The 2005 Ogden Raptors are scheduled to report on Sunday June 12th. Workouts will begin on Monday the 13th, and will continue daily till they board the bus to Orem on the 21st to play the Owlz. (formerly Provo Angels)
Familiar faces will be returing to Ogden this season. Pitchers Jordan Pratt, Aaron Klusman, David Pfeiffer, along with Outfielders Ryan Carter & BJ Richmond are going to bolster the roster. With new faces coming in, it's nice to have some people who have already been here helping the others with advice and what to expect.
The afternoon of the 12th, after the players have received their uniforms, caps, and lockers, players will be allowed to move in with their "Host Family" If you are a Host Family, contact the Thompson's for more details.
Season Tickets will be ready and picked up the first week of June. We will be calling of of you to come in and sign for your tickets. Unpaid balances must be taken care of at that time.
Don't forget the Home Opener is Saturday June 25th at 7:00 PM vs. the same Orem Owlz. Post Game Fireworks will be sponsored by AOL. Game Day tickets go on sale June 1st at 9:00 am. Don't delay, make your plans now. You can stop by the main ticket office at 23rd & Lincoln, or call 393-2450 for phone orders.
Raptors baseball, "There's Still Nothing Else To Do!"
In addition, it's "the only pro game in town" where young professional athletes compete publicly, and actually "hustle," sprint on and off the field at top speed, and do the same whilst shagging fly-balls in EVERY game -- unlike "hotdog" players in the "Majors" -- I might especially add -- like baseball players are supposed to do in professional baseball. If you haven't taken your family or significant other to watch a Raptors game, you're definitely missing out on one of the best entertainment deals in Weber County.
Lindquist Field has the "Big League Park feel," on a warm summer night in Ogden, without the world-class, ear-searing profane heckling and drunken cheap-seat bleacher-brawling, and the self-centered player egomania -- and the parking problems -- that go along with a ballpark in the "Bigs."
I also think we should rename it "Lasorda Field," for reasons that ought to be ovious to serious students of sports history, and for marketing reasons, but that's just me. Funeral directors and embalmers in Ogden somehow still get first "dibs" on the Ballpark name in the fine print though, I guess, because they put up most of the initial $$$$s, I also guess.
Notwithstanding that fact, naming a ballpark after a family of morticians seems about as creepy as it gets in sports world, dontcha think?
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