Movie “star” Kevin Costner is part of an ownership group that will establish a new independent league team (unaffiliated with MLB and the minor leagues) in Zion, Illinois, near the Wisconsin border.
The team will be part of the Northern League in 2010. Officials didn’t announce the team’s name or the location of the new 8,000-seat stadium in Lake County.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CROPS??? THEY’LL LOSE THE FARM FOR SURE!!!
Costner says Zion is the ideal spot because of its “quaint and affordable setting.” State officials say the project will bring 300 jobs to the community of 25,000.
Great. Can’t wait for the promo campaigns. A baseball player stands in an empty stadium with another man, awestruck by his surroundings. “Is this heaven?” “No, are you retarded?”
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The obvious choice for the team name would be the Zion Cross Burners.
Good luck getting the permits for the new stadium past the zoning board. I’ve heard that the protocols of the elders of Zion are stringent.
If you beat it, I will come.
@Hugh B. Brown v2.0
+1. Well played sir.
Bob Marley thinks the team should be called the Iron Lions.
But you don’t understand, he plays catch with his dad! With his dad man, with his dad!
No Allan, he “has a catch” with his dad. The gayest way to ask your dad if he wants to play catch.
KEVIN COSTNER FOUNDS MINOR LEAGUE TEAM
Yeah, I losts a minor league team, so could I get it back?
300 new jobs focusing on one big construction project: putting a giant wall right down the center of the diamond.
the league still hasn’t weighed in on Zion’s policy of not allowing the more conservative male and female fans to sit next to each other during games, by the way.
Also, if players want to high-five each other after home runs, they have to do it through a sheet with a hole in it.
@ Hugh B. – I think they already covered getting past the zoning laws by cutting down the largest tree in the forest with……a herring.
“Dad, wanna have a catch?”
Dad proceeds to unzip his pants and bend over.
You guys are talking about Field of Reams, right?
It’s kind of amazing to think about how many good movies Costner completely fucked up. The Untouchables comes to mind.
Every time I watch Dances with Wolves, I cry like a little girl. It’s the part where Wind in His Hair is standing up on the cliff, and he yells at Lieutenant Dunbar that he’ll always be his friend.
And then I cry some more because I’m crying at a Kevin Costner movie.
add another one to the ayatollahs hit list
I thought the title was “Kevin Costner POUNDS Minor League Team.” I thought maybe it was his next movie project.
OK, as long as the players aren’t a bunch of lollygaggers.
i hope his team isnt as shitty as his music. roy hobbs would kick ray kinsella’s ass!
and this will probably be the douche they will cast as reg dunlop in the in the soon to be shitty remake of slapshot.