Dan Ortmeier.......

shown in this 2006 picture has been signed by the Colorado Rockies to a minor league contract. Dan made his MLBB Giants debut in 2005 after being promoted from the Norwich Navigators. Good Luck Dan!

And from today's Norwich Bulletin:

"Norwich, Conn. — Norwich’s baseball stadium authority is going after the bonding agency of a contractor who has abandoned a $170,000 agreement to renovate bathrooms at Dodd Stadium.

Authority Chairman Michael Jewell said Ignac Development Co. of Norwich has been paid $130,000.

“Basically, he’s walked off the job,” Jewell said. Authority member Gary Schnip said he received a letter from company president Ignacy Mierzejewski in December.

“It was postmarked Berlin, Germany,” Schnip said. The letter said Mierzejewski was seeking medical treatment for an undisclosed condition.

The authority has been in contact with the bonding company and has referred the matter to Corporation Counsel Michael Driscoll.

The authority also will seek more than $1,000 from either the Connecticut Defenders, the San Francisco Giants AA team that rents the stadium, or Norwich Technical High School for damage to the park’s sprinkler system.

The Defenders hire students from the tech school each year to drain the system before winter sets in. During the recent draining, a valve was opened that let water into the system, which has broken six valves when the water froze and expanded.

Defenders general manager Charlie Dowd gave the authority a $25,000 down payment on the $300,000 it owes the city in back rent.

“We’ve made a commitment,” Dowd said. “This was a show of good faith.”

The team has agreed to pay the full amount by opening day in April. "

To be fair to the current management, those bathrooms have not been right since the day the place opened in 1995.