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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2016 19:45:20 GMT -6
Purdue comes in at 4-12, 2-9 on the road. The dropped 2 of 3 to Ohio this past weekend at Kokomo Municipal Stadium (Purdue has prescription turf, and it's early to play on it. Kokomo has Field Turf). Game will start at 3:00 pm at Ball Diamond. It will be 64 degrees, cloudy, windy with 0% chance of rain. a good day to take in a game! For those that haven't seen Kokomo Municipal Stadium, here is a rendering:  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 7:54:28 GMT -6
Nice. Does ours look as good?
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Post by 00hmh on Mar 21, 2016 8:39:50 GMT -6
That is a nice stadium. Home of the prospect league team in Kokomo. An amateur league for collegians. Wikipedia descriptionleague home page hereNot sure if our facility and market would support that or not. Probably have to sell beer. Teams draw about a 1000 fans a game. No idea about the economics or if that "breaks even" or it has to be subsidized. I know Lafayette was considering renovation of stadium there, but may not have gotten the deal done yet. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 9:24:36 GMT -6
That is a nice stadium. Home of the prospect league team in Kokomo. An amateur league for collegians. Wikipedia descriptionleague home page hereNot sure if our facility and market would support that or not. Probably have to sell beer. Teams draw about a 1000 fans a game. No idea about the economics or if that "breaks even" or it has to be subsidized. I know Lafayette was considering renovation of stadium there, but may not have gotten the deal done yet. Yes. We could support one. There was a team in Anderson for quite a few years, and there currently are teams in Lafayette and Terre Haute. Richmond just closed, so we could pick up some of those fans (Anderson and Richmond have always been mis-managed and had an insufficient facilities). We decided not to add lights to the new renovation, and that limits timing of night games. In Muncie, I think you would want to have 7:00 pm starts to allow folks to get there after work. Without lights most of your nights starts will have to be at 6:00 pm. Lights are necessary for play in this league. It is a short league, so only around 50 games per summer. Richmond, Lafayette and Chillicothe used to be Independent Frontier League (low Single-A minors) franchises that stepped down to collegiate summer league. Lafayette has been talking about renovating Loeb for almost 15 years. They can't seem to pull the trigger. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 10:43:38 GMT -6
We have a collegiate summer league team in Wilmington. My wife and I go to quite a few games. Decent crowds and very entertaining baseball for $6.
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Post by 00hmh on Mar 21, 2016 11:48:21 GMT -6
That's a fact.
Minor league baseball has become one of the success stories in sports business. This amateur league is sort of sub minor league, but extremely similar and suitable for even smaller markets maybe.
The only drawback is usually the stadium which usually requires some kind of public investment.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 10:18:09 GMT -6
Strong winds (up to 30 mph ou of the SSW) today will make the Ball Diamond a launching pad today. We'll see how many taters go out.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 22, 2016 13:42:41 GMT -6
Getting freaking hammered by Purdue.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 14:14:31 GMT -6
Back to back dingers and Plesac is pitching. NO worries!
4-7
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Post by cardfan on Mar 22, 2016 14:24:12 GMT -6
7-7
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Post by cardfan on Mar 22, 2016 14:36:06 GMT -6
I'm sorry, 9-7
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 14:40:34 GMT -6
It's an old fashioned SLUGFEST! Wind blowing out....Holy Cow!
Plesac holds Boilers scoreless for 3 complete innings.
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Post by cardfan on Mar 22, 2016 15:16:50 GMT -6
Purdue coming back.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 15:37:08 GMT -6
I see what you're doing....
Butler is our big dog to close this out!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 15:53:50 GMT -6
Yo yo yo....and Cards take down Boilers!
let's can football and basketball and focus on being the best baseball school in Indiana and the MAC!
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