Just read in the Winston Salem journal.
Disappointing news for baseball fans.............
Work on the stadium is at a standstill, stopped cold by ownership negotiations between team co-owners Billy Prim and Andrew "Flip" Filipowski.
Prim is trying to buy out Filipowski's share of the team. The two, business partners and brothers-in-law, have owned the team together since 2002. They have been negotiating the buyout since at least November.
Prim has said that construction will resume when the ownership negotiation is complete and that the negotiations were almost finished.
The team will play the rest of its home games at Wake Forest Baseball Park,where the Single-A Dash has been playing since its April home opener. The team, which was formerly known as the Winston-Salem Warthogs, is an affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.
Team officials had held out hope that the team would play part of the season at the new stadium, until this week committing only to games at Wake Forest's field through June.
Team officials sent a letter to people who had paid a deposit for season tickets to the new stadium with the following message: "We have now made the necessary decision to not try and play games in the new stadium in 2009 ... instead concentrating on opening in 2010 with no question or concern about the process."
People who have paid toward season tickets in the new stadium can roll those payments over to pay for tickets in the 2010 season. They can also apply the payments toward tickets to games at Wake Forest Baseball Park, formerly Ernie Shore Field.
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