{"id":3435,"date":"2008-02-06T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2008-02-06T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T19:55:26","slug":"nolan-ryan-named-new-rangers-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nolan-ryan-named-new-rangers-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Ryan named new Rangers&#8217; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/bamakve\/1485377360\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1084\/1485377360_af01470f6c.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Nolan Ryan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This just in from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasblog.com\/200802061001812\/mike-fisher-s-school-of-fish\/fish-scoop-nolan-will-have-total-control-of-rangers.html\">Dallasblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Texas Rangers have hired Hall-of-Famer <strong>Nolan Ryan<\/strong> to be their president. There will be a press conference to announce the move at 3pm today. But there is more to the story. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and while I&#8217;m something less than an enthusiastic Rangers fan, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got our hands on that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122:<\/p>\n<p>Larry Legend of our 75-Member Staff spearheads our digging up of some interesting and as-yet-unreleased aspects of the Nolan Ryan hire. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>1) Hicks went to Ryan out of desperation because he has been getting hammered publicly.<br \/>\n2) Ryan might be getting a piece of the Rangers in this deal.<br \/>\n3) And this is the BEST and most significant thing: <strong>Nolan Ryan will be assuming COMPLETE CONTROL of the Texas Rangers franchise, meaning he is to run BOTH the business side AND the BASEBALL side.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s hope yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from Dallasblog.com The Texas Rangers have hired Hall-of-Famer Nolan Ryan to be their president. There will be a press conference to announce the move at 3pm today. But there is more to the story. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and while I&#8217;m something less than an enthusiastic Rangers fan, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got our hands on that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153more\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nolan-ryan-named-new-rangers-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nolan Ryan named new Rangers&#8217; President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[764,765],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-nolan-ryan","tag-texas-rangers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Tp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}