Levin, what you suggest is the traditional method for dealing with “short boundaries”, as best exemplified by Philadelphia’s old Baker Bowl, which featured a 60 foot high wall beginning at the right field foul pole only 281 feet from home plate.
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI’m going to opening day at the Trop to see Rays vs Red Sox. The Rays are going for a complete rebuild but Archer will start so they might win that one, at least.
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No, since the 19th century (when the rule that one was also out if a hit ball was caught after a single bound), the ball must be caught on the fly (or having only contacted another player).
Tropicana Field in St Petersburg (where Reed is going) is a dome, and about once a season a hit ball hits a rafter or catwalk. Those are automatic doubles (such “ground rules” are formally set and approved by the league, and discussed by the umpires with the visiting manager before the first game of every series).
The Reds have given us our first postponement of the season already.
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Pretty pictures of baseball food from the Guardian.
Yum, indeed. (Sorry, that was sarcasm. Fuck Aramark.)Last edited by Gerontophile; 28-03-2018, 21:53.
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Food at Petco is remarkably good (although you can still get soggy nachos if you want) and the beer selection is very good although not at all good value. This year the excellent Carnitas Snack Shack has opened an outlet there. And if you're buying from them, you really should have the Triple Threat sandwich, which is carnitas, schnitzel and bacon, with peperoncini relish, and aioli.
Frankly, if you're a Padres fan, you probably ought to just focus on the beer and food this year, and the fact that you're watching baseball in lovely conditions - mid 70s and sunny for tomorrow's kick-off. It makes the expected defeat easier to handle...
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Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View PostMissed the London game news while I was abroad. Not sure I want to see Yankees/Red Sox, at least if it's not at Fenway, but would be delighted to watch the Cubs play, or to watch someone else beat the Cardinals.
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3 and a half hours 'til the season starts. It's a beautiful, sunny, warm day here in San Diego. It reminds me, oddly, of the rare times when weather on the first day of cricket season turned out to be nice, back in the mid 80s. I'd wander down to the University Parks some time in mid-April to watch the university team get spanked by whichever county came along. But it didn't matter, because cricket was back.
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Petco's looking glorious, full to the rafters for the only time this year. But I've had to keep the sound off and keep looking away through the god-america-soldiers stuff that seems to be over the top, even by San Diego sports standards.
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