{"id":3508,"date":"2012-11-27T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2012-11-27T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T00:44:22","slug":"chooch-babin-and-d-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"Chooch, Babin, and D-Jax&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a mundane check on the front page of ESPN.com today offers three more pieces of off-the-field news to the laundry list of sports storylines meant strictly to depress fans of Philadelphia sports.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruiz was suspended for the first 25 games of the 2013 season for <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/8683788\/carlos-ruiz-philadelphia-phillies-suspended-25-games-positive-test\">testing positive for amphetimines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The already lost Eagles season will finish without their best wide receiver, as DeSean Jackson (who was actually having a sneakily decent season this year) was <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/8682826\/desean-jackson-philadelphia-eagles-put-injured-reserve\">placed on season-ending IR today<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And, in maybe the most surprising (and head-scratching) news of the day &#8211; Jason Babin, fresh off an 18-sack season a year ago, was <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/8683453\/philadelphia-eagles-cut-jason-babin-year-18-sack-season\">flat-out released<\/a> by the Birds today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, we can just sit in wait for the inevitable &#8220;Andrew Bynum to Miss Entire Season&#8221; headline which is right around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a mundane check on the front page of ESPN.com today offers three more pieces of off-the-field news to the laundry list of sports storylines meant strictly to depress fans of Philadelphia sports. Ruiz was suspended for the first 25 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3508\">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":[13,3],"tags":[1275,377,674,4,1227,16,93],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-nfl","tag-andrew-bynum","tag-carlos-ruiz","tag-desean-jackson","tag-eagles","tag-jason-babin","tag-phillies","tag-sixers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}