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Message: [QUOTE="Modern Coac, post: 3476934, member: 7832"] Yep. The independent teams will generally not make it. That was a bone thrown to them by MLB, a rotten bone at that. You are right. There might be a couple of communities that adopt an indy team, but not much. Too few to matter. Fans want to see true minor league ball. Parts of a MLB franchise. I actually thought Congress would raise a bigger ruckus about the reduction at first, but there is not much they can do without widespread support and it is an issue that has a pretty narrow interest group. Very splintered. All I heard in political realm were a couple of standard stump speeches that this was wrong...the minors should not be touched..a few Congressional officials were going to look into this. Nothing happened. [/QUOTE]