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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19 comments:
The Lindquist and ball park connection seems pretty normal to me. Surely I'm not the only one out here that sees watching baseball and a mortuary have a whole lot in common. They are both mind nummingly boring for starters. If you or your kid aren't playing, how exciting could it be? If you have seen one ball game you have seen them all. Plalying the game is great, but watching it - give me a break...
You don't find baseball to be totally thrilling, Vik? Do what sophisticated baseball fans all across the country do to enhance their fan experience:
1) Locate a reliable bookie,
2) Bet your ass off.
It's especially thrilling when you're following "rookie league" teams like the Raptors. Trust me on this. Never a dull moment when there's a little of your hard earned dough on the line.
Don't forget the hardbodies in the Ogden style haltertops.
You don't have to watch the ballgame every singlr minute when you're attending a ballgame at Lindquist Mortuary Field.
Good point, googleboy! Haltertops are the crowning glory of Ogden City high culture.
And if the baseball thing doesn't work out, the mortuary family can always fall back and still have a grand downtown place to bury all the $10,000 caskets. It would be a fitting resting place for baseball fans. How deep can caskets really be buried inder the Mortuary Field Home Plate headstone anyway? And how many city cemetaries are surrounded by grandstand seats?
Get a life, viktor. A night at the ballpark is great fun. You don't have to be playing baseball to enjoy watching it.
He sounds like an old sourpuss to me.
Good old Vik probably "rode the pine" or didn't make the team, thus his ridiculous attitude about baseball. I've always marveled at those who criticize, as they've either never played the game that they criticize or if they have, they stunk!
Get a life and go to the game. There's much to see on a warm Summer night at the ballpark: the game itself, the crowd (now there's a treat), the bull pen and coaches on both sides, the between inning activities, the beer line and the guy trying to carry a six pack of paper cups filled with beer with while fighting a bag of popcorn in his teeth, the halter-topped hardbodies who "coo" at you and show you where your seats are. Hell, there's much to enjoy at the ballgame. Pretty good baseball too, but it's so much better if you understand the game and know why the defense shifts position on a certain count to a specific batter.
The crack of the back, the pop of a mitt, a ball soaring over the fence, the guy in the 3rd base line stands who yells "keep alert" when a southpaw is at bat.
Hats off to the Lindquists, too.
It's high-freaking-time that Ogden starts to support Ogden instead of criticizing it, and there's no better place to start than the baseball game. Wonder what Vik and those guys like him will do this Summer? Hang out in some smoke filled bar or watch Kojack re-runs till dawn and eat some potato chips. One sorry dude!
To Baseball is better than Oxycotin:
Really? Both baseball and OxyCotin will make your mind numb, put you to sleep and kill you.
The halter top deal might be something, I didn't see that in their ads! Must have the same Ad and PR agency as the city hall gang!
The cemetary with the grandstands - now there is an angle I never figurer. Those Lindquist diggers got every angle covered! Maybe they figure they will need that much seating when they plant the Mayor and their own married well wanna be Mayor Griener?
Just cause I'm over 80 and hate everything doesn't make me an old sourpuss by the way.
Here's a photo of one of the hardbody hotties I spotted at Lindquist Field just last season, viktor, showing a little skin!
Oooh, baby!
I'm with "Willie Mays" on this. I've been attending Raptors games since the team began playing at Simmons Field. It's a great experience on a warm summer night at Lindquist Field in Ogden, whether you're a die-hard baseball fan or not. Although I consider myself a "student of the game," there's still plenty of entertainment for spectators who don't take their baseball quite so seriously as folks like me.
And the aesthetics of Lindquist Field are something I never get over. That classy little ballpark, framed by the downtown city-scape, and by the mountains to the north and east, has an ambiance that can't be matched by very many places I've every frequented. It simply feels good to just be there.
It's great too, watching all those young ballplayers embarking on their careers, and beginning to live their dream -- getting paid to do something they really love. In that sense, they're probably living out the dreams of lots of us up there in the grandstands, I guess.
Willie here....absolutely right about the ambience....she's a miniature Camden Brick Yard, the home of the Orioles. Baseball on a warm Summer night is really fine stuff. Quit gripping about the Lindquists and get out and enjoy a game. Be glad there's something going on in town besides WalMart and other political shams....
Vik, how the hell can baseball kill you? Comparing America's past time with Oxycontin is a real reach, and makes me wonder what you've been doing late at night?
I'm betting that vik would have a complete change of heart, willie, if he just lobbied the Recreation Therapist to gas up the the nursing home van just one time, to take vik and his old fart compatriots to Lindquist Field for one single ballgame.
After that, I'm certain that vik and his pals would all want to make it a regularly-scheduled event.
I agree....and the good news is that Vik can make the Early Bird Specials, those soft diet dinners for the old foggies, and still make the game. Maybe if he'd replace his Oxycontin with Geritol he'd clear his mind enough to understand what a damn fine game baseball really is. The part that most anti-baseball folks have a hard time understanding is that it takes a pretty sharp mind to understand and appreciate the intracacies of the game. Baseball demands the best athletes there are. Nothing in the world of sport is harder to do than to hit a professionally pitched baseball. And then there's that briefest of moments, a nano-second before the pitch, when absolutely nothing moves. The players and umps are all frozen in time and then the pitch, during which movement occurs in a blur. Very intricate game, played and watched by the true afficianados of Sport.
Where's Karl Malone, now that we need him?
Karl is in Palm Sprilngs clipping coupons with those Eccles, Farr, Brownilng, Lindquist, Glasmann and Feeny boys!
I'm here to tell you there aint nothing in Ogden politics that will interest those good old boys of Ogden High School circa 50's and 60's. Most of them have come into the family gold mines and are cruising in a real comfy and well oiled life style that doesn't include remaking Ogden in the Mayor's glorius image.
That is exactly what is going to happen and the trigger will be pulled when mr mayor's five amigios on the council vote themselves the authority to print up another ninteen million of monopoly money to take their big league wanna be developer schemes to the next level - on the back of the public! - In my humble opinion of course as is everything I write here.
I am optomistic that there will be several very worthy and competent candidates emerge this summer. People of proven competence, honesty, and willingness to take on this job and do it for the best interest of the people of Ogden. People who will not be rubber stamps for the mayor and his development team. Smart folks who will in fact go along with the mayor if the proposal put forth is for the best direct benifit of the public. No esoteric BS about the "common good" that this administration seems to be such slaves of. And most of all we need candidates that have the guts to stand up to the mayor and say wait just a minute mr mayor! Prove your stuff before you just expect us to roll over and pass what ever you put forth - those days are over! We will pass your bills if they make sense and if given enough time to study and understand the ramifications of your program. In other words no more free ride mr mayor! That's what we need on the city coucil. somebody that makes the city government conform to some level of common sense. That is what appears to be totally lacking in the ruling five members of the current coucil. This november is time to clean house at city hall!! Three of the ruling five are up for election. If people with common sense were to win two of those three seats, then sanity could be restored to city hall!
Ogden is worth being saved from this current ruling body. I will support any qualified and viable candidate that want's to oppose Jorgenson, Burdett and Fialiga and Stop the Madness.
The voice of the people can be heard this November if enough people have had enough of this administrations act. If this rings a cord with you, talk it up with your friends and neighbors and let them know a real fundamental change can really happen in this next election. This is a rare opportunity for the real people of Ogden to be heard and to make a profound difference in the future of our dear town. Any body who lives in Ogden or pays taxes to Ogden in any way is vitally effected by what is going on in our names. Let's stand up in Novembe and say: "STOP THE MADNESS!!!"
If you want Opposition, just ask Wicks and Garcia. I honestly don't know one big issue in this city that the two of them have voted "yes" on. It seems that they view their jobs as being the opposition even if they think it an idea is a good one.
To Utmoronman
I think you don't know what your writing about when you refer to Garcia and Wick's voting record. They are not obstructionists as you imply. they truly represent the real people of Ogden. They have the courage to stand up and ask the hard questions with the mayor's agenda. They get consistantly voted down by the five who support the mayor's every proposal no matter how off the wall it is. They are the only voice of reason in the city administration and they have voted FOR every thing that has gone through the council that has made sense and had to do with fixing the real business of the city. You ought to look at their voting record before throwing off such casual accusations against two very fine citizen politicians.
Mary j,
I respect your opinion, but that simply was not what I was "imply"-ing. Please do not use the word obstruction when referring to a post of mine unless I use the word. I actually see both sides of the story here. It is necessary to have those who take on the role of questionnaire in these kinds of situations to avoid things of the nature of groupthink. I believe them to be good politicians. I would certainly question a member of the city council who lost an election to become mayor of our city just a while back though. I have been to as many city council meetings as time allows me to and have seen first hand their voting and reasoning on several high profile issues in our community. I have also followed their votes whenever it appears in the SE (which usually means that it is a higher profile issue) and it simply seems that they are always the dissenting votes. Again there is nothing wrong with that; it is needed, but that is the way it appears.
I agree with Mary J's assessment of Wicks and Garcia, as they seem to be the only two non-mayorial rubber stampers on the city council. Utmormon, you should go to a few more council meetings and "listen" to the reasons that these two dissent instead of just characterizing them as obstructionists. They're the only two council members who question the mayor and don't just roll over, play dead and go along with him and Stuart Reid. They take their psoitions seriously and want answers to questions. A good example is when this Mitch Moyes character gave the council his internet credit report on Fat Kat's jand the mayor responded that that report held to viability, because of its source.
Amy Wicks suggested that Dunn & Bradstreet be consulted and the mayor claimed that it had, but that the findings were private and that the RDA had had a chance to look the D& B report over. Wicks responded that this alleged "look-over" was a whole 15 minutes, tucked quietly away during some work session and that that wasn't enough time for anyone to reseach the document and consider the ramifications. The mayor disagreed, a vote was called for, and passed 5-2, with Wicks and Garcia dissenting. So, there you go, the only 2 council members who found that, once again, the mayor was getting over on most of us something that was not right.
Hail Wicks and Garcia!
And this topic shouldn't be discussed under Raptor's baseball. Guys like Vik won't be able to follow it, just as they can't follow baseball.
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