{"id":793,"date":"2007-02-04T05:08:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T09:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/04\/adam-laroche\/"},"modified":"2007-02-04T05:10:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T09:10:27","slug":"adam-laroche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/04\/adam-laroche\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam LaRoche spoiled me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Braves blog article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-blogs\/ajc\/braves\/entries\/2007\/01\/31\/laroche_braves.html?cxntnid=sprt020107e\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-blogs\/ajc\/braves\/entries\/2007\/01\/31\/laroche_braves.html?cxntnid=sprt020107e', 'AJC');\" target=\"new\">AJC<\/a> about fan favorite Adam LaRoche who was recently traded to Pittsburgh for closer Mike Gonzalez.  The one quote that caught my eye?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He also said this about Atlanta fans: \u201cThey got spoiled, and they\u2019ve got to know that. Somebody\u2019s got to have told them by now. They were spoiled, and we were spoiled as players.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for that LaRoche.<\/p>\n<p>I actually liked LaRoche and hate to see him go, especially for a closer that has had recent arm issues.  I know the bullpen needs to be improved, but still, trading LaRoche seemed almost like a panic move on the part of Braves management.<\/p>\n<p>Of course GM John Schuerholz has a knack for knowing when to hold, fold, or run.  Well, at least within the limits of their budget.  Good luck LaRoche!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Braves blog article in the AJC about fan favorite Adam LaRoche who was recently traded to Pittsburgh for closer Mike Gonzalez. The one quote that caught my eye? He also said this about Atlanta fans: \u201cThey got spoiled, and they\u2019ve got to know that. Somebody\u2019s got to have told them by now. They were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/04\/adam-laroche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adam LaRoche spoiled me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}