{"id":171,"date":"2007-09-07T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-09-07T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T20:07:58","slug":"time-to-break-out-the-big-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Time To Break Out the Big Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanta.braves.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070906&#038;content_id=2192674&#038;vkey=news_atl&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=atl\">one of his quotes<\/a>, Frenchy brings up the incident that I always think of whenever things start to look impossible:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;For us, I know mathematically it&#8217;s getting tough to make the playoffs, but you&#8217;re never out of it,&#8221; right fielder Jeff Francoeur said. &#8220;The A&#8217;s won 20 games in a row a couple years ago (2002), and we&#8217;ve seen teams go on big winning streaks and teams falter late in the year.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As long as this is still a true historical fact, hope is not lost! I guess! I mean, this was not my mood at all this weekend, but hey, that game on Wednesday? Maybe it was a sign! We do have one of those 20-game in a row A&#8217;s on our team! You never know!<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m trying to say is: here&#8217;s a picture of Rent and his goldfish for good luck.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/littleedgar.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the sliced-off text, but my scanner isn&#8217;t big enough to capture this photo in its full glory. Thanks to the Braves Pet Calendar for the image. I got such a kick out of Little Edgar that, shortly after buying the calendar at CNN Center, I went to a Thrashers game, had a few $10 daiquiris and texted &#8220;merry xmas little edgar!!!&#8221; to the scoreboard. It&#8217;s one of the few things I&#8217;ve ever texted there that actually made it past the censors. <\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals may have the <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/sports\/the-fast-and-the-furryous\/can-one-courageous-squirrel-make-a-difference-in-the-nl-central-296918.php\">incredibly awesome Rally Squirrel<\/a>, but we&#8217;ve got Little Edgar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of his quotes, Frenchy brings up the incident that I always think of whenever things start to look impossible: &#8220;For us, I know mathematically it&#8217;s getting tough to make the playoffs, but you&#8217;re never out of it,&#8221; right fielder Jeff Francoeur said. &#8220;The A&#8217;s won 20 games in a row a couple years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}