{"id":787,"date":"2012-04-28T07:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T12:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/04\/28\/120428-ninjayu\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T17:20:04","slug":"120428-ninjayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/04\/28\/120428-ninjayu\/","title":{"rendered":"You Ninja, Yu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Chaffin is one of my blogger heroes; The Fat Guy<\/i> would be on my list of Blogs I’d Pick If Stranded On A Farm-to-Market Road Between Quitaque and Turkey (that’s in Texas, ya’ll). He writes with a deceptive country-boy self-deprecation that completely fails to obscure a wicked wit, sharp intellect, and laser-focused insight. He loves country music (the non-Nashville, Texas Outlaw kind) and is a cricket fan. I might also mention that he’s currently putting a whuppin’ on cancer.<\/p>\n

Update, much later, and sadly: Cancer bit back. RIP, mi amigo.<\/i><\/p>\n

Scott’s a beisbol<\/i> junkie, a mutated mix of Yogi Berra and George Will, and reading Scott’s insights on baseball is more fun than actually watching the game – there’s about the same amount of spitting going on, but a bit less scratching. And so it is that I found myself inspired by his ode to Yu Darvish after the Rangers pitcher handed the Yankees their heads a few nights ago. I was particularly inspired by his riff on the description taken from this article<\/a> of the young, extremely-well-paid Japanese pitcher as a “bad-a** ninja.”<\/p>\n

So, Scott, this one’s for Yu:<\/p>\n

\"Ninja
\nImage created via blatant ripoff and mashup of this<\/a>, this<\/a>, and this<\/a>.
\nOnce again, Photoshop trumps talent.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Chaffin is one of my blogger heroes; The Fat Guy would be on my list of Blogs I’d Pick If Stranded On A Farm-to-Market Road Between Quitaque and Turkey (that’s in Texas, ya’ll). He writes with a deceptive country-boy self-deprecation that completely fails to obscure a wicked wit, sharp intellect, and laser-focused insight. He… Continue reading You Ninja, Yu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-web","category-navel-gazing","category-sports","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14221,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/14221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}