{"id":9464,"date":"2011-03-31T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9464"},"modified":"2011-03-31T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:27:31","slug":"play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=9464","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/openingday2011-150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/openingday2011-150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"openingday2011 150\" width=\"150\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9466\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Opening Day is like Christmas, but warmer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Pete Rose<\/p>\n<p>For baseball fans, it <em>is<\/em> Christmas day.  As they take the field today, every team, every manager (including the 12 new ones today) and every pitcher is without a single loss.<\/p>\n<p>Early Wynn said it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n &#8220;An Opener is not like any other game. There&#8217;s that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart. \u2026 You know that when you win the first one, you can&#8217;t lose &#8217;em all.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5012464944583968\";\n\/* Ballparkradio Main *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2176237682\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About those new managers?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>IN WITH THE NEW<\/strong><br \/>\nTwelve of the 30 Major League managers will open 2011 in charge of a team that had a different skipper on Opening Day 2010, with three of the 12 kicking off their managerial careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manager\tTeam\tYears\tRecord<\/strong><br \/>\nTerry Collins\tNYM\t6\t444-434<br \/>\nJohn Farrell\tTOR\t0\tN\/A<br \/>\nKirk Gibson\tARI\t1\t34-49<br \/>\nFredi Gonzalez\tATL\t4\t276-279<br \/>\nClint Hurdle\tPIT\t8\t534-625<br \/>\nDon Mattingly\tLA\t0\tN\/A<br \/>\nMike Quade\tCHC\t1\t24-13<br \/>\nEdwin Rodriguez\tFLA\t1\t46-46<br \/>\nRon Roenicke\tMIL\t0\tN\/A<br \/>\nBuck Showalter\tBAL\t12\t916-856<br \/>\nEric Wedge\tSEA\t7\t561-573<br \/>\nNed Yost\tKC\t7\t512-574\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Schedule of Opening Day Games <\/strong><br \/>\nThu Mar 31?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTigers<br \/>\n10:05 AM<br \/>\nYankees<\/p>\n<p>Braves<br \/>\n10:05 AM<br \/>\nNationals<\/p>\n<p>Brewers<br \/>\n11:10 AM<br \/>\nReds<\/p>\n<p>Angels<br \/>\n1:10 PM<br \/>\nRoyals<\/p>\n<p>Padres<br \/>\n1:15 PM<br \/>\nCardinals<\/p>\n<p>Giants<br \/>\n5:00 PM<br \/>\nDodgers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Opening Day is like Christmas, but warmer.&#8221; -Pete Rose For baseball fans, it is Christmas day. As they take the field today, every team, every manager (including the 12 new ones today) and every pitcher is without a single loss. Early Wynn said it best: &#8220;An Opener is not like any other game. There&#8217;s that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9466,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464","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=9464"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9475,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9464\/revisions\/9475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}