{"id":2835,"date":"2013-05-28T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2013-05-28T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:18:55","slug":"keith-hernandez-makes-dead-soldier-bat-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/28\/keith-hernandez-makes-dead-soldier-bat-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Hernandez makes &#8220;dead soldier&#8221; bat joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Hernandez had been in front of the microphone for years. On Monday the former big leaguer turned announcer made an on-air gaffe.<\/p>\n<p>When Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes induced a broken bat chopper off the bat of Lyle Overbay the on-air personality compared the broken bat to a dead soldier.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Telly video player \" src=\"http:\/\/telly.com\/embed.php?guid=PWTZ0L&amp;autoplay=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a poor choice of words by Hernandez who is known for pitching products such as Just For Men. A spokesperson said that SNY would address the issue with Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.foxsports.com\/mlb\/story\/keith-hernandez-calls-broken-bat-dead-soldier-on-air-during-memorial-day-new-york-mets-yankees-game-wpix-052713\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Hernandez had been in front of the microphone for years. On Monday the former big leaguer turned announcer made an on-air gaffe. When Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes induced a broken bat chopper off the bat of Lyle Overbay the on-air personality compared the broken bat to a dead soldier. It was a poor choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[347],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-keith-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}