{"id":2410,"date":"2008-10-22T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-curse-of-billy-penn\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:05:00","slug":"the-curse-of-billy-penn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-curse-of-billy-penn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Billy Penn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies take on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the World   Series. The Rays have ended their curse by eliminating the Devil from their   nickname, now the Phillies try to eliminate the Curse of Billy Penn. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>We will leave the 2,353 other media sources to rehash   everything you know about the Rays dramatic series against the Red Sox and how   the Phillies got here by beating the LA Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers. Instead,   here is the official betting preview. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">Sportsbooks<\/a> have   this game close to a pick &#8216;<span class=SpellE>em<\/span> as Cole Hamels takes on   Scott Kazmir. Will rust be a factor for the Phillies bats as they have not   played since Oct. 15, while <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1   \/><st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Tampa<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY>&#8216;s   <st1:STATE><st1:PLACE>AL<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE> series clincher was on the   <span class=GramE>19<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Phillies would qualify as the slightly hotter team   having lost just two playoff games, while   <st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Tampa<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> has dropped four. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Philadelphia<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY>   was horrible in <span class=SpellE>Interleague<\/span> play going 4-11 for -9.2   units with an OBP of .297. They are in fact, just 17-36 to the   <st1:STATE><st1:PLACE>AL<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:STATE> going back a few years, 8-23 in   IL games against teams with a winning record.   <st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Tampa<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> is 12-6 against the other   league with a .290 batting average and .366 OBP. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Cole Hamels has a 1.23 ERA in his last three starts with a   .864 WHIP. He&#8217;s gotten the decision in every start in his recent 5-1 run, never   giving up more than two earned runs in that span. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:CITY><st1:PLACE>Tampa<\/st1:PLACE><\/st1:CITY> has split   Scott <span class=SpellE>Kazmir&#8217;s<\/span> last six starts and he sports a 6.06   ERA in those six games. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Who wins? The home page of <b   style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"COLOR: blue\"><a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><font   color=#0000ff>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/b> has all the World   Series picks for bettors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies take on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the World Series. The Rays have ended their curse by eliminating the Devil from their nickname, now the Phillies try to eliminate the Curse of Billy Penn. We will leave the 2,353 other media sources to rehash everything you know about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-curse-of-billy-penn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Curse of Billy Penn<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}