{"id":23761,"date":"2019-03-21T05:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2019-03-21T05:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T13:45:42","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1033\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Rays have the right under the collective bargaining agreement to renew me at or near the league-minimum salary.\u00a0They also have the <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MLB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MLB.png 225w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MLB-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>ability to more adequately compensate me.\u00a0as other organizations have done with players who have similar achievements to mine. The Rays chose the former.&#8221; &#8212; <em>defending <strong>American League<\/strong> Cy Young winner <strong>Blake Snell<\/strong> on the measly (by <strong>MLB<\/strong> standards) raise he got from the <strong>Tampa Bay Rays<\/strong>, one of many teams <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/does-mlb-care-if-no-one-cares-1833054171?utm_medium=sharefromsite&amp;utm_source=deadspin_email&amp;utm_campaign=bottom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seemingly more bent on pinching pennies<\/a> than pitching wins. It would certainly explain the measly, indifferent crowd I saw when I attended a Friday-night Rays home game last year<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Rays have the right under the collective bargaining agreement to renew me at or near the league-minimum salary.\u00a0They also have the ability to more adequately compensate me.\u00a0as other organizations have done with players who have similar achievements to mine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1033\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[113,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23762,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions\/23762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}