{"id":1453,"date":"2008-05-08T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/cycle-schmycle\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T07:36:00","slug":"cycle-schmycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/cycle-schmycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle-Schmycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18, 1998, I witnessed a rare event in baseball&#8230;Mike Blowers (of all random players) hit for the Cycle at Comiskey and I was there to bare witness.  At the time, Andrew mentioned the significance of the cycle: as rare as a no-hitter, only 241 cycles in baseball history (in 1998), with players like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle being among those enshrined in the stat books.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/hitting_cycle300-765155.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/hitting_cycle300-765152.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nine years later, while I was basking in the glory and luck of seeing a Cycle-even if it was Mike Blowers- i found some disturbing news.  Andrew, my brother-in-law, father-in-law, and mother-in-law saw another cycle (June 4, 2007\/Mark Ellis).  <\/p>\n<p>I go to around 25 baseball games a year.  My mother-in-law&#8230;not so much.  Strange? Yes. Upsetting? Definitely.  But, just dumb luck&#8230;of course. <\/p>\n<p>Then, tonight, Andrew saw<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/andrew\/2008\/05\/cycle-of-cyclesand-scalpers.html\" target=\"_blank\"> ANOTHER cycle<\/a> at Comiskey Park (now U.S. Cellular Field) by  Carlos Gomez of the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>I know that statistically speaking cycles are rare and occur as infrequently as a no-hitter.  But, let&#8217;s get real.  This should be a cool statistic that you can throw around to your friends.   Not one that you share with your mother-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18, 1998, I witnessed a rare event in baseball&#8230;Mike Blowers (of all random players) hit for the Cycle at Comiskey and I was there to bare witness.  At the time, Andrew mentioned the significance of the cycle: as rare as a no-hitter, only 241 cycles in baseball history (in 1998), with players like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle being among those enshrined in the stat books.<br \/>\nNine years later, while I was basking in the glory and luck of seeing a Cycle-even if it was Mike &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}