Edmonton Capitals Wish You A Merry Christmas
December 22, 2009 - Golden Baseball League (GBL)
Edmonton Capitals News Release
The Edmonton Capitals wish all of our fans a very Merry Christmas and all the best this Holiday Season!
We know it's odd thinking about baseball with 2 feet of snow on the ground but it's always a good time to be thinking about the great times we had down at the ballpark in our inaugural season. We can't wait to have you back in 2010!
With that in mind, we'd like to introduce the Capitals Christmas Pack. It's a perfect stocking stuffer for all you last-minute shoppers! You can pick up 2 tickets to Opening Day 2010 and a collector's mini-bat for one incredible low price of just $25! Edmonton Capitals Christmas Packs are available at Edmonton Oilers and Edmonton Oil Kings games in the month of December, at our TELUS Field office during regular business hours or at the Oilers Store at Kingsway Mall.
Now's the time to secure the best seats for the upcoming 2010 Golden Baseball League season. Edmonton Capitals season seats are on sale now. If you purchase your seats now, you'll be able to secure 2009 prices and convenient monthly payment plans are available so your seats can be paid off by Opening Day. To purchase your seats, give our sales staff a call at (780) 414-GOAL (4625) today or drop by our office any weekday at TELUS Field during regular business hours. TELUS Field is the new home of our sales and customer experience staff for the Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton Oil Kings and Edmonton Capitals year round.
2009 Season Seat Holders can renew your seats if you haven't done so yet, by simply clicking the following link.
RENEW YOUR SEATS NOW
The Golden Baseball League wrapped up their annual winter meetings in conjunction with Minor League Baseball's winter meetings in Indianaplis, Indiana. A few major developments came out of the proceedings including details on the Annual All-Star festivities and a couple notable changes when it comes to rules governing rosters in the GBL.
The new look Golden Baseball League will also see at least 2 new teams in the coming months. Road trips won't be so harsh when GBL teams travel to Hawaii for games against the new team from Maui. They'll actually join the GBL's South
Division and begin play this upcoming season. The league also announced that they reached an agreement with an ownership group to start up a team in the Palm Springs/Coachella Valley region. It has yet to be determined if they'll start up in 2010 or 2011. The league is scheduled to make some more announcements when it comes to teams in the New Year.
In other news, the designated hitter will be obsolete in 2010. In an effort to speed up the duration of games. the GBL will require pitchers in the league to take their turn at-bat.
Also, rosters will be allowed to expand from 22 players to 25 players after August 15th during the latter part of the regular season.
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