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An argument for the Minor Leagues for the skeptics out there
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Al Yellon
In the last few pieces I’ve written about Major League Baseball’s plans to restructure Minor League Baseball (in a transparent attempt to squeeze a few dollars out of their substantially less profitable subsidiaries, but I digress) I’ve noticed a running trend. Quite a few of you have commented with remarks like ‘this isn’t a big deal to me,” or “I just can’t get all that worked up about this.”
Well, I hear you. In fact, I’ll be perfectly clear I don’t have a personal story of how MiLB changed my fandom or anything like that. My love of baseball was solidified in games with the neighbors in our yards growing up and Little League fields in Carbon County, Utah. I didn’t see a Minor League Baseball game until I was in college, long after I’d fallen in love with the Cubs on WGN. However, all of our stories are a bit different so I posted on Twitter to see what relation