{"id":15956,"date":"2009-10-08T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15956"},"modified":"2009-10-08T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T02:46:00","slug":"um-yay-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/um-yay-team.html","title":{"rendered":"Um, yay team!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Colorado Rockies baseball\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rockies-baseball.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"81\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a sports fan.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t follow sports, local or otherwise &#8230; until folks get into the playoffs and stuff. Then it becomes sort of a tribal thing.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; um &#8230; go, Rockies!<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(With all due apologies to any readers in Philadelpha. Nothing personal.)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a sports fan. I don&#8217;t follow sports, local or otherwise &#8230; until folks get into the playoffs and stuff. Then it becomes sort of a tribal thing. So &#8230; um &#8230; go, Rockies! (With all due apologies to any readers in Philadelpha. 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