Comments on: You Come Here to Get Out of Here http://eastwindupchronicle.com/baseball/you-come-here-to-get-out-of-here/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:40:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Weekend Reading: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Take Me In | pitchers & poets http://eastwindupchronicle.com/baseball/you-come-here-to-get-out-of-here/comment-page-1/#comment-26972 Weekend Reading: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Take Me In | pitchers & poets Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:58:16 +0000 http://eastwindupchronicle.com/?p=5724#comment-26972 [...] And because much of north Jersey is practically a borough, I include this great story from the New York Times about the Newark Bears and their litany of veteran major leaguers waiting for — and not getting — that big September call up.  Keith Foulke. Armando Benitez. Jacque Jones. Carl Everett. The list goes on. (via East Windup Chronicle) [...] [...] And because much of north Jersey is practically a borough, I include this great story from the New York Times about the Newark Bears and their litany of veteran major leaguers waiting for — and not getting — that big September call up.  Keith Foulke. Armando Benitez. Jacque Jones. Carl Everett. The list goes on. (via East Windup Chronicle) [...]

]]> By: Shinsano http://eastwindupchronicle.com/baseball/you-come-here-to-get-out-of-here/comment-page-1/#comment-26970 Shinsano Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:49:25 +0000 http://eastwindupchronicle.com/?p=5724#comment-26970 Yeah. I agree. Must be an interesting locker room. I'm sure some of those guys have made millions and others have lost millions. Yeah. I agree. Must be an interesting locker room. I’m sure some of those guys have made millions and others have lost millions.

]]> By: John Brooks http://eastwindupchronicle.com/baseball/you-come-here-to-get-out-of-here/comment-page-1/#comment-26968 John Brooks Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:27:12 +0000 http://eastwindupchronicle.com/?p=5724#comment-26968 I'm basically saying its opposite of the reason why players go to Asia on the 4-A fringe. In the Atlantic League usually with Newark its players past their prime, who already made millions, who the Bears are banking on attracting fans, whose pride is too crushed by going from MLB to indy ball while a lot of the fringe 4A players embrace going overseas. All you see in the Atlantic League is players bitching to get out of it. I’m basically saying its opposite of the reason why players go to Asia on the 4-A fringe. In the Atlantic League usually with Newark its players past their prime, who already made millions, who the Bears are banking on attracting fans, whose pride is too crushed by going from MLB to indy ball while a lot of the fringe 4A players embrace going overseas. All you see in the Atlantic League is players bitching to get out of it.

]]> By: John Brooks http://eastwindupchronicle.com/baseball/you-come-here-to-get-out-of-here/comment-page-1/#comment-26967 John Brooks Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:23:58 +0000 http://eastwindupchronicle.com/?p=5724#comment-26967 <i>The Bears decided to stockpile their roster with well-known players like Armando Benitez, Carl Everett, Shawn Chacon, Jacque Jones, Marlon Anderson and Keith Foulke as a strategy for attracting fans and winning games. But as the Bears finish the last two weeks of their Atlantic League schedule, their plan has produced a modest record and minimal fan support.</i> As I've always said the Newark Bears always have succeded in getting enough major league players for your kid to get excited about getting an autograph from, but experiencing the Aberdeen Ironbirds(a former Atlantic Lg team right in my own back yard), to know that no player who was once a somebody a la the Newark Bears is very excited about playing in Newark. I remember reading an article about Foulke earlier this year, he goes from throwing the last pitch to end the Curse in 2004 and is indy ball now. The Bears decided to stockpile their roster with well-known players like Armando Benitez, Carl Everett, Shawn Chacon, Jacque Jones, Marlon Anderson and Keith Foulke as a strategy for attracting fans and winning games. But as the Bears finish the last two weeks of their Atlantic League schedule, their plan has produced a modest record and minimal fan support.

As I’ve always said the Newark Bears always have succeded in getting enough major league players for your kid to get excited about getting an autograph from, but experiencing the Aberdeen Ironbirds(a former Atlantic Lg team right in my own back yard), to know that no player who was once a somebody a la the Newark Bears is very excited about playing in Newark.

I remember reading an article about Foulke earlier this year, he goes from throwing the last pitch to end the Curse in 2004 and is indy ball now.

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