{"id":6083,"date":"2014-01-25T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2014-01-25T09:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:18:34","slug":"jack-morris-says-he-is-tired-of-getting-scrutinized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/01\/25\/jack-morris-says-he-is-tired-of-getting-scrutinized\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Morris says he is &#8220;tired of getting scrutinized&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6086\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6086\" alt=\"Jack Morris\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jackmorris.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jackmorris.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/01\/jackmorris-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For 15 year Jack Morris was on baseball&#8217;s Hall of Fame ballot and for 15 years he failed to earn enshrinement into Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<p>And that has the former major league pitcher feeling one thing. Relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m relieved,\u201d Morris told <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.twincities.com\/twins\/2014\/01\/24\/minnesota-twins-jack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pioneer Press<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m glad. I\u2019m tired of getting scrutinized by writers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris won 254 major league games and had a strong post season record but Hall of Fame voters simply felt it was not enough and now Morris says election will never happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifteen years ought to be long enough for anybody, you know?\u201d Morris said. \u201cIf it\u2019s not going to happen in 15 years, it\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The expansion-era veterans committee will meet in December of 2016 at which time they will consider Morris&#8217; hall credentials.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts on Jack Morris? Sound off below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 year Jack Morris was on baseball&#8217;s Hall of Fame ballot and for 15 years he failed to earn enshrinement into Cooperstown. And that has the former major league pitcher feeling one thing. Relief. \u201cI\u2019m relieved,\u201d Morris told Pioneer Press. \u201cI\u2019m glad. I\u2019m tired of getting scrutinized by writers.\u201d Morris won 254 major league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","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=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}