{"id":6088,"date":"2024-06-06T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2024-06-06T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T04:49:57","slug":"fantasy-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/06\/06\/fantasy-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Were the Newtown Bluebirds getting worse? Their last loss was 19-0. The one before that, 17-0.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mel Fromberg, at the practice field, addressed the Little Leaguers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winners. We&#8217;re going to be winners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClose your eyes, everybody. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was to be a group-fantasy-session. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See yourself as a winner. Then, see the whole team of winners\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eddie? A winner?&#8221; Steve Bramwell, the second-baseman, said he couldn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Franklin, the shortstop, said the same of Steve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Try again,&#8221; demanded Mel, his eyes still closed. But Steve? Eddie? The Bluebirds? Winners? What kind of task had Mel set for them all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor David Sydney <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were the Newtown Bluebirds getting worse? Their last loss was 19-0. The one before that, 17-0. Coach Mel Fromberg, at the practice field, addressed the Little Leaguers. &#8220;Winners. We&#8217;re going to be winners.&#8221; \u201cClose your eyes, everybody. &#8221; It was to be a group-fantasy-session. &#8220;See yourself as a winner. Then, see the whole team of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12708,8690,11783,11747,1173,12711,41,12710,5664,12709,12712,7925,12713,7159,5261,8709],"class_list":["post-6088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bluebirds","tag-coach","tag-david-sydney","tag-everybody","tag-fantasy","tag-group-fantasy","tag-guest-contributor","tag-little-leaguers","tag-loss","tag-practice-field","tag-second-baseman","tag-session","tag-shortshop","tag-task","tag-winner","tag-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6088\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}