A 12-pack, some dynamite, and a sledgehammer

That's all I would've needed...Well, maybe some cupcakes and a nice lunch, too. But, noooooooo. The Allen County board had to go with professionals for the demolition of Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne.

The fate of Memorial Stadium is sealed.

Allen County commissioners on Friday awarded a bid to Geiger Excavating to demolish the 16-year-old minor-league baseball park and replace it with more parking spaces.

The county will pay $1.3 million for the entire project, well below pre-bid estimates of $2.3 million, said C.J. Steigmeyer, chief financial officer for Memorial Coliseum.

I would have done that for...well, about that. Gotta cover my overhead, ya know. But, in the end, I guess they made the right choice. If they do an implosion, they better show it on the internet.

This is the last song

So, everybody sing along.

I should have known that Chad over at Baseball in Fort Wayne would have something neat up on the last Wizard game at Memorial Stadium. Just got around to checking it today.

If I ever get the opportunity to do something like this, I'd go with This Song is Over by The Who.

This song is over
I'm left with only tears
I must remember
Even if it takes a million years

Good bye to all that

Tonight is (probably) the final Wizard game in the history of Memorial Stadium in Fort Wayne. It seems kind of interesting as to whom one of the starting pitchers will be.

Growing up in Fort Wayne, Jarrod Parker went to his “fair share” of Wizards games at Memorial Stadium. Now Parker gets to pitch in the stadium’s professional swan song.

Parker, a South Bend Silver Hawks right-handed pitcher, will start at 7 tonight against the Wizards...

Parker got to this point by transferring from Wayne High School to Norwell as a junior, pitching the Knights to the Class 3A state baseball championship, being named Mr. Baseball and getting drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks as the No. 9 overall selection last summer. He joined the Silver Hawks this season, and the team has made two previous trips to the city without Parker taking the mound.

Now in an interesting twist, a city native will pitch for the first and last time in what likely is the final game for Fort Wayne’s professional baseball franchise at the stadium.

“It is pretty cool that everyone will get to see me at this stadium the last time, and I finally get to throw here this season,” he said.

Should be a fun night in Fort Wayne.

Meet Memorial Stadium

That patch of concrete just above and to the left of the Google logo? Yeah, that's where Joe Dunigan's second homer last night landed.