{"id":2344,"date":"2011-09-08T11:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2011-09-25T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T05:21:08","slug":"tony-plush-just-cant-help-himself-can-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"“Tony Plush” just can’t help himself can he?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Same antics, different uniform. Photo via socialmediaseo.net<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey here’s a shock.\u00a0 Former Nat Nyjer Morgan<\/strong> was involved in a benches-clearing brawl<\/a>.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 And then just to make sure the national media had his attention, he took it upon himself to tweet some insults<\/a> directed towards Albert Pujols<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(side note: boy how has Twitter changed the way players express themselves or get national headlines?\u00a0 Every PR staff in the country must slap themselves on the head multiple times a week, watching their clients whose reputations have been meticulously professionally managed for so long completely blow it time and again by getting a twitter account and going off.)<\/p>\n

For everyone who criticized Rizzo for trading Morgan (for essentially nothing) at the end of spring training, here’s exhibit 1-A as to why.\u00a0 Stats and production are important, but team chemistry and clubhouse issues are more important.\u00a0 If your entire team can’t stand a guy, it becomes a divisive issue and a distraction.\u00a0 Sometimes you have to have addition by subtraction, and Morgan was a great example of the Nats removing a distraction before it festered.\u00a0 We can find a center-fielder\/lead-off hitter who doesn’t incite brawls every couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey here’s a shock.\u00a0 Former Nat Nyjer Morgan was involved in a benches-clearing brawl.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 And then just to make sure the national media had his attention, he took it upon himself to tweet some insults directed towards Albert Pujols. (side note: boy how has Twitter changed the way players express themselves or get national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123,122],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","tag-albert-pujols","tag-nyjer-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}