{"id":886,"date":"2010-02-04T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=886"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:03:39","slug":"thursday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/886","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1.  It is looking increasingly likely that the Mariners starting rotation down the stretch (and into the playoffs, if applicable), will be headlined by these three starters:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/FHernandez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/CLee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/EBedard.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I mean, I know about counting chickens and all that, but still.  Assuming Bedard gets signed and is healthy (two enormous assumptions, I&#8217;ll grant), this may be the best starting trio the Majors have seen in decades.  You can keep your Sabathia\/Pettitte\/Burnett.  I&#8217;ll take Hernandez\/Lee\/Bedard any day.<\/p>\n<p>2.  It is startling how much more productive one can be when one is neither sick nor has to deal with insurance companies.  I didn&#8217;t even notice how much spare energy I was expending trying to get healthy and\/or deal with the fallout of 2009&#8217;s various accidents until I spent a full afternoon without either task.  Very liberating and bodes well for all future projects.<\/p>\n<p>3.  The Dow has seen five digits for the last time in a good long while.  Prepare accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. It is looking increasingly likely that the Mariners starting rotation down the stretch (and into the playoffs, if applicable), will be headlined by these three starters: I mean, I know about counting chickens and all that, but still. Assuming Bedard gets signed and is healthy (two enormous assumptions, I&#8217;ll grant), this may be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10,16],"tags":[5,54,59],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-lets-go-ms","category-politics-n-a-strife-of-interests-masquerading","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-lets-go-ms","tag-politics-n-a-strife-of-interests-masquerading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}