Even though no baseball team? Even though utep doesn't have a baseball team ,el Paso is a great baseball town.

I hope not. I'm not being a dick, but that would be a horrible decision.

NO.

From my understand the home of the fighting Chihuahaus is a nice place to play. I do think not having a baseball team is a huge negative, plus location being the furthest west is a negative. Outside of that I cannot think of a reason why.

(05-19-2015 01:37 PM)10miners Wrote:  Even though no baseball team? Even though utep doesn't have a baseball team ,el Paso is a great baseball town.

If they are such a great baseball town then why doesnt utep field a team?

I guess this is a very important question to you.

http://csnbbs.com/thread-636952.html

I'm a baseball fan in El Paso and have little to no interest in hosting the baseball tourney. The basketball tournament in March is plenty.

Until UTEP fields a baseball team the answer should be an absolute NO.

UTEP used to have a baseball team a long, long time ago. I'm guessing that it wasn't very popular. IF that is the case, then there probably wouldn't be a very good turnout for a college baseball tournament.

UTEP losing its baseball program in the early 1980's (1983 perhaps) was not directly the result of its popularity, or lack thereof. They actually had a decent team playing in the WAC at the time. Mike Maddux is a famous UTEP Baseball alum. No, the reason UTEP shut down its baseball program was due primarily to Title IX, in specific to the fact that UTEP didn't have the finances to equal the number of scholarship women's sports to that of the men's, so they had to cut ties with a men's program. Baseball, perhaps due to a lack of popularity, but also because it could not self-sustain financially, was the sacrificial lamb. Track & Field was winning national championships at the time, so that program was certainly untouchable. Basketball was UTEP's "bread & butter" and most popular. Football paid for most of the other sports. As far as the City of El Paso, yes, it does enjoy baseball and has/is produced/producing good talent. However, that has absolutely no relation to UTEP not having (or reinstating) its baseball program.

Oh...and UTEP under no circumstances should ever be the host of the C-USA Baseball Tournament. The question of it (twice now) is actually absurd.

Whatever the reason and regardless of how popular the Triple A team is currently, I don't think the turn out for college baseball would be very good.

I tend to agree. The Chihuahuas have it going on. UTEP Baseball would be a complete afterthought.

I took in a Diablos game many years ago when I was passing through town.
They still there?

(05-20-2015 05:12 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I took in a Diablos game many years ago when I was passing through town.
They still there?

No. The Diablos (AA Texas League) left El Paso over a decade ago. They were replaced with an independent league version with the same mascot, but that team has since folded tent. In 2014, the El Paso Chihuahuas (AAA Pacific Coast League - San Diego Padres) opened their first season in a brand-spankin-new beautiful ballpark located in Downtown El Paso. They relocated to El Paso from Tucson. The city has taken to the new minor league team by storm, selling out just about every home game since. The Chihuahuas are the talk of the town and one of the most popular MiLB teams around.

(05-20-2015 05:39 PM)dude_miner Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:12 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I took in a Diablos game many years ago when I was passing through town.
They still there?

No. The Diablos (AA Texas League) left El Paso over a decade ago. They were replaced with an independent league version with the same mascot, but that team has since folded tent. In 2014, the El Paso Chihuahuas (AAA Pacific Coast League - San Diego Padres) opened their first season in a brand-spankin-new beautiful ballpark located in Downtown El Paso. They relocated to El Paso from Tucson. The city has taken to the new minor league team by storm, selling out just about every home game since. The Chihuahuas are the talk of the town and one of the most popular MiLB teams around.

I seem to always have trouble getting 4 tix seated together. The ballpark experience is pretty awesome (and I've been to Dodgers, D-backs, Rangers, Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Padres, and Giants home games).

Anyway, as someone else stated, no reason to have UTEP host. The Chihuahuas have a good thing is going on right now. But we'll take the BBall tourney time and again.

(05-23-2015 01:26 AM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:39 PM)dude_miner Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:12 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I took in a Diablos game many years ago when I was passing through town.
They still there?

No. The Diablos (AA Texas League) left El Paso over a decade ago. They were replaced with an independent league version with the same mascot, but that team has since folded tent. In 2014, the El Paso Chihuahuas (AAA Pacific Coast League - San Diego Padres) opened their first season in a brand-spankin-new beautiful ballpark located in Downtown El Paso. They relocated to El Paso from Tucson. The city has taken to the new minor league team by storm, selling out just about every home game since. The Chihuahuas are the talk of the town and one of the most popular MiLB teams around.

I seem to always have trouble getting 4 tix seated together. The ballpark experience is pretty awesome (and I've been to Dodgers, D-backs, Rangers, Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Padres, and Giants home games).

Anyway, as someone else stated, no reason to have UTEP host. The Chihuahuas have a good thing is going on right now. But we'll take the BBall tourney time and again.

Just show up to the stadium. They sell tickets in sections and open sections depending on attendance.

I have gone to games during these so called sell outs and have had no problem buying tickets and seeing entire sections open.

(05-27-2015 04:02 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-23-2015 01:26 AM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:39 PM)dude_miner Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:12 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I took in a Diablos game many years ago when I was passing through town.
They still there?

No. The Diablos (AA Texas League) left El Paso over a decade ago. They were replaced with an independent league version with the same mascot, but that team has since folded tent. In 2014, the El Paso Chihuahuas (AAA Pacific Coast League - San Diego Padres) opened their first season in a brand-spankin-new beautiful ballpark located in Downtown El Paso. They relocated to El Paso from Tucson. The city has taken to the new minor league team by storm, selling out just about every home game since. The Chihuahuas are the talk of the town and one of the most popular MiLB teams around.

I seem to always have trouble getting 4 tix seated together. The ballpark experience is pretty awesome (and I've been to Dodgers, D-backs, Rangers, Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Padres, and Giants home games).

Anyway, as someone else stated, no reason to have UTEP host. The Chihuahuas have a good thing is going on right now. But we'll take the BBall tourney time and again.

Just show up to the stadium. They sell tickets in sections and open sections depending on attendance.

I have gone to games during these so called sell outs and have had no problem buying tickets and seeing entire sections open.

Cuz you're so smart.

(05-27-2015 04:02 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-23-2015 01:26 AM)RUNVSFD MINER Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:39 PM)dude_miner Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 05:12 PM)DrBox Wrote:  I took in a Diablos game many years ago when I was passing through town.
They still there?

No. The Diablos (AA Texas League) left El Paso over a decade ago. They were replaced with an independent league version with the same mascot, but that team has since folded tent. In 2014, the El Paso Chihuahuas (AAA Pacific Coast League - San Diego Padres) opened their first season in a brand-spankin-new beautiful ballpark located in Downtown El Paso. They relocated to El Paso from Tucson. The city has taken to the new minor league team by storm, selling out just about every home game since. The Chihuahuas are the talk of the town and one of the most popular MiLB teams around.

I seem to always have trouble getting 4 tix seated together. The ballpark experience is pretty awesome (and I've been to Dodgers, D-backs, Rangers, Astros, Royals, Cardinals, Cubs, White Sox, Padres, and Giants home games).

Anyway, as someone else stated, no reason to have UTEP host. The Chihuahuas have a good thing is going on right now. But we'll take the BBall tourney time and again.

Just show up to the stadium. They sell tickets in sections and open sections depending on attendance.

I have gone to games during these so called sell outs and have had no problem buying tickets and seeing entire sections open.

Sections might appear to be open because season ticket holders don't attend every single game. All you have to do is go to the web site and hover your mouse over the map. No sense arguing with the bud. The next home game is this Friday. There a number of sections that literally have one seat available. Also, the grass seating is half sold. Everything else is sold out. So technically, the bud is correct that he could walk up to the stadium and buy a ticket. Now, if he had a friend... The Chihuahuas absolutely do not open up sections or release seats at the last minute though.

(05-27-2015 07:10 PM)mistabinks Wrote:  Sections might appear to be open because season ticket holders don't attend every single game. All you have to do is go to the web site and hover your mouse over the map. No sense arguing with the bud. The next home game is this Friday. There a number of sections that literally have one seat available. Also, the grass seating is half sold. Everything else is sold out. So technically, the bud is correct that he could walk up to the stadium and buy a ticket. Now, if he had a friend... The Chihuahuas absolutely do not open up sections or release seats at the last minute though.

I might be mistaken but a friend of mine who works for the team told me that they typically save sections for different reasons. One of them is fund raising for youth sports. The kids sell the tickets and they get to keep some of the money. If those tickets aren't sold, they release those tickets to the public on game day.

Knowing this, I went to a game that was supposedly sold out. When I got there and asked what was available, the ticket lady pointed out that some sections were still available. I had no problem finding five tickets together. During that game, we saw two or three upper level sections completely empty.