{"id":3399,"date":"2005-06-28T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/28\/soros-wants-to-ruin-baseball\/"},"modified":"2005-06-28T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T19:14:56","slug":"soros-wants-to-ruin-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/28\/soros-wants-to-ruin-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros wants to ruin baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is a very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/27\/AR2005062701447.html\">shocking story:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Major League Baseball hasn&#8217;t narrowed the list of the eight bidders seeking to buy the Washington Nationals and some Republicans on Capitol Hill already are hinting at revoking the league&#8217;s antitrust exemption if billionaire financier George Soros , an ardent critic of President Bush and supporter of liberal causes, buys the team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rather than mess with baseball, I suggest extraditing Soros to Malaysia so he can be prosecuted for currency manipulation; upon his release from the Malaysian prison, he can be sent to the UK for a similar reckoning. But don&#8217;t mess with baseball on account of this feckless weasel, it&#8217;s unseemly.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very shocking story: Major League Baseball hasn&#8217;t narrowed the list of the eight bidders seeking to buy the Washington Nationals and some Republicans on Capitol Hill already are hinting at revoking the league&#8217;s antitrust exemption if billionaire financier George Soros , an ardent critic of President Bush and supporter of liberal causes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/28\/soros-wants-to-ruin-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Soros wants to ruin baseball&#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-3399","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-SP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","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=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}