{"id":12791,"date":"2017-08-09T18:47:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2017-08-09T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:47:01","slug":"playoffs-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/playoffs-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoffs?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the third consecutive year, a Chicago team is in position to start selling playoff tickets to their season ticket holders.\u00a0 While the Cubs have struggled to put together a big run to pull away from the pack, they currently hold a 1 game lead in the National League Central and are looking to defend their World Series championship.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a randomly selected combination assignment, I would end up with tickets to a home Wild Card game, should the Cubs drop out of first place, all Division Series home games, home games 2 and 3 of the Championship series, and home games 1 and 3 of the World Series. \u00a0Unlike past playoff appearances, it seems I would have my normal tickets for the first two rounds, before moving much closer to home plate but 7 rows up for the World Series.<\/p>\n

Prior to last year, the last time the Cubs won the World Series, in 1908, was their second consecutive title.\u00a0 Do they have what it takes to become the first repeat champions since the Yankees to close out the 20th century?\u00a0 Will they even make it to the postseason, holding off the Brewers, Cardinals, and Pirates?\u00a0 Given that they just won the whole thing last year, does it really matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third consecutive year, a Chicago team is in position to start selling playoff tickets to their season ticket holders.\u00a0 While the Cubs have struggled to put together a big run to pull away from the pack, they currently hold a 1 game lead in the National League Central and are looking to defend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6980,121,57,120,1647,1646,112,2511,51],"class_list":["post-12791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-brewers","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-nlcs","tag-nlds","tag-pirates","tag-playoffs","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}