{"id":67,"date":"2007-04-10T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-04-10T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T17:47:48","slug":"frankenhampton-out-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Frankenhampton Out for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve all heard it by now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/braves\/stories\/2007\/04\/09\/0410hampton.html\">Hampton is gone for the season<\/a>. I&#8217;m having a hard time even mustering up any righteous indignation; it&#8217;s just redundant after a certain point. If Davies had been horrible in his start, maybe I would be more upset. Perhaps we can still get our money&#8217;s worth out of Hampton by putting him to use in the clubhouse: he could do some laundry, go on beer runs and hand out towels. But knowing Hampton, he&#8217;d claim that any of those things would be too much of a strain on his elbow\/shoulder\/left ear\/whatever else has fallen off or gotten sore since the last time I bothered to check the continuing updates on his stitched together <s>corpse<\/s> body.<\/p>\n<p>I know it wasn&#8217;t his fault; he didn&#8217;t intend to get hurt again and is probably upset. But I can&#8217;t help it: he has now officially entered <a href=\"http:\/\/dugout.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/322exclusive7.htm\">Kerry Wood and Mark Prior territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What could possibly make us feel better in light of the continuing bad news about one of our most expensive players? The AJC smartly offers up a guaranteed crowd pleaser: <a href=\"http:\/\/lpe.ajc.com\/gallery\/view\/sports\/2007\/preps\/frenchy\/\">embarrassing high school pictures of Frenchy<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/kindofwhimsical\/pic\/0005xa4h\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.velcroblog.com\/images\/braves07\/jumpingfrenchy.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, not much has changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve all heard it by now: Hampton is gone for the season. I&#8217;m having a hard time even mustering up any righteous indignation; it&#8217;s just redundant after a certain point. If Davies had been horrible in his start, maybe I would be more upset. Perhaps we can still get our money&#8217;s worth out of Hampton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velcroblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}