{"id":1898,"date":"2004-04-07T10:06:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/04\/revised-predictions\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T17:06:36","slug":"revised-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/revised-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;m gonna have to revise my baseball predictions based on opening-day action. The Astros are pretenders and they&#8217;re not going anywhere. They have a nice baseball park and some shiny new pitchers from the Yankees cast-off collection, but it&#8217;s hard to play ball with all those wheelchairs parked all over the field and Jeff Kent&#8217;s attitude stinking the place up.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels are pretty darned impressive. I never knew that George Steinbrenner had a twin brother, but he does and he now owns the Angels. They could very well win the division, but if they do the A&#8217;s will take the wildcard spot and beat them in the playoffs. The A&#8217;s have taken to folding under post-season pressure the past few years, and going in as a wildcard will help to reduce it.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners play like a not-very-talented minor league team, and thanks to them the Rangers will finally climb out of the cellar. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m gonna have to revise my baseball predictions based on opening-day action. The Astros are pretenders and they&#8217;re not going anywhere. They have a nice baseball park and some shiny new pitchers from the Yankees cast-off collection, but it&#8217;s hard to play ball with all those wheelchairs parked all over the field and Jeff Kent&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/revised-predictions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revised predictions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-uC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}