Sports Insider 2020: Honkers recover from rough season

"To say it was difficult would be an understatement."

Season will help the rochester many sports organizations around the country have been impacted by the coronavirus.

The rochester honkers survived this pandemic ?

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Kimt news 3 sports zach gilleland joins me now with the latest.xxx (?

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" season coronavirus scare to a poor season on the field... 2020 was not an ideal season for the rochester honkers.

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2020 was a season full of challenges for the rochester honkers.

Days into the season... activity was halted after an asymptomatic player tested positive for covid?

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Seatig capacity was severely limited cutting into the team's revenue... not to mention a seven and 30 record.

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We know we can't do it over night but we are going to build back as much as we can for the 2020?

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Aagard says they're already brainstorming ideas to draw baseball fans to the park next summer... assuming everything is back to normal.

I think you're going to see our fireworks are bigger and better than ever, some of our nights that we have done like bark in the park ?

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Despite all the difficulties the team faced in 2020... aagard views the season as a success.

For their part, aagard says players came away from this burdensome season thankful for the opportunity to continue developing.

They were appreciative and i was unsure of that myself, i'm glad you asked that question.

Guys on our last night came up and said hey thank you for the opportunity.

We really appreciate being able to play, we loved our host family.

They didn't really even get the chance to know what rochester was all about because everything was essentially closed down and got a lot of comments from the players that they were excited for an opportunity to come back (?

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" thnakful for the fans and sponsors that helped