{"id":205,"date":"2007-02-23T10:57:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","slug":"hockey-and-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Hockey and baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nOn the way into work today, there was a story on the radio news about how Manny Ramirez of the <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=bos\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.redsox.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070222&amp;content_id=1812323&amp;vkey=spt2007news&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=bos\">rumoured<\/a> to be appearing at a car auction this weekend instead of tending to his sick mother, his reason for not currently attending training camp.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;How is <em>THAT<\/em> newsworthy?!,&#8221; my wife asked.  &#8220;Ah, I said, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s baseball. Clearly, we&#8217;re not in Canada anymore.&#8221;  Were something similar happening in the NHL, though, I could see it perhaps making the local news somewhere.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf only we could combine hockey and baseball, we might truly have a sport that could appeal to a wider range of North Americans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut wait!  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