{"id":163,"date":"2007-08-22T09:57:28","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T14:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2007-08-22T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T14:59:19","slug":"no-excuses-except-for-this-really-good-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses, Except For This Really Good One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One principle that never fails when it comes to quotes from ballplayers: as soon as you hear them say &#8220;no excuses,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.braves.mlb.com\/news\/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070821&#038;content_id=2161555&#038;vkey=recap&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=atl\">they&#8217;re about to offer up an excuse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;There&#8217;s no excuses,&#8221; Moylan said. &#8220;The ball just kept slipping out of my hand, and no matter of rosin would keep it sticky. I&#8217;ve never had that problem before.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually a pretty good excuse. I mean, I&#8217;ll take it. We don&#8217;t <i>want<\/i> to be mad at you, Moylan. Heck, I don&#8217;t want to be mad at any of them, except of course Hampton. I can&#8217;t even believe he has the nerve to dress out for games. He&#8217;s going to be my excuse when explaining this season as a fan. As soon as someone opens his mouth to, I don&#8217;t know, criticize our record at home, or Andruw&#8217;s complete offensive collapse, or that time Chipper slept with a Hooters waitress (it amazes me how often people cite this as a reason to hate the Braves), I&#8217;ll just say, &#8220;Yeah, well &#8212; no excuses, but, I mean. Mike Hampton.&#8221; That should shut them up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One principle that never fails when it comes to quotes from ballplayers: as soon as you hear them say &#8220;no excuses,&#8221; they&#8217;re about to offer up an excuse. &#8220;There&#8217;s no excuses,&#8221; Moylan said. &#8220;The ball just kept slipping out of my hand, and no matter of rosin would keep it sticky. I&#8217;ve never had that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}