{"id":2928,"date":"2008-07-25T05:03:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T10:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2009-05-30T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:59:30","slug":"from-the-i-had-no-idea-he-was-still-alive-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"From The &#8220;I Had No Idea He Was Still Alive&#8221; Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has it really been <em>12 years <\/em>since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/patborzi\/2008\/07\/23\/2672\/grateful_darryl_strawberry_tips_hat_to_saints_and_fans_for_helping_him_resurrect_career#37-2672\">Darryl Strawberry played for the Saints<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So much has happened to Darryl Strawberry in the 12 years since he resurrected his baseball career with the independent St. Paul Saints. Success. Addiction. Recurring cancer. Divorce. Jail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember seeing Strawberry &#8211; and Jack Morris, for that matter &#8211; at Midway Stadium, during the Saints&#8217; &#8220;antique resurrection&#8221; season back in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>No, wait.  It says here it was 1996.  Again, I think someone screwed up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strawberry said he tries not to think about the worst, all the chances he wasted, all the things that could have killed him long before Tuesday&#8217;s event, when he sat on a riser at the Crowne Plaza hotel in St. Paul as the honored guest at the American Association All-Star Game luncheon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was spared for a reason,&#8221; Strawberry said near the end of a question-and-answer session with KSTP Radio&#8217;s Kris Atteberry. &#8220;All the things I had to deal with, there was something which I was called for. I used to think it was about baseball. It&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s about who I can help.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it really been 12 years since Darryl Strawberry played for the Saints? So much has happened to Darryl Strawberry in the 12 years since he resurrected his baseball career with the independent St. Paul Saints. Success. Addiction. Recurring cancer. Divorce. Jail. I remember seeing Strawberry &#8211; and Jack Morris, for that matter &#8211; at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}