{"id":19,"date":"2009-10-03T00:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2009-10-03T00:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T04:37:33","slug":"better-to-dance-or-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/10\/03\/better-to-dance-or-sit\/","title":{"rendered":"Better to dance or sit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I took the time to write a piece over at <a href=\"http:\/\/brazendev.com\/atlantabraves\/2009\/10\/02\/better-to-sit-or-dance\/\">Braving Baseball <\/a>wondering if it would have been better if the Braves had played .500 ball or season or if it was better that the team made a late playoff push.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the break the Braves were 43-45 but went 45-25 over their next 70 games to move within 2 games of the Colorado Rockies for the NL Wild Card. That would mean the Braves had a .642 winning percentage, and while it\u2019s easier to put up those types of numbers for half of a season it\u2019s worth nothing that only the New York Yankees who have a .642 winning percentage can claim those type of numbers for the season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I took the time to write a piece over at Braving Baseball wondering if it would have been better if the Braves had played .500 ball or season or if it was better that the team made a late playoff push. At the break the Braves were 43-45 but went 45-25 over their [&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":[28,50,361,406],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-adam-laroche","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-kenshin-kawakami","10":"tag-martin-prado"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","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=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}