The Home Team....Go MudCats !!!

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Hometeam: Stockton Ports (Single A Oakland A's affiliate)

Favorite team (as of yesterday): LAKEWOOD BLUECLAWS (Single A Phillies affiliate/NJ)

Gonna' cost a bit more to see Blueclaw games... but worth it!

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The Aberdeen Ironbirds(A-short season club of Baltimore Orioles)is about 15 mins away from me.

but then we also have the (A) Fredrick Keys,(AA)Bowie Baysox and then (A) Delmarva shorebirds who are also instate minor league clubs of the Baltimore orioles.

(AAA) Norfolk Tide is only a state away and then the Rookie ball club Blue field Orioles in West virgina, so all the clubs are really close to the Big Club in baltimore...so we have a variety to pick from.

Gwinnett Braves come to town next year, but right now the Rome Braves have a nice stadium, and the Chattanooga lookouts are a reasonable drive, also. I'm happy going to see local high school and college ball. Heck, I like watching the free games at our park. Any game works for me.

Within an hour we have the Trenton Thunder (AA), Lehigh Valley Ironpigs (AAA), Reading Phillies (AA), Wilmington Blue Rocks (A), Camden Riversharks (I) and Somerset Patriots (I). There's this other team called the Phillies. Personally, I'd rather watch Villanova play Big East games.

"MUUUUUUUUUUUUUDCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS!!!"

I can still hear this one father's constant cheer for the MudCats. However, these MudCats were 13-15 age PONY ballplayers over here in Seoul (US kids living temporarily overseas). Instead of using the overused and shabby uniforms provided by Rec, we decided to do our own thing. I ordered MudCats t-shirts online from the MudCats store and the kids loved them! We went undefeated that year and won the Korea-wide (American programs) title!!

When we won the final, this dad literally climbed about 20 feet up the backstop and, with one arm waving in the air, kept shouting, "MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDDCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!"

It was a classic.

rd nice to see another NC person on the site. I have enjoyed several games at the Mudcats stadium. Its a great ball park. But my favorite is the Durham Bulls. But I miss the old ball park downtown.