‘We have no voice with politicians’: Waterloo baseball exec frustrated with lack of games
Posted Jun 28, 2021 06:32:06 PM.
Minor baseball players in Waterloo Region have yet to get in a game in 2021, and it looks like it's going to stay that way, as long as the region remains in the province's first step of reopening.
But the lack of response from politicians is leaving a sour taste in the mouth of the head of the Waterloo Minor Baseball Association.
“They're not really engaged with us, they're hung up on their own beliefs,” Mark Schram told The Mike Farwell Show on 570 NEWS.
He said in his capacity as both president of the Waterloo Minor Baseball Association and Intercounty Baseball Association, he would not be encouraging people to play if they didn't think it was safe.
He said they're being held back for no reason, and they have yet to get a response from any local politician on the matter.
“I realize we are falling through the cracks, but we have no voice with politicians,” he said, “They just throw it out there, and that's it.”
He said baseball went on in 2020, and there were no cases of COVID-19 as a result.
Schram said they're going to emphasize just how safe the sport is at a special practice on Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. at Breithaupt Park in Kitchener.
“We'll be there to demonstrate baseball for anyone who wants to see it, in a safe format, with some teams practicing only from Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo,” he said.
“We're hopeful that we'll see a politician or two show up there, and realize what they've prevented is ridiculous.”
