{"id":728,"date":"2009-04-25T02:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T02:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2009-04-25T02:40:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T02:40:52","slug":"jobas-joba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/25\/jobas-joba\/","title":{"rendered":"Joba&#8217;s Joba."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a better litmus test for baseball smarts right now than one&#8217;s opinion on <a href=http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/ben_reiter\/04\/24\/joba.role\/index.html>the ideal role for Joba Chamberlain<\/a>? I do love the new meme, though, that 14 big league starts constitute conclusive evidence of &#8230; something.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, SI does have a <a href=http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/writers\/andy_staples\/04\/23\/tyler.europe\/index.html>great piece on Jeremy Tyler<\/a>, a high school basketball star who&#8217;s going to go play in Europe for two years instead of enriching some undeserving US university for a season. The NBA&#8217;s age limit is an atrocity, anti-player and anti-capitalist, and anyone giving the finger to David Stern on this issue gets my applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a better litmus test for baseball smarts right now than one&#8217;s opinion on the ideal role for Joba Chamberlain? I do love the new meme, though, that 14 big league starts constitute conclusive evidence of &#8230; something. By the way, SI does have a great piece on Jeremy Tyler, a high school basketball [&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":[49,364,373],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-players-rights","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}