{"id":15219,"date":"2011-10-14T12:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=15219"},"modified":"2011-10-14T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:05:47","slug":"nats-red-sox-coming-for-exhibition-so-lets-make-fun-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2011\/10\/nats-red-sox-coming-for-exhibition-so-lets-make-fun-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats: Red Sox coming for exhibition, so let&#8217;s make fun of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wfyurasko\/3661887247\/\" title=\"Pink hat by wfyurasko, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2449\/3661887247_9d6cbb1d5e.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pink hat\"><\/a><br \/>\nToday the Washington Nationals announced that they will be hosting the Boston Red Sox in an Nationals Park exhibition game on Tuesday, April 2, 2012. The two teams also play a 3 game series in Fenway Park June 8-10.<\/p>\n<p>An unprecedented era of success and competence and championships and gave birth to the REDSAWXNATION and legions of bandwagoners wearing pink hats and singing Sweet Caroline came to a crashing THUD last month as the Red Sox collapsed to fall one game out of the playoffs. As a Yankees fan too, this has been thoroughly entertaining. <strong>Terry Francona<\/strong> and <strong>Theo Epstein<\/strong>, the best manager and general manager, respectively that Boston has ever had are both gone. <\/p>\n<p>Here are two must reads:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2011-10-12\/sports\/30271654_1_jon-lester-josh-beckett-terry-francona\">Inside the collapse<\/a> &#8211; <em>Boston Globe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/7095696\/the-collapse-red-sox\">The Collapse of the Red Sox<\/a> &#8211; <em>Grantland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will spread down to Foxborough too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Washington Nationals announced that they will be hosting the Boston Red Sox in an Nationals Park exhibition game on Tuesday, April 2, 2012. The two teams also play a 3 game series in Fenway Park June 8-10. 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