SnakePit Road Report: Pensacola Blue Wahoos

There are two kinds of trips Mrs. SnakePit and I do. Ones for baseball, and those which accidentally manage to involve baseball. A couple of weekends back, we went to Pensacola in Florida to visit her sister, who suggested a visit to the local minor-league baseball team. Oh, alright then - don’t mind if we do. Which is how we ended up at Admiral Fetterman Field home of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, the Double-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. And yes, all their affiliates are sea-life based: they also have the Jupiter Hammerheads, Beloit Sky Carp and Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. Though ‘Sky Carp’ is actually a goose. Go figure. But seems the D-backs are missing a trick here: why don’t we have the Visalia Vipers?

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