{"id":7492,"date":"2013-10-21T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T17:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2013-10-21T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T17:43:21","slug":"just-a-couple-of-things-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7492","title":{"rendered":"Just a couple of things&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;was just skimming over Twitter and found that Jim Leyland is retiring as the manager of the Tigers and, while it is not a big surprise, it is always a little sad when one of the nice guys in sports is at the end of his career. It will be interesting to see who they hire for the next one&#8230;I do feel bad for the assistant coaches that will probably lose their jobs, too, but that is how it works in sports&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We may be getting Helm back for the Wings by the weekend and I hope he gives them the spark they have been lacking this season&#8230;again, though, I feel bad for Tootoo who it looks like will be cut to make room under the cap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel bad for the Tigers, though, they just looked terrible in the playoffs and did not deserve to win&#8230;.and, this was a year that I followed them more than I have in years because they looked good on paper&#8230;and the boredom that comes with being unemployed had something to do with my watching&#8230;.it&#8217;s kinda like the Lions&#8230;I watch them even though they have been pretty bad my entire life&#8230;and that is a really long time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;was just skimming over Twitter and found that Jim Leyland is retiring as the manager of the Tigers and, while it is not a big surprise, it is always a little sad when one of the nice guys in sports is at the end of his career. It will be interesting to see who they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just a couple of things&#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,964],"class_list":["post-7492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-jim-leyland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7493,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}