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Fascinating stuff! Thanks papi.



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Want a little inside story, not about Timber Joey, who is a cool mascot, but about that socker franchise that Timber Joey represents?

Hank Paulson's son, Merritt Paulson, bought Portland's AAA baseball franchise, the Portland Beavers, four years ago. The franchise has a long and proud history in Portland, playing in historic Civic Stadium, that holds as many as 20,000 people.

Not too long after Paulson came to town, he also struck a deal with Major League Socker to bring an expansion franchise to Portland.

The Socker folks required that the franchise have a dedicated single purpose stadium - which meant that the Portland Beavers could no longer use Civic Stadim. Paulson tried for a while to find some other place to build a baseball stadium for the Beavers, but couldn't find a suitable spot.

So he sold the team, and it is now in California.

And that is how Socker (AKA Commie Kickball) replaced professional baseball in Portland!

(But Timber Joey is still cool.)

Oh, now I'm not as enchanted with Timber Joey.

And, woodrow, close but no cigar!

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Take a look at this papi. Now pass me the stogie!

Up in Canada they do it this way, eh?



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There you go. Not sure if I approve of the one-handed technique though. Imagine if he cut off his foot. Finally a real s****r injury, not a bogus flop.

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Don't you think it's time we moved on past this asterisk stuff with the name of another sport...
It poses no threat to baseball... Cue the James Earl jones speech from field of dreams.....

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"It poses no threat to baseball... "

Oh yeah?

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Originally posted by trojan-skipper:
Don't you think it's time we moved on past this asterisk stuff with the name of another sport...
It poses no threat to baseball... Cue the James Earl jones speech from field of dreams.....

You mean this one? People Will Come

The scary thing is someone believes there's a bigger market for MLS s0ccer than AAA baseball. S0ccer is taking away a lot of youth players from baseball. But I don't think it's taking many who will develop into high school baseball players. MLS teams are starting to get stadiums for their teams rather than sharing. That's a sign s0ccer is finally catching on.