{"id":2070,"date":"2008-10-28T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2008-10-28T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T18:46:53","slug":"on-world-series-speculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2070","title":{"rendered":"On World Series Speculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather in Philadelphia was miserable last night.  Watching game five of the World Series, I can&#8217;t imagine why they even <i>tried<\/i> to play it.<\/p>\n<p>I see now that <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/press_releases\/press_release.jsp?ymd=20081028&#038;content_id=3650889&#038;vkey=pr_mlb&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=mlb\">game five, which was to resume tonight, has been put off until Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, if there is a game six, it will be played in Tampa Bay on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I have a better idea.<\/p>\n<p>Treat the suspended game <i>as<\/i> a suspended game.  The teams will get back to it, <i>if<\/i> it&#8217;s necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, just go straight to game six on Thursday in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>If the Phillies take game six, they&#8217;ve won the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>If Tampa takes game six, and then they take game seven, the series is knotted up at 3 games each.<\/p>\n<p>Come back to Philadelphia on Sunday or Monday for the resumption of game five.  Call it &#8220;game eight&#8221; if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me <i>that<\/i> wouldn&#8217;t be a damned exciting baseball game. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather in Philadelphia was miserable last night. Watching game five of the World Series, I can&#8217;t imagine why they even tried to play it. I see now that game five, which was to resume tonight, has been put off until Wednesday. As a consequence, if there is a game six, it will be played in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2070\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On World Series Speculations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4081,639,634],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-bud-selig","tag-world-series","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}