{"id":5971,"date":"2013-07-25T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T21:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:12","slug":"the-p-is-for-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/07\/the-p-is-for-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"The P is for Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/p-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5972\" title=\"Vintage Pirates Cap\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/p-hat-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/p-hat-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/p-hat.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a four-run inning in the top of the ninth to erase the Washington Nationals&#8217; lead and tie the score, 7-7.\u00a0\u00a0 This was one of the rare times I was able to find a Pirates game on television here, and the rally was fun to watch.\u00a0 Sadly,\u00a0 the Nationals proceeded to hit a two-out home run in the bottom of the ninth to win the game. So much for that.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a certain kind of fortitude to follow a baseball team all season long.\u00a0 For one thing, even if your team is having by all definitions a great year, you are certain to watch them lose at least 60 times.*<\/p>\n<p>I will be attending a Pirates game in person this year for the first time in over twenty years.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait, but I hope I can stand the pain until then.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<h5>* A baseball team plays 162 games a year.\u00a0 A team has an outstanding year if it wins 5 of every 8 games it plays.\u00a0 A team has a terrible year if it only wins 3 out of 8.\u00a0 Squirrels would make great baseball fans.\u00a0 Even if a squirrel finds seed in your bird feeder only 3 times out of 8, it will be sure to visit every day.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Pittsburgh Pirates had a four-run inning in the top of the ninth to erase the Washington Nationals&#8217; lead and tie the score, 7-7.\u00a0\u00a0 This was one of the rare times I was able to find a Pirates game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2013\/07\/the-p-is-for-punishment\/\">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":[39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interests","category-putts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28328,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/28328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}