Bright Light City Gonna Set My Soul, Gonna Set My Soul On Fire: Jays AAA Affiliate to be Located in Las Vegas for 2009 and 2010 Seasons

by hugo on Sep 23, 2008 8:27 AM EDT in Toronto Blue Jays News

Well, it's settled. The Jays AAA affiliate, at least, for the next 2 seasons, will be the Las Vegas 51s (named after the infamous military installation). Vegas doesn't sound very happy about the situation (they lost the Dodgers to the 'Kerk) and the Jays are going to try to make the best of it. Syracuse and the Nationals will be paired up, as will the Mets and Buffalo, and Cleveland and Columbus.

It's clearly not ideal, given the travel time between Vegas and Toronto and Vegas and the Jays' AA affiliate in New Hampshire. (though I have heard folks from New Hampshire ironically refer to Manchester, where they play, as 'Manch-Vegas.' I also worry about the effect of the city on the minor-league players, though they should be pretty mature by AAA (A ball, on the other hand, would be a bigger concern for me).

Las Vegas does have an exploding population as compared to other U.S. cities (certainly moreso than Syracuse) so at least Sin City is growing.

On a personal level, I do travel to Las Vegas semi-frequently for work, so it's not a bad situation in that sense. Although I used the Elvis tune for the title, I couldn't resist the opportunity to plug a Terry Gilliam movie.

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I know it is a long way from Vegas to Toronto....

But there should be lots of direct flights right? That should make things easier. I know from here you can fly to Vegas quick and easy. Getting back is sometimes harder after you have bet your return ticket on 22.

But Hugo….you disappoint me…taking the easy route with Viva Las Vegas, I expect something far more subtle and, oh I don’t know, alternative from you. I mean, yeah that’s what I would have used, but I expect more from you. I’m totally disillusioned.

Course the best I can think of is ‘A Good Run of Bad Luck’, a country song by Clint Black.

by Tom Dakers on Sep 23, 2008 10:20 AM EDT reply actions

haha

I probably should’ve gone with Gram Parsons’ Sin City, man that is a great song.

"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman

by hugo on Sep 23, 2008 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions

See you can still be cool, man.

Gram Parsons had that cool indy thing….long before it was cool. Anyone that can push the Rolling Stones towards country and bring us Emmy Lou Harris doesn’t have to do anything else. And he did a lot more and yet he seems like someone that wasted his talent.

by Tom Dakers on Sep 23, 2008 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions