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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Other Sports (Tiger's Back) => Topic started by: steve dave on August 14, 2015, 08:22:17 PM
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Get a look at this oversized kid whose dad let him keep his shoes on in the bounce house and was just knocking over lil royals left and right. Cardinal family.
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Warner Park, home of the Omaha Stormchasers. FULL REVIEW
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i know i cant be the only one thinking this thought about that mustang
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Also, it was minion night. We had no idea what a minion was but it's a stuffed animal guy partying around so we did it.
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Minor League ball is great.
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Adorable. That mascot is hott! :fatty:
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Minor League ball is great.
I kept mentioning Bull Durham to mrs Dave.
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that looks fun SD!
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that looks fun SD!
It was fun!
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Minor League ball is great.
I kept mentioning Bull Durham to mrs Dave.
As you should have. Also lots of fun to mention out loud (just loud enough for someone to overhear clearly) how close you were to breaking into pro ball. Merciless criticisms of players on minor technical stuff (valid or not who cares) is super fun.
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I have some fond memories of watching the golden spikes at rosenblatt
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What's an ice cold beer go for at a minor league game?
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Same as Roy's, over a million dollars
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which is exactly why you had a bucket of them :kstategrad:
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We had no idea what a minion was...
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I'm certainly missing a joke from another thread, right?
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no, lil sd is 2 and hasn't seen the minion movies yet. I don't think it effected his enjoyment of the guys though.
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Don't have pictures to go with it, but was driving through Arkansas and decided to stop in and catch a Naturals game tonight so here's a review of that.
-It was faith and family night so they had some band planning in the outfield when we got there that I pretty much tuned out.
-Ate at some BBQ place. Ordered a brisket plate. Potatoe salad was ok, beans where bland, brisket was way too fatty. Had to chew it for like 10 minutes. Also had nothing to eat it with but a plastic fork. Would not recommend
-Had a beer place that the sign said it was craft and imports. Was mostly canned imports. Did have a decent local red rye on tap.
-Had tickets a couple rows behind the home dugout, great seats.
-Their mascots are a Sasquatch named Strike and a river monster named Sinker. Where very strange and I don't know that I saw them at all after the crappy videos and introductions they entered to.
-Ramon Torres and Raul Mondesi started the game with back to back homers :excited:
-The other team's defense was horrible. Only one error but 5 or 6 plays a better fielder would have made. Naturals scored 8 runs and the 2 HRs where about the only ones that weren't aided somehow by bad defense.
-Didn't really have much of an opportunity to see the Naturals defensive quality. Very few balls not hit right at someone. 3B made a couple nice plays but he was also celebrating his 27th birthday. Mondesi failed to snag a grounder he probably should have but doubt he'd have gotten the runner anyway. Almost defensive play of the game came at the end of the game with the Naturals up big. Torres was playing very deep at 2nd and he ran down a grounder over halfway to the RF fence and nearly threw the guy out at 1st. It was impressive range.
-After the game they did a chuck a ball thing with a bucket on the pitchers mound. Some kid (guessing about 10-12 yo) whose dad had an EMAW hat, after nearly hitting the bucket once, launched an impressive bullet of a throw that bounced just in front of the mound and 1 hopped into the bucket winning him a $100 gift certificate to some clothing place
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This is my favorite minor league stadium, Hadlock Stadium, home of the Portland Seadogs.
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Yep that's a green monster, same height as the green monster at Fenway Park but not as long. Because of the enormous number of tourists that go to Maine each summer they essentially sell out every game.
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They have a lighthouse in centerfield that comes up from behind the wall, like the old big apple in Shea Stadium, and shoots fireworks out of it when the Seadogs hit a homerun.
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If you're interested in seeing former Shocker, Royal, and Red Sox, Tommy Hottovy give the most boring 3min30sec Cribs parody ever here's one of Hadlock Field.
https://youtu.be/gStw_D39mn0
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MIR, we drove by the seadog stadium this summer and I remarked to mrs Dave how much I would like to go to a game there!
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Durham Bull Stadium is pretty sweet. It was nicer than the K prior to the makeover. If I can find some pics of the kids with Wool E. Bull, I'll post them.
Gonna win 'em all!
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Portland Seadogs! I was a huge fan for about a year in junior high after my parents bought me a tshirt while on a New England vacation.
I have tickets to the Salt Lake v Omaha game tonight. Will try to take pics and report back.
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Have fun td! Get some la Mesa chips and queso and some Nebraska brewing beer.
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Welcome to Smith's Ballpark, home of the Salt Lake Bees (Angels AAA). Smith's is the Kroger affiliate in the region founded by the nephew of, you guessed it, the Joseph Smith. Nice stadium in an odd area a mile or two south of downtown. There's a kiddy train in the outfield with a line that takes two full innings to get through. Wide variety of concessions but all kinda meh. Did see some loaded 'chos that I regret not trying. Also a big wall in center that has no obvious purpose. The setting tho... Wow!
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If the wall without obvious purpose is in dead center field in the pic, it's the hitters' background. From the pics and description, the park looks like a decent place to watch a game. :)
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Well what do you know, thanks bones. I guess I have just have never noticed in other parks before, this just seemed so out of place.
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Well what do you know, thanks bones. I guess I have just have never noticed in other parks before, maybe better incorporated into design of the field elsewhere or I'm just oblivious.
Backgrounds are more conspicuous in minor league parks because so many of those venues don't have outfield seats/stands. So, the backgrounds stick out like sore thumbs. Major league parks tend to blend backgrounds into the outfield stands, often by using dark walls or tarps.
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Might need to provide a dossier on Dell Diamond, I might!
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yes, that place looks great. i love the baseball outline on the infield
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The old-timeyest of old-timey ballparks. Wahconah Park in Pittsfield, Mass. It was the home of Houston's rookie league franchise the Pittsfield Astros the only time I ever went there (2001). The grandstand is wooden and has an overhanging roof. It's also the only place I've ever caught a t-shirt at event other than the Salina Speedway.
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The park has a wikipedia page, which said it was built in 1919.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahconah_Park
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The blue picture from the outside is more what it looked like when I went there.
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Senator Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium, Norwich, Connecticut.
Dodd Memorial was the home of Yankees AA affiliate the Norwich Navigators from 1995-2009. I had the pleasure of attending two baseball games here in 2001 as well. The highlight of my spectatorship here was getting to watch Jose Canseco perform unspectacularly in a rehab assignment. He was prob juiced to the max and was very large.
The stadium itself seemed very nice and they obviously had put a lot of money in it at the time.
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I think a Giants affiliate plays there now.
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Syracuse Chiefs are my favorite- Tonya Uncle took me as a kid so it holds a special place in my heart as my first ever minor league game.
they also sell these-
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I would enjoy going to minor league games more if they had something exciting going on on the field. Like a football game. Or soccer.
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Maybe mir can answer this: was there a Mets minor league team around the Massachusetts summer camp area? I remember going to a game and seeing the Mets logo, but don't remember anything else
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royals sending joba to AAA and gordon coming for rehab...I set the O/U on eric crouch jerseys at 400 per game.
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Maybe mir can answer this: was there a Mets minor league team around the Massachusetts summer camp area? I remember going to a game and seeing the Mets logo, but don't remember anything else
Yeah the Pittsfield Mets were a rookie league team that played in that same gross, moldy, garbage-y stadium that nicname posted about. I'm surprised that you would know them from that though, they left in like 2000 or 2001.
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Brooklyn Cyclones stadium. (Technically KeySpan Park.)
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Pretty great location, right next to the Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park. Games are generally cool even on hot summer nights due to the ocean breeze. The original Nathan's Hot Dogs stand -- home of the 4th of July hot dog eating contest -- is between the subway exit and the stadium entrance, so obviously that's what you eat when you visit.
Three facts: When the Cyclones came to Brooklyn in 2001, they were the first professional baseball team in Brooklyn since the Dodgers left. The manager of the team at one time was the Royals' first base coach who got stabbed by those hooligan White Sox fans during the game a few years ago. A friend of mine threw out the first pitch there once, and since she was pretty unathletic I helped her practice her form a couple days ahead of time. (Fourth fact: She bounced the ball, but did pretty well!)
http://deadspin.com/5317107/william-ligues-son-still-proud-he-beat-up-that-first-base-coach (http://deadspin.com/5317107/william-ligues-son-still-proud-he-beat-up-that-first-base-coach)
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what a great looking park, and those lights!
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Maybe mir can answer this: was there a Mets minor league team around the Massachusetts summer camp area? I remember going to a game and seeing the Mets logo, but don't remember anything else
Yeah the Pittsfield Mets were a rookie league team that played in that same gross, moldy, garbage-y stadium that nicname posted about. I'm surprised that you would know them from that though, they left in like 2000 or 2001.
nicname's post made me remember it! also it was probably like '92 when i went there.
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Brooklyn Cyclones stadium. (Technically KeySpan Park.)
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Pretty great location, right next to the Coney Island boardwalk and amusement park. Games are generally cool even on hot summer nights due to the ocean breeze. The original Nathan's Hot Dogs stand -- home of the 4th of July hot dog eating contest -- is between the subway exit and the stadium entrance, so obviously that's what you eat when you visit.
Three facts: When the Cyclones came to Brooklyn in 2001, they were the first professional baseball team in Brooklyn since the Dodgers left. The manager of the team at one time was the Royals' first base coach who got stabbed by those hooligan White Sox fans during the game a few years ago. A friend of mine threw out the first pitch there once, and since she was pretty unathletic I helped her practice her form a couple days ahead of time. (Fourth fact: She bounced the ball, but did pretty well!)
http://deadspin.com/5317107/william-ligues-son-still-proud-he-beat-up-that-first-base-coach (http://deadspin.com/5317107/william-ligues-son-still-proud-he-beat-up-that-first-base-coach)
https://youtu.be/PBfDHt9JNzM the comments
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http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/13337860/biloxi-shuckers-endless-54-game-road-trip-takes-south