{"id":43,"date":"2006-07-31T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T22:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lipsey.org\/jim\/2006\/07\/31\/only-the-cubs\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T19:54:27","slug":"only-the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/2006\/07\/31\/only-the-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Only the Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs let <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Maddux\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Maddux<\/a> go to the Braves during free agency in 1992. There are few dumber things they&#8217;ve ever done, which is saying something. But this is not a team content to fail. They must fail spectacularly. So it&#8217;s unsurprising that after getting Maddux back in 2004 and seeing him pitch consistently well since then\u00c2\u00b9, they <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/story?id=2535506\" target=\"_blank\">traded him today<\/a> to the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b9\u00c2\u00a0His 9-11 record this season is in spite of pitching for the team with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachescorner.com\/n_input\/nnweb\/scores\/header_hit_pitch.htm\" target=\"_blank\">least number of runs scored in baseball<\/a><\/strong>, and yes, I&#8217;m including the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs let Greg Maddux go to the Braves during free agency in 1992. There are few dumber things they&#8217;ve ever done, which is saying something. But this is not a team content to fail. They must fail spectacularly. So it&#8217;s unsurprising that after getting Maddux back in 2004 and seeing him pitch consistently well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}