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Who’s your favorite cougar?


Tie between Charles Johnson and Lisa Anne for me.

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I was surprised at first, but then I was reminded the ballpark is 30 years old. It's not like the county is going to renovate with all the necessary training stuff.

Down by me there's a team 20 miles east of Raleigh whose stadium is a pit. But the Brewers bought the team in 2017, so they aren't going anywhere.

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Who’s your favorite cougar?


Definitely Erica Lauren.

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Who’s your favorite cougar?


Definitely Erica Lauren.

She's more of an alley-cat.

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That sucks. You could get $1 beers and hot dogs every Thursday night and wash it down with some shitty baseball.

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That's a little sad. Nice cheap thing to do for baseball families once or twice a year.


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They're not quite dead yet, they just may drop down to unaffiliated status. Maybe they can get a rivalry going with Schaumburg and Joliet.

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They're not quite dead yet, they just may drop down to unaffiliated status. Maybe they can get a rivalry going with Schaumburg and Joliet.

How could you dismiss the Windy City Thunderbolts like that?


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is this part of MLB's culling of their minor league systems? Or is the team relocating


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is this part of MLB's culling of their minor league systems? Or is the team relocating

The culling. They cut everyone down to four affiliates and replaced affiliated Short-Season A with something called a "Draft League" that they'll control themselves.

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How could you dismiss the Windy City Thunderbolts like that?

Because I don't remember which south suburb they're from.

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Yeah, I like that baseball ran the Astros' McKinsey goons out of town but said "no, we'll be keeping that" to their cut-the-minors-and-save proposal.

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I was surprised at first, but then I was reminded the ballpark is 30 years old. It's not like the county is going to renovate with all the necessary training stuff.

Down by me there's a team 20 miles east of Raleigh whose stadium is a pit. But the Brewers bought the team in 2017, so they aren't going anywhere.



Hard to think of the park being old, I remember it being built and going to games with my now wife there back in the day. Kind of the same architecture that was responsible for the new Delnor hospital and Charlestowne mall. Think they were all built in a roughly 5 year period.


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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
redskingreg wrote:
Who’s your favorite cougar?


Definitely Erica Lauren.


Dude, a cougar for you should be about a 95 year old broad.


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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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Who’s your favorite cougar?


Definitely Erica Lauren.


Dude, a cougar for you should be about a 95 year old broad.

I believe an older cougar is called a “Snow Leopard.”


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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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Who’s your favorite cougar?


Definitely Erica Lauren.


Dude, a cougar for you should be about a 95 year old broad.



:lol: I was too embarassed to say Dalston.

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the cougars died when myron noodleman left.


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It's a shame that MLB stopped subsidizing minor league baseball so local owners could exploit the hopes and dreams of young baseball players by paying them less than minimum wage but also finding a local family they can sleep in their basement because they don't pay them enough money to have a place to live.

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It's a shame that MLB stopped subsidizing minor league baseball so local owners could exploit the hopes and dreams of young baseball players by paying them less than minimum wage but also finding a local family they can sleep in their basement because they don't pay them enough money to have a place to live.


Brick betraying his neoliberal ideals. Very sad!

Or he's embracing them entirely. Who knows these days.

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Brick wrote:
It's a shame that MLB stopped subsidizing minor league baseball so local owners could exploit the hopes and dreams of young baseball players by paying them less than minimum wage but also finding a local family they can sleep in their basement because they don't pay them enough money to have a place to live.


Brick betraying his neoliberal ideals. Very sad!

Or he's embracing them entirely. Who knows these days.

Back when Kenosha had an A league team, a bunch of visiting players were at the Taco Bell next to the Brat Stop trying to get enough calories for $3. Poor bastards probably had to stay at the Knights Inn a couple of blocks away.

I do enjoy minor league baseball in person. I've watched enough baseball to be able to differentiate, like watching Magglio Ordonez at AAA a few months before he was called up. That said, 4 teams and a rookie complex at Spring Training and a Dominican complex are enough. I'm looking forward to checking out the Apppalachian League reboot this year with college freshman and sophmores who would be going to the Cape Cod the next summer.

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It's a shame that MLB stopped subsidizing minor league baseball so local owners could exploit the hopes and dreams of young baseball players by paying them less than minimum wage but also finding a local family they can sleep in their basement because they don't pay them enough money to have a place to live.


Brick betraying his neoliberal ideals. Very sad!

Or he's embracing them entirely. Who knows these days.
Have you considered that maybe you are just wrong a lot?

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Brick wrote:
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Brick wrote:
It's a shame that MLB stopped subsidizing minor league baseball so local owners could exploit the hopes and dreams of young baseball players by paying them less than minimum wage but also finding a local family they can sleep in their basement because they don't pay them enough money to have a place to live.


Brick betraying his neoliberal ideals. Very sad!

Or he's embracing them entirely. Who knows these days.
Have you considered that maybe you are just wrong a lot?


Plausibly.

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Kane County Cougars lose their major league affiliation with the Arizona Diamondbacks and now plan to join one of MLB’s ‘partner leagues’

The 120 teams that Major League Baseball is inviting to be affiliated with major league teams in the revamped minor league system were announced Wednesday.

The Cougars have been affiliated with six different MLB teams over their 30-year existence. That arrangement is now over and the Cougars are planning on joining one of MLB’s new “partner leagues” for the 2021 season.

“I don’t think that this is a huge surprise to us,” Cougars Vice President and General Manager Curtis Haug said. “We did hear some rumors. The fact is that the Cougars aren’t going away. We’re still going to have a fun season and do the same things we’ve done all the years prior, provide affordable, convenient family entertainment.”

The Cougars began Midwest League play in Geneva in 1991 when the franchise moved from Wausau, Wisconsin. They have been in the top three in the Midwest League in attendance every season but one in their existence.

“At this point, we’re not sure where we’re going to end up,” Haug said. “There are still a lot of options open. The baseball landscape has changed quite a bit. There’s not a hard line between affiliated baseball and independent baseball anymore. There will be a lot of partner leagues, some existing and some new. We’ll take a look at all of them and make a decision.”

As part of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s One Baseball plan, leagues like the American Association, which features the Chicago Dogs, and the Frontier League, featuring local teams Joliet, Schaumburg and Windy City, will now be partnering with MLB. Those leagues are among the options the Cougars will consider.

Those leagues used to be independent. Now, they will have the opportunity to use MLB’s marketing strategy and there will be an orderly system for transferring players to MLB organizations.

“This will be a real partnership with MLB,” Haug said. “The independent term is going to go away. We’re still going to be underneath the MLB umbrella, and that’s important.”

Also, with over 40 minor league teams being cut from affiliated baseball and the MLB draft being cut from 40 rounds to 20 rounds or less, there will be more talent to choose from in the partner leagues.

“Now that we know what’s going on we’ll look into our options and see which league makes the most sense,” Haug said. “I think that our history and what we’ve done the past 30 years is a big positive. I think any league we get into we would be considered one of the top teams.”

“Our fan base, for the most part, comes here for the entertainment and the fun environment,” Haug said. “We’re going to continue to provide that. The bottom line is that we’re still going to be the Cougars.”

“We just ask our fans to stay tuned,” Haug said. “We’re sure we’ll have something to announce in regards to our situation soon. There is going to be a 2021 season and we have to start moving in that direction.”


The Cougars lose their MLB affiliation but will still be "under the umbrella of the MLB"? No idea what that means, but at least the exploitation of foreigners will continue unabated.

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The Cougars are still open, they're just operating differently.

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The Cougars are still open, they're just operating differently.


what will be their new pronoun?


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So now they get the dregs of what the MLB teams don't want as organizational filler. And they get to pay them instead of having the MLB team pay them.

I'd expect that it will be a much older team, as there will be a number of AAAA guys in their late 20s who get forced out of the AAA rosters, and will be willing to play for pennies for one last shot while they work part time somewhere or their spouse can find a good office job in Naperville.

St. Paul and Sugarland became AAA teams in this reorg. So I can see Kane County taking St. Paul's slot.

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St. Paul and Sugarland became AAA teams in this reorg.



THE HOUSTON ASTROS PLAN FOR MINOR-LEAGUE BASEBALL
Step 1: we put our AAA team in suburban Houston
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St. Paul and Sugarland became AAA teams in this reorg.



THE HOUSTON ASTROS PLAN FOR MINOR-LEAGUE BASEBALL
Step 1: we put our AAA team in suburban Houston
Steps 2-100: I unno, stuff

They bought a minor league team and moved it to Fayetteville NC and build a nice new downtown stadium. They knew that NC would still have two leagues, so they wanted to get a foothold.

I went once in 2019 , the problem was the $10 parking. And that I had to root for the opponent.

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no theyre not dumbass.

Still are and will be around.

Put up a link to PROVE it and quit the Peoria Matt-isms.

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