It's (mostly) done

Well, it was (mostly) over Thursday and the story was at QCTimes.net yesterday.

Florida group buys Swing of Q-C

The sale of the Swing of the Quad-Cities moved one step closer to reality Thursday.

Main Street Baseball, the Florida-based company headed by Dave Heller and Bob Herrefeldt, announced it has signed an asset purchase agreement with Seventh Inning Stretch, which has operated the club under the leadership of Kevin Krause since 1998.

The agreement allows the proposed sale to begin to work its way through baseball’s approval process.

"So," you might be thinking. "How much?"

The sale price is undisclosed, but Krause said it is within the range of recent Midwest League transactions, putting it in the $7 million neighborhood.

“This brings a sense of finality to our agreement,” Krause said.

“Operating our club has been a passion of mine for almost a decade, and my hope is that things go well for them moving forward. We all hope the approval process will move quickly.”

How quickly?

Baseball’s approval process can take anywhere from 3-to-6 months to complete. Heller is hopeful that his ownership of a Class A club in Columbus, Ga., and Herrefeldt’s history of working as the vice president of the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats can expedite the process.

“We’ve been through it before and honestly, we’re excited to get going. We love the potential we see in the Quad-Cities,” Heller said.

“I love that ballpark and the setting. It is unequaled. We are going to make changes, and our hope is that the fan experience at games in the future will be unequaled as well.”

Heller said specifics will be unveiled in upcoming weeks, but said his primary objective is “bring the fans closer to the action” and increase value for both fans and sponsors of the team.

After that, they can:

...envision to enthusiastically supply value-added catalysts for change in order that we may conveniently leverage existing scalable data while maintaining the highest standards.

Thanks to the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator for that. Try it and have fun with your own mission statement for the new year. Here is mine for RattlerRadio:

Our mission is to assertively foster excellent deliverables such that we may continue to synergistically pursue quality products because that is what the customer expects.

Yeah, I'll get right to work on that.

At the end of the QCTime.net story there is one comment (so far). It is, um, instructive of the work that the new owners have in front of them:

"Comment 1: Another out of town owner. Do we all remember our experience with Mr. Holtzman? Comment 2: I wonder how much the new ammenities that the new owner says are 'necessary' will cost us? "