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League President Threatens To Move Yard Goats If Dunkin' Donuts Park Is Not Ready for '17

Double-A Eastern League President Joe McEachern on Thursday "raised the possibility that the league will move" the Hartford Yard Goats from the city "if Dunkin' Donuts Park is not ready" for the '17 season, according to front-page piece by Steven Goode of the HARTFORD COURANT. McEachern: "If the stadium is not done, we will not come to Harford. The time is now. We have to have immediate action." Irritated that work has not resumed on the still-unfinished ballpark, McEachern said at some point, "baseball is going to start making decisions." McEachern said that MLB and MiLB "have required the Yard Goats owners and the Eastern League to come up with an alternative location" to play the '17 season in the event that the ballpark is "not ready for an April 13 home opener." The Yard Goats have played their entire inaugural season "on the road this year because construction delays and cost overruns kept the stadium from opening." All construction work on the ballpark stopped in June "when the city fired the developers, Centerplan Construction Co. and DoNo Hartford." Yard Goats Owner Josh Solomon and Hartford Stadium Authority Chair Charles Mathews "echoed" McEachern's comments. Mathews said that "time is running out for Arch Insurance, the bonding surety guaranteeing completion of the 6,000-seat ballpark, to decide how to move forward so the project is completed in time to play ball" (HARTFORD COURANT, 8/26). 

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