{"id":390,"date":"2008-08-01T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-08-01T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T04:59:07","slug":"so-long-manny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/so-long-manny\/","title":{"rendered":"So Long, Manny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So long, Manny, and thanks for the trophies.\u00c2\u00a0 I was at that train wreck of a game last night, and while I knew intellectually that it might be Manny&#8217;s last, I didn&#8217;t believe it.\u00c2\u00a0 In retrospect I wish I&#8217;d watched him a bit more closely, just to squeeze the last drops out of the Manny Era.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad the trade was done, but I&#8217;ll still miss him.\u00c2\u00a0 The good parts, that is.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/respectthetek.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/we-do-not-know-why-you-say-goodbye-we.html\">Respect the Tek<\/a> has it right: &#8220;Manny being Manny always was a double-edged sword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to getting to know Jason Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 The question now is: Is this the Nomar trade of 2004, the purge that lights the fire?\u00c2\u00a0 Or is this 2005, the post-championship year where the team collapsed in injury, age, and indifference in the second half?<\/p>\n<p>Lots of games left to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So long, Manny, and thanks for the trophies.\u00c2\u00a0 I was at that train wreck of a game last night, and while I knew intellectually that it might be Manny&#8217;s last, I didn&#8217;t believe it.\u00c2\u00a0 In retrospect I wish I&#8217;d watched him a bit more closely, just to squeeze the last drops out of the Manny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}