{"id":5048,"date":"2010-04-25T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5048"},"modified":"2016-11-03T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:25:11","slug":"on-baseball-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5048","title":{"rendered":"On Baseball Excitement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching last night’s Cubs :cubs: game, this is how I felt:<\/p>\n

\"Baseball<\/p>\n

I’ve always said Charlie Brown was a Chicago Cubs fan, after all… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just that Theodore Roosevelt Lilly (or as I saw him called on Bleed Cubbie Blue<\/a> today, Maximus Tedimus Meridius) was back on the mound and threw shutout ball against the Brewers for his six innings of work.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t that the Cubs got timely hitting, putting the game away in the top of the eighth with three insurance runs.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t even that Carlos Zambrano, the Big Z himself, made his first relief appearance in nigh eight years and acquitted himself well, driving in exactly as many runs and he gave up.<\/p>\n

It was that all of the pieces came together and the Cubs :cubs: played good baseball, putting them two games under .500 and only 2 1\/2 games back of the hated St. Louis Cardinals and raising the team’s chances of making the post-season<\/a> to 27%.<\/p>\n

And today the Cubs stand the chance of making a sweep on the Brewers. The only thing I have to say to that is:<\/p>\n

\"If<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watching last night’s Cubs :cubs: game, this is how I felt: I’ve always said Charlie Brown was a Chicago Cubs fan, after all… \ud83d\ude09 It wasn’t just that Theodore Roosevelt Lilly (or as I saw him called on Bleed Cubbie Blue today, Maximus Tedimus Meridius) was back on the mound and threw shutout ball againstContinue reading “On Baseball Excitement”<\/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":[62,170,4099],"class_list":["post-5048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-charlie-brown","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-peanuts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048","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=5048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}