Portland Nets 2009 Triple-A All Star Game, Potter Shows Interest?
Portland seems to have gone and netted itself a baseball All-Star Game. It’s not MLB but rather the 2009 Triple-A All-Star Game (yes - there is such a thing). The game will be played at PGE Park and will include a week of activities leading up to the game.
Mayor Tom Potter seems to have gotten into the act, attending the press conference yesterday and issuing a statement about this being a “wonderful opportunity” for the city. Oregonian columnist John Canzano of course rips into Potter for this, calling the mayor out on his lack of support for professional baseball in our town.
Is Potter sincere you think in his thoughts on the All-Star Game? Could this be a prelude to bigger things for pro ball here? Does anyone care?
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And the crickets prevailed…
Don’t feel so lonely Nino, Nisha wants to share some bingo action with you! Anyways, I’m excited for the all star game. They are finally getting serious about moving the Post Office out of the Pearl, and when I saw the renderings of what a ball park would look like there, it sure looked sweet to me.
Anyone reading this may not understand the reference to Nisha. Nisha had left some spam that I summarily deleted.
Nino, I read about this and it just didn’t get me to o excited. Especially when Mayor Potter doesn’t seem excited. I am glad we are getting it and Oregon is becoming Baseball central, yet it is 2009 which pretty much ensures we are not going to fight for an MLB franchise until after that.
There is absolutely no way major league baseball is going to come to Portland without a minimum of a quarter billion dollars in public subsidies for the stadium. Just look what happened in Seattle with Safeco Field. If the Beavers aren’t enough for you, go to Seattle, but just say no to corporate welfare!
Portland is absolutely them most pretentious city I have ever seen. It thinks because it has a little tram that it’s suddenly going to be the destination capital of the world. Meanwhile, six months later all we’re left with is an expensive overpriced tram. It thinks because it gets a little all-star game (AAA!) it will suddenly become baseball nirvana. Calm down, people. You are not the center of the universe. Your tiny all-star game will come and go, and the vast, vast majority of the country will never even have heard about it. Or cared if they did.
Barbara,
Did you see anyone getting all worked up about it?
The blogger general skips over the WHOLE picture.
Baseball from the ground up. Failed to mention that Oregon has a team from Lake Oswego in the little league championship run. Or that if a MAJOR league team comes, the 70-30 rules apply.
70% rain+ 30% semiSUN= retractable roof
Most Organites would agree, astro-turf is bad for the GREEN image….Thus no team…If you want baseball in our state stick with EA sports…