{"id":1783,"date":"2012-04-25T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2012-04-25T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T00:11:52","slug":"fans-fail-to-top-jamie-moyers-fastball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/04\/25\/fans-fail-to-top-jamie-moyers-fastball\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans fail to top Jamie Moyer&#8217;s fastball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www3.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Jamie+Moyer+San+Diego+Padres+v+Colorado+Rockies+5y2pzCwRpKNl.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie Moyer is laughing at your fastball\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamie Moyer is laughing at your fastball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher to win a game many joked about a 49 year old baseball player being successful. After all the guy throws 78 mph it can&#8217;t be that hard to hit it. Well apparently plenty of fans of the Class-A level Fort Myers Miracle are finding out that 78 mph is pretty darn fast.<\/p>\n<p>In a current promotion the team has challenged fans to throw faster then 78 mph. Thus far over 85 fans have tried to top Moyer&#8217;s fast ball. All have failed.<\/p>\n<p>USA Today reports that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Miracle charges fans $1 for three throws to try to exceed the  radar reading from Moyer&#8217;s victory last week against the San Diego  Padres, making him the oldest pitcher to win a major-league game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think some people look at the majors and they see guys throwing 90  and above, and they think 78 is super slow. But not a lot of people can  throw 78 if they&#8217;re not baseball players,&#8221; Gary Sharp, the Miracle&#8217;s  director of media relations and promotions, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsportsnorth.com\/04\/24\/12\/Fans-cant-beat-Moyers-78-mph-heater\/landing_twins.html?blockID=715878&amp;feedID=3697\">FoxSportsNorth<\/a> in Minneapolis-St.Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose this promotion pokes fun at anyone who sits on the couch and comments that playing professional sports is so easy that they could do it.<\/p>\n<p>In case you are wondering the promotion will run the full season.  Topping 78 mph earns you free tickets to a game, failing earns you the  shame of knowing that Jamie Moyer throws harder then you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jamie Moyer became the oldest pitcher to win a game many joked about a 49 year old baseball player being successful. After all the guy throws 78 mph it can&#8217;t be that hard to hit it. Well apparently plenty of fans of the Class-A level Fort Myers Miracle are finding out that 78 mph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,223,287],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-fort-myers-miracle","9":"tag-jamie-moyer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}