{"id":1773,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/nerd-pretends-to-follow-mlb-for-world-series\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:29","slug":"nerd-pretends-to-follow-mlb-for-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/nerd-pretends-to-follow-mlb-for-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Pretends to Follow MLB For World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Philip O'Sullivan\">Philip O&#8217;Sullivan<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Oct. 10, 2016<\/h6>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1476126903672\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\"><insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1476750552650\" data-userid=\"27\" data-username=\"Jacob Johnson\">A <\/insert><insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"6\" data-time=\"1476750555274\" data-userid=\"27\" data-username=\"Jacob Johnson\">l<\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"5\" data-time=\"1476750555124\" data-userid=\"27\" data-username=\"Jacob Johnson\">L<\/delete>ocal area Chicago nerd began his annual preparations for pretending to keep up with baseball for the upcoming World Series this year. The nerd, who earlier in the year <insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"8\" data-time=\"1476750645040\" data-userid=\"27\" data-username=\"Jacob Johnson\">was reportedly <\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"7\" data-time=\"1476750645035\" data-userid=\"27\" data-username=\"Jacob Johnson\">reportedly was<\/delete> under the impression Derek Jeter still played baseball, attempted to put extra effort into appearing to be a casual follower of baseball to make up for the increased talk about the Cubs and World Series.<\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1476126903672\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">Friends and coworkers say they are especially impressed with the effort put in this year. \u201cI can tell he actually read up on the Cubs and some-other-team-whose-name-he-forgot-but-that-one-player-is-like-super-good while talking to me, not just the Cubs as opposed to years past\u201d remarked one friend. <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1476126903672\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">\u201cI could really see the effort when he tried to hold a 3 minute conversation consisting solely of the one Sports Center article he read about the Cubs and \u2018that one really good player\u2019\u201d reported his father, who said he was slightly less disappointed in his son this year.  <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1476126903672\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">Reports indicate however the nerd is still predicting the Cubs and Dodgers going to head to head for the World Series this year when asked, woefully ignorant to the basic structure of Major League Baseball.<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip O&#8217;Sullivan Oct. 10, 2016 A lLocal area Chicago nerd began his annual preparations for pretending to keep up with baseball for the upcoming World Series this year. The nerd, who earlier in the year was reportedly reportedly was under the impression Derek Jeter still played baseball, attempted to put extra effort into appearing to be a casual follower of baseball to make up for the increased talk about the Cubs and World Series. Friends and coworkers say they are especially impressed with the effort put in this year. \u201cI can tell he actually read up on the Cubs and some-other-team-whose-name-he-forgot-but-that-one-player-is-like-super-good while talking to me, not just the Cubs as opposed to years past\u201d remarked one friend. \u201cI could really see the effort when he tried to hold a 3 minute conversation consisting solely of the one Sports Center article he read about the Cubs and \u2018that one really good player\u2019\u201d reported his father, who said he was slightly less disappointed in his son this year. Reports indicate however the nerd is still predicting the Cubs and Dodgers going to head to head for the World Series this year when asked, woefully ignorant to the basic structure of Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}