{"id":24453,"date":"2019-04-17T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2019-04-17T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T10:20:23","slug":"i-was-at-that-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/i-was-at-that-game\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was At That Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a little bit of the baseball game last night while looking to see if the hockey game had started, and the Cardinals broadcasters talked a bit about Bob Uecker, mentioning that he had been traded to the Cardinals and won a World Series with them in 1964.  So I went to his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Uecker\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia page<\/a> to learn a little more, and I read about his work with the Milwaukee Admirals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uecker also appeared in a series of commercials for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League in the mid-1990s, including one in which he re-designed the team&#8217;s uniforms to feature a garish plaid reminiscent of the loud sports coats synonymous with Uecker in the 1970s and 1980s. In February 2006, the Admirals commemorated those commercials with a special event in which the players wore the plaid jerseys during a game. The jerseys were then auctioned off to benefit charity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Friends, <em>I was at that hockey game<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I took a trip to Milwaukee for my birthday before the birth of my oldest child.  I went to the hockey game alone.  The Admirals played the Peoria Rivermen, which was the farm team for the St. Louis Blues at that time.  So I was very confused as for whom I should cheer.  The Admirals were in these garish yellow plaid uniforms, or the ones that looked like the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>You know, given that I haven&#8217;t been to a Blues game since my children were born, that might have been the last professional hockey game I&#8217;ve seen in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a little bit of the baseball game last night while looking to see if the hockey game had started, and the Cardinals broadcasters talked a bit about Bob Uecker, mentioning that he had been traded to the Cardinals and won a World Series with them in 1964. So I went to his Wikipedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","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=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24455,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions\/24455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}