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Bad News for Peoria? - Bye, Bye Peoria Chiefs?

That would be terrible news for the Chiefs, their owners and fans, but also bad for the city of Peoria. Let's hope this doesn't happen.
 
With the facilities and fans we have we would likely be able to attract some other team except people kinda like having the Cubs' affiliate
 
It is very common for teams to leave minor league stadiums and cities after their contracts are up. Lots of reasons why.....ownership, attendance, geography, and at the higher levels, money since minor league owners share in salaries. This would be big news here since Peoria has many Cub fans and Pete/Rocky Vonachen have a great relationship with the Cubs.

Having said that I believe Peoria is guaranteed to have a pro team next year as long as ownership wants it and the stadium still meets Minor League Baseball stadium requirements. They have seating minimums, press area requirements, parking minimums, locker room size requirements, umpire accommodations, and dugout size requirements. I think baseball has rules in place that protect communities who have invested lots of money in bringing pro baseball to their city. It may not be your first choice of teams but at least you have one. And.....they still can be the Chiefs.
 
BuB said:
It is very common for teams to leave minor league stadiums and cities after their contracts are up. Lots of reasons why.....ownership, attendance, geography, and at the higher levels, money since minor league owners share in salaries. This would be big news here since Peoria has many Cub fans and Pete/Rocky Vonachen have a great relationship with the Cubs.

Having said that I believe Peoria is guaranteed to have a pro team next year as long as ownership wants it. I think baseball has rules in place that protect communities who have invested lots of money in bringing pro baseball to their city. It may not be your first choice of teams but at least you have one. And.....they still can be the Chiefs.
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So what your telling me is they won't be the Peoria are Chief.
 
If I follow your question right I believe they can still be the Peoria Chiefs but under a different affiliation (Major League team).

But Minor League teams often change their nicknames when a new team comes in or they want to change their image/logo to bump up sales of clothing and memorabilia.
 
It would be horrible to lose the Chiefs for Peoria, and bad for them to even lose the Cubs affiliate, the only one that would even be as close to advantageous would be the Cardinals (though, I'd really enjoy that).

I hope we keep them personally.
 
Da Coach said:
That would be terrible news for the Chiefs, their owners and fans, but also bad for the city of Peoria. Let's hope this doesn't happen.
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Sounds like a done deal, they replaced the Cardinals with the Cubs and now that is coming back to bite them in the as-, should not have a problem getting another minor league team to play here because the Chiefs do better then most in attendance.
 
real fan said:
Sounds like a done deal, they replaced the Cardinals with the Cubs and now that is coming back to bite them in the as-, should not have a problem getting another minor league team to play here because the Chiefs do better then most in attendance.
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Cardinals deal with QC is up after this season. I would assume that is the first call being made.
 
IF the Chiefs couldn't make it work with the Cubs, hard to see some other
team coming in and making a go of it.

Only hope would be if Cardinals fans are more supportive since they are a much better team than the Cubs and have put many All Star players on the Peoria Roster when they were here. They weren't last time since Chiefs had to try the Cubs to stay in business.

Shame on the citizens of Central Illinois for lack of support of local minor league baseball team. Outstanding facility, tie in for beloved Cubs fans, great family entertainment (everyone bitc*** about lack of family entertainment in Central Ill), good value...

One knock on Peoria Chiefs when I was still in Peoria and
sharing season tix along 3rd base line with a bunch of co=workers
was their lame in game entertainment/marketing.... got real stale...

Peoria seems stuck as a high school sports, huntin/fishin, bowling, slow pitch
softball, blue collar town...
 
Had a feeling once Theo got all of his people in place that this was going to happen. Had no loyalty to Pete and Rocky and with Kane County becomming available it seems to be an easy decision. Obviously the Cardinals would be the logical choice. Whether they want to move back here after getting replaced by the Cubs is another story.
 
AZ BU Fan said:
IF the Chiefs couldn't make it work with the Cubs, hard to see some other
team coming in and making a go of it.

Only hope would be if Cardinals fans are more supportive since they are a much better team than the Cubs and have put many All Star players on the Peoria Roster when they were here. They weren't last time since Chiefs had to try the Cubs to stay in business.

Shame on the citizens of Central Illinois for lack of support of local minor league baseball team. Outstanding facility, tie in for beloved Cubs fans, great family entertainment (everyone bitc*** about lack of family entertainment in Central Ill), good value...

One knock on Peoria Chiefs when I was still in Peoria and
sharing season tix along 3rd base line with a bunch of co=workers
was their lame in game entertainment/marketing.... got real stale...

Peoria seems stuck as a high school sports, huntin/fishin, bowling, slow pitch
softball, blue collar town...
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I stopped caring after they stopped moving players up to the big leagues that had names that I noticed, on top of not being the Cardinals.
 
real fan said:
Sounds like a done deal, they replaced the Cardinals with the Cubs and now that is coming back to bite them in the as-, should not have a problem getting another minor league team to play here because the Chiefs do better then most in attendance.
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unfortunately for the chiefs the cougars have set many records for minor league attendance and have one of the best stadiums in the minors that was recently upgraded. I grew up 10 min from the cougars stadium and started going to games in 1991 when they were first started
 
Sorry, but baseball is bbbbbboring, I went to one Chief's game this summer. Fireworks were promoted after the game. I got so bored that my wife and I left after the fifth inning. There were at least three errors committed by both teams by the fifth inning. Most entertaining was watch some of the fans over-indulge in overpriced beer and bad food.
 
molar50 said:
Sorry, but baseball is bbbbbboring, I went to one Chief's game this summer. Fireworks were promoted after the game. I got so bored that my wife and I left after the fifth inning. There were at least three errors committed by both teams by the fifth inning. Most entertaining was watch some of the fans over-indulge in overpriced beer and bad food.
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What do you expect watching Chicago Cubs Low A baseball?


No way a team doesn't fill the void at such a nice stadium.

Hasn't it flipped multiple times between Cards and Cubs...expect the cardinals back
 
molar50 said:
Sorry, but baseball is bbbbbboring, I went to one Chief's game this summer. Fireworks were promoted after the game. I got so bored that my wife and I left after the fifth inning. There were at least three errors committed by both teams by the fifth inning. Most entertaining was watch some of the fans over-indulge in overpriced beer and bad food.
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Don't knock baseball. It's NOT boring.
 
molar50 said:
Sorry, but baseball is bbbbbboring, I went to one Chief's game this summer. Fireworks were promoted after the game. I got so bored that my wife and I left after the fifth inning. There were at least three errors committed by both teams by the fifth inning. Most entertaining was watch some of the fans over-indulge in overpriced beer and bad food.
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You didn't like the dancing corn ;)
I'd gladly exchange my memory of hearing and watching a Chief break his leg sliding into home :o

I still enjoy watching baseball, outdoors on a summer day enough to take the family to a few games.
It is surprising watching those kids commit errors when you realize they were the stars of their HS and/or college teams...you do get used to the high quality play in the majors. I remember Nomar's rehab appearance. Earlier in the game, the Chiefs SS committed an E on a ground ball. When Nomar got into the game, the same hit came his way, and he fielded it cleanly.
 
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