{"id":299,"date":"2008-07-08T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T19:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2008-07-08T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T19:20:31","slug":"links-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/links-for-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good stuff I&#8217;ve found on teh Interwebs today:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/article.php?articleid=7770\">Joe Sheehan&#8217;s take<\/a> on the Sabathia deal. Free content, unusual for a Joe article, and very good stuff, usual for a Joe article.<\/li>\n<li>J.C. Bradbury notices that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabernomics.com\/sabernomics\/index.php\/2008\/07\/where-did-the-frenchy-quotes-go\/\">Jeff Francoeur&#8217;s worst quotes are missing<\/a> from the AJC&#8217;s Web site. I&#8217;m with Bradbury, by the way: &#8220;Frenchy&#8221; needs to shut his mouth until his OBP is no longer subterranean.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkoffwalk.com\/2008\/07\/chuck-lamar-gives-credit-to-an.html\">Revisionist history<\/a> from Chuck Lamar.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thebiglead.com\/?p=6569\">The Big Lead<\/a> weighs in (again) on the move of the Sonics franchise to Oklahoma City. I have never understood why this is a big story. It&#8217;s a business. The Sonics&#8217; owners felt that they could make more money by moving the team. That&#8217;s the end of the story, isn&#8217;t it? If there&#8217;s something interesting here, it&#8217;s that the people of Seattle had the balls to say no to a pro sports franchise that tried to blackmail them into building them a publicly-funded stadium. Good for them. Yes, they lost their team, but the price of keeping the team was too high.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good stuff I&#8217;ve found on teh Interwebs today: Joe Sheehan&#8217;s take on the Sabathia deal. Free content, unusual for a Joe article, and very good stuff, usual for a Joe article. J.C. Bradbury notices that Jeff Francoeur&#8217;s worst quotes are missing from the AJC&#8217;s Web site. I&#8217;m with Bradbury, by the way: &#8220;Frenchy&#8221; needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-sports","tag-links","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}