{"id":143,"date":"2008-08-26T10:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-08-26T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:52:51","slug":"as-time-goes-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/143\/as-time-goes-by","title":{"rendered":"As Time Goes By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, what a difference one game and 119 days make.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> The Sox lead the division with a 3 game cushion over the Indians and the Twins can&#8217;t win for losing.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> The Sox cling tightly to a one-game lead ahead of the Twins while the Indians battle for last place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Nick Swisher is hitting .221.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> Nick Swisher is hitting .233.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Joe Crede, question mark, is the Sox&#8217; starting third baseman with Josh Fields waiting at Charlotte.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> Juan Uribe, different kind of question mark, is the Sox&#8217; starting third baseman with Joe Crede cautiously coming off the disabled list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Carlos Quentin&#8217;s OPS sits at an astounding 1.077.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> In an obvious death spiral towards mediocrity, Quentin&#8217;s OPS tumbles to a mere .975.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Paul Konerko has a .229 average and .811 OPS.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> Paul Konerko&#8217;s average rests at a mighty .230 while his OPS slips to a mortal .720.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Alexei Ramirez sucks.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> Alexei Ramirez might be the best second baseman in the American League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Javier Vazquez throws eight innings of brilliance.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> All is for naught as the bullpen surrenders the game in the 14th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 28:<\/strong> The Good Guys hit a pair of home runs to keep themselves alive.<br \/>\n<strong>August 25:<\/strong> The Good Guys can&#8217;t lay down a bunt and walk off into the evening defeated.<\/p>\n<p>As it was, so it remains, and the home runs land just a little bit short.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Two Servings of 4-3 [<a href=\"http:\/\/thewhitesoxblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/two-servings-of-4-3-sox-orioles-game-1.html\">The White Sox Blog<\/a>]<br \/>\nKeep Your Faith in Clayton Richard [<a href=\"http:\/\/soxmachine.com\/blogs\/soxmachine\/archive\/2008\/08\/26\/13756.aspx\">Sox Machine<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more things change, the more they don&#8217;t actually change all that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[92,93,35,56,94,32,38,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}