{"id":237,"date":"2008-06-06T21:56:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T02:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-06-06T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T02:56:53","slug":"friday-ups-and-downs-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Friday Ups and Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Red Sox &#8211; Swept TB and took over first place again (for the time being).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Red Sox -\u00c2\u00a0They can sweep the best team in the AL East and get clobbered by the worst team in baseball (again). Seattle comes to Fenway, where the Sox almost never lose, having lost four in a row and with only one win in their last 14 road games. Yet they make the Sox look bad. Colon didn&#8217;t help with his first inning carelessness. I&#8217;ll never understand how a guy\u00c2\u00a0who can put a fastball within inches of where he wants it can&#8217;t throw a ball within yards of a base.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Manny Ramirez &#8211; Gets #500. And another thumbs up to the fan who caught the ball and gave it back to Manny so it could be auctioned for charity. Classy move, Mr. Damon Woo. You&#8217;re ok. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Pitchers intentionally hitting batters. &#8211; This needs to stop. Should be an automatic 5 *start* suspension.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Celtics\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; One game down. Three more wins to go. Beat LA!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumbsdown.gif\" height=\"21\" style=\"width: 22px; height: 21px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 Speculators &#8211; Greedy bastards. The idiots in Congress need to come up with some decent regulations. That&#8217;ll never happen, though.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" src=\"https:\/\/randomography.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_thumb.gif\" height=\"18\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 18px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0Summer class is done. &#8211; Tough course. Glad it&#8217;s over. Now I get to spend my free time doing stuff I want to do.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ups and downs of the week. \u00c2\u00a0Red Sox &#8211; Swept TB and took over first place again (for the time being). \u00c2\u00a0Red Sox -\u00c2\u00a0They can sweep the best team in the AL East and get clobbered by the worst team in baseball (again). Seattle comes to Fenway, where the Sox almost never lose, having lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-school","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}