{"id":573882859,"date":"2012-02-17T05:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573882859"},"modified":"2012-02-29T01:38:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T07:38:40","slug":"sporty-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/02\/17\/sporty-friday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporty Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening day at Plainsman Park. Derek Varnadore struck out 11 and Creede Simpson, the only returning starter in the field for Auburn, had this RBI double late:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb12\/feb13.jpg\" alt=\"CreedeSimpsonbaseball\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He also forced a walk-in run. The Tigers got the season started off right with a <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/recaps\/021712aaa.html\">5-2<\/a> win over visiting Missouri. Tomorrow&#8217;s game is already a rainout. Maybe they&#8217;ll play two on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner at Momma Goldberg&#8217;s, fighting the crowds of freshmen and others who don&#8217;t yet understand the implications behind &#8220;Who hasn&#8217;t ordered? Can I take your order please?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walked down to the Arena to watch the gymnastics meet. Auburn, on a losing streak, welcomed second-ranked Florida. They&#8217;ve hosted three teams from the top six in the country so far this season, but the Tigers are getting better every meet.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb12\/feb17.jpg\" alt=\"bars\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Auburn had a season high in three of the four rotations, making a new season high final score and the second best score in school history. Even still, they came up just short to Florida <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/w-gym\/recaps\/021712aaa.html\">196.875-197.500<\/a>. I can&#8217;t tell you the all-around winner because a bizarre new SEC rule prohibits acknowledging individual accomplishment at the meet. And the university release doesn&#8217;t include any Florida scores. (Who needs completeness?)<\/p>\n<p>More pictures from today will be here on Sunday. Be sure to come back for those.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb12\/feb22.jpg\" alt=\"floor\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow? Rain. Rain. More rain. We&#8217;re getting up to <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/spann\/status\/170724957704290304\/photo\/1\">2.50 inches<\/a> in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening day at Plainsman Park. Derek Varnadore struck out 11 and Creede Simpson, the only returning starter in the field for Auburn, had this RBI double late: He also forced a walk-in run. The Tigers got the season started off right with a 5-2 win over visiting Missouri. Tomorrow&#8217;s game is already a rainout. Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42,14,25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573882859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-baseball","category-friday","category-links","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573882859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573882891,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573882859\/revisions\/573882891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573882859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573882859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573882859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}