Ez Street Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Ok, the KC T-Bones of the Northern League hosted the St. Joseph Blacksnakes of the American Association Friday night. It was an exhibition game and DAMN, was it a nice night for baseball.Here are some select pics, followed by a link to my gallery. ENJOY!EZ Street's T-Bones Picutres @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Ok, the KC T-Bones of the Northern League hosted the St. Joseph Blacksnakes of the American Association Friday night. It was an exhibition game and DAMN, was it a nice night for baseball.Here are some select pics, followed by a link to my gallery. ENJOY!EZ Street's T-Bones PicutresDoes the fact that a NoL team and an AA team played an exhibition mean the leagues are more or less back on speaking terms? On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 Maybe. I think it's more of a convienece factor.I don't seem them merging anytime soon. Although it would be benefical. I really feel the NoL has suffered big since the split. @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winghaz Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 OK, I have to ask: Why is St. Joseph called the Blacksnakes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 The nickname Blacksnakes comes from the Blacksnake Hills Trading Post which was founded in the early 1800's and later became the city of St. Joseph. @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCall Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Lotta empty seats....sure this wasn't Kaufman pics? (I'm sorry. I couldn't pass it up.) Â Â https://dribbble.com/MakaioCall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 Actually the T-Bones usually sell out. This was an exhibition. They said it was the largest crowd for an exhibition game there ever.I'm not sure, but usually these games are not great games. The T-Bones were supposed to play a local Community College there tonight. SNORE. @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Maybe. I think it's more of a convienece factor.I don't seem them merging anytime soon. Although it would be benefical. I really feel the NoL has suffered big since the split.It certainly has. A lot of the great rivalries are gone, and the talent pool is stretched just that little bit further. This article, from this Saturday's Winnipeg Free Press, talks about just that.Saints' fiery manager Tsamis misses the good old days, tooST. PAUL, Minn. -- I don't miss the pig. Same goes for the nun. Mike Veeck? Not so much. But the baseball... damn, I miss the baseball. It's going on two years since the Northern League owners decided they could no longer rake in the cash with smiling faces and enjoy life as the greatest little baseball league on the planet. The geniuses in the boardroom decided it would be better to exist as two mediocre leagues plagued by endless headaches than as one strong loop, albeit with one very disharmonious owners' group. So Splitsville. The St. Paul Saints, Lincoln Saltdogs, Sioux Falls Canaries and Sioux City Explorers huffed off into the sunset to form the American Association. Left was an eight-team Northern League, gasping but with a puffed-up chest and unfulfilled talk about a brighter future. It all came rushing back on Saturday afternoon as Saints manager George Tsamis greeted the Winnipeggers -- media, players and front-office types alike -- with the smile of an old friend. "Oh yeah, I miss the competition. I miss playing Winnipeg," said Tsamis, once the most hated man in Camp Goldeye. "The games were always close and sometimes heated. You know I loved playing Winnipeg and I loved playing Fargo. I wish we could find a way to still play, whether it's interleague play, a post-season series or an all-star game. I miss it a lot." So George is the first among the folks who make up independent baseball to say it out loud. We'll go a little further: The new arrangement sucks. The Northern League spread out from Chicago to Edmonton and only a handful of meaningful franchises in the American Association make for two leagues begging to be one again. Admittedly, we were only too glad to say ta-ta to the four teams leaving the Northern League. Travelling to Sioux Falls and Sioux City had become old. The teams sucked and so did the nightlife. Need we say more? The Saltdogs in Lincoln and the Saints in St. Paul were a different story. The folks in Lincoln ran a good operation, manager Tim Johnson always put a good team on the field, and his old-school stories were usually accompanied by free beer in his office. A reporter's dream. But the Saints and their act had worn thin. Sure, some of it was personal. Minority owner Veeck snubbed me a couple of times and last time I checked, that role was reserved for beautiful women. Majority shareholder Marv Goldklang and I had clashed and continue to go back and forth on any number of issues. But it was also the show in St. Paul. Great to visit for a night or two, but after awhile the nun/masseuse, baseball-delivering pig and karaoke public-address dude gave me a headache. It was foolish to let those issues overshadow the baseball. The baseball was dramatic, sometimes brilliant and always entertaining. So many Goldeyes-Saints games ended late in the night with Hal Lanier pulling off his jersey in disgust or, with happier results, declaring drinks were on him. Across the field, Tsamis was the ultimate competitor. Fiery, fearless and a maverick, he loved to beat Winnipeg. Sometimes it was childish and over the top, but it was all about winning and it made the blood run hot. Last night, before a meaningless pre-season game, Tsamis was asked if he would make a move late in the game to try and win. "Absolutely. I want to win this game and I'll want to win the game on Sunday," admitted Tsamis. "It's Winnipeg and St. Paul. It means something to me and it does to them too." So true, George. Now if we could only convince the money boys. gary.lawless@freepress.mb.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 I wish we could get the two league to reform.Even put a team in Topeka. But instead Topeka's chances hinges with the United League. Which is predominatly Texas teams. @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 On a semi-related note, is anyone showing up to the games in Edmonton and Calgary? I recall hearing those teams were virtually league-subsidized. On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 On a semi-related note, is anyone showing up to the games in Edmonton and Calgary? I recall hearing those teams were virtually league-subsidized.Calgary 2006 Avg. Attendance: 1,088Edmonton 2006 Avg. Attendance: 1,465The two are supposed to be playing an exhibition game in Saskatoon Thursday at Cairns Field. @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winghaz Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 And there were reports that Saskatoon might get a Northern League franchise. I don't think that's the answer to the Northern League problems.Other potential new franchises could be in North Dakota -- Bismarck, Grand Forks or Minot, and none of them would work. Bismarck has the fan base but a horrible stadium. Minot has a great stadium but no fan base. And Grand Forks is so-so on both.So the Northern League needs its former members, and apparently, vice versa. Hopefully cool heads will eventually prevail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee. Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 On a semi-related note, is anyone showing up to the games in Edmonton and Calgary? I recall hearing those teams were virtually league-subsidized.Calgary 2006 Avg. Attendance: 1,088Edmonton 2006 Avg. Attendance: 1,465The two are supposed to be playing an exhibition game in Saskatoon Thursday at Cairns Field.Thos attendance figures are, also, inflated. I remember listening to a Goldeyes game before we moved, and there were, according to the announcers, about 200 people in the stands. I have no idea why these two teams still exist.Saskatoon is a possibility, but I don't know the condition of Cairns Field, or the will of the locals to go to another baseball game after whoknowshowmany leagues have already folded in that town (CBL, Heartland League, Prairie League). I'd like to see Duluth return, personally, but I have no idea if that's even possible; all I know is, the best time I've ever had at a game was at Wade Stadium. Welcome to DrunjFlix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ez Street Posted May 11, 2007 Author Share Posted May 11, 2007 Frontier, Northern League merger talks underway? According to Rockford RiverHawks owner Dave Ciarrachi, the independent Northern and Frontier leagues have had preliminary discussions about merging and he hopes some action could be taken in the next 12 to 24 months. Northern League Commissioner Clark Griffith and Frontier League Commissioner Bill Lee didn't comment for the Rockford Register Star story, which extensively looked at what each league would need to do in order to merge (the Frontier League would probably raise the maximum age of a player; the Northern League may have to make some concessions with travel money). A merger also doesn't address one of the big issues with the Northern League: the Fargo-Moorhead, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary franchises would still be located quite a ways from the nearest team in the league -- Kansas City is some 600 miles from Fargo.So much for the AA and NoL merging.... @DavidStreeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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