{"id":5379,"date":"2026-05-11T08:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2026-05-11T06:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:07:43","slug":"teams-of-my-youth-are-dominating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5379","title":{"rendered":"Teams of my youth are dominating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Knicks keep winning games by 30 points or more I&#8217;m going to feel good going into the next&#8230; actually, no, I&#8217;m just going to\u00a0<em>feel good<\/em>, like, about\u00a0<em>life<\/em>,\u00a0and the universe and everything.<\/p>\n<p>Someone go back and tell 12-year-old Mike that things are going to be okay, you&#8217;ve just got to wait 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are playing these days like the NBA&#8217;s answer to Binghamton Black Bears, FPHL champions for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>A hat trick, for those of you who like hockey lingo.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years of various AHL, NAHL, and UHL teams in Binghamton and they win one championship.<\/p>\n<p>We finally found a league we can dominate.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody tell 12-year-old Mike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Knicks keep winning games by 30 points or more I&#8217;m going to feel good going into the next&#8230; actually, no, I&#8217;m just going to\u00a0feel good, like, about\u00a0life,\u00a0and the universe and everything. Someone go back and tell 12-year-old Mike &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5379\">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-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","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=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}