{"id":18258,"date":"2018-10-21T00:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=18258"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:52","slug":"power-ball-and-mega-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/10\/power-ball-and-mega-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Ball and Mega-Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The participants in major league baseball&#8217;s 2018 World Series have now been decided.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams that will vie for the championship are the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose team payroll was $199,582,045 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/mlb\/payroll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3rd of 30 teams<\/a>), and the Boston Red Sox, whose team payroll was $228,398,860, highest of all teams, and $20 million more than the next-highest team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 2018 team payroll for Pittsburgh Pirates was $91,025,861, a little less than two-thirds of the league average.\u00a0 The Pirates finished with a .509 winning percentage and\u00a0 despite their hot streak in July were never really in playoff contention.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story: If you want to play power ball, you need to spend mega-millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The participants in major league baseball&#8217;s 2018 World Series have now been decided. The two teams that will vie for the championship are the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose team payroll was $199,582,045 (3rd of 30 teams), and the Boston Red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/10\/power-ball-and-mega-millions\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18261,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18258\/revisions\/18261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}