No turf until 2011 season

There will be at least one more season of baseball on grass at Consol Energy Park.

The Wild Things have decided not to have a synthetic playing surface installed this winter and will wait until the end of the 2010 Frontier League season to make the switch to the fake stuff.

This doesn't come as a surprise when you consider that, when the 2009 season ended, the organization didn't have plans finalized for payment of the turf. The money that comes from the hotel tax is spread over a 10-year period. From what I was told, the Wild Things have three years to use the money from the state grant that was earmarked for new turf.