{"id":395,"date":"2008-07-24T23:14:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T06:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/?p=395"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:31","slug":"is-that-his-real-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/is-that-his-real-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Is that his real name?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I’m not a baseball fan, but my wife is – or at least was when we got married.\u00c2\u00a0 Her favorite teams are the cubs and the red sox.\u00c2\u00a0 When I was offered discount tickets through my job to a diamond backs game hosting the cubs – I knew it was a good idea to pick them up.\u00c2\u00a0 Stephanie asked our friends to watch the kids, which they agreed without hesitation, and we were off.<\/p>\n

To be honest, most baseball games are just too slow for me – but last night was different.\u00c2\u00a0 First, the stadium was packed – with cubs fans.\u00c2\u00a0 So many that chants like “Let’s Go D-Backs” were drowned out by “Let’s God Cubbies!”\u00c2\u00a0 and during the seventh inning stretch, when we all sing “take me out to the ball game” – the cub fans were much louder than d-back fans.\u00c2\u00a0 “Root, Root, Root for the D-Backs” was again changed to “cubbies”.\u00c2\u00a0 The score at the end of the game looked more like a football score than a baseball game – 10-6 cubs.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, while I do wish the D-Backs had won – going home with a happy wife was worth the loose.<\/p>\n

Among the highlights – a grand slam home run, ice cream in a waffle bowl for $6, and my wife hi-fiving strangers.\u00c2\u00a0 But a personal favorite for me was finding out there is a player on the cubs team with this for a last name: Fukudome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have no idea how he pronouces it, but I know how I read it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not a baseball fan, but my wife is – or at least was when we got married.\u00c2\u00a0 Her favorite teams are the cubs and the red sox.\u00c2\u00a0 When I was offered discount tickets through my job to a diamond backs game hosting the cubs – I knew it was a good idea to pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}