{"id":133,"date":"2023-09-14T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:22:49","slug":"baseball-is-a-game-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/baseball-is-a-game-of-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Is a Game of Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Warren Spahn was one of a group of former All-Stars who were in Washington to play in an old-timers\u2019 game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spahn said: \u201cMr. Speaker, baseball is a game of failure. Even the best batters fail about 65 percent of the time. The two Hall of Fame pitchers here today (Spahn, 363 wins, 245 losses; Bob Gibson, 251 wins, 174 losses) lost more games than a team plays in a full season. I just hope you fellows in Congress have more success than baseball players have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoted from &#8220;Men at Work&#8221; &#8211; George Will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Spahn was one of a group of former All-Stars who were in Washington to play in an old-timers\u2019 game. Spahn said: \u201cMr. Speaker, baseball is a game of failure. Even the best batters fail about 65 percent of the time. The two Hall of Fame pitchers here today (Spahn, 363 wins, 245 losses; Bob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aportman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}