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I started a new Twitter account just for the blog. It is @ninosofpadres. Please switch over to it. At some point, maybe in a week or so, I’m going to start using it exclusively for anything related to the blog. Thanks! See you there!
So, I got in a Twitter disagreement the other day with a Tucson Padres fan. Like I said in one of my first posts here, it has been hard for me to find enough information about our future El Paso AAA team. Maybe that’s just because I’m an informationaholic.
I was looking on Twitter for anything I could find about our team. Anything relating to El Paso, the Tucson Padres, AAA Baseball… anything. That’s when I stumbled onto this:
Tucson is seriously such a better @milbcity than El Paso, stupid that the @padres are moving their AAA team there
— Jake Nesbitt (@JNesbitt10) May 31, 2013
My interest had officially been piqued. Here is the entire conversation. Please don’t harass this guy. He was contrite by the end (meaning I won!) and I consider him a Twitter friend now.
@jnesbitt10 @milb @padres how often do you come to El Paso or watch baseball here? What do you base your judgment off of?
— Jason Green (@greenevansj) June 1, 2013
@greenevansj well for one, safety. I’m sure players wouldn’t be too happy to know one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico shares a border
— Jake Nesbitt (@JNesbitt10) June 1, 2013
@jnesbitt10 Despite what happens in Juarez, El Paso still maintains one of the lowest crime rates in the country for a city it’s size.
— Jason Green (@greenevansj) June 1, 2013
@greenevansj second Tucson has rich baseball background stemming from the Toros back in the 70’s. AAA has always been a part of the culture
— Jake Nesbitt (@JNesbitt10) June 1, 2013
@jnesbitt10 Baseball in El Paso traces back to 1892 with the first professional team playing in 1913. Maybe a little more of a history here?
— Jason Green (@greenevansj) June 1, 2013
@greenevansj Spring training has left, the sidewinders left, toros don’t play anymore and now the Padres are leaving. There’s nothing left
— Jake Nesbitt (@JNesbitt10) June 1, 2013
@jnesbitt10 I understand it can be upsetting. Tucson is going one way and El Paso, the other. Hating on EP isnt going to change Tucson.
— Jason Green (@greenevansj) June 1, 2013
@greenevansj The team gets very little support anyway in Tucson so I hope you guys go out to the games and enjoy the team for years to come!
— Jake Nesbitt (@JNesbitt10) June 1, 2013
Moral of the story: Don’t step to me on Twitter! Just kidding, the moral here is we need to appreciate what we have. If we don’t support our team once it is here, we will end up just like Tucson. We don’t want to be the city with “nothing left”.
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