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Post by Dan K » Sun Sep 28, 2014 1:57 pm

The new MRPBL is trying to form in the Northwest USA for the 2015 season.

http://www.mrpbl.com

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Post by Pounder » Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:49 pm

The cynic in me looks at that website and thinks that someone in Aberdeen is scratching their 15-year itch regarding Olympic Stadium. Said stadium seats 8,000 in a county of 60,000 (where Kurt Cobain grew up, if you want reference). So just like when the WBL just had to put a team there all those years ago before retreating south, I could say "here we go again." The sad part is that they didn't even survive in the WCBL.

However, if you're going to build a league around that, the only other issue I'd have is that it's too bad the Centralia franchise apparently can't be in Olympia. Otherwise, when considering the markets taken by the NWL and WCBL, these are the next best choices. It really doesn't hurt that they're trying to find a field in "Vancouver or Portland" along with Oregon City, if they cater to the east side of the metropolis, given the perception that Hillsboro is too far out on the west side (and, more importantly, consider fans fighting the traffic) to represent them.
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Post by Dan K » Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:30 pm

The MRPBL announced the Vancouver (WA) Mud Turtles as its sixth team.

http://www.mrpbl.com

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Post by Dan K » Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:25 pm

The previously announced Centralia (WA) Minotaurs have already been replaced by the Ellensburg (WA) Bulls.

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Post by Pounder » Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:44 am

The "updated" website leans a little bizarre.

The Ellensburg website still reads Centralia. Understandable. So Vancouver was going to be stuck-up Lake Oswego and Skagit Valley was going to be Kennewick? (Kennewick, really close to Pasco and the Tri-City Dust Devils) Moreover, the "Vancouver" website makes mention of some apparent possibility called the McMinnville Mad Hatters... McMinnville would be an improvement over Ellensburg. Funny how this works.

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website confusion

Post by ghostcitizen » Wed Oct 29, 2014 3:22 am

the current website is no longer being updated as they are switching over to a pointstreak site which has all the accurate information. things are moving along nicely for the this new, startup league. looking forward to it's inaugural season.

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Post by Pounder » Wed Mar 11, 2015 6:47 am

So whatever was going to end up in Vancouver became the Glacier Grizzlies. Notice that this story came out in mid-December, while the league website makes no mention of a switch.

http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/professi ... h/30305512

My humor is piqued today by noting that The Oregonian, which did chronicle the Hillsboro NWL effort to a fair degree... let's just say you can't find anything about the Oregon City Mud Turtles. You can't even find either in the Portland Tribune and its suburban sister papers. Meanwhile, there's a forming summer collegiate league, including proposed franchises in Chico and Lodi, California, who suddenly spring this upon Portland's Walker Stadium...

http://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports ... eball-team

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/inde ... wingi.html

http://portlandtribune.com/pt/12-sports ... tland-team

Never mind the presence of the higher profile West Coast League outside Portland. At least the collegiate league isn't starting until 2016. I suppose there's a rumor that another of the first 6 teams will be in the coastal Oregon community of Coos Bay.

Of course, part of the news is that this is the same site the Portland Beavers might have ended up after the idea of razing Memorial Coliseum was taken off the table. I'm gathering from the talk about this that the upgrades being considered for the stadium are probably little more than another concessions stand and maybe renovated bleachers or new seating behind home plate (which was condemned the last time I looked). It's not a professional-looking ballpark, but the park setting is quite nice. It also has the sun directly in centerfield on late June evenings. Reorientation?

The other thing that gets me: Jack Donovan is involved in this. I think he was involved either late in the Western League or early in the Golden League... before being part of a partnership that bought the Portland Winterhawks hockey team and nearly ran them into the ground before Bill Gallacher rescued them. Such is the desperation of baseball media in town as to overlook this. Yet there's Oregon City not getting a peep. SMH.

I'd say I'm sorry to mostly hijack this away from the Mount Rainier League, but who's really hijacking?
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Post by Pounder » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:16 pm

This is not faring well.

http://flatheadbeacon.com/2015/06/02/tw ... -it-quits/

EDIT: This did not fare well.

http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/members/ ... b4544.html

Apparently it's done.
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Post by nksports » Thu Jun 04, 2015 4:29 am

Isn't this the way these things always seem to go.
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Post by Pounder » Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:28 am

[quote=""nksports""]Isn't this the way these things always seem to go.[/quote]

Oy to the vey.

(But I can devote a little more time to laughing at this Great West League now. Starts in 12 months. 3 teams, folks! 3 teams in the first 5 months. Probably another 9 months to get 3 more. Oh the suspense.)
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