{"id":1548,"date":"2017-05-03T08:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T04:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T04:51:22","slug":"wizards-magic-act-fading-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Wizards&#8217; magic act fading fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a maxim I&#8217;ve asserted for many years and it is this: Ninety percent of sporting events are won by the better team. There&#8217;s always a better team, and they win 90 percent of games played, whether on sandlots, parking lots, or national television.<\/p>\n<p>When I look at the 2016-17 Washington Wizards and their counterparts from Boston, I&#8217;m sorry to say that thems from Boston are simply the better team. And they&#8217;ve shown us as much in the first two games of their series. I&#8217;m still holding out hope, of course, as the Wiz now return home (where they have dominated in recent months), but I still remain realistic. This series, again, has me reading baseball scores with greater intent.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals, though? They&#8217;re the better team, and with a win tonight and a brand-new series, who knows how high they&#8217;ll inflate my expectations. Probably enough to have me say something stupidly optimistic on this very blog later this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a maxim I&#8217;ve asserted for many years and it is this: Ninety percent of sporting events are won by the better team. There&#8217;s always a better team, and they win 90 percent of games played, whether on sandlots, parking &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}