{"id":1078,"date":"2007-01-31T09:55:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/31\/my-teams-stink\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T09:55:55","slug":"my-teams-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/31\/my-teams-stink\/","title":{"rendered":"My Teams Stink"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been much less hoops-blogging than usual around here this year for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I’m busy with work, and more substantive blogging, so I don’t have time to watch a lot of games. I’m also playing<\/strong> a fair amount of basketball these days, both pick-up games at lunch, and IM games Sunday evenings, and a lot of my hoop-related energies are going into that.<\/p>\n

Really, though, the main reason for the scanty hoops-blogging is that my favorite teams both stink. Syracuse got bombed by Notre Dame<\/a> last night, and Maryland rolled over after the half<\/a> against Florida State. And, of course, because neither team is any good right now, they’re not on tv, so I can’t even watch the games and comment afterwards (I did listen to a bunch of the Maryland game on Internet radio, but I won’t write detailed comments based on audio only). The only fun either team offers at the moment is the prospect of watching Jeremy Gold’s head explode<\/a> on the web.<\/p>\n

So, here’s a place-holder basketball post. If you’ve been missing the hoops blogging, consider this a basketball Open Thread. Here, I’ll give you a topic: The Final Four teams will be Florida, Ohio State, North Carolina, and ______?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been much less hoops-blogging than usual around here this year for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I’m busy with work, and more substantive blogging, so I don’t have time to watch a lot of games. I’m also playing a fair amount of basketball these days, both pick-up games at lunch, and IM… Continue reading My Teams Stink<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}