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Fans watch the Chattanooga Lookouts game at AT&T Stadium in Chattanooga. Lookouts owners say they are ready to begin talks with officials about constructing a new stadium on the 141-acre site of the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry located in the South Broad District. / Staff file photo
Fans watch the Chattanooga Lookouts game at AT&T Stadium in Chattanooga. Lookouts owners say they are ready to begin talks with officials about constructing a new stadium on the 141-acre site of the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry located in the South Broad District. / Staff file photo Fans watch the Chattanooga Lookouts game at AT&T Stadium in Chattanooga. Lookouts owners say they are ready to begin talks with officials about constructing a new stadium on the 141-acre site of the former U.S. Pipe/Wheland Foundry located in the South Broad District. / Staff file photo

Play ball.

Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke is a co-chairman of a council of mayors trying to save the minor league baseball connections to their cities.

Times Free Press business reporter Mary Fortune shared the details earlier this week.

My thought on this: These cats are somewhere in the echo chamber between Don Quixote and his windmill walkabouts and the vote pandering of keys to the city or citations for a middle school band being invited to the Macy’s Day parade.

In the grand scheme of things, this truly feels like the scene in “Blazing Saddles” in which the governmental officials decide to give the governor a hearty “Harrumph!”