{"id":1503,"date":"2007-04-14T23:18:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/04\/14\/call-me-crazy\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T23:18:11","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T06:18:11","slug":"call-me-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/04\/14\/call-me-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Me Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curt_Schilling\">Curt<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/38pitches.com\/2007\/04\/14\/41407-vs-los-angeles\/\">can&#8217;t believe<\/a> that a.) we&#8217;re playing a day game at 10:05 AM, and b.) that the game is sold out. With respect to the first point, I concur. What are we, dairy farmers? Do they know what time I&#8217;m going to have to get up to get there on time? <\/p>\n<p>With respect to the second, well, I plead guilty to the charge of crazy fan. I&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/04\/13\/i-seriously-heart-the-red-sox\/\">flying<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=dia+to+pwm\">2000 miles<\/a> and driving another 200, just to sit in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwa.accuweather.com\/forecast-hourly.asp?partner=accuweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;zipcode=02101&amp;metric=0&amp;hbhday=3&amp;hbhhour=7\">high winds and rain<\/a> for a game that has maybe a 40% chance of being played. Worse, I count myself <i>lucky<\/i> for the opportunity. While I might be able to argue the case that I&#8217;m not (yet) afflicted with something out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DSM-IV\">DSM-IV<\/a>, I&#8217;m fairly sure that I&#8217;d lose if it came to trial. So let&#8217;s settle. You can call me crazy, I won&#8217;t argue.<\/p>\n<p>As one of my friends once observed, there aren&#8217;t a great many things I care about, but the things I care about, I <i>really<\/i> care about. That&#8217;s about as good an explanation as any. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curt can&#8217;t believe that a.) we&#8217;re playing a day game at 10:05 AM, and b.) that the game is sold out. With respect to the first point, I concur. What are we, dairy farmers? Do they know what time I&#8217;m going to have to get up to get there on time? With respect to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[66,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-red-sox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}