{"id":3145,"date":"2009-10-07T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2009-10-08T06:28:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:28:45","slug":"bobby-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/bobby-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000090trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000090trim-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"bobby valentine flags lotte chiba marines tokyo japan\" title=\"bobby valentine flags lotte chiba marines tokyo japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000090trim-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000090trim-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000090trim.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/chiba-lotte-marines\/>Chiba Lotte Marines<\/a>&#8216; fans love Bobby Valentine. If you look at the Marines&#8217; record with Valentine at the helm it isn&#8217;t very impressive. This year they finished out of playoff contention with a record of just 62 wins and 77 losses. They have won their league (of six teams) just once in Valentine&#8217;s six years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000201trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000201trim-800x706.jpg\" alt=\"bobby valentine 2010 lotte marines t-shirts\" title=\"bobby valentine 2010 lotte marines t-shirts\" width=\"800\" height=\"706\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000201trim-800x706.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000201trim-250x220.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000201trim.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valentine is done with managing the Marines despite the fans efforts (including signing petitions) to keep him around. Look for Bobby to be in front of a camera next year or maybe managing in the Majors. If the Marines improve next year (and it seems like they have nowhere to go but up) the fans will likely forget him soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000142trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000142trim-750x800.jpg\" alt=\"bobby valentine signs lotte chiba marines game fans\" title=\"bobby valentine signs lotte chiba marines game fans\" width=\"750\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000142trim-750x800.jpg 750w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000142trim-234x250.jpg 234w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P1000142trim.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But he is getting a nice send off, despite his mediocrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chiba Lotte Marines&#8216; fans love Bobby Valentine. If you look at the Marines&#8217; record with Valentine at the helm it isn&#8217;t very impressive. This year they finished out of playoff contention with a record of just 62 wins and 77 losses. They have won their league (of six teams) just once in Valentine&#8217;s six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}