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Look for Nashville and Wisconsin media notes at the links just prior to their game times. New this season: Brevard County has media notes; as of now, it's a unique link each day, but look for it just prior to game time each day within the "Stats and Scores" banner here.

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STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division AA - Southern League North Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western Division DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris

Follow Monday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Wisconsin DSL Brewers New MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

Programming notes: Montgomery has MiLB.TV coverage, so if you're a subscriber, you can watch this Stars' series (live and/or archived). *** DVR ALERT! Tonight's Timber Rattlers game is being broadcast locally on TWC Sports 32 at 7:00 PM. There is no pure pre-game, but "The Dennis Krause Show" featuring Joe Block will air from 6:00 - 6:30, followed by "The Roundtable". The Krause / Block show also airs immediately following the game broadcast.

Monday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: RHP R.J. Seidel at home vs. Omaha (Royals), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the play-by-play voice of the Sounds; follow him on Twitter @jeffhempbp; we'll link to his blog updates at On the Air…and Off MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Nashville games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $39.99 season-long package ($9.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Arcenio Leon at Montgomery (Rays), 6:50 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page Alex Cohen is the play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. It appears four Southern League teams air their home games on MiLB.TV, and we'll let you know when those dates pop up on the schedule ********** Brevard County: LHP Jed Bradley at home vs. Jupiter (Marlins), 5:05 PM pre-game, 5:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the link based on listed schedule Manatees audio, hooray! Dave Walkovic is the first play-by-play voice of the 'Tees since 2007, he's joined by Andy Towne; follow the Brevard broadcast booth staff on Twitter @BCManateesRadio. All home games and many road games are scheduled to be broadcast. When road games are only available via the opponents' audio feed, we'll let you know that. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Tyler Wagner at home vs. Clinton (Mariners), 6:45 PM pre-game, 7:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link - 1280 AM WNAM Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; Wisconsin is one of four Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV. So for the $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from four Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games. NOTE: 32 of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel has seventeen games scheduled and WACY-TV My NEW32 plans to show fifteen games. We'll let you know when, but won't be providing day-before DVR reminders, so regularly check for proper channel and time planning (scroll to the bottom of this link). ********** DSL Brewers: at the DSL Orioles2 squad, 9:30 AM, although game data won't be available until later in the day

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Many of you know we already have detailed threads on the stadium situations in Nashville and Huntsville. Although we've snuck recent postings about the Manatees' situation into Link Reports or the "Your 2013 Brevard County Manatees" thread, it appears it's time to define a clear thread here as well. *** Could Manatees slip away from Brevard? Business community lobbies to keep team by Dave Berman, FLORIDA TODAY “Save the Manatees” is taking on a new meaning in Brevard County. With the Washington Nationals planning to leave Space Coast Stadium in Viera as their spring training home, the business community’s focus has started to shift to keeping the minor league Brevard County Manatees from moving, too. General Manager Kyle Smith told an audience of businesspeople that the Manatees’ owner has received several offers to buy the team and move it out of Brevard County. Smith said he and the team’s owner, Orlando orthopedic surgeon Dr. Tom Winters, enjoy Viera, and would like to stay there. But, Smith added, “We’re a little concerned about the long-term health of the facility,” particularly on issues related to leaks and rust. Smith and local media executive Jeff Piersall addressed the importance of baseball to the community during the quarterly meeting of the Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida’s Viera/Suntree Business Council. Piersall, co-founder and chief executive officer of SCB Marketing, publisher of three regional business and lifestyle magazines, said there were some deficiencies in local efforts to keep the Washington Nationals in Viera. While the team has made no official announcement about its long-term spring training plans, it is seeking a deal to end its lease with Brevard County for use of Space Coast Stadium as early as November 2014. Piersall, a member of the Brevard County Tourist Development Council and for the past five years the Nationals’ local spring training marketing director, said any hope of attracting another major league team to hold spring training in Viera depends on keeping the Manatees there, starting with repairing the stadium. Otherwise, Piersall said, “you will lose the Manatees exactly the same way.” Smith said the Manatees currently have a sublease agreement with the Nationals to play at Space Coast Stadium that gets renewed year-to-year. The Nationals lease Space Coast Stadium from Brevard County. Rather than paying a fee to the county, the Nationals pay for the stadium’s routine upkeep and utilities. The county also benefits from the influx of visitors spring training brings. The Nationals’ lease runs until 2017. But the team can break its lease before then without financial penalty because the bonds used to finance the construction of Space Coast Stadium were paid off earlier this year. Having the Manatees playing at Space Coast Stadium also will help the county preserve the structure of its 5 percent tax on hotel room occupancy, Piersall said. One percentage point of that tax is designated for professional sports facilities, although up to $350,000 of the portion of the tax is allowed to be taken out for general marketing of Space Coast tourism. If both the Nationals and the Manatees leave, that could mean that portion of the tax no longer could be collected, he said. In the budget year that ended Sept. 30, the 5 percent tax on hotel room rentals generated a total of about $8.4 million. The Manatees play in the Florida State League, as a Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, but the team is privately owned by Winters. Piersall suggested that the county agree to allocate $1.2 million from a portion of the tourist tax designated for the stadium to pay for the needed repairs at Space Coast Stadium. He urged the 80 people at the chamber of commerce meeting to contact their county commissioners to express their views on the importance of baseball to the local economy. “We’ve got to act, and we’ve got to act fast,” said Piersall, who contends that stadium repairs were not fully funded in the past. “Get the stadium fixed, and create a conducive environment for the growth of that business.” The Melbourne Regional Chamber also is forming a Baseball Task Force, with Piersall as chairman. Piersall said local tourism and economic development leaders must work more closely with one another on this and other issues. Also, he said, business representatives must be more proactive in finding out what the owners of baseball franchises like the Nationals and the Manatees want the community to do for them. “The Nationals were a great player and a great asset to this community,” Piersall said, citing its positive impact to the local economy and as a generator of tourism tax revenue from people coming from out of town to watch the team play at Space Coast Stadium. *** TALKING BASEBALL — AND FOOTBALL — Dave Berman, FLORIDA TODAY Brevard County Manatees General Manager Kyle Smith said baseball can be a tough sell, when compared with football, but he’s trying to do all he can to make it attractive for families with young children, including scheduling occasional 10:35 AM games at Space Coast Stadium. Smith said the National Football League “has completely overtaken professional sports” because, for example, its 16-game regular season puts more meaning on individual games, compared with major league baseball’s 162-game season. “Every NFL game is an event,” Smith said, while baseball is more of a “social sport.” Smith said he tries to position going to a Manatees game as “a clean, safe environment, and a great place to bring your family.” He said fireworks shows, as well as food and beverage deals, are part of the equation to draw fans.

Jungmann Dominates Again in Stars Victory By Alex Cohen / Huntsville Stars After being shutout on Saturday night, the Huntsville Stars rode the confidence of a six-run fourth inning and another tremendous start from starting pitcher Taylor Jungmann to roll to a 7-1 victory against the Montgomery Biscuits on Sunday night. For Jungmann, the night surprisingly did not get off to a promising start. Following a leadoff walk issued to outfielder Kevin Kiermaier, a one-out single from outfielder Mikie Mahtook put runners at the corners. During the next at-bat, an errant throw by Stars catcher Adam Weisenburger while trying to catch Mahtook stealing second allowed Kiermaier to score the first run of the game. Fortunately, that was the only blemish on the night for Jungmann. For the second straight start, the 23-year-old righty gave up one unearned run in seven innings to improve to 7-5 on the season. The Brewers 2nd ranked prospect (per MLB.com) has now won his last four starts and has seven straight quality starts since being activated from the disabled list in early May. Aside from Jungmann, the Stars got an inning of scoreless relief from both Santo Manzanillo and Eric Marzec to close out the game. On offense, the Stars got all the run-support they needed in the fourth inning, where they batted around and scored a season-high six runs off of Biscuits starting pitcher Merrill Kelly (L, 5-6). To begin the inning, an RBI single by outfielder Rene Tosoni allowed outfielder Kentrail Davis to score from second and put first baseman Jason Rogers on third with one out. One batter later, a sacrifice fly from outfielder Brock Kjeldgaard scored Rogers to put the Stars up for one. Then, with two outs, the Stars offense would go on to score four more runs. After a single by third baseman Mike Walker put runners at the corners, a wild pitch from Kelly scored Tosoni from third to make the score 3-1. Later in the inning, a two-run double from designated hitter Shawn Zarraga and an RBI single by shortstop Nick Shaw finished up the offense explosion for Huntsville. The six runs is the most the Stars offense has scored in a single inning this season. Huntsville scored their only other run in the seventh inning on an RBI double from Rogers, snapping an 0-for-15 skid at the plate for the power-hitting first baseman. Rogers leads the Southern League with 46 runs batted in this season. On Monday, the Stars will play game four of a five-game series at Riverwalk Stadium against Montgomery. Huntsville will send RHP Arcenio Leon (1-4, 6.55 ERA) to the bump as Montgomery will counter with RHP Michael Colla (N/A). First pitch is at 7:05 CT.

Well, here's that catch and an additional link discussing it. *** Awesome...

Doubleheader story from the Daytona News-Journal includes this: In the first game of the doubleheader, the Cubs generated offense despite a lack of early hits, taking advantage of five walks from Brevard County starter Cody Scarpetta (0-2). “We knew, coming in, (Scarpetta) would give us some opportunities to steal some bases,” outfielder John Andreoli said. “We took advantage early and kept the momentum riding throughout that game.”

"Baseball Journey Man" visited Greer Stadium, and the write-up is about what one might expect. Courteous but realistic...

It's the Hunter Morris Video Show: From Saturday's game - An inning after homering, Hunter Morris does it again in Nashville's 7-3 win over Memphis Vs. a lefty... *** From Sunday's game - Morris moves closer to the PCL home run lead in Nashville's 5-3 win over Memphis

Via Jeff Hem's blog -- Audio from Memphis — “Mike (Fiers) at the Mic” Here is today’s interview with Mike Fiers, who discusses his outing on Saturday night (a five-inning win in Memphis), his season to this point both on the field and off the field, his experiences in the major leagues last year and the impact it had on his approach to the game.

Huntsville Video from Saturday: Kentrail Davis triples in the first inning of a 2-0 loss to Montgomery *** Huntsville Video from Sunday: Taylor Jungmann strikes out Todd Glaesmann to end the first inning in a 7-1 win over Montgomery (full at-bat) Very encouraging sequence of pitches... *** Huntsville Audio Highlights OH YEAH!

Manatees Audio Highlights/Lowlights: Game One Game Two

Looks like Nashville LHP Zach Kroenke is now the piggyback tandem partner of Chris Narveson - random or not, a vote of confidence for Monday's listed starter, RHP R.J. Seidel.

Weather.com: Memphis, TN Montgomery, AL Daytona Beach, FL Grand Chute, WI (Appleton)

Look for Nashville and Wisconsin media notes at the links just prior to their game times. New this season: Brevard County has media notes; as of now, it's a unique link each day, but look for it just prior to game time each day within the "Stats and Scores" banner here.

To see tweets as to when the Link Report has been technically "completed" with available links, as well as to know when the new day's Report has been posted, please follow @Mass_Haas on Twitter.

STANDINGS: AAA - Pacific Coast League American Northern Division AA - Southern League North Division High-A - Florida State League North Division A - Midwest League Western Division DSL - Dominican Summer League San Pedro de Macoris

Follow Sunday's action as it happens with box score / game log links: Nashville Huntsville Brevard County Game One Brevard County Game Two Wisconsin New MiLB.com feature -- organizational scoreboard, Brewers

Programming note: Montgomery has MiLB.TV coverage, so if you're a subscriber, you can watch this Stars' series (live and/or archived).

Sunday's Daily Menu: All times are Central Nashville: LHP Chris Narveson makes rehab start #3 at Memphis (Cardinals), 1:15 PM pre-game, 1:35 gametime Free Live Audio Link Jeff Hem is the play-by-play voice of the Sounds; follow him on Twitter @jeffhempbp; we'll link to his blog updates at On the Air…and Off MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; all Nashville games, home and away, will be available to watch via MiLB.TV's $39.99 season-long package ($9.99 to pay for a single month). The audio feed is from the home team. All MiLB.TV details available at the link. ********** Huntsville: RHP Ariel Pena at Montgomery (Rays), 5:50 PM pre-game, 6:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link -- Select the Huntsville feed from the MiLB main audio page Alex Cohen is the play-by-play voice of the Stars; follow him on Twitter @alexmcohen. All games, home and away, are scheduled to be broadcast. It appears four Southern League teams air their home games on MiLB.TV, and we'll let you know when those dates pop up on the schedule ********** Brevard County: RHP Cody Scarpetta and LHP Brent Suter in a doubleheader at Daytona (Cubs), 3:30 PM pre-game, 4:00 gametime; each contest slated for seven innings Free Live Audio Link -- Select the link based on listed schedule Manatees audio, hooray! Dave Walkovic is the first play-by-play voice of the 'Tees since 2007, he's joined by Andy Towne; follow the Brevard broadcast booth staff on Twitter @BCManateesRadio. All home games and many road games are scheduled to be broadcast. When road games are only available via the opponents' audio feed, we'll let you know that. ********** Wisconsin: RHP Eric Semmelhack at home vs. Clinton (Mariners), 12:45 PM pre-game, 1:05 gametime Free Live Audio Link - 1280 AM WNAM Chris Mehring is back to do his customary fantastic work as the Voice of the Rattlers. Follow him on Twitter @CMehring; we'll link to Chris' infamous blog often -- Rattler Radio. MiLB.TV -- for subscribers; Wisconsin is one of four Midwest League clubs that have all their home games available via MiLB.TV. So for the $39.95 season-long package, fans in Brewer Nation can watch all Sounds games, Stars' road games from four Southern League locales, and all Timber Rattlers home games and some road games. NOTE: 32 of the Rattlers' 70 home games will be broadcast on TV this season. Time Warner Cable SportsChannel has seventeen games scheduled and WACY-TV My NEW32 plans to show fifteen games. We'll let you know when, but won't be providing day-before DVR reminders, so regularly check for proper channel and time planning (scroll to the bottom of this link). ********** DSL Brewers: Idle

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