{"id":24,"date":"2004-10-21T15:08:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T23:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/10\/yankees_choke.html"},"modified":"2004-10-21T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T23:08:59","slug":"yankees_choke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/yankees_choke.html","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Choke"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees’ unprecedented utter collapse calls for a quick scan of this dark day’s tabloid headlines.<\/p>\n

The Daily News<\/a> leads with, “The Choke’s On Us.” Subhead is “Worst Postseason Collapse in Baseball History; Bronx Nightmare Sends Sox to Series.”<\/p>\n

The Post<\/a>‘s front page blares, “Damned Yankees” (subhead: “Feeble Yankees Complete Collapse, Bow to Hated Bosox in ACLS”). Its sports back page also uses the choke meme — this time, “What a Choke” with the subhead, “Sox Reverse Curse with Game 7 Win.”<\/p>\n

If I get a chance, maybe I’ll take a picture of the papers and add it to the Defeat<\/a> page, where it can shine next to those devastating 2001 World Series headlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yankees’ unprecedented utter collapse calls for a quick scan of this dark day’s tabloid headlines. The Daily News leads with, “The Choke’s On Us.” Subhead is “Worst Postseason Collapse in Baseball History; Bronx Nightmare Sends Sox to Series.” The Post‘s front page blares, “Damned Yankees” (subhead: “Feeble Yankees Complete Collapse, Bow to Hated Bosox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}