{"id":184315,"date":"2012-06-04T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/04\/a-yankees-fan-throws-out-the-first-pitch-at-the-detroit-game\/"},"modified":"2012-06-04T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T01:43:00","slug":"a-yankees-fan-throws-out-the-first-pitch-at-the-detroit-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/04\/a-yankees-fan-throws-out-the-first-pitch-at-the-detroit-game\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yankees Fan Throws Out the First Pitch at the Detroit Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GW066.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/GW066.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Star Wars villain Darth Vader throws out the ceremonial first pitch to the Detroit Tigers&#8217; Duane Below before the game between the Tigers and New York Yankees at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/05\/18\/149288_a151027\/snap2-a-mcclatchy-photo-gallery.html\">(Julian H. Gonzalez \/ Detroit Free Press\/MCT)<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<p>There are two reasons to be a Yankees fan.<\/p>\n<p>The first is, as my mother did, is to live a few blocks from the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>You could look down into the stadium and catch parts of the game from the roof of her parent&#8217;s apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The second reason is to be deeply evil.<\/p>\n<p>To have turned to the dark side, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>In memory of Steve Gilliard, let me say, F%$# the F%$#ing Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, naming stadia after corporations is even more evil than the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Wars villain Darth Vader throws out the ceremonial first pitch to the Detroit Tigers&#8217; Duane Below before the game between the Tigers and New York Yankees at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan (Julian H. Gonzalez \/ Detroit Free Press\/MCT) There are two reasons to be a Yankees fan. The first is, as my mother &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1124,1171,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-photographs","category-science-fiction","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}