{"id":9813,"date":"2011-08-24T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/08\/24\/magic-dirt-the-fate-of-former-professional-athletes-and-other-sports-randomness\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T07:00:01","slug":"magic-dirt-the-fate-of-former-professional-athletes-and-other-sports-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110824-01\/?p=9813","title":{"rendered":"Magic dirt, the fate of former professional athletes, and other sports randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A sports-related (mostly baseball) link dump. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A look at     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=102804315\">     the special dirt<\/a> that is used by Major League Baseball     to prepare balls for use. <\/li>\n<li>     As you might have expected,     <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1153364\/1\/index.htm\">     professional athletes don&#8217;t fare all that well financially     once they retire<\/a>,     or even     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/19\/136445218\/\">     while they are still playing<\/a>.     <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/04\/15\/408508.aspx\">     We sort of knew that going in<\/a>;     it&#8217;s sad that not much has changed. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/pitw\/archives\/2011\/08\/22\/the-sounds-turn-incredible-off-the-head-triple-play-in-omaha\">     A very weird triple play<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.sbnation.com\/2011\/8\/15\/2364354\/santiago-casilla-batting-video-jose-ceda-giants-marlins\">     The worst plate appearance in the history of baseball<\/a>.     I even learned a new unit of distance:     the Pedroia. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sports-related (mostly baseball) link dump. A look at the special dirt that is used by Major League Baseball to prepare balls for use. As you might have expected, professional athletes don&#8217;t fare all that well financially once they retire, or even while they are still playing. We sort of knew that going in; it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-9813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A sports-related (mostly baseball) link dump. A look at the special dirt that is used by Major League Baseball to prepare balls for use. As you might have expected, professional athletes don&#8217;t fare all that well financially once they retire, or even while they are still playing. We sort of knew that going in; it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}