{"id":6778,"date":"2014-09-18T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2014-09-18T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:15:20","slug":"ditching-kane-county-for-south-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/ditching-kane-county-for-south-bend\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching Kane County For South Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kane-County-Cougars-Geneva-IL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6779\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kane-County-Cougars-Geneva-IL.jpg\" alt=\"Kane-County-Cougars-Geneva-IL\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kane-County-Cougars-Geneva-IL.jpg 360w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Kane-County-Cougars-Geneva-IL-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>After only 2 seasons, the Cubs have decided to cut bait on the Kane County Cougars and are moving their Single A affiliate to South Bend starting next season. \u00a0The marriage between the Cubs and the Cougars seemed beneficial, but Cub leadership was looking for upgraded facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This might not be a bad move for the Cubs. \u00a0Between their dominance in the local area and their Triple A team in Iowa, the Cubs already rule from Chicago to the west. \u00a0From a fan base perspective, Kane County offered the Cubs little beyond a shorter drive. \u00a0South Bend will give them an opportunity to push their brand further to the east.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the White Sox continue to insist that their entire minor league system reside in the south-eastern United States, cutting down on travel costs but contributing nothing to the big league club&#8217;s fan base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After only 2 seasons, the Cubs have decided to cut bait on the Kane County Cougars and are moving their Single A affiliate to South Bend starting next season. \u00a0The marriage between the Cubs and the Cougars seemed beneficial, but Cub leadership was looking for upgraded facilities. This might not be a bad move for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,2513,5079,49],"class_list":["post-6778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-kane-county-cougars","tag-south-bend-silver-hawks","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6780,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}