10/5/2011-Where would you rather go Taos or Ruidoso? This is the question Texas Tourists have been asking themselves for years. Now the Pecos League is finding itself in the same question. Except the question won't be who has the most snow and better slopes it will be which city can support a baseball team in the Pecos League.
The Pecos League is process of attempting to form a Northern Division. Currently the Santa Fe Mountain Lions and Trinidad Triggers will play in the 2012 season in the Pecos League. The Madrid Miners will be the 7th team and we play limited home games at Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe. The Taos Blizzard of Northern New Mexico appear to be the most logical selection, Taos is perfectly located between Trinidad and Santa Fe. Taos has a new sports promotion department and has huge support for its state of the art Eco-Center Soccer Complex. Officials in Taos are optimist that they can get lights and beer in their facility. Currently their situation is almost identical to that of the Ruidoso Osos. A ski town, no lights, high school owned park, small population, but ideally located into emerging Pecos League Cities. Does the Pecos League need to goto eight teams for the 2012 season? If Taos is a no go then it will likely have six teams with Santa Fe and Trinidad joining the other four existing teams in the south. The Pecos League will be visiting Taos in the month of October.
  • Pueblo was slated to be the 4th team but that failed with possiblity of Pueblo West and too few dates for 2012 season.
  • Farmington New Mexico would not allow alcohol
  • Clovis wouldn't allow home games until June 18 despite having a vacant field and had no political support
  • Carlsbad has absolutely no support for anything and barely got Lowe's and Wal Mart to come to town much less a baseball team
  • Ruidoso was slated to remain in the Pecos League but this would have pushed Roswell to the Northern Division and drove travel costs up for everyone. Ruidoso still has no lights and no beer. They have great fans and are located in the middle of the Pecos League. The Pecos League plans to bring the Osos back into the Southern Division in 2013.
This also should be a note that every place the Pecos League scheduled Exhibition Games did not work get a team for the 2012 Season (Pueblo, Abilene, Carlsbad, and Clovis). And this will probably eliminate Exhibition games for the 2012 season. The Southern Division has all returning teams with Las Cruces, White Sands, Roswell and Alpine Texas