General Grasshoppers 2012 Discussion

[Miamarlin21]

Yeah, your friend is wrong.

[emkayseven]

yay

[Bucklin12]

It's a great park. I live about 30 minutes away and get to about 10 games a year.

[emkayseven]

where do you live?

[Bucklin12]

Winston-Salem
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Live about half a mile from the Winston-Salem Dash, a White Sox affiliate, so I hit up several games a year there as well. It's also a brand new excellent system. Both are two of the better A ball stadiums I've ever seen.

[emkayseven]

Sweet. We aren't sure where we'll live yet since it's a year away but we are looking at Cary, although I hear the Wake County school system is hard to get a job in. Durham Bulls look like they'll be my closest team but I'm excited at how close the Hoppers are

[Miamarlin21]

Wake County Public School System has been shitty. They were in real hot water a couple years ago with reassignment plans. A lot of mad parents. And Cary is nice.

[emkayseven]

I don't mind driving elsewhere. I'll drive up to 30 minutes so I just have to find a place and find what counties are around there.

[flamarlins3]

It's a great stadium. Really helped their downtown area out a lot. A bunch of decent bars nearby too. Charlotte just approved to build a similar stadium Uptown which is awesome (opens 2014)

Also, Cary is a very nice area.

[emkayseven]

I feel like there are a bunch of Marlins fans just on this message board in NC. We may have to do a SFM get together at a Hoppers game one night or something.

Cary looks great and it looks like I'd have access to several counties to teach in within a 30 minute drive (though I could be reading the maps wrong). And there's a baseball card store.

Looks like Dunkin Donuts is few and far between up there though. Gonna be a problem.

[Miamarlin21]

That's what Krispy Kreme is for my good sir (assuming you want doughnuts.) And Cary is nice, you have Cary Town Center, which has a ton of shit. Their "mall" kinda sucks though, but Crabtree would only be like 10 or 15 minutes away from you.

[emkayseven]

I want donuts as well as breakfast sandwiches.

[HUGG]

It's a great stadium. Really helped their downtown area out a lot. A bunch of decent bars nearby too. Charlotte just approved to build a similar stadium Uptown which is awesome (opens 2014)

Also, Cary is a very nice area.

Same thing happened here with our hockey arena (and then the baseball stadium that followed). Turned the worst part of downtown into the best. I think such things have a big impact when planned properly.

The problem is the locations where they just assume the arena/stadium will fix everything and don't do any external planning.


Um, I like the Hoppers hats [/on topic]

[MiamiHomer]

Andrew Heaney @Heandog8
Just got the call up to low A Greensboro, NC! I'm now a Grasshopper!

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[Miamarlin21]

Fast track!