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Colorado Rockies’ Minor League Affiliate Blocks Out The Sun, Is Awesome

The Boise Hawks — the Colorado Rockies’ short-season minor league affiliate — has taken to blocking out the sun at games thus far this year, and it’s pretty ingenious.

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The Colorado Rockies have a new minor league affiliate in Boise, Idaho this season — the Northwest League short season Boise Hawks, who opened play on Thursday with a home victory against the Tri-City Dust Devils. And, now, the Boise Hawks have a problem.

Erm, not “now” — they’ve had this problem for the last 20 years — but only now is the team attempting a unique and perhaps disastrous solution to it.