re: Shrine on Airline slated for facelift as Jefferson Parish OK's $15M agreement

While I enjoy minor league baseball, and went to many a Zephyrs game (never went once they changed their name) it wound up that we actually got out at about the right time.

--The team left after the 2019 season and was supposed to begin play in 2020 in Wichita as the Wichita Wind Surge (another stupid name). That whole 2020 minor league season did not occur due to COVID.

-- The a-hole owner responsible for the Baby Cakes name and moving the team, Lou Schwechheimer, died of COVID. Karma's a bitch.

-- During the COVID hiatus, Major League Baseball used its option and completely took over Minor League Baseball. The result was that fourteen leagues spread out over five levels was reduced to eleven leagues over four levels, massive re-alignments were implemented to accommodate this (movement of teams up and down the minor league hierarchy) and sadly dozens of teams were kicked out of affiliated professional baseball.

-- Our former AAA team was demoted to AA, so the folks in Wichita paid for an AAA level stadium and instead wound up with an AA level team.

-- the Fresno Grizzlies were pulled down from AAA to Low A Level. They had built a AA stadium that was much newer than ours.

-- the St. Paul Saints and Sugarland Skeeters were moved up from being INDY teams to AAA level.

-- Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp were moved up from AA to AAA.

-- The Somerset Patriots were moved up from being an indy team to AA level.