Australian Baseball League

[Topdog]

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So where will the Melbourne Aces play?

[LostDoggy]

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They haven't finalised that yet Topdog, as far as i am aware anyway.

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Season schedule released, CLICK HERE.

View per home state, CLICK HERE.

[Scraggers]

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Looking forward to it ... still unsure as to where the Heat are going to be playing their home games. They used to play at Belmont Park, but that is now a housing estate.

Went and watched them at the WACA once ... boring as ... the crowd was too removed from the play.

Fantastic news about ONE HD covering some of the games

[LostDoggy]

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Perth Heat will be playing here.

http://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/stadiums.php?id=287

[LostDoggy]

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Heard that the Aces will be playing at the Showgrounds, haven't found anything official yet.

[LostDoggy]

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The new Australian Baseball League, a landmark initiative of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF) and the Australian Sports Commission was officially launched today ahead of the Season Opener on November 6.The six new ABL teams Adelaide Bite, Brisbane Bandits, Canberra Cavalry, Melbourne Aces, Perth Heat, and Sydney Blue Sox, introduced their 35-man playing roster and unveiled their uniforms for the first time.

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The Melbourne Aces Roster 2010-2011

Melbourne Aces today announced their 2010-2011 roster at city square today. For those of you who were unable to attend, here are the players who will be making Melbourne proud in 2010-2011.

Pitchers

Blackley, Adam
Blackley, Travis - Oakland Athletics
Blackmore, Matthew
Bright, Adam
Cunningham, Blake
Hams, Cody - Chicago Cubs
Hendricks, Donavan
Hipke, Ross
Hogben, Kable - Arizona Diamondbacks
McDonald, Brendan
Spear, Russell
Spence, Josh - San Diego Padres
Moylan, Peter - Atlanta Braves
Davis, Hunter - Brockton Rox
Hertzler, Brad - Brockton Rox
Whigham, David - El Paso Diablos

Catchers

Hendricks, Josh - Minnesota Twins
Karlsen, Grant
McDonald, Tristen

Infielders

Beresford, James - Minnesota Twins
Charles, Justin
Davies, Josh
Dingle, Hayden
Huber, Justin - Hiroshima Carp
Lawman, Matt
Tamburrino, Brett
Wearne, Scott - Brockton Rox
Tierney, Andrew
Mascoll, Glenn

Outfielders

Aron, Nathon - NY Yankees
Russell, Andrew

Coaching Staff

Dale, Phil - Manager
Shanahan, Damian - Assistant Coach - Allen, Phil - Assistant Coach
Hogan, Lee - Pitching Coach - Maurer, Chris - Bullpen Coach
David Clarkson - Coach - Burke, Neil - Coach

The Melbourne Aces are proud to announce the seating configuration for the Melbourne Showgrounds.



Link for full seating image, found here

[SonofScray]

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THE Justin Charles?

[The Underdog]

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I went down to the old city square for the launch. Obviously being a lower level sport there wasn't a lot of people around and it was a bit half-arsed, to be honest. Nicole Livingston hosted and was fine apart from when she followed up the GM's speech by re-reading it (apparently she had the speech on her running sheet too). Peter Moylan was interviewed and is technically on the Aces roster although he said he wouldn't pitch until January...if he was at full pitching strength. They introduced the team individually even though the best players are only playing A ball in the US and are basically anonymous, and Huber the best known player was in Sydney for the league launch.
The uni's are ok (and the logo is way better than Sydney or Brisbane's which are woeful) although the only difference between home and away is white pants vs grey pants.
Tom Scully made an appearance in an Aces jersey although in his interview he admitted knowing very little about baseball...umm, great.

Other than this, I've actually got a pretty positive feeling about the league. The backing of the MLB is huge and the venue should be good and is pretty well located. Looking forward to it.

[Remi Moses]

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Just purchased a new era Aces cap online. Will get out and have a gig,looking forward to it .

[KT31]

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I've a ttended a baseball game in the States and if they had Angry in the Bat Mobile it would have been a highlight.

[Remi Moses]

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I've a ttended a baseball game in the States and if they had Angry in the Bat Mobile it would have been a highlight.

Don't like it why bother posting??
I can't work out why people bother shit canning sports they don't like,I don't like motorsport yet would never be arsed to can it because I respect the fact that a lot of folk like it.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Don't like it why bother posting??
I can't work out why people bother shit canning sports they don't like,I don't like motorsport yet would never be arsed to can it because I respect the fact that a lot of folk like it.

Because it's a forum and everyone has an opinion, and even if different to yours is allowed to express it.

And because baseball, like basketball, is poo.

[The Underdog]

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Because it's a forum and everyone has an opinion, and even if different to yours is allowed to express it.

And because baseball, like basketball, is poo.

Hopefully I can get into politics and pass legislation where people are banned from having opinions, because most people don't deserve them.
You know what they say opinions are like. I'm surrounded by opinions.

[LostDoggy]

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Just realised you are a cubs fan underdog.

[The Underdog]

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Just realised you are a cubs fan underdog.

Yeah, I like the suffering.