{"id":746,"date":"2005-02-21T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/02\/21\/spring-training\/"},"modified":"2005-02-21T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T17:33:58","slug":"spring-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2005\/02\/21\/spring-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitchers and Catchers reported on Sunday, an event that always turns my attention towards spring. Good thing we got 4 inches of snow yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>It does look nice and wintry outside now, a snowy blanket covering everything. But I know in the back of my mind that there are Pitchers and Catchers warming up, tossing batting practice, chewing bubble gum (insert romantic baseball feelings here).<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever tried to answer the question &#8220;What is your favorite season?&#8221; It&#8217;s an underrated question. I think the answer for me is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 15th &#8211; (Whatever day Pitchers and Catchers Report, usually about Feb 20th) &#8211; Winter<\/li>\n<li>Pitchers and Catchers until Opening Day &#8211; Spring<\/li>\n<li>Opening day until about August 14th (whatever night happens to be the one where it is 95% humidity and 84 degrees at 10:00pm) &#8211; Summer<\/li>\n<li>August 14th until November 14th &#8211; Fall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I guess I like all the seasons. Which is one good thing about living in Minnesota: All 4 seasons are present and accounted for.<\/p>\n<p>But this was going to be about baseball! I&#8217;m even more excited than usual for the Twins season this year. Hopefully we will see a full season of Joe Mauer. Justin Morneau will hopefully see a full season as well. The pitching staff is solid, and if Joe Mays pitches well, better than last year.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my first season back in Minneapolis. I probably won&#8217;t have season tickets this year, but the dream is still alive. I&#8217;m hoping to make it to about 20 games this summer. (Maybe I&#8217;ll get the voucher tickets?)<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve begun research for CBaO BBL &#8217;05. The draft is fast approaching!<\/p>\n<p>If we could only get a new stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitchers and Catchers reported on Sunday, an event that always turns my attention towards spring. Good thing we got 4 inches of snow yesterday. It does look nice and wintry outside now, a snowy blanket covering everything. But I know in the back of my mind that there are Pitchers and Catchers warming up, tossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","category-twins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}