{"id":1260,"date":"2008-10-21T23:25:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loafe.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2008-10-21T23:31:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:31:23","slug":"why-im-happy-the-red-sox-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"why I&#8217;m happy the red sox lost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m disappointed the red sox lost, of course, and I&#8217;m certainly no fan of tampa bay, but I&#8217;m not heartbroken. Or even upset. This is why:<\/p>\n<p>a) it&#8217;s nice to see an organization make the world series for the first time in franchise history, even if it&#8217;s tampa bay. lousy stupid tampa bay. can I just say how much florida sucks? can&#8217;t we ditch them already? stupid florida. that state annoys me like a mother-in-law.<br \/>\nb) it&#8217;s refreshing to see a team with one of the smallest payrolls beat a team with one of the highest.<br \/>\nc) the rays were simply the better team, during the ALCS and all year long; they deserved to win.<br \/>\nd) the red sox really needed to lose. I don&#8217;t want this team becoming the new yankees. too many winning seasons isn&#8217;t good for your constitution. I can&#8217;t handle all that success. it&#8217;s too much. too too much. it&#8217;s the struggling, the loss and pain, that sustains us.<br \/>\ne) now I can focus on hockey with a clear eye. when boston baseball drags deep into october, it makes it so much harder to switch gears to hockey.<br \/>\nf) the game 5 comeback win was all the victory we need for the year. seriously.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing: that&#8217;s what you get for not playing jacoby. he wouldn&#8217;t have been tagged out at 2nd in game 7, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m disappointed the red sox lost, of course, and I&#8217;m certainly no fan of tampa bay, but I&#8217;m not heartbroken. Or even upset. This is why: a) it&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}