Lookouts big day
Have the Chattanooga Lookouts played their last game?
We can all hope not.
But let’s review:
> Baseball America reported as fact that the Minor League Baseball owners will announce today they have agreed with MLB to cut 42 minor league affiliations.
> It’s a fact that 42 is the same number of organizations that would be cut in the New York Times report in December.
> It’s a fact that the Lookouts were among those 42 on that list.
Do those three facts mean we’re out? Let’s hope not.
Lookouts president Rich Mozingo told TFP all-around superstar ace David Paschall, who has been busier than a toilet paper salesman these days despite a lack of actual sports being played, that the organization is hopeful but knows little.
“Once again, we know nothing at all,” Mozingo told Paschall on Tuesday after the Baseball America report came out. “We’ve read the same article that you’ve read, and nobody has come to us saying that we are on or off the list. By reading the article and just doing the math, it seems like we’re on the right side of it.”
The right side of it, again we all hope so. I love the Lookouts. My family loves going to the park. Heck, it’s one of 12-year-old’s three or four favorite restaurants for Pete Vukovich’s sake. And not many people know this, but I’m a perfect 1-0 in the between-innings musical chair competition and have an official 0-1 count on throwing out the first pitch.
I love the Lookouts experience. (Not as much as the draft, but hey, you knew that.)
And now we wait on the announcement, which could be nuclear winter news and mean the Lookouts are no longer affiliated with a big-league organization, which would be a death knell. Maybe the announcement will be that 42 are going away, and Mozingo’s optimism will be proven prophetic.
Or possibly the announcement just is there will be contraction, but not as many specifics or actual teams mentioned as we want.
Dang you Corona.