{"id":1053,"date":"2008-12-06T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2014-12-30T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T15:17:21","slug":"mad-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Mad Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest pitchers in baseball history is retiring.  Joe Posnanski <a href=\"http:\/\/joeposnanski.com\/JoeBlog\/2008\/12\/06\/1260\/\">breaks down<\/a> one of his greatest games.  I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been eleven years.<\/p>\n<p>Watching Maddux pitch in his prime was something else.  He would get batters so mixed up and frustrated they&#8217;d be yelling at him from the dugout.  At least once a game he&#8217;d throw a pitch that had the better saying, &#8220;What the hell was <i>that<\/i>?&#8221;  It was a privilege to be a Braves&#8217; fan back then.  Three out of five nights, you were seeing a future Hall of Famer work his craft.  And at least one night a week, you saw the baseball equivalent of Picasso.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s also not forget:  Maddux could be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ltD21rYWVw\">really funny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on Maddux from <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/columns\/story?columnist=neyer_rob&#038;id=3749155\">Neyer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/writers\/tom_verducci\/12\/06\/maddux\/index.html\">Verducci<\/a> (also 1995 <a href=\"http:\/\/vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1006923\/index.htm?eref=sisf\">Verducci<\/a>).  I really hope Mad Dog has a career as a broadcast or analyst.  I don&#8217;t want to have seen the last of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest pitchers in baseball history is retiring. Joe Posnanski breaks down one of his greatest games. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s been eleven years. Watching Maddux pitch in his prime was something else. He would get batters so mixed up and frustrated they&#8217;d be yelling at him from the dugout. At least once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mad Dog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[318,61,350],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baseball","tag-greg-maddux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-gZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}