Mess with the Owlz, get your press passes yanked
Minor league baseball teams are notorious round these here internets for being so blatantly desperate for media attention they’ll take popular blog in-jokes and turn it into a whole theme night. Or they’ll have mascots that eat bat boys. Or any other number of ridiculous things that happen in minor league parks across the country. Bottom line: these people need your attention, and don’t care if you know it.
Not the Orem Owlz — with a z, in caze you izn’t familiar with the way we kidz zpeak. No, the Owlz, a short-season rookie league team in Utah, are instituting press-credential policies that would make the Bush Administration (or any Division I NCAA program) blush.
Wanting to insure that everyone called their stadium the “Home of the Owlz” instead of Brent Brown Ballpark, the Owlz front office threatened to revoke press passes from any paper that didn’t follow the new decree. To which the newspapers said: fuck off.
Two newspapers, the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City and The Daily Herald in Provo, said fine, be that way, we’ll just stop covering games.
“We won’t trade our independence for access to athletic teams or any other news source. We simply don’t let our subjects dictate how we report on them,” Daily Herald executive editor Randy Wright said.
Sorry, “Home of the Owlz” lovers. Brent Brown, whoever he is, will apparently continue to haunt your hallowed ground, forever granting you one last shred of dignity. Heaven forbid.
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You sure it’s not Brant Brown park? That’s what I insist people call Wrigley Field.
“Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
Brent Brown is a guy who owns a car dealership in Utah. He donated a bunch of money to Utah Valley State College (who also plays their games at the stadium) The Owlz were pissed when that happened, and have been pouting about it ever since. It used to be called University Stadium, and just got changed in the last couple of months.
It’s at times like these that we must think of the fans…how on Earth will they get their Owlz coverage?
Strong words from Provo’s finest news source. I’ve gotta think the request would have prompted a much different reaction if it had come from BYU instead.
You know, I just don’t give a hoot about the Owlz.