If only we had thought of that a hundred years ago...
Posted on 02/18/2019 3:43:23 AM PST by Libloather
The Stars moved to Biloxi, MS and became the Biloxi Shuckers. The quoted reason for the is that the Huntsville stadium was too small, and not enough fans supporting the team.
The new team will be playing in a new stadium (of course) that will have better access to the main highway (I-565) going through Huntsville and the surrounding communities.
My BIL is 71 years old and has been allergic to peanuts since he was a kid.
Obviously the sale of any Peanut products should be Banned throughout the entire Country.
If it saves just one Child and all that Jazz.
The same applies to Swimming Pools and every other “thing” that may accidentally cause a Child’s death.
That Huntsville stadium held 10,000. Just how many people do they think are going to show-up for AA baseball?
Ironically, the new stadium is smaller.
I probably got my fact confused. I do know that they were not getting enough attendance, but it appears to have nothing to do with the seating capacity.
My apologies.
The answer to that one is invariably:
Fewer seats for everyday Joe fans, more space for corporate luxury boxes.
Not all class warfare in this country is being pushed by the Democrats.
You beat me to it!
One of my students almost died as a baby because she was allergic to milk (and living in an orphanage). The “fix” for the allergy was to introduce very small amounts of dairy to her throughout her life. That prevented that “instant death” thing.
If your child can die from going to school, then don’t send them to school.
“Buy me some bean sprouts”
Not anymore. E-coli killed off the sprouts.
I have always felt that was the province of the parents.
Granted, if you had something that was affecting many people like a plague, it would be a different matter of applying government resources and taxpayer money towards it.
3-base error on the first baseman?Justifiable 4-base error?
The throw was good, and if caught, the baserunner would have been tagged out. So even without the runner advancing, it was one error just to allow him to remain on the base path.But my point was that in the whole stadium only the catcher and the runner were playing, or watching, baseball at that moment. They were uniquely situated to be that way; the catcher doesn’t watch the end of a swing with a baserunner to worry about, and the runner doesn’t watch the end of a swing when he’s in jeopardy of being picked off. Everyone else in the stadium saw that bat sail into the stands and was transfixed by it. The poor first baseman was uniquely situated to be the goat for doing what all but two people, out of thousands who there, were doing.
There was an episode of Andy Griffith’s sitcom on Army life which had a similar point. Two officers were driving jeeps on base, and they had a fender-bender. One officer claimed that the other hadn’t signaled, the other claimed that he did, and so they had a trial.
Andy allowed it to be known that he had information about the case, and he was called as a witness. He arranged that a friend was in the court, and that everyone got an eyeful of her - the friend, in the episode, being portrayed by a gorgeous actress.
On being pressed to say which driver had been in the right, he explained he didn’t know - but that that friend had shouted and waved to someone at the moment of the accident. And that there was no likelihood that either one of the officers knew whether the one had signaled properly, or not.
The episode ended with one of the deliberators after the hearing asking the others, “Can we rule, ‘Justifiable negligence?’"
only the catcher and the runner were playing, or watching, baseball at that moment.
Now, I'm even hearing about people who go ape at the sight of a honeybee because they have bee sting allergies.
Then it's not really the same song anymore is it?......Nice try!....LOL!
Violates rules
Searched at gate
One of proposed tolls is 1-mile from my home. Another is 2-mile in other direction. Guess I gotta take local roads more.
Easy access used to be a selling point.
The short cut to avoid the tools goes by my house.
I hate being the bullseye of the target
Don’t go...
We don’t
Taxpayers built that park for bankrupt Hartford in 2016.
Boondoggle
“Financial figures indicate Hartford is losing over $3 million a year on the city’s popular baseball stadium. ... Yard Goats officials say their games are still very popular, drawing hundreds of thousands of patrons last year. “
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