The Eye: Rookie bus rides will be lengthy

The Colorado Rockies’ decision to move their rookie team to Casper, Wyo., instead of Northern Colorado means local baseball fans won’t be cheering for a long, long time. Or does it?

Check these facts:

” Casper’s closest competitor on the Pioneer tour is Billings – 275 miles away. The average distance from Casper to the remaining six Pioneer teams is 525 miles: nine-plus hours each way by bus, which is how rookie-league players make their dates.

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” Laramie, the proposed rookie league’s leading candidate for a team, is a mere 150 miles from Casper, and the average distance to the league’s remaining six communities is 240 miles.

Would Casper secede from the Pioneer League to join a Rocky Mountain venture? Perhaps, “Unless,” a rookie-league official said, “the Pioneer league says, ‘Why don’t we form a southern division?'”

The Rocky Mountain Pioneer Baseball League?

The Eye likes the look of that.

Rumor has it, so does the Pioneer League.

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