{"id":113,"date":"2012-01-19T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:22:53","slug":"really-the-jokes-alone-will-be-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Really, the jokes alone will be worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1029737-yu-darvish-texas-rangers-set-up-for-another-world-series-run\" target=\"_blank\">Yu Darvish<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasrangers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a>. $60 million. Sixty. million. dollars. If they have to make that up through our ticket purchases, at $9 a pop (we really only go on promotional half-price-ticket nights), it&#8217;s going to be a long, long haul.<\/p>\n<p>But, really, the jokes about his name\u2014all the many, many little puns and word plays\u2014will be worth it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Rangers want Yu.<br \/>\nYu did it!<br \/>\nWash looks to Yu to pitch the seventh.<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s on first? Yu. What\u2026?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(And maybe a <i>Whirling Darvish<\/i> or two, just for variety.)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. We&#8217;re going to have our own version of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M\" target=\"_blank\">Who&#8217;s On First<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s worth <i>that<\/i> kind of money, but I <i><b>am<\/b><\/i> looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yu Darvish. Texas Rangers. $60 million. Sixty. million. dollars. If they have to make that up through our ticket purchases, at $9 a pop (we really only go on promotional half-price-ticket nights), it&#8217;s going to be a long, long haul. But, really, the jokes about his name\u2014all the many, many little puns and word plays\u2014will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}