{"id":10417,"date":"2011-03-20T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10417"},"modified":"2011-03-20T11:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:44:31","slug":"update-on-the-bbc-radios-mlb-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10417","title":{"rendered":"Update on BBC Radio&#8217;s 2011 MLB coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8367\" title=\"Mlb5XtraHl\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/Mlb5XtraHl.png\" alt=\"Mlb5XtraHl\" width=\"140\" height=\"158\" \/>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve received a number of messages in recent weeks from British baseball fans asking if there is any news about the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2011 MLB coverage.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of right now there has been no official announcement, but everything suggests that the USP Content production team will once again be bringing baseball to the British airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Simon Crosse posted on the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=332868900899&amp;v=wall\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> on Wednesday that he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hoping to clarify plans for season today\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, following on from his message on 5 January when he stated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153MLB Winter Meetings Update: JC [Josh Chetwynd] on the squad for 2011\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Those were strong clues that the wheels were in motion to bring the show back.\u00c2\u00a0 If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/ListingsServlet?event=10&amp;channelId=501&amp;programmeId=174033742&amp;jspLocation=\/jsp\/prog_details_fullpage.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times schedule<\/a> is to be believed, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely going to happen and the team will be with us at 18.00 on Thursday 31 March (Opening Day) for the Yankees-Tigers games.\u00c2\u00a0 This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t confirmed on the 5 Live Sports Extra schedule as yet, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing else there to clash with it either.<\/p>\n<p>So all signs point towards another year of baseball on the BBC and another reason to be excited about opening day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All signs point towards another year of baseball on the BBC and another reason to be excited about opening day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[226,225,553],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","tag-5-live-sports-extra","tag-bbc","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}