{"id":30418,"date":"2016-08-31T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=30418"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:08:27","slug":"four-time-defending-national-mens-fastpitch-champions-relish-opportunity-to-play-for-another-title-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=30418","title":{"rendered":"Four-time defending national men&#8217;s fastpitch champions relish opportunity to play for another title at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/Sports\/2016-08-30\/article-4628808\/Hitmen-have-the-best-feeling\/1\">From the Telegram, Newfoundland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Robin Shorr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Say one thing for the players on the Galway Hitmen senior men\u2019s softball squad, they\u2019re not merely happy just being here, in this case at home for the 2016 nationals opening today at the Caribou Memorial Complex in St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably the best club team in the world right now,\u201d says coach Mark Dwyer. \u201cThat isn\u2019t boasting or grandstanding. That\u2019s how talented this team is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will never, ever see one of these players mention the word losing,\u201d Dwyer continued. \u201cAnd we make no apologies for that. We go to the ball park every day with the mindset that we\u2019re going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hitmen enter the tournament as the four-time defending Canadian champions \u2014 three times under the 3Cheers-Bud Light banner, and last year with their current sponsor and nickname. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetelegram.com\/Sports\/2016-08-30\/article-4628808\/Hitmen-have-the-best-feeling\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to continue reading at The Telegram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegram, Newfoundland By Robin Shorr Say one thing for the players on the Galway Hitmen senior men\u2019s softball squad, they\u2019re not merely happy just being here, in this case at home for the 2016 nationals opening today at the Caribou Memorial Complex in St. John\u2019s. \u201cThis is probably the best club team in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[600,601],"class_list":{"0":"post-30418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-2016menscfpc","10":"tag-canadians2016","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30419,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30418\/revisions\/30419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}