NHR: It is the Dirty Birds

[wvkeeper(HN)]

Glad they went back to Charleston,

 

[ThunderDrunk304]

It’s better than the West Virginia Power so I’ll take it

 

[TwolfHerdfan]

How long will this team last? Attendance hasn’t been great. It’s a good deal and reasonably solid baseball.

 

[muthed]

There might be some difficult logistics to overcome, but is it possible to move a baseball stadium some 50 miles down the interstate? Problem solved!

 

[marshallisqbu]

Were the meth needles already taken?

 

[The Real SamC]

How long will this team last? Attendance hasn’t been great. It’s a good deal and reasonably solid baseball.

Like all of these “independent” leagues, it is just a matter time. AFAIK the city is still subsidizing the whole outfit to a great degree. The guy who owns the team also owns Lexington in the same league, some kind of car dealer or something over there.

As to the Power deal, the contract with the electric company expired. Look for the park to be quietly renamed over the winter. Probably could buy the sponsorship for $500.

 

[bbneutralfan]

Is this of some importance to us?

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Is this of some importance to us?

Nope.

And that's why @wvkeeper(HN) put NHR in the subject line.

Not Herd Related.

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Like all of these “independent” leagues, it is just a matter time. AFAIK the city is still subsidizing the whole outfit to a great degree. The guy who owns the team also owns Lexington in the same league, some kind of car dealer or something over there.

As to the Power deal, the contract with the electric company expired. Look for the park to be quietly renamed over the winter. Probably could buy the sponsorship for $500.

It's a hell of a fall from when the Charlies and the International League were in Charleston.

 

[The Real SamC]

Is this of some importance to us?

Well, no, except that soon to be the park FKA Appalachian Power Park is the only acceptable baseball park within 100 mile radius of campus. The use of the YMCA cannot be a permanent thing, and we have played WVU and Virginia Tech there anyway. When (not if) this Dirty Bird venture goes under, the ability and willingness of the anti-Marshall Charleston city government to fund upkeep of the place just for some Marshall games and the state HS tournament (easily movable to the ‘hole) is questionable. And, of course, the Huntington baseball park is not happening.

 

[wvkeeper(HN)]

It's a hell of a fall from when the Charlies and the International League were in Charleston.

Charleston also had twice the population when they were the Charlies.

 

[i am herdman]

$500 for naming rights? How does The People's Moderator Field Sound?

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Charleston also had twice the population when they were the Charlies.

Of course. It is a fall in more ways than one.