{"id":1486,"date":"2008-07-08T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/cheering-with-the-enemy\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T16:41:00","slug":"cheering-with-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/cheering-with-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheering with the Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/nicole-700371.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/nicole-700368.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Cheering for the Giants at a recent Giants-Dodgers game was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/2008\/07\/boring-blog-for-boring-dodger-giants.html\" target=\"_blank\">painful<\/a>. It was also boring.<\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Fans at AT&amp;T must be so enamored by their baseball park that they forgot about the team that plays there. Where is the love for their Giants? There were no inappropriate heckles&#8230;no fighting in the stands&#8230;no trash taking in the streets- all the attributes of a fierce sports rivalry.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">By Sunday, I had enough of &#8220;keeping the peace&#8221; with my in-laws and decided to show my true West Coast colors. I did what any respecting fan would do. (Well, one who was hungering for heckles and drama in the stands). I changed hats&#8230;literally. I even donned the persona of a Dodger fan. Trust me. I was much happier. I even brought an accomplice in my friend Armando. <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/nicole2-791275.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/nicole2-791270.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Perhaps some of you may think it is deplorable to express such blatant fairweather tendencies. But, I think it is deplorable that the Giant fans have flat lined since Barry retired.<\/div>\n<p>San Fran, that ballpark is too beautiful to waste on apathy. Let&#8217;s get with the program. If you can&#8217;t hate the Dodgers, who can ya hate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheering for the Giants at a recent Giants-Dodgers game was painful. It was also boring.<br \/>\nFans at AT&amp;T must be so enamored by their baseball park that they forgot about the team that plays there. Where is the love for their Giants? There were no inappropriate heckles&#8230;no fighting in the stands&#8230;no trash taking in the streets- all the attributes of a fierce sports rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday, I had enough of &#8220;keeping the peace&#8221; with my in-laws and decided to show my true West Coast colors. I did what any respecting fan would &#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":[35,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"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=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}