{"id":44,"date":"2020-02-26T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/?p=44"},"modified":"2020-02-29T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T17:06:40","slug":"sticking-to-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/sticking-to-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticking to the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Naturally, the girl with a headset and microphone takes the sign from a fan which is drawn and says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Houston\u00a0Asterisks<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/tv\/g605408\/v0e562eff-97fd-4ba2-8299-10d7319dbc46#game=605408,tfs=20200226_181000,game_state=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Now watching Noah Syndergaard (opens in a new tab)\">Now watching Noah Syndergaard<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leadoff batter (from Houston) is George Springer. He steps to the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Syndergaard turns his back and looks at the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the umpire looks at the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now the managers look at the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noah Thor announces his ability to stick to the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcers understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players weren&#8217;t sure at first,\u00a0but they too realized when pitcher timed his first pitch to the <em>exact <\/em>official start of the game, and to go forward he\u00a0threw his first pitch high, but straight down the middle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, the girl with a headset and microphone takes the sign from a fan which is drawn and says: The Houston\u00a0Asterisks Now watching Noah Syndergaard: The leadoff batter (from Houston) is George Springer. He steps to the box. Syndergaard turns his back and looks at the clock. Then the umpire looks at the clock. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,23,15,21],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altsportstats.com\/cbos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}