{"id":1076,"date":"2007-10-26T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.kcmarketer.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2007-10-26T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T04:03:00","slug":"notes-from-game-2-of-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1076","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Game 2 of the World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBoyz_II_Men&amp;ei=KmchR5KpFKjeigGYr5DlDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNFw63lkIBQGBuEBu1rMk3U53HJZvA&amp;sig2=6Z50rGRX5pGALZxiHfY4sg\">Boyz II Men<\/a> shocked the world when they sang &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; during the seventh-inning stretch.   How did Boston land that act?  Seriously, though, what&#8217;s with all the gratuitous America loving?  The Star Spangled Banner is more than enough.  Here&#8217;s a compromise: hand out American flag lapel pins to the first 15,000 fans, and don&#8217;t take away our Jumbotron limbo time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can find the monster with the right stroke.&#8221; &#8211; Tim McCarver with Todd Helton at the plate in the 9th.  This is a filthy thing to say, McCarver, and your dumb ass knows it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m convinced that Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon is at least slightly retarded.  Watch him clap at the baby in this commercial.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>UPDATE: I forgot to mention the really long interview with the dude from Taco Bell talking about how everyone gets a free taco between 2 and 5 pm next Tuesday, the 30th.  Thanks goes to Boston center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury for stealing the base, and thus helping America steal a Taco.  USA!  USA!  USA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boyz II Men shocked the world when they sang &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; during the seventh-inning stretch. How did Boston land that act? Seriously, though, what&#8217;s with all the gratuitous America loving? The Star Spangled Banner is more than enough. Here&#8217;s a compromise: hand out American flag lapel pins to the first 15,000 fans, and don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,69,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-this-is-america","category-tv"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-hm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}