{"id":1239,"date":"2015-07-01T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2015-07-22T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T03:44:43","slug":"mailing-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/01\/mailing-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailing It In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a time in every person\u2019s life when they must decide whether to put forth the extra effort, or just say fuck it and throw in the towel.\u00a0 The SweatSox are face to face with this incredibly difficult decision right now.\u00a0 Am I referring to Marc Lett choosing to spend his time on the DL at home with his family instead of at the ballpark?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Am I referring to last night\u2019s dreadful SweatSox defense that only got worse as the game progressed?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Am I talking about the SweatSox utter refusal to support Mindy Ruffo&#8217;s (aka Mrs. Chris) soccer endeavors?\u00a0 Haha, definitely no!<\/p>\n<p>I am of course talking about me (Shaun Keay) and this website.\u00a0 You will have noticed that there hasn\u2019t been an update in over a week, during which time we\u2019ve had 2 games, 2 Hyjinx, 2 rainouts, an updated schedule, a very public civil war amongst the umpires as a result of #CellGate, and another episode of \u201cLet\u2019s Reply All\u201d entitled\u00a0#GoTit.<\/p>\n<p>I could easily write 14 hundred words on each of these subjects, but as you may have guessed, I\u2019m mailing it in.\u00a0 See you all on July 9th, when we\u2019re back in action against the Braves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 4px;\">Final Notes\/Thoughts For The Past Week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With our 3-1 win vs the Cardinals; Cory Bond became the SweatSox all-time leader in wins as a manager.\u00a0 Neither Craig Cornell nor Doug Dorion, who are now tied for 2nd, was there to witness it.\u00a0 Well, Dorion may have been from the heavens above. #RIP<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>If Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez procreated, their offspring would be J-Rod<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>Mark Stinson is extremely grateful for Women\u2019s World Cup highlights in his Alexandria hotel room<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>I, Shaun Keay, finally got an invite to watch games with the \u2018impartial Score Keeper\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>The SweatSox seemed more excited about the Cornwall cancellation than winning the Championship a few years ago<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>Umpires are highly discouraged from using a cell phone to keep time during a game.\u00a0 In unrelated news, after being called in last night as an emergency substitute, the Umpire in Chief forgot his stopwatch<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>You really don\u2019t have to let all 34 other managers know you \u201cgot it\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>The Panthers were successfully\u00a0replybaited in a tweet about replies &#8211; &#8220;Damn that Keay&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn&#8217;t over it<\/li>\n<li>Chris Lidstone plugged a hole during a (car) ride with Mindy<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>Craig Cornell became our first catcher this year whose name doesn\u2019t sound exactly like \u201cMark\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>Josh Ramage and a faux Nigerian Prince have something in common: annoying spam<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn&#8217;t over it<\/li>\n<li>Medium is the new Cajun?<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>Refills may or may not be complimentary, but you always have to pay for the 1st soft drink<\/li>\n<li>Mindy still isn\u2019t over it<\/li>\n<li>We have no inside info on the RiverHawks signing Phillippe Aumont<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">#ARKHAMKNIGHT<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mail1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mail1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"2015mail1\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mail1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mail1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mail1-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mail1.jpg 1942w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a time in every person\u2019s life when they must decide whether to put forth the extra effort, or just say fuck it and throw in the towel.\u00a0 The SweatSox are face to face with this incredibly difficult decision right now.\u00a0 Am I referring to Marc Lett choosing to spend his time on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hyjinx","category-recap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2015mailtitle.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41pWP-jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}