Sadly, the Newark Bears are no more

Johnny barely made mention of the sad fact the Newark Bears sold off everything but the pitchers mound yesterday in his article earlier this week on the idea to bring a minor league baseball team to Jersey City. You can read all about the sad state of affairs and their relatively new $30 million stadium closing up shop here.

It's too bad when a great idea like this fails. We've long been of the mind here at the Jersey City Desk the wrong people were running the Bears. In the end however it doesn't seem like it would have much mattered, people for whatever reason just were not going to Newark to watch baseball. The train stopped right outside the stadium, it was right off the 280. It couldn't have been put in a better area and yet, here we are today.

So long Newark bears, may you one day be reincarnated as the Jersey City Space Punks.

Is the talentless human scream machine Justin Bieber coming to Bears Stadium in Newark?

Johnny was reading an article in the Star-Ledger and was truly amazed at how badly Columbus Day can screw up communications, as supposedly concert promoters and the like observe Columbus Day like they are a goddamned bank or the post office, but we digress.

As part of a Halloween event, Bieber would sing at the Stadium of Screams event at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium on Oct. 28 — the Sunday before Halloween.

Here's where things get confused:

Bears owner Danielle Dronet had signed a contract with SkyIsland Productions, a California management company that offered to deliver Justin Bieber to the banks of the Passaic. 

However, those close to Bieber say no such event is planned:

Reached through e-mail, Bieber’s longtime publicist Melissa Victor called the show announcement "pure fiction."

Tickets have not yet been made available but in their press release the Bears have offered chances to win seats to the event.

In comments left on the Star-Ledger website Dronet guaranteed Bieber would appear:

"Justin Bieber WILL honor his agreement. Additional evidence and verification will be released tomorrow." -- Danielle Dronet  Newark Bears Owner/CEO/GM

So folks we'll see today who is right and maybe find out why concert promoting doesn't work well on Columbus Day. Til then all the pre-teen girls in Essex County will have to hope against hope that their talentless little talisman keeps their spooky date.