{"id":1585,"date":"2007-07-13T05:38:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/caption-contest\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T05:38:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T10:38:49","slug":"caption-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/caption-contest","title":{"rendered":"Caption Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the MLB All-Star game, a commercial aired for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2ksports.com\/games\/thebigs\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bigs<\/a>, the new arcade-style baseball videogame. The following image graced our screen (the video of the commercial isn&#8217;t online, so I had to take a photo; sorry):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/vm\/images\/puj.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I don&#8217;t even know where to begin with jokes about this image. So I need <em>you<\/em>, dear readers, to offer up your best\/dumbest\/most mean spirited captions for this image of Albert Pujols in a game called, um, &#8220;The Bigs.&#8221; Comment away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the MLB All-Star game, a commercial aired for The Bigs, the new arcade-style baseball videogame. The following image graced our screen (the video of the commercial isn&#8217;t online, so I had to take a photo; sorry): Sadly, I don&#8217;t even know where to begin with jokes about this image. So I need you, dear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/caption-contest\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Caption Contest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-pz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":1585,"position":0},"title":"NBA Preview: Central Divisionby Gil\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"November 5, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"NBA Preview: Central Divisionby Gil RothChicago BullsA few seasons ago, the Bulls made a huge gamble in the draft. 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