{"id":4656,"date":"2009-11-13T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2010-02-16T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:40:04","slug":"trippin-baseballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/trippin-baseballs","title":{"rendered":"Trippin’ Baseballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

During A.J. Burnett’s start against the Angels in the ALDS, I told my wife, “He threw the sloppiest no-hitter of all time, I think. He had like 9 walks over the course of the game.”<\/p>\n

I conveniently forgot about Dock Ellis, who threw a no-no while . . . well, you’ll just have to watch:<\/p>\n

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During A.J. Burnett’s start against the Angels in the ALDS, I told my wife, “He threw the sloppiest no-hitter of all time, I think. He had like 9 walks over the course of the game.” I conveniently forgot about Dock Ellis, who threw a no-no while . . . well, you’ll just have to watch:<\/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":[632,32],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-sports","tag-dock-ellis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1d6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5378,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/what-it-is-61410","url_meta":{"origin":4656,"position":0},"title":"What It Is: 6\/14\/10","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"What I'm reading: Less Than Zero. 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