If you're not a Raptors fan... you ain't a REAL Ogdenite
Season home opener: June 19th
By Dave Baggot
Raptors Co-owner
Hello Raptor Fans:
Well the season is fast approaching and it seems a bit overwhelming to me about getting everything finished on time. Construction is scheduled to be completed on the 15th of June but they are hoping to get us some areas to set up before that date. There is a new photo gallery of the construction if you care to check out the website.
The players are scheduled to arrive Sunday June 8th with the first workout being Monday June 9th. Host Families should be prepared to take players home immediately upon arrival.
Speaking of Host Families, apparently we are short on meeting the amount of necessary families. We may need up to (5) additional, so if you are interested in becoming a host family, please call Sherry Kessel at (801) 698-1233. Sherry will tell you what the needs are and what perks go with the honor of being a Host Family. Of course you can call me at 393-2400 for more information.
Game Day tickets go on sale to the public next Monday the 2nd of June at 9:00 am. Tickets will be available at the Lindquist Field Box Office at 23rd and Lincoln Ave, all Smith Tix locations, and of course by call the Raptor Ticket Office at 393-2450. All Phone orders will have a $1.00 per ticket handling fee. You can also go to Smith Tix and order tickets on line simply by visiting the ticket page on our website and pick the game you want to purchase. This is a neat little feature and hopefully will work wonders for your convenience.
Mark your calendar. The season opens June 17th in Orem and the Home Opener is
Thursday June 19th against the same Orem Owlz. The home opener should be quite special as we will re-open the New Lindquist Field and following the game will be fireworks sponsored by Amer Sports.
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10 comments:
From the look in the photo galery, it looks like there will be stadium seats all along the third base baseline right into left field.
It seems to me that this is a perfect addition to Lindquist Field.
I applaud both the Ogden City Council and Raptors management for making this long overdue expansion happen!
See ya at the ballpark this summer, I hope.
Thanks for the article, Bags.
Its nice to know that there's at least one thing all Ogden Citizsens can agree about.
Go Raptors!
Ahem.
Since the Raptor owners were so abandoned to all decency and honor as to drop their connection with Milwaukee and make their team a minor league affiliate of the Los Angeles National League Baseball Organization [falsely called "the Dodgers" by the depraved, the deluded and the badly brought up], decent God-fearin' folk are left with no choice but attend Lindquist Field games and root for the visiting nine, whoever they might be. As I have since the dark day of the Los Angeles connection, and will this season as well.
Dave, people will come Dave. They'll come to Ogden for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $8 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Dave. The one constant through all the years, Dave, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Dave. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Dave. People will most definitely come.
Curm, ditto,(how's that, hate to use a term now affiliated with a fat drug addicted hypocritical blowhard from right wing radio talk show land, but despite what his little ignorant lambs believe, he did not invent the term). I will be rooting for the visitors as well, because Dodgers have always sucked. Yes Curm, even while in Brooklyn. There's only one team that originated in New York that's worthy of support, the Giants. It's tough sledding right now, but there's big stuff on the horizon.
What's up with all the Dodger haters? So what if they are a bunch of overpaid undercheivers, they are still the greatest in the Majors (and Minors)! Take note Curm and Bill C. Congrat's Dave! Looking forward to another fantastic year.
Slim: What we've come to understand about the normally gentle Curmudgeon is that he originally hails from Brooklyn, where a whole generation of rabid Brooklyn Dodgers fans suffered life-long post traumatic stress disorder from the time in 1958 when O'Malley moved the team from Ebbets Field to La-La Land.
We always cut Curmudgeon slack on this subject, knowing his eyes glaze over whenever the term "Dodgers" occurs simultaneously, and in conjuction with the phrase "Los Angeles."
As for Bill C.? Who knows? O'Malley gained a bad reputation over the years, not just from from jilted Brooklyners.
We have no doubt, however, that each of these guys will be seen this summer at Lindquist Field. If they decline to show up at the park, perhaps we'll buy them some tickies.
If nothing else, the "dogs" at the ballpark are extremely good... not to mention the beer and between inning entertainment.
Nothing better we think, than to become a fan of an authentic and leisurely "olde-time" American spectator sport which is NOT limited by a clock.
Hope to see ya's all at the ballpark this summer, gentle readers.
I'll be the guy in the giant billowing Hawaiian shirt, adorned with a white carnation...
And one other thing: Your blogmeister is a giant Giants fan. There are no memories more memorable for me, in fact, than those fantastic Giants/Dodgers weekend double headers at "the Stick" when I lived in the Bay Area for 20 years.
The LA Dodgers are one of the great teams in the majors and a genuine class act, just as the Raptors are the best Team/Stadium combo in the "Rookie League"
Get therapy we say, Curmudgeon!
Rudi:
Unbeliever! Infidel! The Brooklyn Dodgers are lost in the BMT from which they shall someday emerge and return to their people, for of Ebbitts Field truly it is written, if we rebuild it they will come!
Dick Young was the long time dean of sports writing for the NY Daily News. Upon learning of the death of Walter O'Malley [some twenty years after he committed his dark and despicable deed], Dick Young called up his dad, a lifetime Brooklyn Dodger fan to tell him of O'Malley's demise. And was shocked when his father replied with one word: "Good."
The only question I had was how had Young's father so failed to raise his boy up right that Dick Young was surprised by that "Good."
Goooooo, Billings, Helena, Missoula, Great Falls, Casper and Idaho Falls! Beat Ogden! [I know, I know, I left out Orem --- aka Provo Lite. Not even I could root for Orem over an Ogden team, even if it is a LA National League Baseball Organization affiliate. I just don't go when Orem's in town.]
Los Angeles Dodgers - Wikipedia
Good catch, googleboy!
"There has been much controversy over the move of the Dodgers to California, perhaps more than over any other franchise move of that era. Walter O'Malley, in particular, is described as villainous by old Brooklyn Dodger fans and is considered a hero by Angelenos for bringing a big-league team to their city. An old Brooklyn barb is that the three greatest villains of the Twentieth Century were Hitler, Stalin, and O'Malley. The joke is if a fan was locked in a room with the three and had only two bullets who would he shoot? The Answer? "O'Malley. Twice."
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