Baseball Teams Players

 The Western Major League Baseball League is a collegiate summer league across western Canada. Never watched much on it until this year. I was curious as to where the players are from and how many locals are on each team so on this sunday I decided to research each team and see where the players are from. Ie which team has the most locals ect. Just a piece of interesting but useless information. Also touted alot of team websites and researched a lot of history of WMBL. For those of you not familiar with the WMBL (which is probably a lot of you) It is a baseball league in Alberta and Saskatchewan containing 11 teams.

  If baseball ever becomes popular in western Canada I think this league could expand into a few more teams. A little off my main topic here and maybe a blog post I could do for the future but such expansion cities could include Red Deer, Grande Prairie, Calgary, Camrose, Prince Albert, Cranbrook, Estevan, North Battleford, and Brandon. It turns out that back in 2005 Red Deer did have a team and Cranbrook is getting a team in 2013. I have lived in Cranbrook the team will do shitty for fans.
  So here is a quick look at some of the things that I have came up about the WMBL and an insight for those of you not that familiar with the league. As the summer progressess I plan on going to as many games as I possibly can. Most of the time I will be drunk.

Edmonton Prospects. The Prospects are the worst team in the league. With 9 Canadians 3 of them are from Edmonton. With a shitstain team such as the Prospects you would think they could just go down the Yellowhead highway and pick up every drunk bum they see and keep the roster local. If you are going to suck you may as well stay local. They rank in the middle of the pack for attendance with 349 a game. But they do have competition from the Trappers as people want to watch baseball and not Tball. The little girl posted in the picture running above is probably better than the whole prospects team. With only 6 wins so far thus season thy Prospects need some Prospects.

Lethbridge Bulls. I got 21 Canadian players on the Bulls roster.2 of them being from Lethbridge. The Bulls have the 3rd highest attendance in the WMBL with an average of 509 a game.

Medicine Hat Mavericks. The Mavericks rank 2nd only behind Okotooks for attendance in the WMBL. From their roster on their website I counted 12 Canadians. 5 of them being from Medicine Hat. They average 727 fans a game. The Mavericks are second in their division trailing only Okotooks by just one game.

Melville Millionaires. The Millionaires are definately not owned by a Millionaire. On the shitty roster that I got on them it says there are only 5 Canadians but I figure there are more than that maybe the Millionaire that runs the website is out spending the money on something other than the team. Basically their website licks balls and I hope the webmaster reads this because there is little for me to laugh at about the team minus the website right now. Fix your fucking website. Its just as bad as Saskatoons. How original also to name your baseball team after your SJHL team. The Millionaires in baseball though aren't doing to shabby this year as they are in second place in their division  Where they will stay as they will never catch up to the Red Sox and it is almost an embarassing crime to be shittier than the Weyburn Beavers. But the Yorkton Cardinals have that on their shoulders. Fuck would that be embarassing knowing you are a shittier team than the Beavers.

Moose Jaw Miller Express. The Miller Express play in puke yellow jerseys much that look like the miller beer that you drink and the vomit that comes out of your mouth after you drink too many of them. The express have 12 Canadians on their roster.7 from Saskatchewan and 4 from Moose Jaw. 1 Kid is actually from Weyburn and he must have a brain as he did not play for the Beavers. There is actually a kid on the roster who hails from New Zealand.

Okotooks Dawgs. The Dawgs Trump every team in the WMBL in attendance with an average of 2,129 fans a game. And for all those morons that use the (They are so close to Calgary excuse) should shut the fuck up. When the Dawgs were in Calgary a few years back you could hear crickets when they played. The Dawgs almost get more fans than the whole league combined. With 17 Canadians on the team, 5 of them from the greater Calgary area They also have an assistant coach from Okotooks. The Dawgs as of today are also the second best team in the league. So for all the Americans wanting to come up who know nothing about the area, Wouldn't you rather play here? Or would you rather hang out in Weyburn?

Regina Red Sox.  The Red Sox have 7 Canadians with 4 of them from Regina. 2 Puerto Ricans. They rank 4th in the league in attendance with 457 a game which may sound good but it is still pathetic considering the size of Regina. The Red Sox are also the best team in all of WMBL but most in Regina fail to notice who the Red Sox are as they take a back seat to the Roughriders, Pats, Cougars, Rams, Pat Canadiens Midget Hockey, Peewee House Hockey, Female Hockey, Junior T Ball, and Gay eskimo mud wrestling. But after all those the Red Sox are quite popular.

Saskatoon Yellow Jackets. Might not have their website updated until they get their welfare cheque. The Yellow Jackets are only a few games away from .500 but still sit at last in their division. As you can see in the picture above even the Yellow Jackets bat boy isn't that good (much like the team) so the players have to also do bat boy related duties.

Swift Current Indians.  The Indians have 16 Canadians on their roster. With 3 from Swift Current and 6 from Saskatchewan. They are 4th last in the league with attendance averaging 310 a game. The Indians are first in their division, which isn't hard as their division only has 3 teams including them Saskatoon who should focus on making their website better instead of baseball and Moose Jaw Miller Drunks who may be drinking too much before games. So winning that division should be an easy feat in this joke division.

Weyburn Beavers. Ranked dead last in the WMBL for attendance with a whopping  76 fans a game. One can only imagine they are the other teams bus driver and billets. How can the beavers manage to maintain those wild 76 people? What is the point of even having a team there? I will hand it to them as their website is not as low budget as one would expect. They have 10 Canadian players,  4 from Saskatchewan and 2 actually from Weyburn. They also have 3 affiliate players from Saskatchewan. The rest are Americans minus a kid from Puerto Rico and yes his last name is Rodriguez. Also if you are in Weyburn and you see a black man walking down the street and want to go to a baseball game to be the 77nd fan, ask the black man as odds are he plays for the beavers.
  As of wrighting this I have selected the Weyburn Beavers as the biggest joke sports organization in all of Saskatchewan. I would like input if there is a worse one. But as of now the title is held by the Beavers.

Yorkton Cardinals. Wow the only person listed on their roster from Saskatchewan is the coach. And really he doesn't count. Only 5 Canadians on this team 3 from BC and 2 from Alberta. 2nd baseman Reid Flasch is from Lloydminster which is on the border but have him listed from Alberta. The rest of the players are all American So I am assuming the massive 185 fans they rack up a game are billet families and drunks looking for a place to hang out? One has to wonder how baseball can survive in Yorkton. Judging from that picture of that player batting it looks like they are playing in someones back yard. The equal of an American coming to Yorkton to play baseball is like a Canadian moving to Ethiopia to play Junior B hockey. Also these guys are worse in the standings than the Weyburn Beavers. Bwahahahaha. How fucking embarassing is that.