Kernels & Angels

If you have read any of Jeff Johnson's articles about the long-standing relationship between the Cedar Rapids Kernels and their parent club in the Cedar Rapids Gazette, you will -- perhaps -- remember that he is not a fan of the partnership.*

Get ready for a few more years of those articles.

Kernels, Angels continue love affair (PDC) thru 2012

In a manner of speaking you could call it a going-away present for Jack Roeder.

As expected, the Cedar Rapids Kernels and Los Angeles Angels met at baseball’s Winter Meetings in Indianapolis this week and hammered out a Player Development Contract extension. This one’s for another two years, through 2012.

“From the Kernels’ standpoint, we think the Angels are a very special organization,” said Roeder, the longtime Kernels general manager, who will retire after the 2010 season. “The fact that we’ve been together so long I think maybe shows what the Angels think about us, too.”

It’s been a mutual admiration society between the pair since they first became wed, so to speak, in 1993. The current PDC between the Kernels and Angels expires at the end of this coming season, but Roeder always said he expected the sides to discuss another extension at the Winter Meetings.

*-This takes nothing away from Jeff's coverage of the Kernels, which is excellent. It's just that anytime the Angels/Kernels thing comes up...it just...well, you kind of know where it's going.**

**-Notice how I didn't shrink that last footnote down? It was on purpose so that you didn't miss it.