{"id":4834,"date":"2023-05-07T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2023-05-07T11:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T18:40:18","slug":"vida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/vida\/","title":{"rendered":"Vida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/giants_vidablue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4836\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/giants_vidablue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/giants_vidablue.jpg 960w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/giants_vidablue-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/giants_vidablue-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the players from my childhood who I remember, there is Vida Blue.<\/p>\n<p>Looking up his stats, he had one of his best years (other than his 1971 Cy Young\/MVP year) with the Giants in 1978.\u00a0 It was one of this 6 All-Star appearance years, and led the Giants pitching staff in wins with 18.<\/p>\n<p>Later his career brought him to TV and radio, doing pre or post games shows with the Giants, and he was usually paired with Bill Laskey, who was a teammate and close friend of his.\u00a0 You could see their friendship during TV appearances and\u00a0 hear it on the air when they did radio together.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never met the man, but from what I saw and heard of him, and from everyone who did know him, he seemed like a genuine nice guy, always friendly and smiling.<\/p>\n<p>As Marty Lurie said to open his pregame show this morning, &#8220;We&#8217;ve lost a good one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace, Vida Blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the players from my childhood who I remember, there is Vida Blue. Looking up his stats, he had one of his best years (other than his 1971 Cy Young\/MVP year) with the Giants in 1978.\u00a0 It was one of this 6 All-Star appearance years, and led the Giants pitching staff in wins with 18. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/vida\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vida&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[58,105],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}