{"id":18548,"date":"2014-11-17T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18548"},"modified":"2014-11-17T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:59:09","slug":"is-mlb-heading-to-london-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18548","title":{"rendered":"Is MLB heading to London in 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly the lack of TV and radio coverage of MLB in the UK this past season meant that we didn&#8217;t hear much from ace broadcaster Josh Chetwynd. However, with one off-season tweet he was able to create plenty of excitement among British baseball fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Word from BBF AGM is that London is in serious consideration for MLB series in 2016, according to Matt Crawshaw of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueSoxBaseball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BlueSoxBaseball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Chetwynd (@joshchetwynd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshchetwynd\/status\/534055442218221568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The pessimist in me worried that it might be too good to be true, but Matt Crawshaw quickly allayed those fears with confirmation that #MLBLondon is a definite possibility.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattBaseballGB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MattBaseballGB<\/a> we&#39;ve been told to start planning&#8230;..18 months to go! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fingerscrossed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fingerscrossed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MLBLondon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MLBLondon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leicester Blue Sox (@BlueSoxBaseball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlueSoxBaseball\/status\/534065593251819520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In response to the news, I&#8217;ve written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/matt-smith\/baseball-international-games_b_6168314.html\" target=\"_blank\">a blog for the Huffington Post<\/a> going into a bit more detail about a potential visit to London by MLB, following up on the tremendous success experienced by the NFL on these shores.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands and Italy have been the two countries most frequently touted as a potential European destination for MLB and they are likely still the frontrunners. A trip to London in 2016 is only a possibility, but it&#8217;s wonderful news nonetheless as it reinforces previous reports that MLB is serious about coming over to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need to explain to anybody visiting this website just how exciting it would be to have MLB games played in London. And if the worst case scenario is a road trip to the Netherlands instead, count me in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written a blog for the Huffington Post going into a bit more detail about a potential visit to London by MLB in 2016, following up on the tremendous success experienced by the NFL on these shores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[557,551,553],"class_list":["post-18548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-european-baseball","tag-london","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548","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=18548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18551,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions\/18551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}