re: I think it's time to move the Track and Foley,

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I think MLB in Georgia is about to shrink

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Nah. People have a fair reason to be pissed at the MLB but that doesn’t mean they’ll take it out on the Braves (who also got screwed). The Battery and Truist are way too well set up for families, teens, and young professionals to each be able to spend a whole day at a game and have a good time doing it; people aren’t going to suddenly start ignoring a good time just because they’re mad at the MLB (they may stop watching non-Braves games if they even did before but that’s obviously irrelevant to the issue of Georgia baseball).

Target audience for the Diamond Dawgs needs to be the students first and then the folks in Jefferson, Madison, Hartwell, Monroe, etc. Who is within easy driving distance for a 3 game series and, more importantly, how can they show students a good time so they develop a nostalgia factor for Spring games (like many of us seem to have developed on Kudzu Hill)? If you hook those groups, the crowds from metro ATL will continue to trickle in more consistently