{"id":1789,"date":"2012-02-09T08:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2012-02-08T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:09:50","slug":"daniel-murphy-is-pure-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/02\/09\/daniel-murphy-is-pure-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Murphy is Pure Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball players don&#8217;t have enough cool nicknames. \u00a0So when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedquarters.net\/2012\/02\/08\/ike-davis-on-daniel-murphy\/\">Ted Berg suggested<\/a>, via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisik02.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Ike  Davis<\/a><\/strong>, that &#8220;Pure Chaos&#8221; would be a good nickname for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murphda08.shtml?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_campaign=Linker\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel  Murphy<\/a><\/strong> I decided to run with it. \u00a0 It may not describe his hitting style, but I do think it applies to his general approach to the game. \u00a0Before you say anything,\u00a0The Irish Hammer does not count as a nickname.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Howie Rose: &#8220;Coming up in the bottom of the inning for the Mets: Niese, Tejada and Pure Chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sports Radio Update Guy: &#8220;It was all Pure Chaos at Citi Field last night, as the Mets\u00a0walloped\u00a0the Phillies eight to one.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PureChaos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1791 aligncenter\" title=\"PureChaos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PureChaos.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Murphy's Nickname is Pure Chaos\" width=\"700\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PureChaos.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PureChaos-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball players don&#8217;t have enough cool nicknames. \u00a0So when Ted Berg suggested, via Ike Davis, that &#8220;Pure Chaos&#8221; would be a good nickname for Daniel Murphy I decided to run with it. \u00a0 It may not describe his hitting style, but I do think it applies to his general approach to the game. \u00a0Before you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2012\/02\/09\/daniel-murphy-is-pure-chaos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daniel Murphy is Pure Chaos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1248,19,259,3],"tags":[1400,2474,554,2472,14,2473,2471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}