{"id":1846,"date":"2009-10-22T19:41:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T00:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2009-10-22T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T00:42:31","slug":"finally-a-reason-to-watch-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/1846\/finally-a-reason-to-watch-the-world-series","title":{"rendered":"Finally, A Reason To Watch The World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

As previously reported by pretty much every major and minor news outlet in the sports world, our man Ozzie Guillen<\/a> will be joining the pre- and post-game analysis team during this year’s impending Yankee Blood Sacrifice<\/del> World Series.<\/p>\n

For reasons that go with saying, this is going to be awesome, but just how<\/em> awesome? Let us count the ways in which the only living manager to bring this city a World Series championship could make 2009 the second-greatest World Series of all time:<\/p>\n

Say something derogatory about Derek Jeter.<\/strong> The hair, the jump throws, the cologne – anything, really. He’s probably a nice guy, but some people just need to be brought down a notch<\/a> once in a while. Or, barring that, all the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Make references to 2005.<\/strong> Someone has to, no, someone will<\/em> do this, and who better than the man who gave us all the lone shining moment to cling to in this generally miserable Sox-watching existence. Jimmy Rollins’ walk-off home run is exactly like Scott Podsednik’s walk-off in 2005; Joba Chamberlain is a large power pitcher coming out of the bullpen just like Bobby Jenks was in 2005; Nick Swisher strikes out looking, just like he did with the White Sox three years after 2005. And hey, let’s throw in reminiscence of the Guillen-coached 2003 Marlins for good measure. Because you know who the 2003 Marlins turned into a hilarious baseball joke? The Yankees. Oh yeah, I went there.<\/p>\n

Casually mention how the 2009 White Sox absolutely crushed<\/em> the Yankees in Chicago.<\/strong> But don’t mention what happened in New York. That remains a total embarassment.<\/p>\n

Ask aloud, ironically and sarcastically, why the campaign<\/a> to get Swisher on the All-Star team failed.<\/strong> I know I will!<\/p>\n

Please please please call out Tim McCarver for pretty much everything he said during the 2005 World Series, especially the “taste” remark immediately preceding Pods’ walk-off<\/a>.<\/strong> Also call out Chris Berman for his “Oh no! Everybody’s safe!” wail of defeat<\/a> when that grounder went between Tony Graffanino’s legs during Game 2 of the ALDS. Not that Berman’s part of the Fox crew or anything, but someone needs to take him to task. And Fox seems to like having enemies<\/a>, so this works out well.<\/p>\n

Talk about what a good game Chone Figgins, Torii Hunter and Howie Kendricks had tonight.<\/strong> Because this means the Yankees blew it. Again. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!<\/p>\n

Like I said: this could be awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Player; manager; broadcaster: Ozzie Guillen stands on the verge of marginal, highly specific greatness. Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[20,154,269,35,588,346,68,50,114,587,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846"}],"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=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}