{"id":283,"date":"2007-08-30T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T05:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-11-09T02:28:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T07:28:34","slug":"hang-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/283\/hang-ten","title":{"rendered":"Hang Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swept by the Rangers. The ****ing Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Elimination number is down to 10.<\/p>\n<p>On the week, the Sox went 1-4 in the last &#8220;soft&#8221; part of the schedule, which is even worse when you consider that after tonight&#8217;s games, the D-Rays are only 3 games back for the MLB-wide basement.<\/p>\n<p>Every team the Sox play for the rest of the year is better than they are, and that includes four games against the Royals. I never thought I would live to see that day. Never in a million years. Come on &#8211; the Royals!<\/p>\n<p>And the ****ing Rangers!<\/p>\n<p>Three errors by Andy Gonzalez. John Danks strikes out 8, gives up 2 earned runs &#8211; and loses. Kevin Millwood and his 5+ ERA hold the Sox to one run on a meaningless Jim Thome solo shot in a meaningless game in what has been nothing more than another meaningless season of White Sox baseball.<\/p>\n<p>The part that should <strike>worry<\/strike> (no not worry, that would imply the existence of some reason to care) depress all of us most is knowing that nearly every team left on the Good Guys&#8217; season &#8211; Cleveland, Detroit, LAA, Minnesota, KC &#8211; is coming out with guns blazing, whether for playoff position or just to say &#8220;we finished ahead of someone.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Twenty-eight games to go; having already dropped 16 of their last 19 against the likes of . . . you know what? It doesn&#8217;t matter who they lost to, because when you lose 16 of 19 and play .425 ball on the year, you lose to pretty much everyone. Is an 0-28 finish really impossible? Even if the Sox &#8220;win&#8221; at their current rate, we&#8217;re looking at 12-16 down the home stretch. While that might be good enough to stay ahead of Tampa Bay . . .<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t finish that sentence. This type of mediocrity simply cannot be put into words by a writer of my meager ability.<\/p>\n<p>****ing Rangers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swept by the Rangers. The ****ing Texas Rangers. Elimination number is down to 10. On the week, the Sox went 1-4 in the last &#8220;soft&#8221; part of the schedule, which is even worse when you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[232,234,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}