Basil’s Blog

This week, WTVM sports anchors Dave Platta and Andrew Whittenberg are running a series on the departure of the Columbus Catfish.
The Catfish will leave Columbus for Bowling Green, KY after this season is over.
But the Catfish aren’t the first team to leave Columbus. In 2002, the RedStixx left, moving to Eastlake, OH, and becoming [...]

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After this season, my baseball team is leaving.
I call it “my” team, but I don’t own it. The folks that do own it are moving it to Bowling Green, KY.
Fans like me in the Columbus area will be without baseball. The good news is, not many people will be affected.
Why do I say that?
Because [...]

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Earlier this year, the Columbus Catfish were sold. The new owner wanted a team to move to Bowling Green, KY.
He got it.
And I’m losing a baseball team.
Oh, not just me. The whole Columbus area. But don’t but a few people care. Because, if they did, they’d have been at the games and the team wouldn’t [...]

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WTVM/WXTX sports anchor Dave Platta is a baseball fan. He’s a sports fan. I mean, you don’t do his job for as long as he has without loving it. And, no, he’s not the only long-time news or sports anchor in Columbus.
But I like Dave. And, truth be told, the others sports reporters I’ve met [...]

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One of the joys I have attending the Columbus Catfish games isn’t just the game, or meeting the other fans, but it’s also meeting the media representatives.
Most of them are baseball fans. And people you enjoy being around.
One of the local reporters in Columbus I enjoy talking with and spending time around is Dave Platta, [...]

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