2008 Nashville Sounds season

MiLB yearly infobox
name = Nashville Sounds
season = 2008
misc =
class = Triple-A
y1 = 1985
league = Pacific Coast League
y2 = 1998
division = American North Division
y3 = 2005
MLB = Milwaukee Brewers
y4 = 2005
ballpark = Herschel Greer Stadium
y5 = 1978
city = city-state|Nashville|Tennessee
y6 = 1978
owners = Al Gordon
(Principal owner)
gm = Glenn Yaeger
Joe Hart
managers = Frank Kremblas
television =
radio = WNSR
baseballcube = http://www.thebaseballcube.com/statistics/2008/10312.shtml
minorsbbref = http://minors.baseball-reference.com/teams.cgi?yid=2008&lid=PCL&tid=NVLThe Nashville Sounds' by|2008 season was the franchise's thirty-first year of play. The team finished the regular season with a record of 59 wins and 81 losses. They finished fourth in their division, which kept them out of the post-season.

Regular season

On June 14, 2008, following massive flooding in the Midwest, the Sounds and the Iowa Cubs played a game with an official attendance of zero. Though downtown Des Moines was under a mandatory evacuation, team officials received permission from the city to play the game as long as no fans were allowed into Principal Park. In order to keep fans away, the lights and scoreboard were not turned on, the game was not broadcast in the local market, and a message on the team's website announced that the game was postponed. PCL Commissioner Branch Rickey III believed that this was the first time such actions were taken out of necessity.Peterson, Randy. "Only Sounds of silence play at empty park." "The Tennessean". 15 June 2008: 1C.] The Sounds were further impacted by weather when Hurricane Gustav forced the cancellation of the last three games of their season against the New Orleans Zephyrs. [Fortus, Bob. [http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base//sports-38/1220073945119040.xml&coll=1 "Zephyrs end season just ahead of storm."] "The Times-Picayune". 30 August 2008. Retrieved on 30 August 2008.]

The team spent all but one day of the season at the bottom of their divisional standings. Their 59–81 record (.421) was the worst in the team’s 31-year history. [Silver, Steve. [http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/SPORTS0401/809030403/1040/SPORTS08 "Eight Sounds called up to Brewers for last month."] "The Tennessean". 30 August 2008. Retrieved on 6 September 2008.]

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