{"id":3810,"date":"2026-01-15T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:30:23","slug":"a-sticky-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3810","title":{"rendered":"A Sticky Event!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son and I were watching the MLB Presents Special on George Brett recently and I realized Denny Matthews, the Royals announcer, was present at the Pine Tar Game so I thought I would send him a request for a story ball.  I got it back to day and he said his play-by-play guy was doing the broadcast at that moment so he just sat back and took it all in!  It would have been really cool to get a story ball from the play-by-play guy but he had long passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son and I were watching the MLB Presents Special on George Brett recently and I realized Denny Matthews, the Royals announcer, was present at the Pine Tar Game so I thought I would send him a request for a story ball. I got it back to day and he said his play-by-play guy was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=3810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sticky Event!&#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":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-story-ball-collection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","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=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}