{"id":419939,"date":"2017-12-11T13:55:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=419939"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:55:34","slug":"a-time-and-a-place-for-yankees-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/a-time-and-a-place-for-yankees-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time and a Place for Yankees Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp-12-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-419945\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp-12-11-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you tuned in to watch the Kentucky-Monmouth basketball game Saturday at Madison Square Garden, I know one of two things about you. Either you\u2019re a true college basketball junkie or you\u2019re a devoted fan of one of those teams.<br \/>\nYou may or may not care anything about the New York Yankees, but clearly you didn\u2019t tune in to hear about the Yankees during the baseball offseason.<br \/>\nYet, ESPNU decided to spend exactly 5 full minutes of game time &#8212; beginning with 7:58 left in the first half &#8212; interviewing Yankees manager Aaron Boone about the Yankees and their pursuit of Giancarlo Stanton.<br \/>\nCome on ESPN, Tighten Up.<br \/>\nThis is exactly the kind of diversion I dred during the upcoming bowl season. During the Tennessee game they\u2019ll interview Peyton Manning. During the Independence Bowl they\u2019ll interview Willie Taggert when I\u2019m interested in watching Southern Miss and Florida State. During the Texas Bowl they will interview Matthew McConaughey about his latest project.<br \/>\nThe greatest response I saw on Twitter Saturday was from a Kentucky fan who wrote \u201chey, there\u2019s a Kentucky basketball game going on in the background of the New York Yankees press conference.\u201d<br \/>\nLook, I\u2019ve got nothing against the Yankees. But if I want Yankees information I know where to find it &#8212; and it\u2019s not during a Monmouth-Kentucky basketball game.<br \/>\nWho do you think needs to Tighten Up? Call in and the best and most entertaining suggestion will win a $25 gift card from Wintzell\u2019s Oyster House.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-419939-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp1211.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp1211.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TightenUp1211.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>If you tuned in to watch the Kentucky-Monmouth basketball game Saturday at Madison Square Garden, I know one of two things about you. Either you\u2019re <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/a-time-and-a-place-for-yankees-baseball\/\" title=\"A Time and a Place for Yankees Baseball\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-419939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419955,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419939\/revisions\/419955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}