text: Your article about the lack of baseball from Portland to Madison is elitist nonsense. I live in Rochester Minnesota and regularly enjoy the Northwoods League games (College players using wooden bats). The games are fun, exciting, and cheap (the antithesis of MLB). Right now I’m on vacation in Idaho Falls ID and I recently caught a minor league A ball game between the Chukars and Ogden Raptors. Again, great intimate ballpark, good eats, passionate fans, and super cheap. In a previous article you said you used to live in Missoula? They have a team and so does Billings. Currently there’s a Babe Ruth tourney in Idaho Falls with teams from WA, OR, MT, & ID. I’m sorry you’re too cool to attend such fine baseball games with athletes who play hard and don’t attack their managers in the dugout.
  I think you’re just bitter that you left the exquisite Pacific Northwest for the ho-hum Midwest. Madison is just like Seattle? Yeah just subtract the ocean and mountains and add tornadoes, humidity, and balls cold winters. I can’t wait until my house sells so I can ditch Minnesota and get back to the West. I’m happy to know that your fancy-pants keester won’t be cramping my style when I enjoy the Belgrade Bandits turning a double play in the shadow of Montana’s Gallatin Mountains. Enjoy the Badger hockey in Madison.