I’ve been to Asheville twice in my life, and both times I visited I ran into someone I know who, like me, does not live there. Tourists, indeed. My most recent trip to Asheville was to be a tourist around town and to see the Tourists play baseball. Traveling to a city one doesn’t call home to take in a baseball game is the best sort of fandom because the experience isn’t confined to the ballpark.
Asheville seems the perfect place to house a Colorado Rockies affiliate. Asheville is a mountainous town that would not be unfamiliar to the Colorado native.