If the Clippers get a chance to defend their Triple-A National Championship, they will have to log a few more miles than last year. The National Championship game has been moved from Oklahoma City, OK to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Columbus beat the Tacoma Rainiers last season to become Triple-A National Champions, the Clippers 1^st such distinction.

Here is the story. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110208&content_id=16594946&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp

The contest was formerly known as the “Bricktown Showdown” after the name of the RedHawks home, Bricktown Ballpark. As an exercise in beating the cursed cold, I open to you, who pine for June nights at the ballpark, the chance to come up with a name for the battle of the International League and Pacific Coast League Champions in “The Land of Enchantment.” It won’t be official, but we can certainly use different terms throughout the year to talk about the contest and it should be fun.

Bonus Points for getting the title of this post.

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