{"id":8355,"date":"2010-06-25T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2010-06-24T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T20:33:06","slug":"web-pick-of-the-week-baseball-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8355","title":{"rendered":"Web pick of the week: Baseball Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6264\" title=\"Web-Pick\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Web-Pick.png\" alt=\"Web-Pick\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web pick is the classic <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=3006212934364518855#\" target=\"_blank\">Looney Tune &#8216;Baseball Bugs&#8217;<\/a>, which among other things added yet another phrase into the incredible lexicon of baseball.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally you will find a pitcher whose change-up is so confounding to the batter, it looks as though the ball has come to a stop somewhere between the pitcher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mound and home plate.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The batter swings so early at the offering that you could imagine him getting in position again and taking another hack at it before it actually crosses the plate.<\/p>\n<p>The name for such a devastating pitch: a Bugs Bunny change-up.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bugs debuted his pitch back in 1946 in the classic cartoon. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll perplex him with my slow ball\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, says Bugs, and so he does, along with two other batters!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baseball Bugs is just 7 and a half minutes long, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full of classic moments,\u00c2\u00a0from Bugs talking up his batting prowess (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wham, a homer, wham, another homer!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)\u00c2\u00a0to chirping away behind the plate like all good catchers (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the old pepper boy, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the old pitching, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s putting it over the old plate boy!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d),\u00c2\u00a0and is a much-cherished piece of baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popular culture history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s web pick is the classic Looney Tune which, among other things, added yet another phrase into the incredible lexicon of baseball<\/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":[224,86],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-cartoons","tag-web-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","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=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}