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Wouldn't that be lovely, BG doesn't get a team but Oboro does :bang:

Truman,

Do you follow the Florence Freedom at all? I believe the team is doing pretty well this year. They are covered fairly well by the Cinti newspapers. I am not a fan, though.

DUFUS Wrote:Truman,

Do you follow the Florence Freedom at all? I believe the team is doing pretty well this year. They are covered fairly well by the Cinti newspapers. I am not a fan, though.

I'm in Frarnklin KY so no I don't, really wish we had a local team.

Isn't BG building a Ballpark for Minor League baseball... anyone know any details on that?

yeah they're gonna start building downtown, they have to clear out alot of old buildings to start though.

Beaureguard Wrote:yeah they're gonna start building downtown, they have to clear out alot of old buildings to start though.

Believe it when I am sitting at a game singing "take me out to the ball game"

hey, its just what I've heard from many different people, i know i shouldn't have stated it like it was fact.

Most likely baseball is not going to happen. The support from the government hasn't been there at all. There's a group in town that's really been pushing the envelope, but both city and county governments scoffed at even paying a nickel for a feasibility study for a stadium (yet they're tossing out $70K-I think- each for a downtown indoor "stadium"). Also, you need to know that they're going after a Frontier League team, which is basically a lower form of the minor leagues (below single A). Right now there's not even a lot of talk about fan support either. They've said in the paper that "the people" want it to happen, but if you're out and about in town you hear nothing about it.

I also find it amusing that the columnist says that the paper would cover them whole-heartedly (or something along those lines) , but they don't even cover the 2 colleges in town. KWC gets plenty of love from the paper, but the ugly stepsister down the road doesn't even get table scraps. Brescia University has made it to back to back national championship tourneys (and the women made it to the final four 2 years ago), do you want to guess how much press they received for it? Do you know how many reporters or photographers they sent to KC to cover the team? Please don't get me started on Owensboro!! :mad:

No offense, but when I think of O'boro I think of NASCAR - three of the drivers claim O'boro as their hometown: M. Waltrip, Mayfield and I forget the third - Green?

don't forget the one that started it all Daryl. My old band director in Midddle school outraced him once, on bikes when they were 11!

So, RBM, when you think of Owensboro you think of rednecks? Well, that would hit the nail just about right on the head.

I think of Ronald McDonald crackhead look-alikes :laugh:

Well this thread has gone off track! :laugh:

Yeah, i don't know where that came from but it just sounded funny.

Let's put it this way, Play Ball '05 is dead. The people who made deposits on season tickets have been refunded.

Their is still a hope, but they are having to look at different ways of getting it done. Their is a new plan now, but I doubt it will have any more success than the previous three.

I am not in the "Baseball for BG" camp. I don't think BG supports the college athletics enough as it is, I'd hate to see more money be snatched from HAF so people can buy baseball tickets. I also don't want to see an empty stadium in 10 years when the team leaves for another new stadium in another town. BG isn't big enough and supportive enough for minor league baseball. As apathetic as BG people are, I sometimes wish we could pick up the hill WKU sits on and move WKU somewhere else where people might actually appreciate what a college campus brings to a community.