The Ottawa Lynx, the Phillies AAA affiliate, played its final game in franchise history today, losing to the Syracuse Chiefs, 8-5. The Phillies are moving their AAA team to Allentown, Pennsylvania next season.
With no official ceremony Monday, Lynx fans and staff all found their own special way to mark the event.
The team's official scorer turned around in the pressbox and issued a rebellious cry when the visiting team argued that a first-inning Ottawa triple should have been declared an error: "Why do I give a damn?"
The assembled baseball reporters and team staff replied with encouraging shouts of, "Atta boy!"
The only remaning affiliated minor league team left in Canada now is the short season A-level, Vancouver Canadians.
Toronto should move one of their farm teams - it doesn't have to be AAA, just any one - to Canada. Like to Ottawa. (The Ottawa Lynx were AAA in the Montreal Expos system until you-know-what. Now Ottawa will have no team, but a public that likes baseball.) No, don't even think of Montreal - they wouldn't want a farm team.
I'm a National Association man.
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