{"id":2582,"date":"2009-08-01T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2009-08-01T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T23:01:00","slug":"on-mark-priors-baseball-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"On Mark Prior&#8217;s Baseball Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2009\/08\/padres-to-release-mark-prior.html\">It looks like Mark Prior&#8217;s career is probably done<\/a>.  Once, I was on the Prior bandwagon.  He was going to pitch us into the promised land.  It didn&#8217;t happen.  His pitching mechanics were destructive to his elbow and shoulder, and Dusty Baker&#8217;s over-reliance on, overuse of Prior exacerbated his problems and hastened his breakdown.  But when he could pitch, he was dominant.  I hoped he&#8217;d pull it together, work out his problems, and come back with the Padres, but that experiment is over.  It&#8217;s unfortunate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball. It looks like Mark Prior&#8217;s career is probably done. Once, I was on the Prior bandwagon. He was going to pitch us into the promised land. It didn&#8217;t happen. His pitching mechanics were destructive to his elbow and shoulder, and Dusty Baker&#8217;s over-reliance on, overuse of Prior exacerbated his problems and hastened his breakdown.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2582\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Mark Prior&#8217;s Baseball Career&#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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}