{"id":168,"date":"2007-08-30T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2007-08-30T05:51:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T10:51:53","slug":"bobby-seems-to-be-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Seems To Be Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&#038;post=168\">One thing<\/a> before I go:<\/p>\n<p><i>Diaz, sporting a fresh haircut by Dolphin Stadium&#8217;s resident barber, continued his inexplicable mastery of Florida pitching with two homers and a double in the Braves&#8217; badly needed 7-4 win against the Marlins on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish he had enough at-bats &#8212; he&#8217;d lead the league in hitting,&#8221; manager Bobby Cox said after his Braves came away with a 2-1 series win to salvage something from an otherwise disappointing road trip in which they lost six of 10 games.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You <i>do<\/i> know that you&#8217;re the one who has control over how many at-bats he gets . . . right, Bobby?? This is like saying, &#8220;too bad I cost him the batting title and the team a shitload of runs! C&#8217;est la vie!&#8221; I liked the platoon with Willie, I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;. Weird quote.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly related, for radio listeners: how great was Pete when Escobar got hit and Matty followed up with a homer and &#8220;fist pump&#8221; in the direction of Dontrelle? &#8220;It&#8217;s as if he&#8217;s saying, take <i>that<\/i>, for hitting my teammate!&#8221; Too cute, Pete.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good Labor Day weekend, everyone . . . see you at the Mets series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing before I go: Diaz, sporting a fresh haircut by Dolphin Stadium&#8217;s resident barber, continued his inexplicable mastery of Florida pitching with two homers and a double in the Braves&#8217; badly needed 7-4 win against the Marlins on Wednesday night. &#8220;I wish he had enough at-bats &#8212; he&#8217;d lead the league in hitting,&#8221; manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"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=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}