{"id":1905,"date":"2004-04-12T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T20:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/04\/dodgers-secret-weapon\/"},"modified":"2004-04-12T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T20:38:43","slug":"dodgers-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/dodgers-secret-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Secret Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLots of ink&#8217;s been spilt over the Dodgers&#8217; aquisition of Moneyball genius <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatertalent.com\/bios\/depodesta.shtml\">Paul DePodesta<\/a>, but their <a title=\"Los Angeles Dodgers News\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/NASApp\/mlb\/la\/news\/la_news.jsp?ymd=20040411&#038;content_id=700231&#038;vkey=news_la&#038;fext=.jsp\">secret weapon is William Hung:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; He might not be an American Idol, but William Hung has quickly become a folk legend in the Dodgers clubhouse and might be the club&#8217;s answer to Anaheim&#8217;s Rally Monkey. <\/p>\n<p>Shawn Green brought in a CD by the &#8220;American Idol&#8221; reject the second day of the season and played it in the clubhouse during pregame stretching. The painfully comical songs had the players rolling on the floor in laughter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d take Hung over the monkey any day.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of ink&#8217;s been spilt over the Dodgers&#8217; aquisition of Moneyball genius Paul DePodesta, but their secret weapon is William Hung: LOS ANGELES &#8212; He might not be an American Idol, but William Hung has quickly become a folk legend in the Dodgers clubhouse and might be the club&#8217;s answer to Anaheim&#8217;s Rally Monkey. Shawn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/12\/dodgers-secret-weapon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dodgers&#8217; Secret Weapon&#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-1905","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-uJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}