{"id":69,"date":"2004-12-20T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/battle_of_the_idiots.html"},"modified":"2004-12-20T12:46:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T20:46:10","slug":"battle_of_the_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/battle_of_the_i.html","title":{"rendered":"“Battle of the Idiots”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Battle of the Idiots”<\/a> is the Daily News’ headline, not mine, referring to Curt Schilling calling out Pay-dro on the newest Met’s recent comments.<\/p>\n

Actually, it seems like confirmation that the Mets have made a terrible, terrible mistake. The article features Pay-dro’s curious self-scheduling, thuggy macho talk (“Schilling cannot run with me”), accusations of geekery and Curt Schilling’s flexible definition of “preferential treatment” (as it related to Pay-dro) — worth reading in whole.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the utterly unconvincing, Schilling-esque platitudes:<\/p>\n

“Petey’s a good man with a big heart. I told him what an honor it was to watch him, that I learned a lot and hoped it would be three more years of the same.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s positively Bush-like in his spin, this guy!<\/p>\n

Bonus Points: Pay-dro’s Snubbed Little Friend<\/a> (link not for the faint hearted).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Battle of the Idiots” is the Daily News’ headline, not mine, referring to Curt Schilling calling out Pay-dro on the newest Met’s recent comments. Actually, it seems like confirmation that the Mets have made a terrible, terrible mistake. The article features Pay-dro’s curious self-scheduling, thuggy macho talk (“Schilling cannot run with me”), accusations of geekery […]<\/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-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}