{"id":12368,"date":"2011-11-22T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2011-11-21T21:49:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T21:49:43","slug":"moneyball-on-bbc-5-live-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=12368","title":{"rendered":"Moneyball on BBC 5 Live this Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the film of Moneyball heads to cinemas in the UK, there have been a batch of newspaper articles about Billy Beane and the Oakland A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Most have focused on whether the analytical approach taken by the A&#8217;s and others could be successfully applied to traditional British sports.<\/p>\n<p>This theme will be explored in further depth on BBC 5 Live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b017j74c\">21.00 on Thursday<\/a> (24th).<\/p>\n<p>The programme is scheduled to last for an hour and a half and promises to be a rare opportunity to listen to baseball being discussed as part of the wider sporting landscape on the UK airwaves, rather than as a mere curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t listen to the show live, it is very likely that it will be available on the BBC iPlayer for seven days after it airs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see baseball getting a bit of publicity out of the Moneyball film and it will be interesting to hear how the subject of analysing sports is covered in this programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the film of Moneyball heads to cinemas in the UK, there have been a batch of newspaper articles about Billy Beane and the Oakland A&#8217;s. Most have focused on whether the analytical approach taken by the A&#8217;s and others could be successfully applied to traditional British sports. This theme will be explored in further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[225,553,128],"class_list":["post-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bbc","tag-mlb-2","tag-oakland-as"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368","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=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12369,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions\/12369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}