Cujo Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Minute Maid Park's gawdawful hill getting 86ed following the 2015 season. https://twitter.com/MLBcathedrals/status/606509209354694658/photo/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnPheitseog Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Minute Maid Park's gawdawful hill getting 86ed following the 2015 season.https://twitter.com/MLBcathedrals/status/606509209354694658/photo/1 booooooooooo, one of my favourite parts about the park Formerly known as DiePerske Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportstar1212 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Minute Maid Park's gawdawful hill getting 86ed following the 2015 season.https://twitter.com/MLBcathedrals/status/606509209354694658/photo/1 I've always hated that :censored:ing thing. Good riddance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 How centerfield in Houston will look in 2016. UPGRADE UPGRADE UPGRADE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadragon76 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 The TLR regime has sent Mark Trumbo packing to the M's for a pile of prospects.Trumbo was never a good fit in Arizona. Couldn't play first base with Goldschmidt in town and basically platooned the outfield when the team was at full health. He'll never be the player he was in Anaheim, but Seattle should be a better situation for him than 'Zona was.Hah ha ha ha.... no.I don't understand what the obsession is with power bats the GM has. With the exception of Cruz, nearly every power bat guy he got has fallen flat in Seattle, and I don't see Trumbo doing any better unless he can start hitting for average.Right now, this so-called 'playoff' team most people had jumped on the wagon for is struggling. They don't need another power guy, they need a guy who can consistently hit the ball and get on base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Minute Maid Park's gawdawful hill getting 86ed following the 2015 season. https://twitter.com/MLBcathedrals/status/606509209354694658/photo/1 On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 The ultimate quirky for the sake of quirky park (QFQS) will be much improved without the hill. I suppose that means the in-play flag pole will be out as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I've definitely never been to a park that's more of an architectural mess than Minute Maid. It's painfully obvious to see that they were working with some severe size and structural limitations when they designed it. The half trainyard half warehouse feel it has is so downright discombobulated it almost feels like they nailed two halves of separate buildings together to save time. I've been to just about every one of the parks that have a roof and they ALL have their flaws (The BOB in AZ Feels like a Costco, Miller Park feels completely squished, and even Seattle's roof is annoyingly slow), but none are quite as ridiculous as the former Enron. That's precisely why I don't like this move, though. Why lessen the absurdity of the place? If anything, they should've gone in the opposite direction and called up the guy who designed the Marlins weird outfield statue. Ask for the same thing, but with rocket ships! On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 The TLR regime has sent Mark Trumbo packing to the M's for a pile of prospects.Trumbo was never a good fit in Arizona. Couldn't play first base with Goldschmidt in town and basically platooned the outfield when the team was at full health. He'll never be the player he was in Anaheim, but Seattle should be a better situation for him than 'Zona was. Hah ha ha ha.... no.I don't understand what the obsession is with power bats the GM has. With the exception of Cruz, nearly every power bat guy he got has fallen flat in Seattle, and I don't see Trumbo doing any better unless he can start hitting for average.Right now, this so-called 'playoff' team most people had jumped on the wagon for is struggling. They don't need another power guy, they need a guy who can consistently hit the ball and get on base.The Mariners need reliable relief pitching across the board. I've watched them hand over several leads to middle and late relievers, only to see one- or two-run leads turn into three-run deficits. It's been a really frustrating team to watch. 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportstar1212 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Red Sox up 4-0, end up losing 8-4.Good :censored:ing god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmoehrin Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 The hill was a bad idea just on player safety issues alone. Can you imagine Mike Trout or Lorenzo Cain tearing their ACL'a running up that thing to catch a fly ball? And for what? Because a handful of people think its neat and cool to look at?Quirky for the sake of being quirky is one way of looking at it and not a description I disagree with. But I prefer stupid for the sake of being stupid. Stupid people built and like that thing and its becuase of those stupid people that many a center fielder has seen their career flash before their eyes as they climbed it.There's a lot of things to like about that park. Left field at Minute Maid may be one of if not the most underated place to watch a game from in baseball. Its like the monster seats at Fenway, only closer to the field. But that hill has never been a plus for that park. There's also nothing to see out in center field so anything put out there would be an upgrade over what's there now.Also 30 years ago today was Ferris Bueller's day off. Or at least the game they went to was played 30 years ago today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerslionspistonshabs Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Anyone familiar enough with the Cincinnati riverfront to know if there's any dedicated sites/plaques etc? I'm going there in a couple weeks to watch the Tigers play the Reds and I'm a big history buff and love checking out plaques that are on old 'this happened here' sites.I went to Pittsburgh last summer and checked out the plaque with Franco Harris' footprint and they also had a plaque commemorating the site of the 1st World Series. Very cool indeed.Any tips would be great! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayMac Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Also 30 years ago today was Ferris Bueller's day off. Or at least the game they went to was played 30 years ago today.What's the score?Nuthin-nuthin. Who's winning? The Bears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sport Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Anyone familiar enough with the Cincinnati riverfront to know if there's any dedicated sites/plaques etc? I'm going there in a couple weeks to watch the Tigers play the Reds and I'm a big history buff and love checking out plaques that are on old 'this happened here' sites.I went to Pittsburgh last summer and checked out the plaque with Franco Harris' footprint and they also had a plaque commemorating the site of the 1st World Series. Very cool indeed.Any tips would be great! Thanks!Yes. If you go into Christian Moerlein, which is like a bar/restaurant/brewery across the street from the stadium on the first base side there is a plaque on the floor shortly after you walk in the door that marks where first base was in Riverfront stadium. And it's kind of hard to find because it's on the bottom floor of the parking garage below Moerlein, but there is also a home plate plaque for Riverfront. Also, outside the stadium down the first base side is a rose garden that has one white rose which is where Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit landed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeypower Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 A lady is in Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit with a broken bat at Fenway.http://deadspin.com/fan-at-red-sox-game-hit-by-broken-bat-stretchered-off-1709430661NSFW/Bloody/screaming videos and pictures after the tweets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedleyLamarr Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 A lady is in Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit with a broken bat at Fenway.http://deadspin.com/fan-at-red-sox-game-hit-by-broken-bat-stretchered-off-1709430661NSFW/Bloody/screaming videos and pictures after the tweets. Didn't college baseball recently go with these composite bats? Has the feel of swinging a wooden bat, but doesn't break so easily?We probably aren't that far away from MLB going a similar direction. The number of broken bats has been high for the last few years anyway, but all it's taken is one serious injury (or death) for leagues to make safety-in-mind changes lately. The NHL did it with the nets over the goals and no-touch icings, Nascar did it with the required HANS device, MLB did it with the catchers blocking home plate modifications, and football's been tinkering with kickoff adjustments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lights Out Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Minute Maid Park's gawdawful hill getting 86ed following the 2015 season.https://twitter.com/MLBcathedrals/status/606509209354694658/photo/1 POTD: 2/4/12 3/4/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerslionspistonshabs Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 Anyone familiar enough with the Cincinnati riverfront to know if there's any dedicated sites/plaques etc? I'm going there in a couple weeks to watch the Tigers play the Reds and I'm a big history buff and love checking out plaques that are on old 'this happened here' sites.I went to Pittsburgh last summer and checked out the plaque with Franco Harris' footprint and they also had a plaque commemorating the site of the 1st World Series. Very cool indeed.Any tips would be great! Thanks!Yes. If you go into Christian Moerlein, which is like a bar/restaurant/brewery across the street from the stadium on the first base side there is a plaque on the floor shortly after you walk in the door that marks where first base was in Riverfront stadium. And it's kind of hard to find because it's on the bottom floor of the parking garage below Moerlein, but there is also a home plate plaque for Riverfront. Also, outside the stadium down the first base side is a rose garden that has one white rose which is where Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit landed. Awesome man, thanks! Is the parking garage easily accessible or...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmoehrin Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 A lady is in Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries after being hit with a broken bat at Fenway.http://deadspin.com/fan-at-red-sox-game-hit-by-broken-bat-stretchered-off-1709430661NSFW/Bloody/screaming videos and pictures after the tweets.Didn't college baseball recently go with these composite bats? Has the feel of swinging a wooden bat, but doesn't break so easily?We probably aren't that far away from MLB going a similar direction. The number of broken bats has been high for the last few years anyway, but all it's taken is one serious injury (or death) for leagues to make safety-in-mind changes lately. The NHL did it with the nets over the goals and no-touch icings, Nascar did it with the required HANS device, MLB did it with the catchers blocking home plate modifications, and football's been tinkering with kickoff adjustments.I know talks about expanding the net behind home plate down to the dugouts go back decades.I don't know where she was sitting so I'm not sure if it would have helped her or not.If it did though I wouldn't be surprised to see the net exapnded as soon as next year. The season ticket holders won't like it, but if the Red Sox have to settle for seven or eight figures, I don't think they are going to care what the season ticket holders think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001mark Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 We probably aren't that far away from MLB going a similar direction. The number of broken bats has been high for the last few years anyway, but all it's taken is one serious injury (or death) for leagues to make safety-in-mind changes lately. The NHL did it with the nets over the goals and no-touch icings, Nascar did it with the required HANS device, MLB did it with the catchers blocking home plate modifications, and football's been tinkering with kickoff adjustments.Yeah, looks that way. We're talking about a league that's mandated helmets for all base coaches & ball boys/girls (& we all know that's mostly for show). Those participants are ppl who are mere feet from baseline fan seating, yet they also those who are fully focused on the game at hand. Ppl sitting low near the diamond could be texting or eating or laughing with someone in the row behind them... & that's probably MLB's greater concern & reasoning if they do pull the safety trigger.Further, it's not as if this event wasn't foreseen... decades of fans 'accidentally' saving themselves from flying bats & balls usually end up on blooper reels. This woman ended up in hospital. @2001mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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