{"id":205,"date":"2008-10-07T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-10-07T19:25:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:25:58","slug":"cheering-for-the-other-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/205\/cheering-for-the-other-guys","title":{"rendered":"Cheering for the Other Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/soxmachine.com\/blogs\/soxmachine\/archive\/2008\/10\/07\/14065.aspx\">the Sox are out<\/a>. Now what? Now we rebound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National League Championship Series, Dodgers vs. Phillies:<\/strong> Phillies fans, as we all know, are insane. And hateful. And spiteful. And mean. And their players carp a lot to the press. Also, Joe Torre and Manny Ramirez don&#8217;t need any more glorification in the sports press. <strong>Sox\/35th endorses: Phillies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>American League Championship Series, Red Sox vs. Rays:<\/strong> Simply put, the Red Sox are a sports franchise of pure evil on par with the most rotten of them. Also, the Rays crushed a certain team we were all pulling for in the first place. <strong>Sox\/35th endorses: Rays.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astute reader Brian in Vernon Hills pointed out that an ideal, most gleefully schadenfreudian outcome would be a Rays sweep of the Dodgers, since the basic mathematical logic would deduce R &gt; D and D &gt; CHC, therefore R &gt; CHC. If wins(R) = D + 4, and wins(CWS) = 1 while wins(CHC) = 0, the Sox are therefore the mightiest team in Chicago while the other one is, in all honesty, a loser echoing through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>But we already knew that. Go Rays. Or anyone, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Sox are out. Now what? Now we rebound. National League Championship Series, Dodgers vs. Phillies: Phillies fans, as we all know, are insane. And hateful. And spiteful. And mean. And their players carp &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[141,49,130,140,101,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}