Damn Yankees!
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cabensonNEW YORK -- The Yankees' 27-year affiliation with the Columbus Clippers appears to be coming to an end.
According to a report in The Columbus Dispatch on Thursday, the Yankees will not renew their deal with the Clippers, who have served as New York's Triple-A affiliate since 1979.
Yankees spokesman Ben Tuliebitz said that the team had no comment on the report, though a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that the Yankees would be moving their Triple-A team out of Columbus in 2007.
Columbus Baseball Team Inc., which has until Sept. 30 to sign with another big-league organization, is set to begin negotiations with available teams Saturday. According to the newspaper, the Mets, Nationals and Orioles are the only teams currently without Triple-A affiliates.
"I can guarantee there will be baseball in Columbus next season," Clippers president Ken Schnacke told the Dispatch.
The report indicated that Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is looking to move the Triple-A team closer to New York, with Scranton, Pa. -- which is approximately 120 miles west of New York City -- representing a possible destination.
The Phillies' Triple-A team has been in Scranton since 1989, but the Dispatch reports that Philadelphia allowed its contract to lapse, opening the door for another team to move in.
Wonder what we're gonna do with that new stadium they are buildig downtown if we don't get signed with another franchise? And dudes, what about "Dime-A-Dog" Night? Softball games could be played there the next time raw sewage takes over Greenlawn Park, I suppose.
According to a report in The Columbus Dispatch on Thursday, the Yankees will not renew their deal with the Clippers, who have served as New York's Triple-A affiliate since 1979.
Yankees spokesman Ben Tuliebitz said that the team had no comment on the report, though a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that the Yankees would be moving their Triple-A team out of Columbus in 2007.
Columbus Baseball Team Inc., which has until Sept. 30 to sign with another big-league organization, is set to begin negotiations with available teams Saturday. According to the newspaper, the Mets, Nationals and Orioles are the only teams currently without Triple-A affiliates.
"I can guarantee there will be baseball in Columbus next season," Clippers president Ken Schnacke told the Dispatch.
The report indicated that Yankees general manager Brian Cashman is looking to move the Triple-A team closer to New York, with Scranton, Pa. -- which is approximately 120 miles west of New York City -- representing a possible destination.
The Phillies' Triple-A team has been in Scranton since 1989, but the Dispatch reports that Philadelphia allowed its contract to lapse, opening the door for another team to move in.
Wonder what we're gonna do with that new stadium they are buildig downtown if we don't get signed with another franchise? And dudes, what about "Dime-A-Dog" Night? Softball games could be played there the next time raw sewage takes over Greenlawn Park, I suppose.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:49 am (UTC)Am I reading this correctly? Am I seeing that the City of Columbus committed to build a new stadium for a team that had not re-upped on their contract?
Thanks, Mayor Coleman.
I was on the verge of missing you.
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Date: 2006-09-15 01:35 pm (UTC)Wonder what we're gonna do with that new stadium they are buildig downtown if we don't get signed with another franchise?
Piss-poor planning on someone's part there.
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Date: 2006-09-15 07:40 pm (UTC)Dwight: You could have a brain aneurysm. You could be hit by a car or a train or a bus. You could be poisoned, fall in a well, step on a mine...
Michael: Okay, if I step on a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania and die, you can have my job.
I guess we'll have to add "getting hit in the head by a baseball" to the list of things that can happen to him, eh?
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Date: 2006-09-15 02:02 pm (UTC)THAT SUX!!!
But, Columbus seems to me to be on the ball. I think you are going to get another franchise. (okay, not the Yankees, sorry) but probably another one. Erie (my hometown) lost their Pirates franchise about 10 years ago, I was SO upset. But they signed with the Detroit Tigers and you know, I love the SEAWOLVES! even though I really dont have a lot of affinity with the Tigers. Coloumbus will get another team and that new ballpark. Columbus won't let all those plans drop. :)