{"id":397,"date":"2008-04-24T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T18:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=397"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:40:19","slug":"mlb-dugouts-no-water-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"MLB dugouts: no water allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want an example of\u00c2\u00a0sponsorship lunacy?<\/p>\n<p>Gatorade are the &#8220;official sports drink&#8221; of MLB; therefore no MLB player is allowed to drink anything but this product in a dugout.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, no doubt Gatorade pay MLB a lot of money to be their official sports drink, so you can understand why there are safe guards to stop rival brands getting a share of the spotlight for free.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/yankees\/index.ssf\/2008\/04\/dont_drink_the_water.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a><\/em> is taking things a bit too far.\u00c2\u00a0 Players aren&#8217;t even allowed to visibly drink unbranded water in the dugouts for fear that it might make a single soul question whether Gatorade is the greatest drink in the history of the universe.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where there&#8217;s money, there&#8217;s madness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want an example of\u00c2\u00a0sponsorship lunacy? Gatorade are the &#8220;official sports drink&#8221; of MLB; therefore no MLB player is allowed to drink anything but this product in a dugout.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, no doubt Gatorade pay MLB a lot of money to be their official sports drink, so you can understand why there are safe guards to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}