{"id":1653,"date":"2013-03-17T20:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2013-03-17T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:49:11","slug":"greg-maddux-on-twitter-either-way-that-is-quite-a-sweater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/17\/greg-maddux-on-twitter-either-way-that-is-quite-a-sweater\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Maddux on twitter? Either way that is quite a sweater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Maddux may have been the best pitcher in the history of baseball. Sure someone will take the time to argue with me about this but the man had no fastball, looked like a typical 9-5 employee and I can not recall anyone having a bad Greg Maddux story, cept maybe the Chicago Cubs when he left them.<\/p>\n<p>Either way Maddux won a bunch of games, four Cy Young Awards and may have an all-time great twitter photo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1654\" alt=\"gregmaddux\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux.jpeg\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux.jpeg 498w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux-298x300.jpeg 298w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux-32x32.jpeg 32w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux-64x64.jpeg 64w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux-96x96.jpeg 96w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/gregmaddux-128x128.jpeg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/31gregmaddux\" target=\"_blank\">@31gregmaddux<\/a> really the pitching genius? I do not know but dang that is one epic sweater. Only Greg Maddux could pull something like that off. I bet he threw a two-hit shutout against an American Legion team 15 minutes before taking this photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>For what it is worth the Atlanta Braves are claiming it is him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23Braves\">#Braves<\/a> fans look who&#8217;s joined the Twitter world:@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/31gregmaddux\">31gregmaddux<\/a>.We love that sweater Mad Dog!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Braves (@Braves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Braves\/status\/312318189491064832\">March 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Maddux may have been the best pitcher in the history of baseball. Sure someone will take the time to argue with me about this but the man had no fastball, looked like a typical 9-5 employee and I can not recall anyone having a bad Greg Maddux story, cept maybe the Chicago Cubs when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[231],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-greg-maddux"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}