{"id":22418,"date":"2004-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/11\/when-does-spring-training-start\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T03:59:04","slug":"when-does-spring-training-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/11\/when-does-spring-training-start\/","title":{"rendered":"When Does Spring Training Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20041011_dodgers.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"260\" height=\"171\"><\/p>\n<p>So, the Dodgers lost last night, being eliminated from the playoffs by the St. Louis Cardinals. It was pretty much expected, though, so I am not too disappointed. The year was a good one for the Dodgers: winning the NL West and breaking the streak of 8 straight playoff losses. Hopefully next year the team will have some better pitching, a catcher who can hit, and keep the core group of hitters. And I hope that Ross Porter won&#8217;t be let go, as the rumors are indicating. At any rate, I will be rooting for the Astros to beat the Braves tonight, then go on to the World Series against Boston. Hey, it could happen! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>[photo: Robert Gauthier \/ L.A. Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Dodgers lost last night, being eliminated from the playoffs by the St. Louis Cardinals. It was pretty much expected, though, so I am not too disappointed. The year was a good one for the Dodgers: winning the NL West and breaking the streak of 8 straight playoff losses. Hopefully next year the team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/11\/when-does-spring-training-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Does Spring Training Start?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5PA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23428,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22418\/revisions\/23428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}