Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 New Britain Rock Cats season

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The result was delete. Tone 18:52, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

2008 New Britain Rock Cats season

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Article was apparently created to highlight the 2008 season of the New Britain Rock Cats, a Minor League Baseball team from Connecticut. However, it was functionally abandoned approximately one-third through the season -- two years ago -- without the results of the rest of the season being imputed. There doesn't appear to be any need for this article about a single, non-notable season of a small Connecticut baseball team. In addition, there does not exist any articles for any of this team's other seasons, so this article about the 2008 season appears to serve no purpose as a standalone when there are none about any other seasons. Major League teams should have season-by-season articles because of their notability and reliable coverage, but not so much for non-noteworthy MiLB teams. Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 21:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Agreed. Also, that page doesn't use the 2008 roster. That's the current 2010 roster. --Muboshgu (talk) 12:25, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. —Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 21:59, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. —Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 05:47, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is pretty well what WP:NOTSTAT is about. Because of the lower bar that's set for fun articles, anyone can make their own personal sports page, but it takes a lot of effort to keep updating the page with each game result. It looks as if there's an entire category of Category:2008 Eastern League season with quite a few similarly incomplete articles. These can be enjoyable during the season, but they're trivia rather than history, and there probably should be a rule that these get folded into the league season article when the season ends. It doesn't take long to go from rah-rah-rah to blah-blah-blah. Mandsford (talk) 12:34, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per everyone else. --Explodicle (T/C) 18:40, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Ditto. Nothing to add but I want to be with the in-crowd. --Muboshgu (talk) 23:31, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above.. And also delete all the other incomplete 2008 Eastern League season pages. Spanneraol (talk) 01:39, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.