To be fair

I gave Ben Smith a bit of a hard time for his column after the TinCaps won the MWL Championship in this post.

So, to be fair, here is a link to a far superior column that puts a wrap on the season of baseball in Fort Wayne.

It was a raw, ugly night in 1993 when baseball came to Fort Wayne, and I remember everything and nothing about it. A kid named Scott Moten threw the first pitch in franchise history, and, two pitches later, recorded the first strikeout. Another kid named Ramon Valette hit the first home run. And the inaugural night for your Fort Wayne Wizards was christened with an inaugural win.

It was not exactly a sign of things to come. The Wizards missed the playoffs that year, and then they missed the playoffs again the next year. In fact, between 1998 and this year, Fort Wayne never saw its baseball team get out of the first round.

That’s a long time to hang in there. It’s a lot of nights spent coming out to the ballpark, bringing the kids sometimes because there would be fireworks at the end, even if there weren’t any in the game itself.

No more.

Much better.