How ’bout them Sliders!!!
CICL 2008 Champions
The Springfield Sliders won the 2008 Central Illinois Collegiate League championship last night by beating the Danville Dans (whatever a “dan” is) 5-2. How friggin’ cool is THAT?! The first year and they bring home the championship.
Between putting out great baseball every night and having numerous promotions and giveaways every night, the Sliders did a terrific job this year. From what I’ve read, they’ve pulled in attendance numbers that rivaled those of the AAA Springfield Cardinals of the late 70s-early 80s. Hopefully the Sliders will continue to “keep it fresh” and the 1700 people a night that come to see the Sliders will tell a friend or two. I’d love to see them start selling out the place- and they could. If they start regularly having to turn people away because the joint is packed to the gills, that’d be awesome…
Maybe if there were a nice big new stadium downtown… hmmmm…
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I’d like to think a little event like spfldbloggers night at the ball park boosted those numbers a little bit, but I know better.
I look forward to going to more games next year.
Between you & the Missus, Dan and his family, Nick, Nancy’s clan, and the Johanns, it boosted those numbers by, what, about 12 or so… that counts for something!!
I’m looking forward to next year as well- hopefully we can try another SpfldBloggers night!