{"id":701,"date":"2006-02-22T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=701"},"modified":"2006-02-22T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T23:24:07","slug":"on-sammy-sosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"On Sammy Sosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some way, this is sad: <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.nationals.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20060221&#038;content_id=1318198&#038;vkey=news_was&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=was\">Sammy Sosa has rejected two contracts with the Washington Nationals<\/a>.  Neither was a guaranteed contract, perhaps minor league work, not more than a million dollars for a single season.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, in some ways, sad.  Sosa likely feels that his past performance should inform a future contract, but he&#8217;s coming off two weak seasons, one with the Cubs, one with the Orioles.  Combine that with Sosa&#8217;s anti-social behavior his last season with the Cubs, and the Nationals certainly have the justification to offer Sosa a lower-than-expected contract.<\/p>\n<p>Will Sosa retire, rather than accept a slightly-better offer?  It&#8217;s a good question, and one I can&#8217;t answer.  Sammy Sosa was a very good player, a very powerful player, and simply a fun player to watch for a long time out in Wrigley&#8217;s outfield, but now he&#8217;s a former marquee player in the twilight of his career.  Certainly I&#8217;d like to see Sosa have one last <i>good<\/i> season before he hangs up his cleats instead of fading off into obscurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some way, this is sad: Sammy Sosa has rejected two contracts with the Washington Nationals. Neither was a guaranteed contract, perhaps minor league work, not more than a million dollars for a single season. As I said, in some ways, sad. Sosa likely feels that his past performance should inform a future contract, but<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=701\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Sammy Sosa&#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":[4081,1057],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-sammy-sosa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}