{"id":3514,"date":"2005-08-01T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T21:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/01\/matt-welch-is-burning\/"},"modified":"2005-08-01T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T21:55:26","slug":"matt-welch-is-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/matt-welch-is-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Welch is burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAngels fan Matt Welch still insists they&#8217;re doing fine. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/mattwelch.com\/archives\/week_2005_07_31.html#003191\">his bloggy<\/a> and help him out.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/09\/baseball-picks-2\/\">4 of my picks<\/a> are in first or second place, and in the other two divisions one is lead by my second-place pick and the other is the NL West (where my pick is the Dodgers) so we&#8217;re looking pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>My worst picks so far are the Mets for Wild Card in the NL and the Tigers to take their division. The Mets are playing below their ability &#8211; especially that Beltran clown, who must have been juiced &#8211; and the Tigers were a perverse pick even if they have come a long way since losing 114 games year before last. I hate the White Sox because they beaned Chavez and broke his wrist last year, so I&#8217;m not permitted to pick them to win anything.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels fan Matt Welch still insists they&#8217;re doing fine. Go to his bloggy and help him out. Right now, 4 of my picks are in first or second place, and in the other two divisions one is lead by my second-place pick and the other is the NL West (where my pick is the Dodgers) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/matt-welch-is-burning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Matt Welch is burning&#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-3514","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-UG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}