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March 31, 2010
Baseball Leaving Birthplace of Cactus League: Sixty four years after the Cleveland Indians came to Tucson and became the first Major League team to play in Arizona's Cactus League, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies are leaving the city behind for a new facility near a Scottsdale casino.
This is my town being disassembled. Spring Training was the only thing that made this backwards desert shithole three inches from the sun tolerable. So damn depressing.
posted by smithnyiu at 12:05 PM on March 31, 2010
You still working for the Chamber of Commerce in marketing, smithnyiu ?
posted by tommybiden at 12:50 PM on March 31, 2010
Yes. How am I doing?
posted by smithnyiu at 01:32 PM on March 31, 2010
smithnyiu, there's always that great Mexican joint (I forget the name) that dries their own beef on the roof and makes enchiladas out of it. And the morons on the Frank show. And Phoenix.
posted by tahoemoj at 01:35 PM on March 31, 2010
... there's always that great Mexican joint (I forget the name) that dries their own beef on the roof and makes enchiladas out of it.
Yes, I eat there often. It's the Taco Bell on 4th and Congress.
posted by smithnyiu at 01:45 PM on March 31, 2010
Yes. How am I doing?
Awesome, next time I'm in Arizona, I'm comin' to Tucson !
posted by tommybiden at 02:15 PM on March 31, 2010
Yes. How am I doing?
Spring Break Tuscon '11 is now in the works.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 03:00 PM on March 31, 2010
Cool. Bring sunscreen, snake repellent, cousin eddie's bbq grill, and a spanish-english dictionary. Oh, and women.
posted by smithnyiu at 04:11 PM on March 31, 2010
I can only imagine the melodramatic self pity this guy felt when the local AAA team, the Sidewinders, moved to Reno to become the Aces. "And now, my dreams starved like too many pioneers when they reached the eastern Sierra, my insatiable hunger for baseball must be satisfied perversely, as only a member of the Donner party could know." Makes me enjoy having them that much more.