{"id":756,"date":"2006-07-16T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2006-07-16T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T03:01:09","slug":"dont-hurt-your-shoulder-patting-yourself-on-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off the top of my head, I&#8217;ve got four questions about this <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=alipour\/060714&#038;lpos=spotlight&#038;lid=tab1pos2\">&#8220;ESPYs Backstage&#8221; column<\/a> on ESPN.com&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>1) Could this be a more obvious PR piece to make Chris Berman come off as the fun-loving comedic father figure of the sports world? I didn&#8217;t have the time or energy to count the Berman references, but I&#8217;m thinking it pushed 20. And the column wasn&#8217;t that long.<\/p>\n<p>2) Do athletes have &#8220;real&#8221; fake numbers to give out in the case of an autistic high schooler asking for the digits? Not that I feel bad for Kobe in any regard, but giving a high school kid your number in ANY instance, regardless of mental capacity of the kid, can&#8217;t be a good idea, but if it comes out that he gave an autistic kid a bum number, who does he buy a $4M ring for to cover up that PR fiasco? <\/p>\n<p>3) The phrase I read earlier (I believe on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadspin.com\">Deadspin<\/a>) that the ESPYs are ESPN&#8217;s self-important display of self-importance is backed up about 3,000 times in the 3 minutes it took to read this piece.<\/p>\n<p>4) What does Dario Franchitti think about his wife&#8230; HIS WIFE&#8230; hanging around all giddy with folks like LeBron and Dwayne Wade? And really, what can he do about it anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the top of my head, I&#8217;ve got four questions about this &#8220;ESPYs Backstage&#8221; column on ESPN.com&#8230;. 1) Could this be a more obvious PR piece to make Chris Berman come off as the fun-loving comedic father figure of the sports world? I didn&#8217;t have the time or energy to count the Berman references, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=756\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t hurt your shoulder patting yourself on the back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}