{"id":1423,"date":"2014-02-04T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballontheisland.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/04\/back-to-college-baseball\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T15:33:00","slug":"back-to-college-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axcessbaseball.com\/2014\/02\/04\/back-to-college-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to College Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballontheisland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/8d926-baseball-720x380.jpg\" data-rel=\"prettyPhoto[image-1423]\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/baseballontheisland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/8d926-baseball-720x380.jpg\" height=\"168\" width=\"320\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/168;\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Photo Credit: Recruiting Cycle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have been posting thoughts on this site about various topics in Major League Baseball. As you can see, I am a huge Mets fan. But now that the college season is right around the corner you will not be seeing any talk about the Mets or the Hall of Fame voting.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The season will be starting at the end of the month. There are plenty of significant players ready to make some noise and put their teams on the national grid.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you are just reading this for the first time, you can come here to read about St. Joseph’s, Farmingdale, Old Westbury, NYIT, Molloy, Dowling, Hofstra and Stony Brook.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Best of luck to the players. Have a productive and healthy season.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Recruiting Cycle I have been posting thoughts on this site about various topics in Major League Baseball. As you can see, I am a huge Mets fan. 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