{"id":6211,"date":"2014-04-09T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2014-04-09T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T19:20:30","slug":"first-post-wednesday-april-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/04\/09\/first-post-wednesday-april-9-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Wednesday, April 9, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baseball Ozymandias Game: Look back 30 years ago and remember these guysz who were leading the league in various categories&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chili Davis, Jeffrey Leonard, Terry Puhl, Kevin McReynolds, Rick Rhoden, Joaquin Andujar, Andre Thornton, Mike Easler, Lance Parrish, Mike Boddicker, Doyle Alexander, Al Nipper and, of course, the one-and-only Tony Armas, stroker of a Mach 5 walkoff, extra-innings homerun to straightaway centre field at Fenway Park on July 4, 1984. Still have never seen a ball leave the stadium any faster than that. Mach 5, easily.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Armas, what ever became of you? F- Jackie Gutierrez and Dewey Evans and Dennis Oil Can Boyd! What ever became of you, Tony Armas? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/\">baseball-reference.com<\/a> for all the source material. Hours and days of uninterrupted fun. Better than the old <em>Baseball Encyclop&aelig;dia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiapublishing.com\/pick.html\">Free<\/a> ones<\/strong>: Rundown&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aqueduct<\/strong> <em>6<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pay-side<\/strong>: Today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keeneland<\/strong> 1, <em>2<\/em>, <em>4<\/em>, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Oaklawn<\/strong> 3, <em>4<\/em>, 7<br \/>\n<strong>Tampa<\/strong> 3, 5, 7, 9<br \/>\n<strong>Turf Paradise<\/strong> 2, 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today&rsquo;s Stakes Pageantry<\/strong>: None today, but two of the following will be eliminated from Champions League consideration: Atletico Madrid or Barcelona, Bayern M&uuml;nchen or Man Utd. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday&rsquo;s Activity<\/strong>: UConn completes the hoops double. &rsquo;gratsz!<\/p>\n<p><strong>WMF Report<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p><em>Early<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Chas. Town<\/strong> 4&frac12;f<br \/>\n<strong>Mountain<\/strong> 6f<br \/>\n<strong>PennNat<\/strong> 6f<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnal Submission<\/strong>: <strong>Chas. Town 9<\/strong> (10:38 p.m. EDT \/ 7:38 p.m. PDT) has <strong>#4 Quiet Tiara<\/strong> shooting for the upset crown. &#8230;Before that one, it&rsquo;s <strong>Opening Night<\/strong> at <strong>Evangeline<\/strong>, and in <strong>Race 8<\/strong> there (9:49 \/ 6:49), <strong>#7 Restitution<\/strong> is not out of it. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drive safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baseball Ozymandias Game: Look back 30 years ago and remember these guysz who were leading the league in various categories&#8230; Chili Davis, Jeffrey Leonard, Terry Puhl, Kevin McReynolds, Rick Rhoden, Joaquin Andujar, Andre Thornton, Mike Easler, Lance Parrish, Mike &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2014\/04\/09\/first-post-wednesday-april-9-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,5,3],"tags":[8,13,7,6],"class_list":["post-6211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-stakes","category-wmf","tag-analysis","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-1Cb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6211\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}