{"id":2101,"date":"2010-03-16T15:28:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2010-03-16T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:28:55","slug":"at-least-someones-thinking-positively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/2101\/at-least-someones-thinking-positively","title":{"rendered":"At Least Someone&#8217;s Thinking Positively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Van Dyck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/baseball\/whitesox\/ct-spt-0316-white-sox-chicago--20100315,0,3094909.story\">reports from Glendale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The defense part? &#8220;Way better than last year,&#8221; Guillen said. &#8220;We were so bad defensively that I had the (designated hitter) making errors,&#8221; Guillen joked.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of multiple Gold Glove winners Andruw Jones and Omar Vizquel helps, but so does Juan Pierre replacing Scott Podsednik in left field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eschewing the usual ranting and raving about the idiocy generally informing Gold Glove decisions, let&#8217;s just take a second to acknowledge the two things this possibly means:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The team has sold Vizquel and Jones as players, not as mentor and bat, respectively.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Our friendly local sports media has postulated the above on its own.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, we&#8217;ve joked before about the new guys&#8217; defensive achievements (Fifteen Gold Gloves! Screw you, Cleveland!) but could it be that people are actually taking the threat of Jones and Vizquel in the field seriously? In a world where the former is coming off three seasons of just awful defense (even in that magical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/bullpen\/Andruw_Jones#Gold_Glove_criticism_and_defense\">2007 Gold Glove season<\/a>) and the latter here for . . . whatever it is. I have no answers to either of these dilemmas. But perhaps\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthink positively!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnone are really needed, and this was all just a huge misunderstanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense part? That&#8217;s the worst part. And the scary part, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[332,35,36,598,357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}