Pandemic Makes For Strange Year For Chattanooga Lookouts

Chattanooga-(WDEF-TV) The Chattanooga Lookouts saw their final two games of the year rained out over the weekend.
Kind of a fitting end to perhaps the craziest season in club history.
It wasn’t easy for the Lookouts navigating their minor league campaign during a pandemic.

Said Lookouts General Manager Rich Mozingo:”All accounts. The most strange season we’ve ever had here.”
Yeah cue the theme to ‘Stranger Things’.
This season has been crazy from the get-go.
Said Mozingo:”We were back in the office by March 1st and still didn’t have a schedule in front of us, but had a pretty good idea of when we were going to start. Yeah we came in the office and started working like crazy, and we weren’t really sure what we were working for at that point.”
Lookouts dealt with crowd restrictions for much of the year due to COVID. The club also elected to go cashless to ticketless at AT&T Field.
Said Mozingo:”That first week was amazing. It was amazing more than anything because of the support we got from Chattanooga. We sold out every single game in our first home stand. In fact we sold out 16 of our first 18 games this year.”
Chattanooga managed those sell-outs minus some staple attractions.
Said Mozingo:”You know what we really missed this year was the entertainers. We didn’t have a single entertainment act in the building at all this year. We’ll definitely go back to that next year.”
Announcer:”We’re giving away not one, but two pre

-loved used cars.”
Used car night even changed this year.
Instead of having one night of used car winners this season, the club gave away one used car for every Saturday home game.
Said Mozingo:”Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union came to us with that idea. We loved the idea. We’ll have to see what their thoughts are. I mean I think they really enjoyed being part of Lookouts baseball all year long.”
Who knows, that might become a new Lookouts tradition.
Said Mozingo:”You’ll know we’ll get together at the end of this year. We’ve got a list that’s a page and-a-half long arleady of things that we changed for COVID, and I bet we’ll look at 15 or 20 of them and won’t change back. I think there’s a lot of things on there that we just did better this year or smarter this year that we won’t change back for in the near future.”
This pandemic season demonstrated how flexible the Lookouts could be.
Said Mozingo:”We’ve turned on a dime three or four or five times this year because that’s what was what we had to do for Major League Baseball. You know it has been a fun year. It has been a good year to see Chattanooga come together and Chattanooga to come to our ballpark and enjoy themselves. It has been a very strange year, but it really has been nice. The people that we’ve had inside the building and the patience they’ve shown with us has really been fantastic.”