{"id":10301,"date":"2011-10-29T07:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10301"},"modified":"2011-10-29T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T12:11:59","slug":"overheard-in-the-noggle-den-as-seen-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/overheard-in-the-noggle-den-as-seen-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard in the Noggle Den, As Seen On Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately after the Cardinals game, the Fox Sports sideline guy caught up with Allen Craig, who caught the last out:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"254\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/flash\/video\/share\/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?content_id=19959997&#038;topic_id=25589412&#038;width=400&#038;height=254&#038;property=mlb\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"tl\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/flash\/video\/share\/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?content_id=19959997&#038;topic_id=25589412&#038;width=400&#038;height=254&#038;property=mlb\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"  width=\"400\" height=\"254\" scale=\"noscale\" salign =\"tl\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>After a commercial, we watched the presentation of the trophy:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"254\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/flash\/video\/share\/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?content_id=19960063&#038;topic_id=25589992&#038;width=400&#038;height=254&#038;property=mlb\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"tl\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/flash\/video\/share\/ObjectEmbedFrame.swf?content_id=19960063&#038;topic_id=25589992&#038;width=400&#038;height=254&#038;property=mlb\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"  width=\"400\" height=\"254\" scale=\"noscale\" salign =\"tl\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Watching Selig speak from notes to make a two paragraph speech presenting the trophy, I made some comment, I&#8217;m sure.  When it was Bill DeWitt, Junior&#8217;s turn to speak, the following exchange occurred in the Nogglestead den:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Wife:<\/b> He speaks well.<br \/>\n<b>Me:<\/b> He speaks normally.  Selig makes Allen Craig look like Cato the Elder.  I&#8217;m probably the only person in the world who is comparing Allen Craig to Cato the Elder tonight.  I&#8217;m going to put that on Facebook.<br \/>\n<b>Wife:<\/b> The Cardinals just won the World Series.  Nobody&#8217;s going to care.<br \/>\n<b>Me:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogodidact.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Van<\/a> will like it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/catotheelder.jpg\" alt=\"Prediction: Confirmed\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>That, my friends, is knowing your audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately after the Cardinals game, the Fox Sports sideline guy caught up with Allen Craig, who caught the last out: After a commercial, we watched the presentation of the trophy: Watching Selig speak from notes to make a two paragraph speech presenting the trophy, I made some comment, I&#8217;m sure. When it was Bill DeWitt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}