<\/p>\n<p>Will <strong>Peter Gammons<\/strong> do more than 5 stories through the course of the year that don&#8217;t involve the Red Sox?<\/p>\n<p>Do you think <strong>Pedro Gomez<\/strong> is counting the days &#8217;til he gets released from the Bonds beat?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What key question about the upcoming season did I forget to ask?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those days when thoughts turn to baseball. Take your turn at bat, take a hack, see if you can get a hit! By what date will Ken Griffey Jr. land on the DL (for the first time this year)? What&#8217;s sadder, another year for the Cubs without a healthy Mark Prior or <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/as-thoughts-turn-to-baseball\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}