{"id":210847,"date":"2022-02-09T17:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/29517780"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T17:40:47","slug":"29517780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/29517780","title":{"rendered":"Separating Ortiz&#8217;s Steroid Issues From Bonds and Clemens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith AllisonBy Dan FreedmanRead enough newspapers or watch enough news or listen to enough podcasts, and you are bound to get slapped in the face with poor reportage. It&#8217;s the law of big numbers. But, as a discerning baseball fan, I have come to expect that, while I may not agree with all baseball takes and opinions, I believe they come from an informed and considered place. Football analysts shoot from the hip, basketball commentators like to make headlines, but baseball observers are more careful. Or so I believed.After the Hall of Fame released the results of the BBWAA vote last month, I listened to &#8220;The Athletic Baseball Show&#8221; podcast hosted by Ken Rosenthal. He had a murderer&#8217;s row of guests, and I knew there would be much to discuss regarding Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Curt Schilling, and A-Rod, and, of course, the election of David Ortiz. The show lived up to my expectations up to about the 2:40 mark,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read enough newspapers or watch enough news or listen to enough podcasts, and you are bound to get slapped in the face with poor reportage. It&#8217;s the law of big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}