{"id":33724,"date":"2025-04-28T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33724"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:21:03","slug":"baseball-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/28\/baseball-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Baseball Guy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/shpyP\" target=\"_new\">Deion Sanders: The Next Generation<\/a> dropping in the draft, we get:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And now for the reason America turns to National Review: sports commentary. Yes, I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m a rank amateur when it comes to the world of college football or the NFL Draft and only casually familiar with the professional product itself \u2014 I\u2019m a baseball guy at heart. <\/p>\n<p><center>* * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>For those unaware: Shedeur Sanders is the son of ex-football star Deion Sanders, former NFL Hall of Fame great. \u201cNeon Deion\u201d looms largest in my childhood Washington, D.C.-area memory as the guy who signed a seven-year deal with the Redskins back in 2000 and retired completely after year one rather than play a day more for the Redskins. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A baseball guy who one would presume is under thirty (he&#8217;s not) for not remembering that Deion Sanders also played major league baseball for a number of teams and is the only player to appear both in the World Series and Superbowl.<\/p>\n<p>Not really germane to the article, but I wanted you to remember, gentle reader, that I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/28\/book-report-deion-sanders-brett-favre-by-richard-j-brenner-1996\/\" target=\"_new\">Deion Sanders * Brett Favre<\/a><\/em> thirteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/716847\/\" target=\"_new\">Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article about Deion Sanders: The Next Generation dropping in the draft, we get: And now for the reason America turns to National Review: sports commentary. Yes, I\u2019ll admit I\u2019m a rank amateur when it comes to the world of college football or the NFL Draft and only casually familiar with the professional product [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724","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=33724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33726,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions\/33726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}