{"id":15,"date":"2007-02-15T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-02-15T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T03:19:45","slug":"im-freakin-out-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Freakin&#8217; Out, Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I tried, but I can&#8217;t wait until tomorrow! There was actual baseball coverage on ESPN this evening, I hardly knew what to do with myself.<\/p>\n<p><!--cut=And we have our first pictures!--><\/p>\n<p>These are from AJC.com:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/gonzalez1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez arrives, looking pretty badass: check out those calf muscles. Hell yeah, that&#8217;s what our bullpen has been lacking, am I right?! Apparently he is a &#8220;clubhouse favorite.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.braves.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070215&#038;content_id=1802722&#038;vkey=news_atl&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=atl\">Diaz approves.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/thororr.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>No, Thor, do not interact with Orr, he&#8217;s poison! I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re name-rhyming Canadians, let him go, man!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/heapst1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Heap signs an autograph for a rumpled guy in sweats. Heap, you&#8217;re such a hero. I love how he&#8217;s in street clothes and just carrying a bat around with him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/thorgum.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Hooray for Thor randomly showing up with the pitchers and catchers. Boo for Orr doing the same, but hooray for Thor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/yatesduckcall.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yates does some duck calls to pass the time. You kooky Braves! If you&#8217;re not golfing you&#8217;re hunting, or pretending to. At least we&#8217;ve been emancipated from LaRoche and the endless talk of deer stands as inspiration\/distraction\/offseason conditioning.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/cut--><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully they&#8217;ll post more on the official site tomorrow. Wire Image hasn&#8217;t even posted anything from the Yankee or Red Sox camps, so I&#8217;m not holding my breath for Braves pictures showing up there anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><b>Around the League:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070215&#038;content_id=1803050&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=mlb\">Kerry Wood is already injured.<\/a> A hot tub was involved. Naturally.<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070215&#038;content_id=1803330&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=mlb\">Zito is already freaking the Giants out.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>That Other League:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070215&#038;content_id=1803247&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=mlb\">The Yankees are already publically bitch slapping and having clique drama.<\/a> Girls, please! Only<br \/>\n in an article about the Yankees could the phrase &#8220;desire questioned&#8221; be used in the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Dude, yay all around. Bring this season the hell on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I tried, but I can&#8217;t wait until tomorrow! There was actual baseball coverage on ESPN this evening, I hardly knew what to do with myself. These are from AJC.com: Gonzalez arrives, looking pretty badass: check out those calf muscles. Hell yeah, that&#8217;s what our bullpen has been lacking, am I right?! Apparently he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,8,2,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"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=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}