I was very disappointed to show up at the Intercounty Baseball League game today in Hamilton with my family from St. Catharines to see there was no game. When we arrived at 1:45 pm it was 26 and sunny, one of the best days of the spring, and despite the poor weather network information regarding today, the league has to do a better job of alerting fans about cancellations/rain outs.
I talked to the groundskeeper at the park and he said the game was cancelled at 9:30am and not one website (Hamilton, London or the IBL) had that information available to fans. When I got home at 3:30 Hamilton finally had rained out on the schedule portion of their site.
The IBL, the top canadian baseball league in Canada, always say they suffer in promotions and media coverage as a whole. When poor communication like this happens it is no wonder it suffers.
I will continue to cover senior ontario baseball on my blog, but with the way of the world with technology, cancellations like this have to be immediately posted to the web so fans can make necessary changes to their day.
There are a few teams in the league that do a great job daily in running a strong community based team which shows in their coverage, marketing and game attendance. The others have to learn from them to make the entire league an overall success.
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