One third through the 2008 Season

With exactly one-third of the 2008 season under their belts, the Midwest Sliders have righted the ship.  Standing at 12-20, the ball club skippered by Eric Coleman has taken three of the last four series with a rubber match slated in Washington as today’s home page is being written.

The team has shored up its offense with the additions of second baseman Sam Deluca, corner man Miguel Magrass and catcher Domenic Lombardi.  Southpaw John O’Hara has added strength to the Sliders starting rotation and Ryan MacFarlane has brought some much needed stability to the bullpen.

“We realize we can’t go anywhere until we reach .500, so we’ve set our sights on that objective with the understanding that we have to take things one game at a time,” said Coleman.

Reflective of their hard-nosed play on the field, the club set a new Frontier League record by playing in eight consecutive one-run games.  “Of course, we’d like to have been on the winning end of a couple more of those contests,” said team president & general manager Rob Hilliard.  But we have license to do some damage in this league before the season’s over.

CM McCarthy & Smith has received more than 200 bid packages from potential subcontractors and will be spending the next few weeks conducting post-bid interviews before decisions are made regarding the awarding of contracts.

Meanwhile, Baseball Heroes of Oakland County is close to finalizing agreements to share 1,300 parking spaces in the immediate vicinity of the stadium site – agreements which must be in place and signed by the Township before construction can begin.

Managing partner Rob Hilliard projects an early- to mid-August groundbreaking and expects to have a formal announcement regarding timing within the next few weeks.