triple a baseball

When did you become a baseball fan? What's your earliest memory? Why is your team your team? Could that change based on the relocation of another? Come 2014, El Pasoans may shift their loyalty in the major leagues as Triple-A makes its debut.

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Welcome to another addition of 'Icetime' with the Iceman Brandon Cohn.

Today's topics include the Pacific Coast League approving the move of  the Tuscon Padres to El Paso, the Olympics, the Rangers aqusition of pitcher Ryan Dempster, and Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasberg

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When Mayor John Cook spoke publicly to David Crowder from El Paso Inc. about the return of affiliated baseball in El Paso, his comments were not what many expected. Mayor Cook implied that if the new proposed downtown ballpark's Hotel Occupancy Tax funding does not get passed in November, he would veto the entire project.

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Since my arrival at ESPN El Paso in May of 2008, I have engaged Steve in a few wagers.  It started with a lunch bet in the Summer of 2008.  I didn't think Manny Ramirez would be traded from Boston, and Steve was sure he would be traded

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The future of affiliated baseball and a El Paso downtown ballpark is now in the hands of Minor League baseball. Yesterday in Dallas, Mountain Star Sports Group presented to the Pacific League their plan to bring Triple A baseball to El Paso.

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Leonard Martinez at kvia.com first broke this story, but the website elpasopadres.com was created on June 7th and registered to Franklin Mountain Management.

According to state records, Franklin Mountain Manage

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Now that City Council approved the new downtown ballpark by a 6-2 vote, some people are wondering what's next?

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Now that the city council has passed a proposal to build a downtown ballpark, a lot of people are wondering, 'who will pay for what?'

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El Paso is one step closer to having affiliated baseball for the first time in nearly a decade. Following the 'If you build it they will come' model made popular in the 1989 film 'Field of Dreams,' the El Paso City Council voted 6-2 this afternoon to approve funding for a ballpark that will occupy the very site the votes were cast.

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UTEP President Dr. Diana Natalicio has never hidden her love of baseball, especially her beloved St. Louis Cardinals.  I don't know if this is still the case, but for years her business card looked more like a baseball trading card

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