{"id":4690,"date":"2024-10-21T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2024-10-21T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:04:42","slug":"rekindling-some-old-yankees-dodgers-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4690","title":{"rendered":"Rekindling some old Yankees-Dodgers magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV execs have been dreaming about this one since 1981, and now it&#8217;s here: a Yankees-Dodgers World Series.<\/p>\n<p>In 41 seasons between 1941 and 1981 it happened 11 times, with seven of those as all-New York affairs. The Bronx Bombers won six of those seven, then the teams split the next four.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been 43 years, and I&#8217;ve yet to see it in my lifetime. Assuming I make it to Friday, it&#8217;s on. I was even willing to plunk down the 30 bucks to get Sling for a month to watch the damn games!<\/p>\n<p>Me parting with money&#8230; proof you know you&#8217;re getting something good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV execs have been dreaming about this one since 1981, and now it&#8217;s here: a Yankees-Dodgers World Series. In 41 seasons between 1941 and 1981 it happened 11 times, with seven of those as all-New York affairs. The Bronx Bombers &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4690\">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-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","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=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}