{"id":3522,"date":"2007-12-14T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bill_plaschke_baseball_will_survive_but_first_it_has_to_feel_our_pain\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T19:21:00","slug":"bill_plaschke_baseball_will_survive_but_first_it_has_to_feel_our_pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Bill Plaschke: Baseball will survive, but first it has to feel our pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred and nine pages.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-six players.<\/p>\n<p>One fatal injection into the heart of a national pastime&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball will survive the steroid-bloated Mitchell report, which was released today with countless stories of cheating by players, compliance by owners and protection by the union.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball will survive, but Roger Clemens will not.<\/p>\n<p>If Barry Bonds is going to be shunned from Cooperstown and our hearts, then so must Clemens, a Hall of Fame arm who will now forever be remembered for his butt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone,&#8221; reads the report.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball will survive, but Andy Pettitte will not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/la-sp-plaschke14dec14,0,2122436.column?coll=la-home-center\">Read the entire piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred and nine pages. Eighty-six players. One fatal injection into the heart of a national pastime&#8217;s history. Baseball will survive the steroid-bloated Mitchell report, which was released today with countless stories of cheating by players, compliance by owners and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=3522\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}