Category: Minors

  • Mid-Season Minor League Team Folds: Could It Happen To Yours?

    The business of minor league sports is always a difficult one.  It’s completely gate-driven, and if the butts in the seats aren’t there, you won’t make money.  A good arena lease is pretty instrumental to the success of a team, but if you don’t have the fans at the arena, you won’t be able to…

  • The Attendance Issue Again

    Monday was the annual rolling out of the “attendance woes” column by the Denver Post.  Unlike most years, it was given this time to the more thoughtful Terry Frei, rather than the standard pallbearers.  So there was less “bad fan” jabs and more “I’m kind of surprised” this year. It’s a nice change. I can’t…

  • Cedar Rapids Roughriders vs. Tri City Storm: Death to Cowbell

    Somewhere in the depths of my storage unit, there is a cowbell.  That cowbell has the logo of the Cedar Rapids Roughriders on it.  It is black, with a white strap on it, bought at the Roughriders store many years ago.  I haven’t seen that cowbell in years.  When I find that thing, I am…

  • Admirals Torpedo Wolves 4-3

    There was a part of me that didn’t want to go to tonight’s game.  It was a small part, the part that was a little tired and knew there was a new book on my kindle to read (The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin, and I can’t wait to get to it).  Also, the part…

  • Flocked Up: Quad City Mallards vs. Wichita Thunder

    As you can probably tell, things did not go well for the boys from QC tonight.   Other possible titles for this post:  Mallards MallaseMolting MallardsBird of a Feather Lose TogetherWhat The Hell Was That? I kid, but really, what was that?  The Mallards had a rough go of it tonight, in a game that…