Miller: Tigers leaving Oneonta

January 27, 2010 | Uncategorized

Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller confirmed in a media release Wednesday that the Tigers will not be playing in Oneonta this summer. The team will move to Norwich, Conn.

Miller said he did not blame the team for leaving, with the sale “well justified and inevitable,” he said. “While the new owners had honorable intentions, the economics based on the size of our market and obvious lack of broad community support made the business of their being in Oneonta not tenable.”

The mayor did have harsh words for the NY Penn League, criticizing its “lack of loyalty and consideration of this community, not to mention the long-term owners,” with the move being “shocking and reprehensible,” he said. “This action, which leaves the community without an assurance of organized baseball less than 5 months before the beginning of the season is prejudicial to our city and was initiated by the league, not the Tigers, in October.”