{"id":372,"date":"2005-04-17T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathodavid.malibulist.com\/blog\/?p=372"},"modified":"2005-04-17T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T14:21:33","slug":"can-we-just-play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2005\/04\/17\/can-we-just-play-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Just Play Ball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baseball season is a week old now but there is already speculation leading into October. Whatever happened to just enjoying the games rather than always trying to predict the end of a season? I am enjoying just being able to turn on a TV and watch baseball again.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the Long Island Ducks will be starting to play again and we will probably go to a couple of games at that park. The Ducks won the Atlantic league this past year so they are starting out as the team to beat. 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