{"id":196,"date":"2002-11-06T20:53:46","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T00:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=196"},"modified":"2002-11-06T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2002-11-07T00:53:46","slug":"the-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"The Red Sox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox, of all teams, <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/s\/2002\/1105\/1456563.html\">hire Bill James<\/a>. Not as GM, alas, but it&#8217;s a start. To those who understand this announcement no explanation is necessary; to those who do not none is possible. Lou Gorman must be spinning in his grave. Wait a second, is Lou Gorman dead yet?<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ll credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbycosh.com\">Colby Cosh<\/a>. I happened on this joyful tiding independently, but I can&#8217;t <em>prove<\/em> that, and anyway it&#8217;s Colby Cosh Day.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox, of all teams, hire Bill James. Not as GM, alas, but it&#8217;s a start. To those who understand this announcement no explanation is necessary; to those who do not none is possible. Lou Gorman must be spinning in his grave. Wait a second, is Lou Gorman dead yet? (I&#8217;ll credit Colby Cosh. <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=196' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}