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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: The State of Insanity
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Dodgers-Sox exhibition games to draw 115,000, feature wall 201 feet from the plate.
This is insane. I'm all for the exhibition, 115,000 attendance is awesome.. but 201 feet from home plate to the left field wall, er.. net? Which is 60 feet high?
Apparently we're playing arena Baseball ![]() http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/sp...ewanted=1&_r=1
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm all for this. Exhibition baseball - while perhaps useful for the players - is not exactly the most exciting thing to watch. I think they ought to do outrageous things like this in spring training. I mean, you don't want to mess with things like the dimensions of the infield, but what about playing a game with no outfield walls and 5 outfielders? Throw "hot zones" into the outfield, and if the ball lands in one of the hot zones, it's a ground rule double? Instead of an outfield wall, put a narrow moat there. Treat the moat like the wall. If the ball sails over it, it's a home run, unless the fielder is playing really deep, jumps over the moat, and catches it. To add on to that, if the ball lands in the moat, the offense scores double runs for that homer. Imagine an 8-run grand slam.
This shit needs to happen. Hell, it's just exhibition.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA
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PUT GATORS IN THE MOATS!!!
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Oh, I forgot to mention that there should be gators in the moats.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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They should just play Blurnsball already.
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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I was wondering what the hell Charlie Steiner was talking about earlier.
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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neato.
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2002
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So this is an essentially meaningless but fairly novel game, and it features the Red Sox and Dodgers?
I wonder if ESPN will cover it.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Green Bay, WI
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That was the layout in 1959, when the Dodgers and White Sox played in the World Series.
I'd rather have seen the White Sox in this exhibition for that reason, but hey. Last edited by SackAttack : 03-26-2008 at 03:01 PM. |
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Exhibition game, since the Red Sox are on their way back from Japan and need to get adjusted to being here. And a novelty for the Dodgers 50th anniversary of moving to Los Angeles and ripping the hearts out of all of Brooklyn. ![]() |
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I thought the only Sox in MLB were the Red Sox.
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Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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About 100,000 of them will show up in the third and leave in the seventh
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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[sarcasim] HAHAHAHA I've never heard that one before! [/sarcasim] |
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Green Bay, WI
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The show up in the third bit, I gotta tell you, until recently the parking situation at the Stadium sucked BALLS. Couple of years ago, I went to opening day, got there well over an hour before the game. The lots filled up in a hurry, but a BIG part of that was lack of enforcement of the 'no tailgating' rule, and so lots were getting closed with lots of parking spots unfilled because, well, dudes were BBQing there. They finally opened up some of the empty'ish VIP lots to the folks who were just endlessly circling the stadium looking for some lot, ANY lot, that hadn't been locked yet. I got to my seat in the bottom of the 6th inning. That's an extreme example, but when it was a free-for-all, that happened more than you'd think. Now that they've got some semblance of order in the parking lot, I would expect to see the late arrivals tail off, at least. Dunno about the 'leave in the 7th' bit, but it's much easier to get to/into the stadium on time now than it was even just 3-4 years ago. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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1958 - 2008
Year Ballpark Name Attendance Game Average Season Total N.L. Average 1958 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 1,845,556 1959 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 2,071,045 1960 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 2,253,887 1961 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 1,804,250 1962 Dodger Stadium 2,755,184 1963 Dodger Stadium 2,538,602 1964 Dodger Stadium 2,228,751 1965 Dodger Stadium 2,553,577 1966 Dodger Stadium 2,617,029 1967 Dodger Stadium 1,664,362 1968 Dodger Stadium 1,581,093 1969 Dodger Stadium 1,784,527 1970 Dodger Stadium 1,697,142 1971 Dodger Stadium 2,064,594 1972 Dodger Stadium 1,860,858 1973 Dodger Stadium 2,136,192 1974 Dodger Stadium 2,632,474 1975 Dodger Stadium 2,539,349 1976 Dodger Stadium 2,386,301 1977 Dodger Stadium 2,955,087 1978 Dodger Stadium 3,347,845 1979 Dodger Stadium 2,860,954 1980 Dodger Stadium 3,249,287 1981 Dodger Stadium 2,381,292 1982 Dodger Stadium 3,608,881 1983 Dodger Stadium 3,510,313 1984 Dodger Stadium 3,134,824 1985 Dodger Stadium 3,264,593 1986 Dodger Stadium 3,023,208 1987 Dodger Stadium 2,797,409 1988 Dodger Stadium 2,980,262 1989 Dodger Stadium 2,944,653 1990 Dodger Stadium 3,002,396 1991 Dodger Stadium 3,348,170 1992 Dodger Stadium 2,473,266 1993 Dodger Stadium 3,170,393 1994 Dodger Stadium 2,279,355 1995 Dodger Stadium 2,766,251 1996 Dodger Stadium 3,188,454 1997 Dodger Stadium 3,319,504 1998 Dodger Stadium 3,089,222 1999 Dodger Stadium 3,098,042 2000 Dodger Stadium 2,880,242 2001 Dodger Stadium 3,017,143 2002 Dodger Stadium 3,131,077 2003 Dodger Stadium 3,138,626 2004 Dodger Stadium 3,488,283 2005 Dodger Stadium 3,603,680 2006 Dodger Stadium 3,758,421 2007 Dodger Stadium 3,856,753 137,682,659 Fans can't be wrong! |
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#17 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Illinois
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#18 |
Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Illinois
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But the gators should be acid- and fire-resistant.
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#19 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Ohio
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Real acid?
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#20 |
Mascot
Join Date: Sep 2005
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You know what would be really crazy? Play a game without any players who have taken steroids in their lives! You just never see THAT anymore.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Whittier
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Parking is going to be a nightmare on Saturday. Paying 70 dollars to some guy who probably will be selling your car in an hour anyways. You probably could have made the other team the D-Rays and Dodger fans probably would have bright in 115K fans.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA
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Tee-ball is your best bet.
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Somerville, MA
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Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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Parking around the complex is going to be $25 |
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA
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#26 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Great Northwest
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Here are some pictures from the game that I took with my camera phone. Sorry for the lack of quality, the camera I was going to use seems to have broke!
http://www.dangarion.com/general-new...-dodgers-game/ |
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Amarillo, TX
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