{"id":487,"date":"2007-08-07T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T04:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/yahoo-sports-mocks-bonds-hr-record\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T00:02:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T08:02:18","slug":"yahoo-sports-mocks-bonds-hr-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/07\/yahoo-sports-mocks-bonds-hr-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Sports Mocks Bonds&#8217; HR Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo Sports!<\/a> pulled a smart-ass move tonight.  Shortly after Bonds hit HR <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/08\/07\/SPGU4RERLB3.DTL\">#756<\/a>, they posted a photo of Bonds with the number 756 followed by an asterisk.  They removed the asterisk about a half hour later.  They also featured a &#8216;Got Steroids&#8217; photo with a link to a real <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/news;_ylt=AuZ_5HWQm0vEnjVpgdQzIKA5nYcB?slug=dw-756bonds080707&#038;prov=yhoo&#038;type=lgns\">hatchet job<\/a> by columnist Dan Wetzel.  See below for the before and after images.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/1047221330\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1427\/1047221330_5804e28d62.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"457\" alt=\"756*\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>After (no asterisk):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/1047221292\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1080\/1047221292_ee29c8d27c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" alt=\"756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/\">CNNSI.com<\/a> pulled a similar move&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mdoeff\/1047313840\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1401\/1047313840_ea681f054f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"b*nds\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Sports! pulled a smart-ass move tonight. Shortly after Bonds hit HR #756, they posted a photo of Bonds with the number 756 followed by an asterisk. They removed the asterisk about a half hour later. They also featured a &#8216;Got Steroids&#8217; photo with a link to a real hatchet job by columnist Dan Wetzel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-san-francisco-giants","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}