{"id":20349,"date":"2023-06-15T08:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20349"},"modified":"2023-06-15T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:19:32","slug":"it-hasnt-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/it-hasnt-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"It Hasn&#8217;t Been A While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NewMarlinsLogod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14856\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NewMarlinsLogod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NewMarlinsLogod.jpg 400w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NewMarlinsLogod-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming in to the 2023 season, I had seen every team since the pandemic-stricken 2020 season save two: the Pirates, who I had last seen in 2019, and the Marlins, who I hadn&#8217;t seen in person since 2013.\u00a0 This week, I knocked both of those teams off the list, with the Marlins coming through Guaranteed Rate Field this past weekend and the Pirates in town at Wrigley Field this week.<\/p>\n<p>Less than halfway through the 2023 season, I&#8217;ve already seen fourteen of the 30 clubs, just under half.\u00a0 That number jumps to 25 when we turn the clock back to 2022.\u00a0 That&#8217;s 83% of the league that I&#8217;ve seen in less than a season and a half.\u00a0 The remaining five I saw in 2021, and I&#8217;m sure at least two or three will make an appearance in the second half of 2023.\u00a0 Anyway, here\u2019s a look at each team and the last time I saw them play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Most Recent Game By Team<\/b><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Team Name<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"#c0c0c0\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Date<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Washington Nationals<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/19\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/26\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">San Diego Padres<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/1\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Boston Red Sox<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">9\/11\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Cincinnati Reds<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">9\/28\/2021<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Seattle Mariners<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">4\/12\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Los Angeles Angels<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">4\/30\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">New York Yankees<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/15\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/8\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Texas Rangers<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/12\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Atlanta Braves<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/18\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/20\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Colorado Rockies<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">7\/27\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Oakland Athletics<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">7\/30\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Arizona Diamondbacks<\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">8\/27\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Minnesota Twins<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">10\/5\/2022<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">3\/30\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">San Francisco Giants<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">4\/3\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Baltimore Orioles<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">4\/15\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">4\/19\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">4\/30\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Houston Astros<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/13\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Cleveland Guardians<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/18\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Kansas City Royals<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/21\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">New York Mets<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">5\/24\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Detroit Tigers<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/3\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Miami Marlins<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/11\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Chicago White Sox<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/11\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/15\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"TOP\">\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Chicago Cubs<\/span><\/td>\n<td align=\"RIGHT\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">6\/15\/2023<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot><\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming in to the 2023 season, I had seen every team since the pandemic-stricken 2020 season save two: the Pirates, who I had last seen in 2019, and the Marlins, who I hadn&#8217;t seen in person since 2013.\u00a0 This week, I knocked both of those teams off the list, with the Marlins coming through Guaranteed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,110,113,119,125,121,57,120,260,122,116,259,256,6917,9687,124,114,261,117,50,231,254,112,111,255,258,53,257,126,230,118,49,595,51],"class_list":["post-20349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-blue-jays","tag-braves","tag-brewers","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-devil-rays","tag-diamondbacks","tag-dodgers","tag-expos","tag-giants","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-guardians","tag-mariners","tag-marlins","tag-mets","tag-nationals","tag-orioles","tag-padres","tag-phillies","tag-pirates","tag-rangers","tag-rays","tag-red-sox","tag-reds","tag-rockies","tag-royals","tag-tigers","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-wrigley-field","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20351,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20349\/revisions\/20351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}