{"id":142,"date":"2013-06-10T18:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T23:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kira-b.com\/sabrwp\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-01-20T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:09:55","slug":"nationals-park-hosts-davids-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Nationals Park Hosts Davids Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SABR Day at Nats&#8217; Park was a lot of fun . . . except for the game, in which the Nationals offense managed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrosheet.org\/boxesetc\/2013\/B06080WAS2013.htm\">ten strikeouts<\/a> (against Kevin Correia and assorted other bums, no less) and no walks.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter president Bruce Brown emceed the proceedings, which kicked off with a lively session with Nats\u2019 Director of baseball operations Adam Cromie. Then local radio\/TV host and baseball guru Phil Wood and Mike Wallace (former MLB pitcher [<a style=\"color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wallami01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">http:\/\/www.baseball-<wbr \/>reference.com\/players\/w\/<wbr \/>wallami01.shtml<\/a>] and sidekick on Wood\u2019s show) regaled us with humorous stories out of Washington baseball history (good and bad, mostly tragicomic). There a followed a great buffet spread and then off to the seats . . . where yours truly roasted. Sunstroke . . . in Section 319 . . . it made for a tough finish to a great afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Postgame concert with Blues Traveler was surprisingly good (didn\u2019t stay to the end). I had thought most of those guys were drawing Social Security by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SABR Day at Nats&#8217; Park was a lot of fun . . . except for the game, in which the Nationals offense managed ten strikeouts (against Kevin Correia and assorted other bums, no less) and no walks. Chapter president Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabrdavids.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}