{"id":1354,"date":"2008-08-08T14:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2008-08-08T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:45:37","slug":"news-of-questionable-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2008\/08\/08\/news-of-questionable-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"News of Questionable Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkman said. &#8220;We could have swept the (Cubs)\u00a0series, but we certainly could have won two out of three, and it just didn&#8217;t happen. We didn&#8217;t make the pitches when we needed to make them. Sometimes that happens, &#8230;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/houston.astros.mlb.com\/news\/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080806&amp;content_id=3263286&amp;vkey=recap&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=hou\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>So close, 11 runs a game is a lot of mis-pitches Lance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jurispudnuts<\/strong><br \/>\nRusty Hardin will file a motion in federal court (Thursday) arguing that Roger Clemens\u2019 defamation suit against Brian McNamee should remain in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe basically filed a brief that says if you injure someone in Houston, Texas, you should properly be held accountable in Houston,\u201d Hardin said. \u201cMcNamee slandered Roger in Houston, and that\u2019s where the injury occurred.\u201d &#8230; \u201cIt\u2019s sort of the legal equivalent of \u2018Don\u2019t mess with Texas'&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/5931432.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Cyber Chicken Lawyer has some odd ideas about damages. Where was the depositions taken? Where was the Mitchell report published?\u00a0 Was McNamee ever in Texas?\u00a0 Anyone know the West Key Number that corresponds to this legal doctrine of &#8220;Don&#8217;t mess with Texas&#8221;? I do know that there is a &#8220;finders keepers, losers weepers&#8221; precedent, but I&#8217;ve never come across this Texas one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Living on the air in Cincinnati<\/strong><br \/>\nActor Tim Reid, (63) who played DJ Flytrap on &#8220;WKRP in Cincinnati&#8221; (1978-82), will throw out a ceremonial first pitch before the Reds-Astros game today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080808\/ENT\/808080343\/1175\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>JD was already rolling out Les Nessman references. Expect some Venus Flytrap allusions tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkman said. &#8220;We could have swept the (Cubs)\u00a0series, but we certainly could have won two out of three, and it just didn&#8217;t happen. We didn&#8217;t make the pitches when we needed to make them. Sometimes that happens, &#8230;&#8221; Link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}