Trappers leave Edmonton

The Trappers were forced by the PCL to be sold to Nolan Ryan and his group
for a total of 10M$. Apparently, since the Calgary Cannons left for
Albuquerque two seasons ago, it was too much of an hassle for teams to come
up this far up north to play only in Edmonton. There will be a AA (or is it
single-A?) baseball team in a year or two that will play at Telus field but
I don't know how drastic the change in quality will be.



I went to a Trappers game las week and had the opportunity to see Andres
Galarraga play with the Salt Lake Stingers (Angel's farm team). It was a
great game. I believed AAA baseball is more fun to watch than MLB. While
in Dallas-Fort Worth I went to a couple of games and I really enjoyed the
Fort Worth Cats (AAA, Central Baseball League) way more than the Rangers.
And the CBL being an independant league with no affiliation to any MLB
teams, there was no talk about going on strike (that was 2002).



Although I wish the Expos could stay in Montreal, I think that a AAA
baseball team in Montreal would be a great idea: lower ticket price, no high
salaries like in the majors and small outdoor stadium that doesn't cost
billions. Montreal fans should go and watch a game in Ottawa or even the
single-A Vermont Expos in Burlington.



> ok, from what I can gather, the Edmonton franchise will be moving to
Round
> Rock Texas, which currently has a AA team. Round Rock will be replaced
by
> Corpus Christie. The Astros will be putting their AAA team in Round Rock
> which will open up New Orleans as a possible site for the Expos AAA team.
> the Ottawa baseball team (which is called the Lynx by the way) is the
> Orioles AAA team, and I don't know if the Orioles will be leaving or not.
> but Ottawa will be there.
> on another note, Greenville SC will be losing their team to Pearl MS,
> and El Paso, TX will be moving to Springfield MO. as well.
>
El Paso Diablos are moving? They've been around for over 30 years and I
though the franchise was healthy. I really enjoyed going to their games
back when I was located a little more south than I am now...



Expos fan in Northern Alberta
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In article <_1z_c.320163$gE.299204@pd7tw3no>, "coco" <abc.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> There will be a AA (or is it
> single-A?) baseball team in a year or two that will play at Telus field but
> I don't know how drastic the change in quality will be.

It's actually going to be an independent Northern League team, so expect
a huge drop in quality.
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I went to a Trappers game las week and had the opportunity to see Andres
> Galarraga play with the Salt Lake Stingers (Angel's farm team). It was a
> great game. I believed AAA baseball is more fun to watch than MLB. While
> in Dallas-Fort Worth I went to a couple of games and I really enjoyed the
> Fort Worth Cats (AAA, Central Baseball League) way more than the Rangers.
> And the CBL being an independant league with no affiliation to any MLB
> teams, there was no talk about going on strike (that was 2002).

I used to live in Oklahoma City and would love to go the their AAA team
as well, it is a great brand of baseball and ALLOT cheaper than the
overpaid big leaguers.

> > ok, from what I can gather, the Edmonton franchise will be moving to
> Round
>> Rock Texas, which currently has a AA team. Round Rock will be replaced
> by
>> Corpus Christie. The Astros will be putting their AAA team in Round Rock
>> which will open up New Orleans as a possible site for the Expos AAA team.
>> the Ottawa baseball team (which is called the Lynx by the way) is the
>> Orioles AAA team, and I don't know if the Orioles will be leaving or
>> not.
>> but Ottawa will be there.
>> on another note, Greenville SC will be losing their team to Pearl MS,
>> and El Paso, TX will be moving to Springfield MO. as well.
>>
> El Paso Diablos are moving? They've been around for over 30 years and I
> though the franchise was healthy. I really enjoyed going to their games
> back when I was located a little more south than I am now...

I have been to Diablos games as well, and they appeard to be doing just
fine, however, attendance has been dropping, and the owners apparently
have been looking to sell, the Cardinals bought the team and will move them
to Springfield, MO. which built a super nice stadium a few years ago,
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