{"id":230,"date":"2008-03-11T00:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T05:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2008-10-30T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T02:16:59","slug":"even-their-questionable-things-fall-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/230\/even-their-questionable-things-fall-through","title":{"rendered":"Even Their Questionable Things Fall Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about as far from objective journalism as it gets, but you have to chuckle a bit at <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.whitesox.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20080311&#038;content_id=2419910&#038;vkey=spt2008news&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=cws\">Don Cooper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest statements<\/a> on the state of the relief corps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had a good spring,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;They haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shown us the things we need to see for us to feel very comfortable right now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll pass on the opportunity to pick on the likes of Dewon Day and Gavin Floyd, when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re down, but the article also reveals a more telling (if not more alarming) piece of news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cooper rattled off Mark Buehrle, Javier Vazquez, John Danks, Matt Thornton, Tomo Ohka, Scott Linebrink, Octavio Dotel, Bobby Jenks and a handful of names who have a ticket to Chicago assured. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You read that right, folks: new acquisition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/o\/ohkato01.shtml\">Tomo Ohka<\/a> is the guarantee of middle relief. Tomo Ohka, who as a reliever hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen an ERA under 4 since 2004. Tomo Ohka, who injuries have kept under 100 innings as a starter since 2005. Tomo Ohka, whose career performance most closely puts him in line with pitching luminaries Brian Lawrence, Carl Pavano and Kris Benson. And oh, what a season this is already shaping up to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about as far from objective journalism as it gets, but you have to chuckle a bit at Don Cooper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest statements on the state of the relief corps: &#8220;They haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had a good spring,&#8221; &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":[93,149,164,165,166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}