{"id":198563,"date":"2007-10-29T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/29\/what-the-hon-dr-st-rev-bradley-s-rocket-esq-phd-md-said\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:40:00","slug":"what-the-hon-dr-st-rev-bradley-s-rocket-esq-phd-md-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/29\/what-the-hon-dr-st-rev-bradley-s-rocket-esq-phd-md-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Hon. Dr. St. Rev. Bradley S. Rocket, Esq, PhD, MD Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadlyno.com\/archives\/7628.html\">Sadly, No! \u00bb Death, Be Thee Proud And Take Me Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, he said that Gregg Easterbrook is a wanker.<\/p>\n<p>This time, because of what Easterbrook wrote about the upcoming Colts\/Patriots game.  Personally, I&#8217;m conflicted about the game.  I&#8217;ve hated, yes hated, the Colts ever since Irsay left Baltimore in the middle of the night, but the Pats just made my beloved Redskins look like a PeeWee football team on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=easterbrook\/071023&amp;sportCat=nfl\">Easterbrook&#8217;s latest column<\/a>, in which he casts the upcoming Colts-Pats game as a battle between good and evil.<\/p>\n<p>Why the hell does <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anyone<\/span> pay Easterbrook <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anything<\/span> to write?  He may write better than I do, who doesn&#8217;t, but the man makes Dan Quayle look like Albert Einstein<sup>*<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also say that whatever my feeling about the Pats as folks who just pasted the &#8216;Skins, they are in a very real way an answer to much of the superstar bad behavior in sport.  They are introduced as a team at superbowls, they play as a team, and big mouthed jerks on other teams, go there and become team players<sup>\u2020<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">To be fair, it&#8217;s Albert Einstein the actor, who&#8217;s nom de theater is Albert Brooks, but still.<\/span><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Corey Dillon and Randy Moss come to mind.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, No! \u00bb Death, Be Thee Proud And Take Me Now Basically, he said that Gregg Easterbrook is a wanker. This time, because of what Easterbrook wrote about the upcoming Colts\/Patriots game. Personally, I&#8217;m conflicted about the game. I&#8217;ve hated, yes hated, the Colts ever since Irsay left Baltimore in the middle of the night, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1057,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198563"}],"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=198563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}