{"id":220,"date":"2008-04-14T15:19:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/and-now-your-team-the-dublin-felons\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T15:19:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T14:19:57","slug":"and-now-your-team-the-dublin-felons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/14\/and-now-your-team-the-dublin-felons\/","title":{"rendered":"And now&#8230; Your Team&#8230; The Dublin Felons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the second week of the season, <a href=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/10\/a-key-element-of-us-culture-fantasy-baseball\/\">The Dublin Felons<\/a> have a respectable 13-7 record, good enough for third place in the league.<\/p>\n<p>The staff would like to introduce a new gimmick &#8212; er, feature &#8212; for the Bakker Bugle Blog. At several points during the season, <i>you<\/i> can manage The Dublin Felons! For this week, we let you determine which player will get room service and white balls for batting practice. Just vote in the poll to the right before noon on Wednesday (CDT). Your options are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/mlb\/players\/playerpage\/11714\">Pl\u00e1cido Polanco<\/a>, second base, Detroit Tigers<\/li>\n<li>Drop Polanco and obtain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/mlb\/players\/playerpage\/132725\">Juan Pierre<\/a>, outfield, LA Dodgers<\/li>\n<li>Drop Polanco and obtain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/mlb\/players\/playerpage\/174731\">Corey Patterson<\/a>, outfield, Cincinnati Reds<\/li>\n<li>Drop Polanco and obtain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsline.com\/mlb\/players\/playerpage\/547679\">Melky Cabrera<\/a>, outfield, NY Yankees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering about the overall lineup: The Dublin Felons currently have three second basemen (Brian Roberts and Dustin Pedroia) and three outfielders. Yes, that&#8217;s a serious imbalance. But are the available outfielders worth exchanging for Polanco? You decide!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the second week of the season, The Dublin Felons have a respectable 13-7 record, good enough for third place in the league. The staff would like to introduce a new gimmick &#8212; er, feature &#8212; for the Bakker Bugle Blog. At several points during the season, you can manage The Dublin Felons! For this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}