{"id":866,"date":"2016-11-04T19:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=866"},"modified":"2016-11-04T19:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:58:11","slug":"rip-%e2%80%94-billy-the-goat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"RIP \u2014 Billy the Goat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_15836.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-870\" title=\"IMG_1583\" src=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_15836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"67\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may remember a few days ago I mentioned that we had a special bottle of wine for the World Series. When we received it, I said, \u201cif the Indians win the World Series, we\u2019re gonna open this bottle. If the Indians lose the World Series, we\u2019re gonna open this bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, the bottle is open (and empty, I might add.) I won\u2019t dwell on the World Series except to say that I\u2019m not a huge baseball fan, but I watched every minute of all seven games\u2026 It would have been nice to have another championship in Cleveland, but neither team has anything to be ashamed of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And I hope I get another bottle of that wine for next year \u2014 I\u2019m pretty sure the World Series will be played in Cleveland again.<br \/>\nI did a little bit of extensive research and learned that from 1969 until 1989, the Indians finished in last place or second-to-last place in 16 of those 21 seasons. In the other five seasons, they finished third-to-last. But \u2014 from 1994 until today, they\u2019ve mad the playoffs nine times and came within an out of winning the World Series twice. Even though I liked the old stadium, the suffering doesn\u2019t seem quite as bad in the new one.<\/p>\n<p>So the curse or streak has ended for the Cubs \u2014 the new owner is now the Indians \u2014 that one ends in 2017.<br \/>\n\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember a few days ago I mentioned that we had a special bottle of wine for the World Series. When we received it, I said, \u201cif the Indians win the World Series, we\u2019re gonna open this bottle. If &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=866\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}