Pay up and get out.
That's the word from El Paso City Council to the Diablo's ownership group, El Paso Professional Baseball LP, after Council voted yesterday to terminate the group's lease on Cohen Stadium. The City has given the ownership group 10 days to move out of Cohen Stadium and pay the 147 thousand dollars in electricity bills still owed to the City.
The El Paso Chihuahuas. Chihua-what? Yup, that's happening. After months of keeping us guessing, the MountainStar Sports Group finally revealed the El Paso Triple A ball club's name, and to say they didn't exactly hit it out of the park is putting it kindly.
It’s nothing but a big empty space right now but in the coming months the future home of your El Paso Aardvarks, Buckaroos, Chihuahuas, Desert Gators, or Sun Dogs will start taking shape.
‘El Paso ballpark costs may rise $10M’! ‘City wants $10 million more for ballpark construction’!! ‘The cost of the downtown AAA ballpark is about to go up. Way up’!!! The downtown ballpark doesn’t need any help in causing people to freak out, but the El Paso media is doing it’s best to continue to stoke the freak out fires. So what’s the real deal on the ‘additional 10 million dollars’ that c