Finally!

The Bisons finally played a home game. It had been over two weeks since we have seen the Bisons at Dunn Tire Park. And the Herd finally broke their 6 game losing streak beating the Syracuse Chiefs 6-2 in front of more then 15,000 fans. Jeremy Sowers looked like the pitcher of last year, not the BP pitcher of this year. Now if the Bisons could only sure up that middle infield of Rivas and Luna and they could have something going. Tonight is a double header againts the Syracuse Chiefs, and a chance to get two wins, because well, Toronto's top farm club sucks, to put it nicely. If there was a team in the IL you wanted to play in a double dip, the Chiefs are it. They have little hitting, not much starting pitching, and the pen looks about like the mess the Jays put out on the field to blow games.

But the biggest problem is we in Buffalo could be seeing much more of this bad baseball. The Bisons and Indians contract is up after the 2008 season. The Columbus Clippers are opening their new ballpark in 2009 and the Tribe has been hinting around they might like to have Columbus as their triple a club. But the Cincinnati Reds are also looking a Columbus. So it looks like a race of the Ohio teams to move in to the capital city of Ohio. If the Tribe or Reds do move into Columbus (and one will, because the Nats are nobody ideal parent club) it would set off a whole bunch of moves. The Mets want back into the IL, so they would look a Buffalo. But the Blue Jays might want to move their farm club just down the road a few hours. The Pirates would love to have their triple a club back in Buffalo. And the Nationals have been mentioned in intrested in Buffalo. While I am a Jays fan, I really don't want to see the Bisons lose year after year like the Chiefs do. The easiest thing would be for the Reds to move into Columbus, and the Indians to sign a long deal with Buffalo. Granted that would still set off a bunch of moves, because Lousiville is wanted by many teams, but it would insure winning baseball in Buffalo for years to come.