{"id":539,"date":"2010-04-20T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2010-04-20T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:33:45","slug":"mcnabb-and-pat-the-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"McNabb and Pat the Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-I still haven&#8217;t gotten around to laying out my take on Donovan McNabb and his time as an Eagle, but, in the meantime, <em>The Onion<\/em>,\u00a0 as usual, has a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/donovan-mcnabb-id-like-to-thank-the-ungrateful-ove,17235\/\" title=\"mcnabb onion\">hilarious take on it<\/a>, with plenty of truth thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>-And a note on another long-time Philly athlete that had his ups and downs: Pat Burrell.\u00a0 I turned on the Rays-Red Sox game this afternoon and Pat was batting. It was the first time I&#8217;d seen him at-bat since the &#8217;08 World Series.\u00a0 Pat promptly lined a ball deep into left-field, hitting high up on the Green Monster in Fenway.\u00a0 Of course, the camera cut to him chugging his way around first base and I knew all too well what was coming next.\u00a0 He was out at second by five feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-I still haven&#8217;t gotten around to laying out my take on Donovan McNabb and his time as an Eagle, but, in the meantime, The Onion,\u00a0 as usual, has a hilarious take on it, with plenty of truth thrown in. -And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=539\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[63,211],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-nfl","tag-donovan-mcnabb","tag-pat-burrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}