{"id":4960,"date":"2025-06-20T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:21:21","slug":"catching-the-rumble-ponies-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"Catching the Rumble Ponies in Richmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants (that would be the Richmond Flying Squirrels) play in a stadium 2,872 miles from Oracle Park. That’s the greatest distance between an affiliate and its parent club in all of organized baseball.<\/p>\n

This is one of the many facts my son and I forgot to mention on today’s episode of\u00a0Math and Musings<\/em><\/a>, “recorded live,” from the road, in Richmond, Virginia, after we witnessed the Flying Squirrels host my hometown’s Binghamton Rumble Ponies.<\/p>\n

For a complete description of what we\u00a0did<\/em> discuss, check out today’s episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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