{"id":70350,"date":"2019-03-24T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70350"},"modified":"2024-05-25T08:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T13:01:54","slug":"bergs-fourth-law-of-media-sports-inversion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70350","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s Fourth Law of Media\/Sports Inversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\"><strong>A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media (and political class) actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment \u2013 be it spring training, late November in the NFL season, or week 72 of the NHL playoffs \u2013 the season will fall irredeemably apart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it really an example of the Gambler&#8217;s Fallacy?   Sure.   So what? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media (and political class) actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment \u2013 be it spring training, late November in the NFL season, or week 72 of the NHL playoffs \u2013 the season will fall irredeemably apart. Is it really an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5033,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87599,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70350\/revisions\/87599"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}