{"id":27,"date":"2009-10-07T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-10-07T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T20:59:29","slug":"please-elimate-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2009\/10\/07\/please-elimate-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Please elimate Colorado!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=colorado%20rockies&amp;iid=6738338\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/b\/2\/e\/6\/Rockies_Infield_Waits_bb9c.JPG?adImageId=4793285&amp;imageId=6738338\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rockies Infield Waits for Tenth Inning Pitching Change in Denver\" width=\"234\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>When your team is out of the playoffs it&#8217;s hard to watch too much baseball or get behind another team. One reason is the idea of being a band-wagoner, the other is well how do I root for either team?<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago when the New England Patriots were in the Super Bowl going for a perfect season I had a tough time rooting against them. The main reason is their opponents were the New York Giants. Now being a Dallas Cowboys fan, how in the world could I root for the Giants to win the Super Bowl? The same Giants team that couldn&#8217;t even beat us for the division. Though if I didn&#8217;t want them to win I was in-essence rooting for the New England Patriots. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said about the first round series between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Colorado Rockies. As a fan of the Atlanta Braves it&#8217;s impossiable to root for the Phillies to win anything, though this is the same Rockies team that beat us out for the Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway after seeing how disrespectful the Rockies outfielders were to the idea of actually playing defense I have to say I can not wait for this team to be eliminated. I havn&#8217;t watched many Rockie games this season but the way the Phillie batters were allowed to just run around the bases like it was a go-kart track really left me scratching my head. It was so bad I had to turn off my tv.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit last nigh I was puling for Detroit to beat Minnesota and after they failed to I said &#8220;I hope they get swept by the Yankees&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t really mean it that much I guess. I really don&#8217;t like the Yankees either and really just wanted to see the Metrodome closed down with a loss.<\/p>\n<p>I would also like to say at this time that I am pulling for the Los Angeles Angels to win it all. It would be nice to win Nick a ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your team is out of the playoffs it&#8217;s hard to watch too much baseball or get behind another team. One reason is the idea of being a band-wagoner, the other is well how do I root for either team? A few years ago when the New England Patriots were in the Super Bowl going [&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":[59,161,427,486,510],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-colorado-rockies","9":"tag-metrodome","10":"tag-nick-adenhart","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}