{"id":295795,"date":"2025-10-11T22:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295795\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:56:21","slug":"even-in-the-darkest-of-days-new-york-sports-still-give-us-some-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295795\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in the darkest of days, New York sports still give us some hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRemember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, no day-after talk-radio therapy session \u2014 the kind that Mike and the Mad Dog used to specialize in, the days when they would serve as civic psychologists for entire fan bases mourning difficult losses \u2014 has ever done better to describe what we go through as sports fans than Andy Dufresne\u2019s letter to his pal Red at the end of \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it, isn\u2019t it? That\u2019s why we keep coming back. That\u2019s why we keep investing pieces of our heart into these games, these teams, these players, even as we wonder if that isn\u2019t a worse investment than horses and buggies, right? It\u2019s all about hope. Always. Hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Look at this week in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRemember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.\u201d\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,4716,2228,5226,5225,1232,5228,5227,52950,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-295795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-open-mike","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115358006320796354","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}