{"id":1643,"date":"2007-05-24T23:47:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T07:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2007-06-03T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T19:56:45","slug":"bahamas-tournament-opening-night-slideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Tournament Opening Night Slideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Mouse over top of screen for speed control, bottom for thumbnails)<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&#038;user_id=8394787@N07&#038;set_id=72157600263568347&#038;tags=bahamasfastpitch\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>Created with <a href=\"http:\/\/paulstamatiou.com\" title=\"PaulStamatiou.com Tech News\/Reviews\/Guides\">Paul&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickrslidr.com\" title=\"flickrSLiDR\">flickrSLiDR<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Above are a few pics taken by Maddy on Opening Night at the Texaco Pirates First Ever Bahamas Invitational Tournament.  It is difficult to shoot at night, especially with a digital SLR, but Maddy wanted to capture some of the nights festivities as best she could.  Saturday games begin at 3pm and should offer bettter shooting for fastpitch action.  <\/p>\n<p>The first shot in the slide show is the moment when the Pirates Grant Albury hit the game winning home run.   Yes, that&#8217;s Rhys Casley and Barry Kahler in Pirate uniforms and Rob Schweyer pitching for Miami.    The Texaco Pirate holding the microphone is manager Hazie McDonald, at opening ceremonies; the kids are singing the Bahamian National Anthem.  The silhouette shot is a favorite of mine &#8211; &#8211; it is a number of men who live on Man-O-War who used to play on the field when it was first built back in the 1960&#8217;s.  They came out to see the &#8220;next generation&#8221; of fastpitch players on the island &#8211; a number who had sons on the Bahamas team.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8394787@N07\/\"><br \/>\nClick here to view the photos larger.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Mouse over top of screen for speed control, bottom for thumbnails) Created with Paul&#8217;s flickrSLiDR. Above are a few pics taken by Maddy on Opening Night at the Texaco Pirates First Ever Bahamas Invitational Tournament. It is difficult to shoot at night, especially with a digital SLR, but Maddy wanted to capture some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,12,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643"}],"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=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}