{"id":65,"date":"2008-06-24T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-06-24T23:31:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:31:25","slug":"vote-for-whoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/65\/vote-for-whoever","title":{"rendered":"Vote for. . . Whoever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you needed proof of just how poorly All-Star voting reflects reality, take a look at the numbers for overall AL voting leader Derek Jeter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>.279 Average \/ .339 On-Base Percentage \/ .379 Slugging<\/li>\n<li>32 RBI, 4 HR<\/li>\n<li>78 hits, 19 walks, 34 strikeouts<\/li>\n<li>Six errors<\/li>\n<li>1,988,251 All-Star votes, just a jumping throw ahead of second-highest vote recipient David Ortiz, who has thus far garnered 1,982,786 despite being out for the season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go now. Vote for Orlando Cabrera, or Michael Young, or anyone really. Now. Anyone. Seriously. <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20080622&amp;content_id=2984171&amp;vkey=allstar2008&amp;fext=.jsp#ballotResults\">[MLB.com]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you needed proof of just how poorly All-Star voting reflects reality, take a look at the numbers for overall AL voting leader Derek Jeter: .279 Average \/ .339 On-Base Percentage \/ .379 Slugging &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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}