{"id":40,"date":"2006-06-29T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2009-07-21T22:08:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:08:03","slug":"a-class-on-how-to-play-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"A class on how to play baseball."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a Red Sox fan since the days of Carl Yastrzemski. When I was a kid playing ball, like all kids of those days, I held my bat way high over my head like Yaz did. I had a number 8 shirt, too. Then in 1975 there was the awesome Carlton Fisk walk-off homer in Game 6 to tie the series against the Reds. I was watching that one with my folks and we all went nuts when it cleared the foul pole. No miracles the next night, though. I was listening on Armed Forces radio in Germany in &#8217;86, ready to celebrate a long awaited World Series victory when the ball went through&#8230;well, you know. And I was almost in tears just like every other Sox fan when the &#8217;04 Idiots finally pulled it out against the Yankmees and then walked past the Cards. But tonight against the NY Mets, I saw a team that had it all working at the basics level. They hit big; they hit small. The got the typical clutch homer from Ortiz and they manufactured runs when they needed to. Schilling was strong and Timlin\/Papelbon were stingy as ever. But the sense that this is going to be a World Series year for the Sox came with this incredible catch by Coco Crisp. Un-be-lievable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bimmermail.com\/coco.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet catch.\" title=\"Sweet catch.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a mature team with all the heart and soul they need to make a run for the pennant. They have it all this year and they put on a master class tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a Red Sox fan since the days of Carl Yastrzemski. When I was a kid playing ball, like all kids of those days, I held my bat way high over my head like Yaz did. I had a number 8 shirt, too. Then in 1975 there was the awesome Carlton Fisk walk-off homer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}