{"id":405,"date":"2008-05-01T19:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=405"},"modified":"2008-05-11T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T13:26:10","slug":"challenge-de-france-live-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Challenge de France: live this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fancy watching some baseball with a difference this weekend?\u00c2\u00a0 Mister-Baseball.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mister-baseball.com\/challenge-de-france-live-on-stadeotv\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/stadeo.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stadeo.TV<\/a>will be broadcasting games from the Challenge de France tournament on Saturday and Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 The tournament will be a demonstration of the best baseball in France, which should make for very interesting viewing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to MLB.tv, like many other British fans I&#8217;m fortunate to be able to watch and listen to lots of MLB action.\u00c2\u00a0 2,430 regular season games\u00c2\u00a0are enough to\u00c2\u00a0satisfy even\u00c2\u00a0the biggest baseball nut, but it&#8217;s great to add a bit of variety into your baseball diet by catching some non-MLB games.\u00c2\u00a0 Naturally the level of play\u00c2\u00a0will fall below the supreme standards set in the Big Leagues; however there&#8217;s a certain charm to watching games that don&#8217;t involve highly-paid stars playing in grand stadiums.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s baseball in a simpler (perhaps purer?) form.<\/p>\n<p>The games will be streamed live over the internet and there&#8217;s no mention of a fee on their website, so it looks like\u00c2\u00a0they will be free to view.\u00c2\u00a0 There are three games scheduled for Saturday, with Paris University Club\u00c2\u00a0facing\u00c2\u00a0La Guerche Hawks at 12.30 (BST) and the two semi-finals beginning at 16.00 and 19.30.\u00c2\u00a0 On Sunday, it&#8217;s an early 9.00 start for the bronze medal game before the Challenge de France final at 14.00.<\/p>\n<p>It should be well worth taking a look and seeing what French baseball has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fancy watching some baseball with a difference this weekend?\u00c2\u00a0 Mister-Baseball.com reports that Stadeo.TVwill be broadcasting games from the Challenge de France tournament on Saturday and Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 The tournament will be a demonstration of the best baseball in France, which should make for very interesting viewing.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks to MLB.tv, like many other British fans I&#8217;m fortunate [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}