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Old 03-24-2015, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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Bad news for Savannah. The Sand Gnats are going to move to Columbia after this season.

City prepares for Sand Gnats to leave Savannah
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Old 03-24-2015, 05:49 PM
 
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Minor league teams are a dime a dozen.
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Old 03-24-2015, 07:41 PM
 
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No they are not it may take Savannah several years to get another team.

The Dayton Dragons changed the minor leauge landscape when they build 5/3 field.
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Old 03-25-2015, 06:01 AM
 
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Losing a Minor League Baseball team is not an easy decision.

Columbia, South Carolina has been without a professional team since 2005 when the Capital City Bombers (South Atlantic League, A) relocated to Greenville, South Carolina. The team became the Drive and began play at Flour Field in 2006.

Greenville lost the Braves (Southern League, AA) when they relocated to Pearl, Mississippi.

The demand for Minor League Baseball in Savannah will continue to exist. A proactive direction should be taken to have a decent ballpark readily available for a team to play.
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Old 03-25-2015, 06:14 AM
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The demand for Minor League Baseball in Savannah will continue to exist. A proactive direction should be taken to have a decent ballpark readily available for a team to play.
Y'all are too serious. We've gone a few years without a team before and did just fine. There's also nothing wrong with Grayson Stadium. Minor fixes cold be made, sure, but she's a grand old park.
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Old 03-26-2015, 11:44 AM
 
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Y'all are too serious. We've gone a few years without a team before and did just fine. There's also nothing wrong with Grayson Stadium. Minor fixes cold be made, sure, but she's a grand old park.
The last time you went without baseball "for a year years" was from 1963 until 1967 after the Savannah White Sox left and before the Savannah Senators arrived. Minor League Baseball is a completely different animal now. There's many cities that, after they lost affiliated minor league ball, never got it back. Columbia lost minor league ball for a decade for the same reasons Savannah seems about to lose the Sand Gnats and it took a new park for affiliated ball to come back to Columbia. Nobody has moved into Kinston, NC's "grand old park," Grainger Stadium, since the Indians relocated 4 years ago. More within Georgia, Albany, Columbus, and Macon have all been without baseball for over a decade in the case of Albany and Macon and for 7 years in the case of Columbus. I'm not counting the abortive single season of the South Coast League in 2007 because they were a non-affiliated league and only lasted for one season. I fear for y'all that if Freier does pull the team from Columbia you won't be getting affiliated ball back anytime soon and the best you'll be looking at is a collegiate summer wooden bat league team if you happen to fall into the geographic footprint of any of those leagues.
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Old 03-26-2015, 12:43 PM
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I fear for y'all that if Freier does pull the team from Columbia you won't be getting affiliated ball back anytime soon and the best you'll be looking at is a collegiate summer wooden bat league team if you happen to fall into the geographic footprint of any of those leagues.
I'm not worried. Plus, we do have nationally-ranked Armstrong Univ. Pirates baseball here!
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Old 03-26-2015, 01:18 PM
 
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Some things never change. Savannah still doesn't really support baseball. My family took me to the Grayson Stadium in the 1930s. The stands didn't have many there even then.

Besides, watching people you know play, make hits, outs, runs, is more fun than watching someone that you may never see again.
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Old 03-26-2015, 01:53 PM
 
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You know, it's nice to have $1 nights but...maybe too many "fans" turn out only when they can buy a $1 dog. Hard to survive on those numbers...I guess.
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Old 03-26-2015, 04:47 PM
 
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The economics of minor league baseball changed when the Dragons opened their stadium in Dayton more than a decade ago. What followed changed the whole economics of minor league ball where teams were just breaking even using $1 dog nights to draw fans in. Dayton is averaging over 10k a game, seasons are entirely sold out with standing room only going on sale and selling out within minutes. The owners made millions the first year they opened.

Other teams saw this and copied what the Dragons did and immediately started copying them, wanting knew stadiums in the downtown core, naming rights, and other perks.

Corporate owners have no loyalties to a city and they will move to improve their economic situation in a heartbeat. There are only so many teams to go around and more cities than teams. Do not count on getting a team back anytime soon.
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