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While all the focus is on Columbia Common, Lexington seems to be under the radar with a new baseball stadium as well. It's been news, but the May 27th opening date is less than three months away!! Who else is excited?!
The Columbia region could do without the divisive rhetoric, both that of the speaker and that of the writer.
If the Lexington County Baseball Stadium results in fewer people crossing the river to Columbia, at least there will be fewer double-parked pickup trucks to annoy us
The Coastal Plains League is a collegiate summer baseball league that uses wooden bats. If you want to catch college level players before they go professional, this is a chance to see them play.
The Blowfish will be a great addition to Lexington County.
The Coastal Plains League is a collegiate summer baseball league that uses wooden bats. If you want to catch college level players before they go professional, this is a chance to see them play.
The Blowfish will be a great addition to Lexington County.
I see them at complementary to and not competing with the MiLB team that will play in Spirit Communications Park. In fact, if you think about it, you could potentially see a player stay in Columbia for awhile - college ball at USC, CPL ball in the summers with the Blowfish, and then once they turn pro, they could start their minor league career in Columbia, assuming they get drafted by whomever Columbia's MLB affiliate turns out to be.
I see them at complementary to and not competing with the MiLB team that will play in Spirit Communications Park. In fact, if you think about it, you could potentially see a player stay in Columbia for awhile - college ball at USC, CPL ball in the summers with the Blowfish, and then once they turn pro, they could start their minor league career in Columbia, assuming they get drafted by whomever Columbia's MLB affiliate turns out to be.
If the Columbia team is smart they will have a former USC player on the team quite often.
If the Columbia team is smart they will have a former USC player on the team quite often.
They don't get to make that choice. In the low minors, player personnel decisions are made by the big club. If, for instance, the Mets have nobody in their system at whatever level Columbia winds up getting (Low-A or Advanced-A) who's a USC alumni, then there's no former USC players on that team. While there are minor league free agents who are essentially former draft picks who got cut by the organization that drafted them and weren't picked up by another organization there generally not that many in the low minors. You see them more in Double-A or Triple-A than Low-A or Advanced-A.
The Columbia region could do without the divisive rhetoric, both that of the speaker and that of the writer.
I was thinking the same thing...'swam across the river'...Im like WTF.. This is why the Midlands will never be united as ONE region because of the geo political nature of some businessman and politicos... Not to bring up the SWA debate again.. but this was something that they pointed out... The fact that after that statement was made people yelled "hear hear" underscores how deep the divide is.....
Even with the name there may be some local political scuttle.. They are called the Lexington COUNTY Blow Fish.. Why not just 'Lexington Blowfish'? I guarantee you that some County Councilperson made that a condition of the stadium in order not to confuse which political subdivision was supporting the complex.. Lexington COUNTY not the Town of Lexington....
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