{"id":140,"date":"2007-06-26T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2007-06-26T08:16:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T13:16:24","slug":"heeeeeaaaaap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Heeeeeaaaaap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s the Heap we all know and love, singlehandedly winning games and <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.braves.mlb.com\/news\/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070625&#038;content_id=2048685&#038;vkey=recap&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=atl\">pretending<\/a> he wasn&#8217;t 3-run-homer offended when they had the nerve to walk Andruw to get to him! Give &#8217;em hell, Heap!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/smheapfrenchy06252.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Just before he hit his RBI single, Pete was talking Doomsday, bringing up Heap&#8217;s career .275 average in the minors, reminding us that there is a chance that Heap&#8217;s 2006 was a once in a lifetime thing. I don&#8217;t expect him to hit .333 every year, but c&#8217;mon, Pete! He&#8217;s too smart to hit .275, let alone .250. It was great to see the Heapster carry the team on his shoulders right after Pete, usually quite a homer-ish optimist, brought up the ole&#8217; minor league numbers. It&#8217;s a legitimate point, but I continue to think that Heap was just slumping because of that pesky left ring finger, and that he&#8217;s still fighting to get rid of bad habits that developed after that injury. I think the stress of the team&#8217;s recent performance probably has some effect on how slowly he&#8217;s returning to form.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. When things go wrong with Heap, I&#8217;ll blame the rest of the team. Ha . . .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/smheap06252.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, God, Woodward. Don&#8217;t even touch him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s the Heap we all know and love, singlehandedly winning games and pretending he wasn&#8217;t 3-run-homer offended when they had the nerve to walk Andruw to get to him! Give &#8217;em hell, Heap! Just before he hit his RBI single, Pete was talking Doomsday, bringing up Heap&#8217;s career .275 average in the minors, reminding us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}