{"id":481,"date":"2004-10-21T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/10\/21\/curve-balls\/"},"modified":"2004-10-21T09:53:45","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T13:53:45","slug":"curve-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/10\/21\/curve-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Curve Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1050'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>If you own a TV, computer, radio or if you have contact with people in your every day life, you probably know by now&nbsp;that the Red Sox beat the Yankees last night&#8230;which means they are participating in the play-offs for the first time in 18 years (and which they haven&#8217;t won in 86 years). Whoop-di-doo.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As expected, even though the game was in New York City and Boston had extra police detail on duty, idiots stormed the streets of the Fenway to celebrate the win. An occasional car was over-turned, a number of arrests were made and I heard a few small fires were started (probably in trash cans).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;m so sick of (and embarrassed by) this. At least nobody died, like last year. Still, I think we need to take the parental role here and say if these boys can&#8217;t play nice, they can&#8217;t play at all. Actually, I have a better solution. Let&#8217;s give concentrated estrogen shots to all game attendees and fans before the games. True, their body hair may decrease, their hips may get more curvy and they may develop breats that will stick out further than their beer-bellies. But I think those side-effects would be worth it if it could reduce stupidity of the excitable male.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a TV, computer, radio or if you have contact with people in your every day life, you probably know by now&nbsp;that the Red Sox beat the Yankees last night&#8230;which means they are participating in the play-offs for the first time in 18 years (and which they haven&#8217;t won in 86 years). Whoop-di-doo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}