With yet another plan for a ballpark being pitched at a riverside site across from downtown, roughly 1.2 million Richmond residents today beseeched city leaders to, for the love of God, please make it stop. “At this point, I guess I support baseball in Richmond or whatever, but if we have to go through a [...]

With developers that wanted to breathe new life into Shockoe Bottom having pulled plans for a new baseball stadium there yesterday, officials today unveiled a proposal for a top-off-the-line, 100-percent pure asphalt parking lot in the historic downtown area. The lot would feature 114,00 square-feet - roughly two football fields – of hot-mix asphalt painted with [...]

Party City today entered the foray to bring baseball back to Richmond, announcing a makeover to The Diamond that will hang multi-colored streamers, Christmas lights and other decorations onto the 24-year-old stadium. “This idea is cheap, effective, and will make this old historic baseball stadium much prettier,” said Debra Boone, spokeswoman for the discount party-supply [...]

So it’s been like nine months since I’ve been out on the field doing my thing. You know, tail wagging, racing those little shits around the bases, shooting a bunch of fucking T-shirts at fans, and I gotta tell you: as mildly retarded as I may look out there on the field, I kind of miss [...]