{"id":7988,"date":"2015-04-23T19:41:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T01:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2015-04-26T08:22:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:22:05","slug":"bringbackharry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/bringbackharry\/","title":{"rendered":"#BringBackHarry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Harry<\/a>Now that the Cubs have installed their brand new jumbotron, there’s been a renewed rumbling from certain corners of their fanbase to dump the tired “tradition” of guest conductors for the 7th inning stretch and to replace it with a video of former broadcaster Harry Caray. \u00a0Of course, the Cubs brass quickly shot down the suggestion, saying that fan surveys tell them that the guest conductors were “the highest-rated activity during the game” over the past 3 seasons. \u00a0Which means one of 2 things: Cub management is lying or Cub fans who fill out surveys are stupid.<\/p>\n

Honestly, my money if on option #1. \u00a0If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past year is that Crane Kenney and the rest of the business side of the Cubs brass are either stupid or liars, and they didn’t get to the positions they are in by being stupid. \u00a0After 18 seasons of the guest conductor, nobody really cares anymore. \u00a0Absolutely nobody looks forward to Jim Belushi or the state lacrosse champs to stick their head out the window and lead the crowd in singing Take Me Out To The Ballgame<\/em>. \u00a0The time has come. \u00a0Bring back Harry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the Cubs have installed their brand new jumbotron, there’s been a renewed rumbling from certain corners of their fanbase to dump the tired “tradition” of guest conductors for the 7th inning stretch and to replace it with a video of former broadcaster Harry Caray. \u00a0Of course, the Cubs brass quickly shot down the […]<\/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":[4130,120,1055,75],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-crane-kenney","tag-cubs","tag-harry-caray","tag-jim-belushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","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=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}