{"id":8778,"date":"2010-08-07T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2010-08-08T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T11:13:32","slug":"600-fun-news-items-that-aren%e2%80%99t-about-a-rod-getting-600-home-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8778","title":{"rendered":"600 Fun News Items That Aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t About A-Rod Getting 600 Home Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MlbHlSq\"Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying someone reaching 600 home runs in their career isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t impressive. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t newsworthy. I’m not saying that it is not worthy of comment. But here in the Out of Left Field <\/em>offices we have more important things to worry about.<\/p>\n

So, in time-honoured, lazy as hell fashion here is a list of other stuff that is more interesting to us (when I say “us”, I mean “me”, oh, and that talk about an Out of Left Field <\/em>office was rubbish too, of course, and this interlude is really ruining this sentence) than some guy who may or may not have had some chemical assistance hitting a ball, lots of times. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not opening that particular can of worms. No sir. Not when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got all this fun to look at. With our very own eyes. Right now, in easy to understand, numbered form.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Washington Nationals are all about public art, with a proposal of a giant \u00e2\u20ac\u0153theoretical model of the trajectory of a curving fast-ball pitch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>. It looks like a load of balls to me. Boom tish. Yes, I am here all week.<\/li>\n
  2. Joe DiMaggio showed a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defective attitude toward the service\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conscious attitude of hostility and resistance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> in the US Army, despite being given a cushy post, seeing no combat and not having to go overseas. He would, of course, after the war go on to marry Marilyn Monroe. Where is the justice in this world?<\/li>\n
  3. The Tampa Bay Rays are not the most hygienic bunch. Your beer may well be served in a plastic cup that was used the day before.<\/a> I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all for recycling but that is just a bit\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6eww.<\/li>\n
  4. A Jerry Garcia Tribute Night is being held by the San Francisco Giants.<\/a> Yet Tim Lincecum is not the starting pitcher. This is a missed opportunity.<\/li>\n
  5. Kyle Lohse bought the Cardinals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Double-A side a new ping-pong table.<\/a> What a nice guy. It does make me think \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Double-A Clubhouse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Youth Club\u00e2\u20ac\u009d may be interchangeable terms though.<\/li>\n
  6. Tampa wish they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a roof.<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Ken Burns is filming another \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of his documentary series on baseball.<\/a> Now, where can I find the first nine?<\/li>\n
  8. Inside the park home run!<\/a> Yay!<\/li>\n
  9. The Australian Baseball League!<\/a> Bonza!<\/li>\n
  10. OK, maybe I was pushing it saying there would be 600 news items.<\/li>\n
  11. I mean, there is only so much that goes on in one week, right?<\/li>\n
  12. Have you seen anything fun this week? That would help?<\/li>\n
  13. Well, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re up to 13 now. Kind of.<\/li>\n
  14. Will this do?<\/li>\n
  15. See you next week!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying someone reaching 600 home runs in their career isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t impressive. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t newsworthy. I’m not saying that it is not worthy of comment. But here in the Out of Left Field offices we have more important things to worry about. So, in time-honoured, lazy as hell fashion here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[98,134,119,102,109],"class_list":["post-8778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8794,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions\/8794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}