{"id":1914,"date":"2011-04-05T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2011-04-05T16:06:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T20:06:33","slug":"bsb-baseball-suicide-pool-round-one-to-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"BSB Baseball Suicide Pool: Round One to J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the first ever BSB Baseball Suicide Pool was short, but rather sweet for one guy.\u00a0 J took down the 11-person field in a mere 4 days to start the season with a healthy winfall.\u00a0 7 of the 11 entries went down in the very first day, as the Rays, Cubs, and Cardinals losses each eliminated a pair of competitors, and the Rockies ousted another.\u00a0 J nearly won it on Day Two, as he took his <em>bye<\/em>, Gross, Sr., lost with the A&#8217;s against Seattle, and Greeley and Dave needed a Pirates bullpen implosion to even survive to Sunday.\u00a0 Greeley took his <em>bye <\/em>on Sunday, but Dave wanted to get one more day so that he could use his on the short Monday schedule, and lost with the Red Sox.\u00a0 J rode Roy Oswalt to a Sunday win to take on Greeley in a mono e mono Monday battle.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, on Monday, J (possibly the biggest Yankee hater I know) picked the Yankees, who won, and Greeley (possibly the biggest Yankee FAN I know), lost with the Cards and was eliminated by his own team.<\/p>\n<p>Round Two begins Wednesday with one big change.\u00a0 Instead of offering a <em>bye<\/em>, we are going with the three strikes and you&#8217;re out policy.\u00a0 So, it&#8217;s basically become a triple-elimination pool, so we are allowing for 2 losses before being eliminated.\u00a0 All other rules still apply.\u00a0 If anyone interested in Round Two, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the first ever BSB Baseball Suicide Pool was short, but rather sweet for one guy.\u00a0 J took down the 11-person field in a mere 4 days to start the season with a healthy winfall.\u00a0 7 of the 11 entries &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=1914\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[944,13],"tags":[1210],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenge","category-mlb","tag-2011-suicide-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}