{"id":4889,"date":"2005-09-20T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:01:12","slug":"yankees_this_ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4889","title":{"rendered":"Yankees &#8211; this year&#8217;s team of Destiny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I left the gym tonite, I caught a minute of<br \/>\nthe Yanks v. Orioles. Yanks ahead 5-3, man on first, no outs. Jeter hits easy<br \/>\ndouble play ball back to pitcher &#8211; who drops it taking it out of his glove,<br \/>\npicks it up , drops it again &#8211; everybody safe. Instead of two outs there are men<br \/>\non first and second, no outs.<\/p>\n<p>Yanks go on to score four runs. Yanks have<br \/>\nwon something like 8 out of their last nine- most of them 50-50 games. Suddenly<br \/>\nit&#8217;s the pennant stretch run, and they have their mojo back.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball is<br \/>\na funny game, and having your mojo is really important. So I think the Yanks are<br \/>\ngood money to win the World Series. You heard it here first.<\/p>\n<p>As I post<br \/>\nthis, the Yanks are leading 10-6 in the top of the seventh at the Stadium.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As I left the gym tonite, I caught a minute of the Yanks v. Orioles. Yanks ahead 5-3, man on first, no outs. Jeter hits easy double play ball back to pitcher &#8211; who drops it taking it out of his glove, picks it up , drops it again &#8211; everybody safe. Instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}