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DKos Asheville Open Thread: Winter is still here and so is Asheville Baseball..so far [1]

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Date: 2023-03-11

WLOS, Meghan Danahey, 3/10/2023

Think it's been unusually warm lately? You're right! We are 69 days into 2023, and we are the warmest to date on record. Birds are chirping, and daffodils are dancing in the breeze. So many blossoms, blooms and buds are exploding around us, but it is still winter, and a hard freeze is in the forecast for early next week.

A hard freeze occurs when temperatures drop to or below 28 for two or more hours. The low temperature in Asheville is expected to drop to 28 on Tuesday morning. Lower temperatures can be expected in areas outside Asheville that morning.

It will be colder on Wednesday morning with a low of 25 in the forecast for Asheville. Areas outside Asheville will easily see low 20s that morning.

Mountain Express, Daniel Walton, 3/9/2023

MONEYBALL: Local governments try to pin down funding to save baseball at McCormick Field.

It’s not quite the proverbial bottom of the ninth for minor league baseball in Asheville, but a Saturday, April 1, deadline looms for the Asheville Tourists to send Major League Baseball a financial plan for required upgrades to McCormick Field. Local governments are earnestly examining what relief they might pitch in.

The latest discussion of the matter came during a March 7 briefing of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. Tim Love, Buncombe’s director of economic development and governmental relations, shared a presentation outlining two potential funding scenarios that had been developed by the Tourists in collaboration with county government, the city of Asheville and the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority.

As previously reported by Xpress (see “Safe at Home?” Jan. 18, avl.mx/chn), the Tourists have said they will relocate to a new city after the 2023 season if no plan is in place to improve McCormick Field. The current ballpark, constructed in 1992, lacks facilities for female umpires and other baseball staff, modern information technology infrastructure, a security command post and other features now mandated by the MLB for minor league stadiums.

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