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Big Blow to Tucson Baseball
I hope you like the Toros in the Golden Baseball League and the Arizona Wildcats. Wow, Tucson could be without MLB spring training after 2010. It’s lost its AAA team in the Pacific Coast League, and Tucson is too far west to be in the AA Texas League.
Tucson, El Paso, and Shreveport have got to be three of the largest cities in the country without a team in affiliated minor league baseball. El Paso lost its Texas League team to Springfield, Missouri, back in 2005. Shreveport lost its TL club to Frisco, Texas.
I remember how awful it was for Jackson, Mississippi, to be without an affiliated team for five seasons between the time the Jackson Generals left for Round Rock, TX, and the Greenville Braves moved to Pearl, just east of Jackson. The city had an independent league team, called the Senators, in the interim.
"The big possums walk late." - Harry Caray
by memphiscub on Jul 23, 2009 4:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Not looking good here baseball wise
I’ve gone to a couple of the Toros games and not impressed with the quality of play. It’s just something to do on a nice summer evening.
I’m not too hopeful about Pima County attracting some Japanese teams to come here for spring training. Very unfortunate how baseball has fallen apart here in Tucson. I’m resigned to the fact that I will just have to go to Mesa to see the Cubs in the spring and watch mediocre independent league baseball during the summer. At least I get WGN on Comcast.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by tucsoncubsfan on Jul 23, 2009 5:10 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would think the chances
were slim and none about the O’s coming west to Tucson. Without a companion team….I doubt if the Orioles would move. I think they might have used Tucson as leverage to get what they wanted out of officials in Florida.
by San Diego Smooth Jazz Man on Jul 23, 2009 7:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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