{"id":218,"date":"2008-04-30T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-04-30T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:04:40","slug":"another-loss-to-the-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Another Loss to the Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man. Talk of Smoltz returning to the bullpen. I laughed when it was Barry Zito; perhaps this is karma coming back to haunt me. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to say about this season so far. I thought we would at least have one of those excitingly awful years. You know what I mean? Where you&#8217;re so low that it just starts to get hilarious? But there&#8217;s a zombie quality to this team right now that prevents even that. Also, they occasionally win games and get my hopes up. Maybe kicking some ass would turn things around:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves08\/matty0428208.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I mean kicking ass the old fashioned way, since we can&#8217;t seem to do it the baseball way: grab someone&#8217;s head and pop &#8217;em in the face! Matty has the right idea here. I still say a long overdue inaugural Baby Braves brawl would solve all our problems. <\/p>\n<p>And one more thing:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves08\/frenchyfather.jpg\"><br \/>\nUmpire: Frenchy. <i>I<\/i> am your father.<br \/>\nFrenchy: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man. Talk of Smoltz returning to the bullpen. I laughed when it was Barry Zito; perhaps this is karma coming back to haunt me. I don&#8217;t know what to say about this season so far. I thought we would at least have one of those excitingly awful years. You know what I mean? Where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}