Thread: All at the same time - this is a great and scary read. Having spent eight years broadcasting in the minor leagues in three OUTSTANDING organizations, an article (with A+ research) like this breaks my heart. Those front offices become family. https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/05/19/minor-league-baseball-is-in-crisis?fbclid=IwAR0QC0v49hH16vaz9AU6_z2-Vxbj6RlrZeLdhEOS1T-vxN_w_kN09Em4y2c

The cities embrace the players and, a lot of times, the players embrace the city...Families bring them into their homes from seasons/months at a time/sometimes over a couple years and develop forever relationships with these players.

In some circumstances, these minor league teams keep their cities alive. It’s like that restaurant/resort that’s only open from Memorial Day to Labor Day and needs to make ALL their year’s income in that 3-month span. Imagine if that doesn’t happen?

Not only is the team in trouble, but the city. The vendors...The older ushers who want to interact with other people...the teenage kids that find a job for the first time at these ballparks. The list goes on.

My heart hurts for these cities. For these people. For these front offices. I want to see my friends go back to work doing what they love, BECAUSE they love it. Brilliant research done by Robert and @SInow, but it terrifies me on what this looks like on the other side.

Grinding through the minor leagues on the buses, broadcasting on a radio station no one could hear unless you were in the parking lot of the station, pulling tarp, selling sponsorships/tickets/group tickets, MAKING FOREVER FRIENDS in these great cities helped shape me

I give @MiLB all the credit for turning me into who I am professionally. Keep your thoughts positive. Keep grinding. Love what you do and the people with which you go through it.