{"id":1175,"date":"2007-12-14T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.kcmarketer.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2007-12-14T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T17:17:00","slug":"breaking-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Steroids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America took it right in the kisser yesterday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/story\/403219.html\">The Mitchell Report<\/a> lists 86 players connected to performance-enhancing drugs.  That&#8217;s right, a bunch of baseball players have used steroids.  If only we would&#8217;ve seen this coming.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a lot of commentary that focused on a weird angle: Not only did superstars take steroids, but some third stringers who never got playing time took steroids.  This is surprising how?<\/p>\n<p>Poor Mike Sweeney.  He wasn&#8217;t on the list, but that&#8217;s almost as damaging as if he were.<\/p>\n<p>If he was in the report, everyone would&#8217;ve said &#8220;See, he only had a couple of good years because he was on steroids.  And then got hurt all the time because of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, he&#8217;s not in the report.  So, you should be saying &#8220;See, if Mike Sweeney would&#8217;ve taken steroids he wouldn&#8217;t have gotten hurt all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America took it right in the kisser yesterday. The Mitchell Report lists 86 players connected to performance-enhancing drugs. That&#8217;s right, a bunch of baseball players have used steroids. If only we would&#8217;ve seen this coming. I heard a lot of commentary that focused on a weird angle: Not only did superstars take steroids, but some [&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":[85,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas-city-royals","category-sports"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-iX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}