{"id":4011,"date":"2010-04-29T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2010-04-30T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:07:54","slug":"ronnie-rupp-arrives-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Rupp Arrives on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that spent much time on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=4884\"><strong>Fastpitchwest Forum<\/strong><\/a> knows of the friendly &#8220;sparring match&#8221; between So Cal fastballers Ronnie Rupp and Gerald Pyle.  Ronnie is finally on board at Facebook, and has wasted no time twisting the blade a bit on the Big Man.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/hphotos-sjc1.fbcdn.net\/hs332.snc3\/29219_102717946439995_100001053702742_19758_4832105_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRonnie&#8217;s caption for this one:  <em>I heard Gerald was gonna pitch all 7 innings in Sherman oaks tonight, so I call channel 7. The people in the ABC news room dispatched a news van immediately to cover this breaking story&#8230; Film at 11<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure who fired the first shot, but the Big Man has gotten in a few good shots of his own, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=4884#4884\"><strong>including my favorite:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some gems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Ron:<\/strong>  &#8220;I saw was watching you pitch the 4th inning against Mexicali last year in Palm Springs. They circled the bases so many times, the Doppler radar picked it up as a sand storm!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerald:<\/strong>  &#8220;Ronald, I found the ball that Rocha hit off of you, it was shaped like a Silver Dollar.  That was quite the porterhouse you threw to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ron: <\/strong>I don&#8217;t want you to get discouraged when I hit at least .350 off you this year. When I was 29, I would have clubbed you like a baby seal, but I am 51 now so you should be able to keep me under .400.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome back to it, fellas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that spent much time on the Fastpitchwest Forum knows of the friendly &#8220;sparring match&#8221; between So Cal fastballers Ronnie Rupp and Gerald Pyle. Ronnie is finally on board at Facebook, and has wasted no time twisting the blade a bit on the Big Man. Ronnie&#8217;s caption for this one: I heard Gerald was gonna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}