{"id":5166,"date":"2025-10-22T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:07:22","slug":"im-good-with-this-world-series-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5166","title":{"rendered":"I’m good with this World Series matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of this year’s American League Championship Series I found myself pulling for the Seattle Mariners. After all, they’d never been to the World Series, a drought since their inception in 1977.<\/p>\n

But on the Toronto Blue Jays bench there was a coach who’s had a drought since 1961, a certain Donald Arthur Mattingly, my hero since the Reagan administration.<\/div>\n
With the Blue Jays win Donnie Baseball is finally going to the World Series, and this guy finds himself pulling for the team north of the border.<\/div>\n
First time for everything.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the beginning of this year’s American League Championship Series I found myself pulling for the Seattle Mariners. After all, they’d never been to the World Series, a drought since their inception in 1977. But on the Toronto Blue Jays … Continue reading →<\/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-5166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","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=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5167,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/5167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}