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Hey everyone!

It's been a decent off-season. There are lot of good things in store from our communications department.

To highlight:

*    For the first time in the team's history, all 140 scheduled games will be aired on the radio. In previous years the team has had home games on the radio, but that ceased after the 1985 season. We'll be on WRES 100.7 FM. For those who listen in from the West Coast, fear not, games will still be online at both MiLB.com and TheAshevilleTourists.com.

*    The club will be selling a team yearbook in 2008. Like a media guide, it will have information on players, coaches, McCormick Field and team history. It will also contain statistics, records and bits of interesting information.

*    We will be doing a weekly talk show. We've toiled with the idea of calling it Tourists Talk, but I'm not sure that's the way we'll go since we'll delve into some Major League stuff, as well. Have a good idea for a name? Let me know!

*    General introduction: Our communications coordinator, who reports to me, communications manager, will be Eric Little. You'll find that Eric is a very capable broadcaster and he's a great guy. It'll be nice to share the booth with him this year. Eric will be doing a lot more than just that, though. As we grow our communications department, his job will require a lot of writing, be it news releases, game recaps, specials features/profiles, etc. Eric's e-mail address will be elittle@theashevilletourists.com.

*   My e-mail address for the upcoming year is bchapman@theashevilletourists.com. If you want to get a hold of me or Eric, another sure way is just send an e-mail to pressbox@theashevilletourists.com.

Thanks for all the support last year. Look forward to hearing from many of you this year. Go Tourists!!!

P.S. If anyone would like to donate money to the Saving Money For Brandon Chapman's Kid's College Fund, just let me know :).