Our Richmond Flying Squirrels didn’t disappoint in their first two series on the Boulevard, cruising to a 6-1 record at home to offset their 1-6 record on the road. And holy buckets of nuts, did you people have fun. Funn. Whatever, however you spell it. Non-Moving Pictures Luckily, it looks like a goodly pile of [...]
Made it to The Diamond yet to catch a game? I know there’ve only been two opportunities, and people were trying their best to gouge on Craigslist for Home Opener passes, but still, you need to get this “go see a game” thing on your calendar. Five more games in this homestand, folks. Get on [...]
It’s the day we’ve been waiting for since the day we all discovered there’s a real place called “Gwinnett:” time for the Home Opener here at our own little Magic Kingdom of Boulevard, The Diamond. All 9,560 seats in the park (yes, that’s fewer than there used to be) are long sold and spoken for. [...]
Jon Heyman at Sports Illustrated applied a measurement he called the “Worry Meter” in a recent column, detailing a few major league teams “who have struggled out of the gate, and just how worried they should be.” Despite leaving Altoona with a 5 game loss streak at the back, I’d put the worry meter for [...]
Why do the Richmond Flying Squirrels have to play over half their games against a quarter of the league? A discussion of why the Eastern League is scheduled the way it is, and why it’s a good thing.
I hope none of you were excited the Richmond baseball team would be part of the Giants organization because you love watching pitchers tally outs. If you caught the game in Altoona last night, you caught another first in franchise history (I’m tempted to call them “FIFHs,” but there’s no way an English speaker can [...]
After several days where I felt like someone should send John Laaser a button he can press to say “first in franchise history” rather than having to repeat it with his own voice, the Flying Squirrels finished up their first series in franchise history with three losses and a win at Prince George’s Stadium in [...]
When the Richmond Braves skipped town for Gwinnett County, Georgia back in 2008, the move triggered a wave of psychic trauma here in Metro Richmond. The R-Braves had been our team for an astonishing four decades, and we never really thought, despite the rumors, there was any danger they could go away. They were the [...]
Competitive sports give us (in the really grand, societal, macro-level “us” sense) reasons to hate people we’ll never meet. That’s a good thing, and it’s to be encouraged, even if in Philadelphia that means people wind up booing Santa Claus and throwing batteries at J.D. Drew. That Santa Claus figure has always seemed kind of [...]
What can be done to fix The Diamond’s concession lines?
By Taber on April 19, 2010
By a lot of accounts, the home opening series at The Diamond was successful. The home team took three of four games, we all loved the cup holders and individual seats in the lower levels, and that mascot of ours is positively relentless. Not to mention that it just feels good to have baseball back [...]
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