Congratulations, Saints

I neglected to do it at the time, but I do wish to extend congratulations to the Saints for another good season. [For those of you who may not have known it – and if there were a lot of you reading this, there likely woudl be a lot of you given the stinginess of local media ink and air budgets – the local team won the American Association Northern division and went the maximum five games in the AA championships.]

I miss the old stadium on the other side of Snelling Avenue where earlier Saints played in an earlier American Association [and which later hosted the Norsemen in professional slow-pitch, Vikings practices, a bunch of amateur games, and some concerts] but the new Midway Stadium is still a great place for a game, especially if it is not raining. It would have been nice if they had put a cover over the fan seating area, but you can’t have everything.

I know that the Mpls team plays in a higher-ranked league and plays a longer schedule with more hoopla from various media, but wouldn’t it be nice if the DPP and other media could give them a little more coverage? And it would also be nice if the Saints could land a radio deal with a station which could be heard in Saint Paul.

But thanks to all for a good 2007.

And congratulations to the Fort Worth Cats for their second consecutive championship. I imagine that they probably have some of the same handicaps we have here, being based in a major city with a larger city nearby and a MLB team a few miles away.