{"id":4304,"date":"2007-10-16T17:21:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/10\/16\/excellent-analysis-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T00:21:14","slug":"excellent-analysis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/excellent-analysis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMy post-season baseball predictions have been shockingly good.  Each of the 3 game in the ALCS (AKA &#8220;Real World Series&#8221;) were won by the team I said had the pitching advantage. We&#8217;ll see if this holds up in game four, but I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about it on account of Wakefield coming off an injury and being a knuckler and all. Cleveland still has several key hitters MIA, such as Sizemore and Hafner, so those boys do need to step up.<\/p>\n<p>The NLCS was a total snooze-fest, the only excitement coming in Game 4 when the Snakes had to leave their pitcher in to give up 6 runs in one inning because he was their best hitter. Dumping that poser Byrnes was the best thing Billy Beane ever did.<\/p>\n<p>Rabid right-wing <a href=\"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9998\">&#8220;Christian&#8221; fundamentalist Jeff Goldstein<\/a> is pretty excited about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/nl\/rockies\/2006-05-30-rockies-cover_x.htm\">snake-handling Rockies<\/a> playing the Champion, and I have to admit there&#8217;s something cute about a Cleveland-Rox series; as long as Ted Haggard doesn&#8217;t throw out the first pitch.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My post-season baseball predictions have been shockingly good. Each of the 3 game in the ALCS (AKA &#8220;Real World Series&#8221;) were won by the team I said had the pitching advantage. We&#8217;ll see if this holds up in game four, but I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about it on account of Wakefield coming off an injury &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/excellent-analysis-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excellent analysis&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-4304","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-17q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304","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=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}