Well here it is finally – mostly…
The 2012 SWB Yankees will play their home schedule in the following stadiums: Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Pawtucket, Lehigh Valley and Batavia. (Batavia, NY is 55 miles E of Buffalo)
Rochester will host 37 of those 72 games.
Looks like a home “away” opener and a total of 8 extra games at CCP!
Schedules to follow.
Bring the noise!
OinK On!
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PawSox were the last of the IL teams to finalize their schedule, which explains why this took so long. Batavia (between Rochester and Buffalo I believe) is or was a short-season class-A New York/Penn League venue (same league as the Staten Island Yanks and the Phillies’ system’s Williamsport Crosscutters).
He added info on Batavia as I was typing this… amazing.
Whoo hoo 2 Opening Days!!! And 8 games home away from home.
Oink Oink
I just finished adjusting all of my magnet schedules with a red sharpie. It’s only eight extra games, but that’ll keep my expenses down, and make for some nice home stands along the way.
As mentioned, the ‘Pigs will now open at CCP April 5. (BTW, is it Reading’s turn to host the 222 Showcase? 4/3?)
The IronPigs now have 13 games/14 days home stand from 4/23 – 5/6.
The IronPigs now have an 11 game home stand from 6/26 – 7/6. (note no goofy mini-trips to accommodate the July 4 rule. Pigs home the entire holiday week.)
The IronPigs now have a 9 game/10 day home stand to end the season from 8/25 to 9/3. (includes the SkyChiefs swooping in for one game 8/31)
Looks great! Now, what happens when it rains? 😉
PS: so, how should IronPigs Mgmt handle the extra games? I say don’t get cute: Sell ’em out like regular games–offer the seats to current ticket holders, then start throwing them into packages and selling groups and the like. Do what we do. 80-game schedule.
PPS: When I say “home games” I obviously understand that the IronPigs are the ‘away’ team for some of them, and might be wearing the road unis, etc. But I’ll be in my seat (I hope) and our team won’t have to travel, so in essence, we’re “home.” We’ll make it so.
I was just about to write about long home stands and things and Kram to the rescue!!
13 games in 14 days?
(2 morning games and 2 Sunday afternoon games)
11 game marathon home stand?
(1 morning game and 1 Sunday afternoon game)
How do you like all that? I’m sure lookin’ forward to it! We may have to park the Noise Nation bus in the porking lot!
Good question regarding ticketing!
Does SWB sell season tickets themselves for 2012?
Do they sell any tickets at all – or is up to the home venue ‘o the day to sell them?
I agree Kram, no need to be cute with anything “same ticket – same price – same great game”. Question is who get’s first crack? IronPigs’ season ticket holders? Last year’s SWB season ticket holders? Fairest thing seems to be first come first serve (as long as we get ours first). *snicker*
Will parking be free since it was up in Moosic? Will porking spaces be covered over with stone for the occasion?
I do wonder however if there will be the possibility of Mickey Mantle bobblehead night? Or perhaps a Pedro Martinez tossing Don Zimmer action figure give-a-way. I guess we’ll see…
Well, first of all the Scranton PR/broadcasting guy Mike VanderWoude needs to correct the PDF release on his team’s site. It’s inaccurately listing the April games as being later in the month, and there might be other inaccuracies as well. You guys all know where to reach him, I take it.
Good spot RD – sure enough something is askew with the SWB Press Release. Seems the games on 4/26 and 4/27 are listed as ‘Pigs home games (on our schedule) but on the SWB schedule they are listed as SWB home games. The 28th and 29th seem correct.
Question is – which one is right? I would suppose (hope) the IronPigs’ schedule is correct and we get our home “away” opener on 4/5 but now I wonder which is correct?
Thing is I’m not sure I want to tell SWB – less competition for tickets then – ha ha
Thanks for posting RD!
“(BTW, is it Reading’s turn to host the 222 Showcase? 4/3?)”
Yes. 4/5/11 was a C-O-L-D night at Coca-Cola Park when Brian Bass matched up against J.C. Ramirez. Ironpigs won 6-1 and Cory Sullivan (remember him?) was 2-2.
Oh, yeah, I remember it well. I was late because of baseball practice for young one, and left with Aumont on the mound freezing despite my flap hat.
I think 2008 and 2009 were in Reading and 2010 and 2011 at CCP, so that’s how I assumed 2012 we’d be back at Firstenergy. They should promote it better, further in advance, and they’d get better attendance. Just think, if it were ours, we’d have a full MLB 81-game schedule at CCP!
VanderWoude is saying his information checks out with the IL office, and we all know what that means.
Guess we’ll have to wait till actual ticket sales begin to know the truth.