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[RFS]

Where in all of this would the Vikes fall?

Ah, good point. PFC would be 6th then

[Victoria Watcher]

i'd say:

 

royals ~40 games 3500 average

harbourcats ~ 33 games 2500 average

pacific ~15 games 2800 average

shamrocks ~ 12 games 2500 average

grizzlies ~ 36 games 1000 average

rebels ~ 6 games 800 average

highlanders ~ don't know / don't know

various junior b hockey teams (saanich victoria etc.) ~ 36 games 100-300 average

 

 

 

then i'm not sure how uvic does.   of course they have multiple sports.  does uvic charge admission for anything other than basketball?  volleyball?  field hockey?  soccer?  

 

oh it looks like they charge for rugby and basketball only and field hockey.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 November 2019 - 11:50 AM.

[RFS]

^where are you getting the royals numbers from? HockeyDB has royals average attendance for 2018-19 at 4818

[Victoria Watcher]

^where are you getting the royals numbers from? HockeyDB has royals average attendance for 2018-19 at 4818

 

it's a very long-running joke now when they announce the nightly attendance and everyone there laughs.  how it does not nearly match bums in the seats.  they are super creative with what they count as a paid admission.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 13 November 2019 - 11:46 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

this is interesting. Haney lives in Waco Texas most of the year but it sounds like he enjoys coming up here for a couple months or 2.5 months each summer.



Head Coach Todd Haney, who led the HarbourCats to within one game of the West Coast League title last summer, has agreed to an extension that will keep him in the role through the 2022 season. Haney, who played in the College World Series with the Texas Longhorns and then played five years at the MLB level (Expos, Mets, Cubs, after being drafted and signed by the Mariners), led the HarbourCats to a 39-15 record in 2019, his first year at the helm. That was tied for the third-best win total in WCL history — the HarbourCats (40-14 in 2016) have posted two of the top four regular season results in the WCL’s existence.



http://harbourcats.c...s-on-extension/

[Victoria Watcher]

harbourcats expand to nanaimo for 2021.

 

https://leaderpost.c...39-cb309837bc82

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 March 2020 - 04:10 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

the Nanaimo team name announcement is coming up July 15th.

[Mike K.]

Everyone knows it’ll be named for the most popular attraction in Nanaimo, the bypass.

[RFS]

https://nanaimonewsn...-baseball-team/

Nanaimo team will be the NightOwls with secondary name/branding as the Nanaimo Bars

[Victoria Watcher]

https://nanaimonewsn...-baseball-team/

Nanaimo team will be the NightOwls with secondary name/branding as the Nanaimo Bars

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 July 2020 - 06:59 PM.

[Mike K.]

Some league news:

A week after expanding to Kamloops, WCL is adding a 15th franchise - in Edmonton.

https://cfjctoday.co...15th-franchise/

So that's Nanaimo, Kamloops and Edmonton all joining for 2021. The league also has a team in Kelowna that predates the HarbourCats.

[Mike K.]

Dear Fans:

We will come out of this, folks. And when we do, the Victoria HarbourCats will be stronger than ever.

Bet your bippy every single person with the HarbourCats organization believes that, and is ready for it.

Covid (hate the c-word) has taken a strip off so many. It's done it to us. It's brought entire industries to their knees.

Covid hates baseball, hates sports, apparently. But baseball, and your HarbourCats, are stronger than that.

Bank on this -- when we're told we can play, we'll be READY. Our sister franchise in Nanaimo will be ready, too. Doesn't matter if we find out on May 15, or May 30, we'll be good to go. The work is being done, and we're ready to lose these chains and get back to community, to entertainment, to baseball.

To that end, as you may have seen, we've hired another MLB-veteran for our coaching staff, we are starting to re-ticket customers who held 2020 tickets (stay tuned for more important news on this), we are ramping up contact with our sponsors and we are touching base with players and host families, all in the anticipation and hope of playing in June of 2021.

Time is on our side, like it sadly isn't for other sports. Hard not to see a scenario where our other great local sports partners (hello, Royals and Grizzlies), who do so much in the community, have their winter wiped out -- like our summer was in a dreadful 2020. We hope they come back, but it looks bleak.

We think the HarbourCats (and Shamrocks, too!) have a chance to lead the community's cheering of a return to normal. Of enough people getting jabbed in the arm at (hopefully) round-the-clock drive-through vaccination sites that we can safely enjoy an outdoor sporting event. A concert. A gathering in the inner harbour.

Imagine how good that first hotdog will taste. That first HarbourCats Ballpark Blonde ale, that first sip.

What we promise is this -- to all our partners, to all our fans, who have supported us through this, all your patience will never be forgotten. It'll be revered, and will take up a chapter in the book someday. Tickets purchased, or sponsorships paid for and rolled ahead -- we WILL ensure that value is still there -- and then some. NO RISK and ALL REWARD to you, our faithful fans and sponsors.

Thank you -- keep wearing those HarbourCats t-shirts and hoodies and caps as proudly as ever, so we can get back to the life we love on Vancouver Island.

The HarbourCats will be back. The Nanaimo NightOwls will get started. Baseball will return, and it'll light up the city's Stadium District again, with home runs, and kids smiling, and the familiar Coho horn sounding clearly from the harbour, like we just scored another run. The fireworks will be even that much better.

See you at the park soon!
Jim Swanson

[Victoria Watcher]

that's pretty upbeat.

[spanky123]

that's pretty upbeat.

 

Especially since they have lost their parking lot for the next 2 seasons at last.

[Ismo07]

Especially since they have lost their parking lot for the next 2 seasons at last.

1/3rd

[Victoria Watcher]

Especially since they have lost their parking lot for the next 2 seasons at last.

 

diagrams suggest it's only part of the lot. maybe a 1/4?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 February 2021 - 03:06 PM.

[spanky123]

1/3rd

 

Right and I will want to park my car beside the new container city.

[Victoria Watcher]

Right and I will want to park my car beside the new container city.

 

that's where all the cops and cilvilians park their cars.  it has 24/7 live security plus cameras.  safer than parking lots or parkades downtown.  it's had cameras for over 30 years.

 

 

closed circuit direct to the police station and monitored live 24/7.  by the police.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 February 2021 - 03:23 PM.

[VictoriaHarbourCats]

that's where all the cops and cilvilians park their cars.  it has 24/7 live security plus cameras.  safer than parking lots or parkades downtown.  it's had cameras for over 30 years.

Thanks for running our letter today!  As to mini-homes at RAP, correct in that IF IT IS BUILT (not 100% sure if that will happen yet), it will only take up a small portion of the lot, with space still available for fans coming to games.  And yes, security will be in place from what we have been told.

Edited by VictoriaHarbourCats, 03 February 2021 - 03:23 PM.

[Rob Randall]

diagrams suggest it's only part of the lot. maybe a 1/4?

 

Kebab guy has his food truck parked in the SE corner.