Chihuahuas Pursuing Triple-A All Star Game

chihuahuas front office has made it clear this week … they are pursuing the possibility of hosting the triple-a all-star game in el paso sometime in the next few years. abc-7’s darren hunt spoke with g-m brad taylor about it today: “the chihuahuas have expresse an immediate interest in hosting that game as soon as we can get it.” g-m brad taylor made n bones about the chihuahuas wanting to host a future triple-a all-star game at southwest university park. “we think the town deserves it, the people that have supported this and grown to love this, we want to get that game here as soon as we can.” th chihuahuas expect to surpass the one million mark in fans at the new downtown ballpark this weekend. “obviously there’s others tha are always in the mix and in the cue, but we have made our intentions very clear to triple-a baseball and minor league baseball that we wanna host that game as soon as possible.” the triple-a all-star game alternates between the pacific coast and international league. since the game was in the p-c-l city of omaha this year, the next opportunity for el paso to host the game would be in july of 2017. the site for that game has yet to be announced. “does that make 2017 still possiblity?” “i don’t really know where that falls right now, but i can tell you again, there is a cue to some things and you never know what’s gonna change in the order but our interest in hosting it sooner than later is top of mind.” pcl president branch rickey told the fresno bee recently he has contacted two pcl franchises about hosting the 2019 all-star game. when asked, however, he wouldn’t tell me which two. “were we one of those two tha he contacted?” “i think you can probably figur out the math on that and again we have made our interest in having that game very well known … we’re willing to do anything to bring this town the top level athletes and performers it deserves to see here at this ballpark.” darren hunt, abc-7. the chihuahuas have a chance to show how well they can handle big events… the triple-a national championship game will be played here in september… utep football coach sean kugler said on national signing day he