{"id":266,"date":"2008-02-11T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T05:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-11-08T19:06:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T00:06:57","slug":"my-new-favorite-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/266\/my-new-favorite-comedian","title":{"rendered":"My New Favorite Comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We try to avoid news blurbs here, but this is just too rich to pass up. In case you needed further proof of Major League Baseball&#8217;s willful ignorance on the matter of steroids, we present <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/news;_ylt=AuEjRkaOV35c2ie2ID3vlaE5nYcB?slug=ap-steroids-rocker&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">John Rocker on John Rocker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Bud Selig knew in the year 2000 John Rocker was taking the juice,&#8221; the former pitcher said Monday of the baseball commissioner on Atlanta radio station 680. &#8220;Didn&#8217;t do anything about it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now with the follow-up, we present Major League Baseball on how to create an invisible fall guy when you have no one to blame but yourself for turning a blind eye to performance-enhancing drugs, and the only reason there was no further discipline available was because your own alleged internal watchdogs said no, no, no way are we allowing testing and punishment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Further discipline was not an option legally available to Major League Baseball at that time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That cleaning up the game thing is great. It&#8217;s gold, Jerry! Gold!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We try to avoid news blurbs here, but this is just too rich to pass up. In case you needed further proof of Major League Baseball&#8217;s willful ignorance on the matter of steroids, we present &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":[209,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}