{"id":498,"date":"2003-07-10T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2003-07-10T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/07\/10\/among-the-stranger-baseball-stories-ever\/"},"modified":"2003-07-10T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2003-07-10T21:04:54","slug":"among-the-stranger-baseball-stories-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/07\/10\/among-the-stranger-baseball-stories-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Among The Stranger Baseball Stories Ever&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sausages_m.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/images\/twins\/sausages_m.jpg\" width=\"65\" height=\"90\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis has to be about the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever heard about. Apparently during the sausage race at Miller Park, as the sausages came around third, a Pirates player playfully clobbered the Italian Sausage in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Or not quite in the head, but up on the sausage costume, she fell over, another sausage crashed, and chaos ensued. Scratches and bruises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/news\/2003\/0710\/1579059.html\">Full Story:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; In a bizarre scene during a popular costume race at Milwaukee Brewers games, Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon bopped a woman dressed as a huge Italian sausage with a bat and was arrested.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be about the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever heard about. Apparently during the sausage race at Miller Park, as the sausages came around third, a Pirates player playfully clobbered the Italian Sausage in the head. Or not quite in the head, but up on the sausage costume, she fell over, another sausage crashed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}