{"id":205,"date":"2008-10-31T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-10-31T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T11:51:00","slug":"losingest-team-in-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/10\/31\/losingest-team-in-mlb\/","title":{"rendered":"Losingest Team in MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Phillies are one of the oldest baseball teams, and have lost the most games. \u00a0They found lightning in a bottle in their bullpen this year, and the teams they faced, which weren&#8217;t the top teams in the game, were unable to exploit their weaknesses. \u00a0They played a strong September and October, much like the Rockies last year, or the Cardinals the year before. \u00a0They won. \u00a0It sucks. I take solace in that they only get one title a century, and they&#8217;ve used up this one&#8217;s only eight years in.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/SQrxzEJY_-I\/AAAAAAAACOM\/-tEFf4g2d9Q\/s320\/10000l.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 320px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263284974124597218\" \/><\/p>\n<div>My money&#8217;s on 20,000 losses before the third championship.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, from a rivalry standpoint, this just amps it up. \u00a0Despise years and chances, both teams have two. \u00a0Phillies fans aren&#8217;t going to discard their hatred for us, and we know they only come out when they&#8217;re winning. \u00a0But now we&#8217;ve grown an intense dislike for them too. \u00a0This could get interesting. \u00a0Or the Phillies could pack it in and place fourth next year, and the rivalry, like the Phillies themselves, will be a flash in the pan.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies are one of the oldest baseball teams, and have lost the most games. \u00a0They found lightning in a bottle in their bullpen this year, and the teams they faced, which weren&#8217;t the top teams in the game, were unable to exploit their weaknesses. \u00a0They played a strong September and October, much like the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/10\/31\/losingest-team-in-mlb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Losingest Team in MLB&#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":[3],"tags":[535,256,585,2964,26,382],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}