We'll have a ribbon-cutting ceremony when it's done. Our target date is mid-January. The April starting date gives the Brewers little leeway. The Brewers, however, are confident they are spending their last winter in Chandler. The Brewers are a part of a baseball renaissance in Arizona, which has always played second-fiddle to Florida when it comes to spring training.
Spring training is all about getting ready to play.
And although there's no magic number of teams to sustain a league, it didn't take a lot of thought to figure out that if a few more were to leave here, the rest would follow. The Cactus League achieved a coup by enticing the Chicago White Sox to move from their longtime winter home in Sarasota, Fla., to Tucson next season, They will be joining the Diamondbacks, the expansion team that will begin major-league play in '98. That, along with the Chicago Cubs' gigantic new HoHoKam Park facility in Mesa and the Brewers' new home, has re-energized the Cactus League. With the addition of our facility in Tucson and the new one for the Brewers in west Phoenix next year, I'd say the league will have never been stronger. For a moment in her life, Terry-Jo Myers wanted to end the pain, no matter the price.