{"id":54,"date":"2007-03-28T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-03-28T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T16:00:51","slug":"when-your-batting-coach-laughs-in-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"When Your Batting Coach Laughs In Your Face . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what, Terry, when Frenchy comes up to you and says he wants to improve his plate discipline, your response probably shouldn&#8217;t be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/braves\/stories\/2007\/03\/27\/0328braves.html\">&#8220;yeah, right.&#8221;<\/a> You can think it, I don&#8217;t blame you, but damn. As if the press isn&#8217;t giving him enough of a (deserved, but still) complex. How many times now has he had to repeat that he looked at tape of Heap in the offseason? I wonder if he regrets admitting that yet.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else see the random hot blond sitting next to Bobby in the dugout at the start of the game last night? She was wearing a jersey and everything. She disappeared pretty quick, but I had a couple conspiracy theories in mind when they were playing like the What The Hell Did You Guys DO Last Night? Braves for a few innings there. <\/p>\n<p>Everybody go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingchop.com\/story\/2007\/3\/28\/83916\/2498\">Talking Chop&#8217;s interview<\/a> with Gonzo, it&#8217;s a masterpiece. And don&#8217;t forget to watch the game against the Mets at 1:00 on ESPN. And check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/dugout.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/nick120.htm\">Dugout about the A&#8217;s<\/a> if you&#8217;re so inclined. It&#8217;s my favorite of the spring training strips so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what, Terry, when Frenchy comes up to you and says he wants to improve his plate discipline, your response probably shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;yeah, right.&#8221; You can think it, I don&#8217;t blame you, but damn. As if the press isn&#8217;t giving him enough of a (deserved, but still) complex. How many times now has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,21,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}