It's the NEW American Association
BPD broke the name (a couple minutes early) by my clock.Quote:The four defectors from the independent Northern League announced a name for their new league: the American Association of Independent...
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Quote: The teams also announced that they have asked Miles Wolff to serve as Commissioner of the league. Oddly, nothing stated about if he accepted! Quote:It is expected that the additional franchises...
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Quote:Oddly, nothing stated about if he accepted!Maybe he's at the press conference. I doubt they'd mention it if it wasn't finished. In all this having Miles adds a lot of credibility to this...
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The Saltdogs site has a variation of the press release that happen to address Holly's comments:Quote:The teams have also announced that Miles Wolff will serve as Commissioner of the league.I guess the...
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Yes, I'm well aware of that name. That's why you will eventually see aabfan.com for "American Association Baseball Fan." I also picked up aafan.com also, but it will only forward to the same aabfan.com.
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Miles was there and completely on board. He was contacted during the summer. Need good cities and "great owners." NoL had 6 (maybe only 5) great owners. New league start with great owners.
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Terry Pendergast said much the same as what we have read. The city will be making a decision. Discussion of the lease (by Craig & Mike) the idea is that the Canaries are first in line for the...
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Clearly having Miles at the press conference makes it look like he's taking on the AA comissioner role. The Canaries press release suggests that he's only a consultant:Quote:Wolff, the original...
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Miles clarified that when the league is finally formed he will be commissioner (you can't be a commissioner if the league is not completely formed legally). That will happen during the meetings Oct...
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After the conference and Mike added more to the comments... Success made teams became so insulated they thought the MLB and other indy teams should come to the NoL. The NoL-J was another opening that...
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After dealing with the Ehlerts here in Duluth this is not a surprise.
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I guess you aren't surprised that it was Ehlert's team that attempted the XBox promotion?
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Anybody care to speculate on the other teams? Will it be Central League refugees? Kinda curious that the meetings will be in Dallas. From a selfish standpoint, I wish it will be teams within driving...
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Quote:Kinda curious that the meetings will be in Dallas.It has to be somewhere. Perhaps it has to do with the weather. Perhaps it has to do with tax or business law. Perhaps it has to do with the FW...
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I'll go with having to do something with the FW Cats and weather. Who wouldn't want to drive by Mike Stone's house, I bet it is worth a lot of money. Maybe he will be home and they can play AA vs. NoL...
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If Wolff is the commish, I don't see why Winnipeg and Fargo wouldn't join up, if not for 2006, then for 2007 or 2008.
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Not too sure on how good the relationship was like between Sam and Miles when Miles left the Northern League and what led to that departure. It may not have been on the best terms to say the least....
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Quote: I guess you aren't surprised that it was Ehlert's team that attempted the XBox promotion? Was a bit surprised of just the idea... but if anyone would come up with this stupid...
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