{"id":2784,"date":"2012-12-09T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/12\/09\/going-bob-costas-one-better\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:13","slug":"going-bob-costas-one-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Going Bob Costas One Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14743,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/story\\\/sports\\\/mlb\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/06\\\/padres-josh-byrnes-gun-control-andrew-cashner-hunting\\\/1751801&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/story\\\/sports\\\/mlb\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/06\\\/padres-josh-byrnes-gun-control-andrew-cashner-hunting\\\/1751801&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14744,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sandiego.padres.mlb.com\\\/news\\\/article.jsp?ymd=20121205&amp;content_id=40545258&amp;vkey=news_sd&amp;c_id=sd&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mlb.com\\\/padres&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2012\/12\/06\/padres-josh-byrnes-gun-control-andrew-cashner-hunting\/1751801\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Byrnes, General Manager of the San Diego Padres, is trying to outshine Bob Costas<\/a> when it comes to making stupid comments about firearms. He is now blaming firearms for <a href=\"http:\/\/sandiego.padres.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20121205&amp;content_id=40545258&amp;vkey=news_sd&amp;c_id=sd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the cut that one of pitcher Andrew Cashner suffered to his pitching hand while dressing out a deer with a friend.<\/a> The cut will keep Cashner out of the lineup for up to six months.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>&#8220;As a GM, I am concerned,&#8221; Byrnes said. &#8220;You&#8217;re dealing with young guys, and obviously, we can control things on the job, but away from it, we hope they make the right decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if athletes are predisposed to guns or not, but it&#8217;s certainly something that concerns you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cashner suffered a lacerated tendon in his right thumb in a hunting accident last week, and underwent surgery Tuesday. He won&#8217;t be able to pitch until May or June, Byrnes said.<\/p>\n<p>Cashner, an avid hunter, was accidentally stabbed in the hand by a friend while the pair were dressing meat, trimming the carcass.<\/p>\n<p>The injury may have been the direct result of a knife wound, but realistically, <b>Byrnes said, it was caused because of a hunting trip with guns.<\/b><\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, please!<\/p>\n<p>Has Byrnes never heard of bow hunting?<\/p>\n<p>Or even cutting your hand with a kitchen knife? I doubt that there is anyone of us who hasn&#8217;t done that one time or another.<\/p>\n<p>Accident happen. To blame firearms for the cut on Cashner&#8217;s hand is just plain hoplophobic stupidity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Byrnes, General Manager of the San Diego Padres, is trying to outshine Bob Costas when it comes to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2784,3488,3489,403],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hoplophobia","tag-josh-byrnes","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}