{"id":3738,"date":"2025-09-13T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2026-03-08T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T21:09:32","slug":"modeling-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3738","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s mail brought a real fun one!  The 2008 Sports Illustrated Baseball Preview Issue had six players on it.  It featured a fold out cover to show all six and they were real up and coming superstars.  I had four of the six already sign it when I found that Todd S (toddschafer on SCN) was having a signing with Clay Buchholz, one of the remaining two.  I excitedly mailed in my magazine and received it signed today!  Todd even posted a photo of Clay signing it on his Facebook page!  I am down to needing just Troy Tulowitzki to finish it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"977\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BuchholzClaySI-977x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BuchholzClaySI-977x1024.jpg 977w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BuchholzClaySI-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BuchholzClaySI-768x805.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BuchholzClaySI-1200x1258.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BuchholzClaySI.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The players who have signed it already are:<br>Ryan Braun<br>Justin Upton<br>Jacoby Ellsbury<br>Clay Buchholz<br>Ryan Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s mail brought a real fun one! The 2008 Sports Illustrated Baseball Preview Issue had six players on it. It featured a fold out cover to show all six and they were real up and coming superstars. I had four of the six already sign it when I found that Todd S (toddschafer on SCN) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Modeling Clay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-signing","category-sports-illustrated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}