{"id":3829,"date":"2022-10-19T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2022-10-19T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:47:41","slug":"thank-goodness-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3829","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness for villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At various times over the past decade or so the New York Yankees and Houston Astros have been, for one reason or another, &#8220;bad for baseball.&#8221; Stealing signs, stealing players&#8230; in one way or another,\u00a0<em>cheating<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, who cares. These are the best teams left, and thank goodness we have them facing off in one of the LCS matchups.<\/p>\n<p>But damn that NL game last night was pretty good too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to refrain from calling it the battle of the Washington has-beens, just a couple of overlooked squads whose magic is coming just at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the series that&#8217;s\u00a0<em>not<\/em> as high profile.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this is going to be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At various times over the past decade or so the New York Yankees and Houston Astros have been, for one reason or another, &#8220;bad for baseball.&#8221; Stealing signs, stealing players&#8230; in one way or another,\u00a0cheating. Yup, who cares. These are &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3829\">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-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829","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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3831,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/revisions\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}