I'm a Minor League Baseball Fan

Only thirty cities have major league baseball teams. But hundreds more have minor league teams that are fun, talented, hardworking, and much more affordable.

I love baseball. Always have. Always will. But the past fifteen years have really started to turn me off to the Major League version of the game. The 1994 strike took away the World Series and my favorite player's best shot at a championship. Baseball's amazing post-strike home run resurgence, highlighted by the feats of Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, turned out to be a steroid-fueled, decade-long slugfest that called into question not just their records, and not just the all-time records, but the very manner in which we measure intergenerational greatness among players.

The Roger Clemens scandal is still bumming me out. But not as much as the willful blindness that team executives, baseball writers and league officials engaged in to allow such great players to do such harm to the game.

the prices I I'm also none too pleased about the outrageous prices I just paid for some good Phillies seats and some really bad Yankee seats.

So now I am turning to minor league baseball for a while. And the team that I am going to focus on this season are the Harrisburg Senators. The Senators were recently purchased by Michael Reinsdorf, son of White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Reinsdorf is bringing a professional approach to minor league ownership and will also provide the majority of funding for the $30 million in stadium renovations to Commerece Bank Ball Park on City Island in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

I am looking forward to the team, the season, and the new stadium. GO Senators!

And, hopefully, a lot more fun and a lot less controversy.