{"id":882,"date":"2007-05-05T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2007-05-18T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T14:48:24","slug":"splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Splash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And with one shot into a jacuzzi, Julio Franco <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=270504129\">added to his total<\/a> of hitting the four &#8220;oldest&#8221; homeruns in major league history, and 20 of the 25 oldest. Also, the shot came off 43-year old Randy Johnson, making them the oldest pitcher-hitter homerun combo in history. And, at 418-feet, it shows that the old man still has quite a bit of pop left in the bat. <\/p>\n<p>Also, it&#8217;s Derby Day, and while I haven&#8217;t fared quite as well in picking winners as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/HaveyoumetGreg\/588274478\/lets-try-this-again.html\">my brother<\/a>, I&#8217;ve got a few bucks at Churchill Downs as we speak. <\/p>\n<p>The pick? I think I&#8217;ll go with Hard Spun. (Curlin to place, Zanjero to show.)<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the usually quite awesome Maureen Fulton of the Toledo Blade lost a few points this week after picking a couple up. She has a friend\/co-worker\/acquaintance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070503\/BLOGS04\/70502030\/-1\/RSS14\">blogging from her first Derby<\/a>. Which is nice. But she spoiled it by mentioning that the friend\/co-worker-acquaintance had reserved seats. I can only hope the friend\/co-worker\/acquaintance makes up for it with a blog from the infield next year. But I&#8217;d bet not.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the infield, they&#8217;re talking rain and storms down there again today, which means this gets posted:<br \/>\n<center><img src=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/pictures\/derby2.jpg\" alt=\"Me, rain, Churchill Downs\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Good times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And with one shot into a jacuzzi, Julio Franco added to his total of hitting the four &#8220;oldest&#8221; homeruns in major league history, and 20 of the 25 oldest. Also, the shot came off 43-year old Randy Johnson, making them the oldest pitcher-hitter homerun combo in history. And, at 418-feet, it shows that the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Splash!<\/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\/882"}],"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=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}