{"id":630,"date":"2009-03-06T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2009-03-06T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T15:48:56","slug":"friday-semi-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/06\/friday-semi-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday semi-open thread."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=http:\/\/proxy.espn.go.com\/chat\/chatESPN?event_id=25313>yesterday&#8217;s chat<\/a>, I was asked to name the first ten players I&#8217;d put into a restarted Hall of Fame, and came up (off the top of my head) with these names:<\/p>\n<p>Babe Ruth<br \/>\nTed Williams<br \/>\nHonus Wagner<br \/>\nWalter Johnson<br \/>\nCy Young<br \/>\nLefty Grove<br \/>\nMickey Mantle<br \/>\nRogers Hornsby<br \/>\nRickey Henderson<br \/>\nWarren Spahn<\/p>\n<p>The question of today, of course: Who would be your ten, using only actual HoF-eligible players and not giving it too much thought or research? (Since I answered off the cuff, I&#8217;m asking all of you to do the same.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also throw a link up here when the Mike Leake piece is posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s chat, I was asked to name the first ten players I&#8217;d put into a restarted Hall of Fame, and came up (off the top of my head) with these names: Babe Ruth Ted Williams Honus Wagner Walter Johnson Cy Young Lefty Grove Mickey Mantle Rogers Hornsby Rickey Henderson Warren Spahn The question of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49,354],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-semi-open-threads","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}