Jake slams but Defs lose 7-6 in Erie,,,,

Jake Wald's sixth HR of the season came with the bases loaded but it wasn't enough as Connecticut fell 7-6 and lose 2 out of three in Erie. Justin Hedrick took the loss in relief of Geno. Joe Bateman had a good outing throwing three scoreless innings. The team is off Monday and plays in Bowie until returning home on Friday. Seems like they've been gone forever......and

(Misc fan notes) as Joe Perez in today's Sunday Bulletin story "The beginning of the end for Defenders in Norwich" suggests the sound you think you're hearing is a clock ticking down to that fateful day the moving vans go down the hill and the EL team is no more. If that day comes in 2008 or 2009 or at all is anyone's guess.
NY-Penn league?--I used to go to Vermont Expos games with my late father in-law. The games could be pretty good or pretty bad. Short season rookie baseball, about 36 home games and people up there would get pumped up about the team. Limited number of tickets since they played on the UVM campus in South Burlington at Centennial Field that seats around 3000 and they pack the place. Seriously, people would brag in the supermarket about having tickets (think UCONN womens basketball tickets back in the day) to that night's game. Shuttle buses to the park since there zero parking on site. And being close to Montreal sure helped.
Indy baseball? I went to a BlueFish day game back in '98. There were maybe 200 people in the place. The park was OK, the game was against the Newark Bears and I don't remember much more. The act of going to a New Haven Cutters game has never happened and likey will never happen. I did go to a few Ravens games in the mid 90's.
Relocation to Mohegan or Foxwoods? There is a minor league team in Vegas but a gaming organization owning a team? Although the NBA allows the Sun but I don't see it happening....
A new PDC with either the Brewers, Cubs or Marlins? I wish that list was Yanks, Mets or Red Sox instead but I'd settle for the Marlins off the first list, since the SeaDogs, when they were a Florida farmteam, had some great teams.
My guess? Lou sells and say hello to the Lowell Spinners, Vermont Lake Monsters, Tri-City ValleyCats, etc., etc.,
And it's a darn shame because Double A baseball is really the cutting edge for deciding which guys might make the jump to the bigs and we will have lost something special here that will never return.