{"id":8111,"date":"2010-01-22T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2010-01-22T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:11:37","slug":"thats-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8111","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Paul Saints &#8211; our single-A minor-league team &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintsbaseball.com\/news\/saintsnews\/index.html?article_id=1128\">doing its best <\/a>to help the Vikings not choke this coming weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>MIDWAY STADIUM, MN <\/em><strong>(January 21, 2010) \u2013 <\/strong>In support of a movement begun by [some lame sportsradio morning show], the minor league baseball team that plays its home games at Midway Stadium will remove the \u201cS\u201d word from both the beginning and end of its name and will be known simply as \u201cThe Paul\u201d through Sunday.\u00a0 The Minnesota Vikings are in the midst of a run to the NFC Championship Game, and The Paul wouldn\u2019t dare utter the name of this week\u2019s opponent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/saintsbaseball.com.ismmedia.com\/ISM3\/std-content\/repos\/Top\/News\/ThePaul_logo%20Web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning The Paul\u2019s Executive Vice President Tom Whaley appeared on [the aforementioned lame morning show].\u00a0 Whaley was asked by the trio to become the first in a long line of companies, cities and more to remove the \u201cS\u201d word from their name.\u00a0 Not only did Whaley agree to support the effort, but he and the club have also decided to incorporate the name change during their 2010 season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whaley knows, of course, that given the Vikings&#8217; post-season habits, we&#8217;ll all be looking forward to The Paul season sooner than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Paul Saints &#8211; our single-A minor-league team &#8211; is doing its best to help the Vikings not choke this coming weekend: MIDWAY STADIUM, MN (January 21, 2010) \u2013 In support of a movement begun by [some lame sportsradio morning show], the minor league baseball team that plays its home games at Midway Stadium [&hellip;]<\/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-8111","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\/8111","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=8111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8111\/revisions\/8113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}