{"id":1655,"date":"2017-08-02T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T04:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2017-08-02T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T04:18:31","slug":"how-to-lose-a-game-you-had-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"How to lose a game you had in the bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step #1: Stake best pitcher in baseball to a 6-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Step #2: Have best pitcher in baseball leave game after one inning due to some kind of bizarre neck spasm. (Apparently he slept on it funny. Or something like that.)<\/p>\n<p>Step #3:\u00a0Have MASN put\u00a0graphic on board showing how great the new-and-improved bullpen has been since acquiring Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle.<\/p>\n<p>Step #4: Don&#8217;t have either one of those guys pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Step #5: Watch said bullpen blow lead and lose game 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>Step #6: #smh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step #1: Stake best pitcher in baseball to a 6-0 lead. Step #2: Have best pitcher in baseball leave game after one inning due to some kind of bizarre neck spasm. (Apparently he slept on it funny. Or something like &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1655\">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-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}