{"id":31807,"date":"2011-12-04T23:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T03:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31807"},"modified":"2020-06-28T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T03:01:13","slug":"real-men-dont-wear-small-update-the-arizona-fall-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31807","title":{"rendered":"Real Men Don’t Wear Small update: The Arizona Fall League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Tis an odd time of the year for me to be making an update to this ongoing project, but the Arizona Fall League doesn’t operate on the same timeline as the rest of Major League Baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having never been to the state of Arizona in my entire life previously, the Arizona Fall League was a perfect excuse to go out there for a visit for the first time.\u00a0 A glorified exhibition league of minor league all-stars, championing the notion of “tomorrow’s superstars,” the AFL is a mini league consisting of six teams spread out throughout the remote Phoenix area.\u00a0 In my first ever visit out to Arizona, I managed to find time to visit five of the six parks, and subsequently write entries into my ongoing project of the pursuit of visiting ballparks across America.<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as pure baseball trip experiences go, as I’m sure I’ve said it before, I’m pretty much ruined.\u00a0 The cost-effectiveness, quality of baseball and relaxing nature are second to absolutely nothing else, and it’s going to be something, when I’m forking over fifty bucks to sit way far from the field at some Major League ballpark in future years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Tis an odd time of the year for me to be making an update to this ongoing project, but the Arizona Fall League doesn’t operate on the same timeline as the rest of Major League Baseball. Having never been to the state of Arizona in my entire life previously, the Arizona Fall League was a … Continue reading Real Men Don’t Wear Small update: The Arizona Fall League<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[88,62,15,65],"class_list":["post-31807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-ballparks","tag-baseball","tag-og","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31808,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31807\/revisions\/31808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}