From Saints to Aints: Baseball meets atheism (Updated with results)
August 10, 2012
Joan Niesen/FOX Sports North
ST. PAUL, Minn. — As you approach Midway Stadium from the east, the Minneapolis skyline looms in the distance against the hazy August sky, at once too tall and too modern to be so close to this baseball stadium.
That skyline has no business with Midway Stadium, with its train tracks and picket fences and mural-covered walls. The home of the St. Paul Saints is charmingly ramshackle, its flowerpots exploding with wild, parched vines and petals whose colors have been sapped by the summer sun. Save for the cars lining Energy Park Drive hours before, this could be 1950 or 1980, and since the Saints moved into their home in 1993, they've managed to somehow suspend reality.
The independent team, which is part-owned by comedian and actor Bill Murray, has a history of shenanigans that predates even its move to Midway. Its former principal owner is Mike Veeck, the son of Major League Baseball franchise owner Bill Veeck. Yes, the same Bill Veeck who in 1951 hired a dwarf to pop out of a cake and then go to bat for the St. Louis Browns. It should then come as no surprise that the Saints' mascots are two pigs, Kim LARDashian and Kris HAMphries, and that they've hosted Randy Moss Hood Ornament Night and Michael Vick Chew Toy Night.
The Saints are about tongue-in-cheek, snarky sarcasm as much as they are about baseball, pushing the envelope without ever going too far. In late July, though, the team pressed closer to its boundaries when it announced what it had in store for Aug. 10. The evening is titled "A Night of Unbelievable Fun," but that moniker has been overshadowed by the game's sponsors: the Minnesota Atheists and American Atheists, who are hosting a convention this weekend in St. Paul.
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AINT NO OFFENSE FOR ST. PAUL IN 2-0 LOSS TO SOX
ST. PAUL, MN (August 10, 2012) – An unbelievable pitching matchup broke out at Midway Stadium on Friday night, but the St. Paul Saints produced nothing against Amarillo Sox starter Justin Garcia in a 2-0 defeat in front of 6,157.
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