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(01-05-2017 12:30 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  

(01-05-2017 12:14 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(01-05-2017 12:08 PM)757ODU Wrote:  The people that don't care for MILB are the people that don't have a great understanding about baseball.

I have a better than most understanding of baseball, but I can't do AAA Baseball. I enjoy AA and lower, but AAA bores me to tears.

I've been told by at least a couple of hardcore baseball fans that AA is more enjoyable because that's where you're more likely to see the hot prospects, whereas AAA has more journeymen and fringe guys bouncing between AAA and the Show. I guess that depends on the parent club and how it handles its farm teams; I remember in the final days of the Richmond Braves that Atlanta was more likely to pay attention to and move players from the AA team in Mississippi, and I want to say the Astros had a similar deal when their AA was in Round Rock and their AAA was in Edmonton?

Here in Richmond we lost our long time AAA team (Richmond Braves) a few years ago. It was replaced by the Eastern league AA Flying Squirrels.
I am not sure about any better quality on the field, but the enthusiasm of the players is noticeably better; as is the organization's interaction with the community.

I am by no means a "hardcore" fan, but I (and my family) very much enjoy taking in many games over the course of a season, much more than we did with the AAA team.
Interestingly, the 2016 home attendance per game of the Richmond AA team was actually better than that of the AAA Norfolk Tide in a substantially smaller (Richmond) population center.


Shameless plug:
The ODUAA Richmond Chapter sponsors a sell out Flying Squirrels baseball game event every year