{"id":71458,"date":"2019-06-06T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71458"},"modified":"2019-06-05T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:25:03","slug":"how-bout-them-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71458","title":{"rendered":"How ‘Bout Them Twins?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the Twins continue what is so far a stellar season – winning .678 as this is written, which is the best in the majors, still, by .001 point – I find myself in the painful position of reminding people about the law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berg’s Law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The local media is starting to talk with a straight face about the Twins and post-season. Maybe even the World Series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reminder, Twin Cities media; it’s called “Berg’s Law”, not “Berg’s Suggestion”, for a reason. And Berg’s Fourth Law of Media\/Sports Inversion<\/a> is in full effect, and no less binding than Berg’s Seventh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To wit: “Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media 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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s iron-clad. It’s immutable. And it’s the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Twins continue what is so far a stellar season – winning .678 as this is written, which is the best in the majors, still, by .001 point – I find myself in the painful position of reminding people about the law. Berg’s Law. The local media is starting to talk with a straight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71458","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=71458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71460,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71458\/revisions\/71460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}