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| | 12/13/2004 Bluefish Seek Bailout Business New Haven (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Despite the allure of their still-new, taxpayer-funded ballpark, the Bridgeport Bluefish are crying poverty and seeking major financial concessions from the struggling Park City they call home. |
 | | Those reductions would include accepting half of $500,000 in back rent the team owes the city for using the Ballpark at Harbor Yard, and reducing the current annual $250,000 lease payment to between $100,000 and $150,000, according to published reports. |
 | | Although the Bluefish have set state attendance records during their seven years in the city, team owners headed by onetime Physicians Health Services CEO Mickey Herbert have maintained that baseball franchise, which plays in the non-Major League Baseball-affiliated Atlantic League, has yet to end a season in the fl. |
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