{"id":8120,"date":"2008-08-27T03:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fred_mitchell_08_cubs_built_better_than_84_model\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T03:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T03:40:03","slug":"fred_mitchell_08_cubs_built_better_than_84_model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8120","title":{"rendered":"Fred Mitchell: &#39;08 Cubs built better than &#39;84 model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs are 31 games over .500 for the first time since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>That &#8217;84 team, of course, came agonizingly close to reaching the World Series for the first time since 1945, losing a best-of-five NL Championship Series to the San Diego Padres after taking a 2-0 series lead at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons between the &#8217;84 team I covered for the Tribune and the current Cubs can always be debated. The &#8217;84 Cubs, for instance, finished with a team earned-run average of 3.75. The current staff has a 3.74 ERA at this point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/baseball\/cubs\/cs-080825-chicago-cubs-2008-1984,0,1756702.column\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs are 31 games over .500 for the first time since 1984. That &#8217;84 team, of course, came agonizingly close to reaching the World Series for the first time since 1945, losing a best-of-five NL Championship Series to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8120\">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-8120","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\/8120","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=8120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}