Looking at the Hagerstown Suns

A few thoughts on the 2010 Suns from the off the field side and the signing aspect.
If interested,some of the opinions on the field can be found at NationalsProspects here.

Not sure what it is about the Suns and their reluctance to issue their schedule in a timely fashion.
Other teams had theirs out weeks ago and no announcement from the Suns as of this writing.
If this was just due to the flux in the front office with the reorganization,I would overlook it,but this happens year after year.
Hopefully next season when things are in place this changes...

I realize that most people and I am sure the Suns are looking forward to the possibility of Bryce Harper being assigned here.
I am not,mainly because it will likely cause a major hassle in getting other players to sign.
I remember the issues in getting Matt Wieters and because of the crowds being able to get other members of the Keys.
Wieters was very nice,but you almost had to go on an evening and make your goal getting him to sign,because if not,it wasn't going to happen.
Harry Grove Stadium has far better infrastructure than the Muni ,so I cannot see how the Harper circus is going to be smooth in any way.
Especially when you consider that Harper's hype will far exceed that of Wieters in a less than modern facility,one cannot think this is not going to work unless advance planning is taken.

Here is hoping the new owners can use something from Harper in helping in either a new stadium arriving or a substantial renovation of the Muni.
The issue has often been a Catch22 between the city/county and the team and it usually goes like this-
County/City-Why should we help with a new stadium when you don't draw in the one you have?
Suns-We don't draw because the one we have is substandard,give us a new one and we will draw fans.
C/C-Draw fans and we will consider it.
Suns-Give us a reasonable facility and we can...
This merry go round continues forever.
The Suns should be starting the lobbying process now,so when the attendance increase happens with Bryce Harper,the team is in position to take advantage of perhaps its best situation ever....

Most of the Suns were pretty good signers this season.
Justin Bloxom had a period where he didn't seem thrilled about signing and J.P.Ramirez seemed like he grew tired of the regulars,although he was always nice to the out of towners.
I didn't need Eury Perez after he signed his team set card,but I had others tell me that he was down to a one only by the end of the season.

The others were pretty good for the most part.
Destin Hood seemed shy,but always signed and was nice to deal with.
Jeff Kobernus was very good as was Rick Hague and Marcus Jones was always really nice.
Danny Rosenbaum and Josh Smoker rank right with some of my favorites through the years and Paul Applebee was really cool as well.

All and all,a decent enough season at the Muni with few complaints from me for the most part as far as the players go.
I was planning on an end of the season look at the team (non-player wise),but I decided to not do that because the team is going through such changes that focusing on those isn't really fair to the new front office...