{"id":2636,"date":"2017-10-01T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2017-10-01T21:38:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T21:38:34","slug":"postseason-2017-2am-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/2636","title":{"rendered":"Postseason 2017: 2am start."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/yankees-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/yankees-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2637\" \/><\/a>The first season I&#8217;ve been detached from in decades winds down today and the postseason for my beloved Yankees is a bit shaky.  While it&#8217;s been a fun and rather surprising year, I don&#8217;t know if we have what it takes.  The one-game playoff versus Minnesota is one of those &#8216;anything can happen&#8217; situations and I&#8217;ll admit the <i>best of two<\/i> concept I heard about recently sounds like a better solution.  But even if we beat the Twinkies, we go up against the team coming off the hottest streak in over 100 years.  That shortened five-game series is no less stressful!  And the winner faces either the Astros (*ahem*, 2015) or the Sox (hatred).  OMG, the latter would be insanity.  <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s getting <i>way ahead of ourselves<\/i>.  Gotta fend off Minnesota, whom we recently swept, first.  And that game starts at 2am here.  How can I <b>not<\/b> watch?  Alternately, how can I?  Well, I did get up at like 3am to watch when the Yanks and Matsui opened their season in Japan a lifetime ago.  Oh how I love the postseason.  Oh how I hate thee.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first season I&#8217;ve been detached from in decades winds down today and the postseason for my beloved Yankees is a bit shaky. While it&#8217;s been a fun and rather surprising year, I don&#8217;t know if we have what it takes. The one-game playoff versus Minnesota is one of those &#8216;anything can happen&#8217; situations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,21,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-reflection","category-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}