{"id":559,"date":"2016-11-04T03:32:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T03:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2016-11-04T03:32:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T03:32:42","slug":"pro-wrestling-fan-thinks-cleveland-indians-manager-cost-them-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Pro wrestling fan thinks Cleveland Indians manager cost them the World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture-300x133.png\" alt=\"capture\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture-300x133.png 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture-500x222.png 500w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Capture.png 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Life-long professional wrestling fan, Dennis Grayson of Windsor, Ontario thinks he knows why the Cleveland Indians lost the World Series this week, he believes that the Indians manager, Terry Francona, should have taken a page out of Bobby \u2018the Brain\u2019 Heenan\u2019s playbook and distracted the umpire more frequently during the game.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been watching professional wrestling my entire life and the managers in pro wrestling know what to do at crunch time, you interfere when the referee\u2019s back is turned\u201d said Grayson of his theory that would have brought the World Series trophy to Cleveland for the first time since 1948. \u201cThere were also several moments during Game 7 that the manager could have tripped someone or thrown a foreign object at a player on the other team.   James J. Dillon did it for the Four Horsemen why couldn\u2019t Terry Francona have done the same thing?\u201d Grayson wondered aloud while reviewing the War Games match from the Great American Bash in 1987 in comparison to Wednesday evening\u2019s Game 7 between Cleveland and the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd another thing why don\u2019t the other major sports have masked competitors like professional wrestling does?\u201d Grayson asked \u201cIt would certainly put the other team at a disadvantage if they did not know who the pitcher was if he was wearing a mask. It worked very well for Jim Brunzell and B. Brian Blair of the Killer Bees I\u2019ve got to believe it would work in Major League Baseball\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Life-long professional wrestling fan, Dennis Grayson of Windsor, Ontario thinks he knows why the Cleveland Indians lost the World Series this week, he believes that the Indians manager, Terry Francona, should have taken a page out of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}