{"id":528,"date":"2013-03-27T06:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T11:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-03-31T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T18:51:15","slug":"tis-the-season-when-the-road-goes-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/tis-the-season-when-the-road-goes-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Tis the Season When the Road Goes Both Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 30 Major League Baseball teams make their final cuts this week to get down to their 25-man active roster there will likely be tears of joy as well as sadness depending on which side of the cut a player is on.<\/p>\n<p>For every player who is told that they made it, there are many more who will start the season in the minor leagues. For others, the dream will end altogether as they realize that their professional baseball careers are over altogether.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pensacola-Pelicans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-535\" alt=\"The Pensacola Pelicans are a former independant baseball team where players would try to prolong their careers. Photo R. Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pensacola-Pelicans-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pensacola-Pelicans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pensacola-Pelicans-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pensacola Pelicans are a former independent baseball team where players would try to prolong their careers.<br \/>Photo R. Anderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course getting cut by a MLB team does not have to be the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 30 Major League Baseball teams make their final cuts this week to get down to their 25-man active roster there will likely be tears of joy as well as sadness depending on which side of the cut a player is on. For every player who is told that they made it, there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/tis-the-season-when-the-road-goes-both-ways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tis the Season When the Road Goes Both Ways<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,55,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}