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OT: MLB Thread

DonKay said:
Watching the start of the ball game and the're talking about Fenway and the job they've done to make what was a treasure an even bigger treasure....how its just a treat to go and that it is the most special park to go to

Makes me wonder how special it would have been to still have the forum...perhaps renovated to add more seats but I think it would have been spectacular if it was still around
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I know people talk about these old parks and arenas with all that gooey nostalgia shit, but in reality, from a fan confort perspective they are usually lacking. Even the old forum was no great shakes. Seats were too tight. No leg room. I hear Fenway has a dumpy feel to it. Not completely unexpected from such an old place.
 
Ballparks are different from Arenas, or from Football stadiums... baseball is really the only sport where the Ballpark itself truly influences the game in such a huge way.

Yes their are minor home field/home ice advantages in other forums, but its not the same as in baseball, where Oakland maximizes a pitchers park by always looking for good young arms, where the Yankees have the short right field porch and look for left handed power-hitters over the years, where Wade Boggs feasted on the Green Monster for so long, and there are numerous other examples....

Each ballpark has its own character and Fenway's monster is part of that for sure.
 
BKerr said:
Ballparks are different from Arenas, or from Football stadiums... baseball is really the only sport where the Ballpark itself truly influences the game in such a huge way.

Yes their are minor home field/home ice advantages in other forums, but its not the same as in baseball, where Oakland maximizes a pitchers park by always looking for good young arms, where the Yankees have the short right field porch and look for left handed power-hitters over the years, where Wade Boggs feasted on the Green Monster for so long, and there are numerous other examples....

Each ballpark has its own character and Fenway's monster is part of that for sure.
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[video=youtube;0Y4zxcSuwlI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y4zxcSuwlI[/video]

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Sidhartha Banerjee ‏@sidhartha_b

He's got my vote MT @tfsargeant Rudy Giuliani says if he was baseball commissioner he would bring back the #Expos
 
Count, just think of how much more you will be able to post on the internet if/when the expos come back and you will have more people to piss off!
 
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