{"id":73,"date":"2004-09-30T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T03:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=73"},"modified":"2004-09-30T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T03:39:11","slug":"heard-on-sports-radio-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/heard-on-sports-radio-today\/","title":{"rendered":"heard on sports radio today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after Texas Ranger baseball player <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/09\/14\/rangers.fight.ap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Francisco<\/a> threw a chair into a heckling crowd and a few days after Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/Stories\/0,1413,200~28541~2433387,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Milton Bradley<\/a> retaliated when a fan threw a bottle near him  on the field, a local radio station invited listeners to call in and tell them what they would say to heckle Barry Bonds during this weekend&#8217;s Dodgers-Giants series. By the time I turned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc5.com\/news\/3773035\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">Presidential candidates debate<\/a>, there were three references to Bonds being gay, two references to his genitalia and one caller who said he would yell, &#8220;Hey Barry, can I have your autograph? You&#8217;re the best baseball player who ever lived.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thank heavens, a sign of intelligence in the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after Texas Ranger baseball player Frank Francisco threw a chair into a heckling crowd and a few days after Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley retaliated when a fan threw a bottle near him on the field, a local radio station invited listeners to call in and tell them what they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}