{"id":1277,"date":"2008-07-16T01:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T01:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2024-09-26T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:48:50","slug":"american-league-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2008\/07\/16\/american-league-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"American League Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No way did I stay up and watch the end of the All-Star Game. I made it to midnight, which coincided with the end of the 10th inning and the AL wasting the bases loaded, no outs situation. If the All-Star Game is a big gimmick anyway, what with it determining home field for the World Series and all, why not just go to a league-vs-league Home Run Derby after the 9th inning. The Midsummer Classic version of a shoot-out. Three guys from both teams get three swings, with coaches throwing BP-quality fast balls down the middle, team with the highest combined HR total at the end wins. If tied, it goes to sudden death. That&#8217;s not any stupider than tie games or letting guys from last place teams determine where the World Series will start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No way did I stay up and watch the end of the All-Star Game. I made it to midnight, which coincided with the end of the 10th inning and the AL wasting the bases loaded, no outs situation. If the All-Star Game is a big gimmick anyway, what with it determining home field for the World Series and all, why not just go to a league-vs-league Home Run Derby after the 9th inning. The Midsummer Classic version of a shoot-out. Three guys from both teams get three swings, with coaches throwing BP-quality fast balls down the middle, team with the highest combined HR total at the end wins. If tied, it goes to sudden death. That&#8217;s not any stupider than tie games or letting guys from last place teams determine where the World Series will start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,76],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-mlb"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}