{"id":162,"date":"2004-06-18T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T20:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2004-06-18T13:03:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T20:03:26","slug":"but-we-digress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"But, we digress."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is clearly way outside what we normally discuss, but an exception will be made based on some tortured logic that there was a stadium\/sports post (making it sort of a ‘sports’ day) as well being really fucking annoying.<\/p>\n

Hampton Roads is now in the running<\/a> for a MLB franchise because the folks at Smithfiled (the Ham people), put up $1,000 as a deposit for a luxury box at an unfunded stadium. That’s right. A check for about what an ounce of decent pot will in fetch in New York gets you a wire service story touting your status as yet another sucker in the Bud Selig pyramid scheme. And so you are asking two things: 1. Where is hell is Hamptons Roads? and 2. Why exactly is this so annoying? Well, the answers are: 1. Who cares? and 2. That’s not the annoying part.<\/p>\n

The annoying part is that one of the points made to legitimate their bid is that they are the largest pseudo-city<\/a> to not have a major league sports franchise. And, again, a journalist regurgitates this meaningless fact without an consideration for its implicit logic: namely, there will always be a largest city without a sports franchise<\/i>. It’s fast becoming the equivalent of box office results promotion. You know: Columbus is the largest capital city that is not located on a water feature that doesn’t have a major sports franchise. The intersection of 78\/287 is the densest arrangement of malls and gated residential communities that no once can find a decent name for as a town even though it is larger than most state capitals that doesn’t have a major sports franchise. Because, in the future, everyone will have a major sports franchise for fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is clearly way outside what we normally discuss, but an exception will be made based on some tortured logic that there was a stadium\/sports post (making it sort of a ‘sports’ day) as well being really fucking annoying. Hampton Roads is now in the running for a MLB franchise because the folks at Smithfiled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}