NashLumber

I was shooting baskets in the driveway listening to the radio feed. I was counting on nothing dramatic happening so early. in front of the TV now. Just catching up.

Went back to see what it looked like before the first pitch. Definitely some empty seats in the deck and some in the bleachers in right center. But later, on the replay of Mullins' RBI double, it looks to have filled out some. Probably people showing up late or eating and missing things early. And looking on down the LF line and LF wall around the same time.

Early in the game, I was looking at the LF upper deck and it looked like the last few rows were empty. but seemed like a good crowd. I never looked at right-center seats early in the game. I will say, there are probably a lot of people out getting snacks and late showing up. And then folks leave early to beat the traffic being not only fair weather fans, but maybe not even baseball fans.

Well, that was a joy. More please.

I still owe him a beer for the Bautista dust-up.

Ooooooh Dor! Is that how they announce him? Nice to see him start things off, finally. His other hit was that lucky check swing with the shift vs. Rays.

My only guess is they don't own the rights to the other team's feed and attempting to do an overlay of the strike zone (if the other team doesn't) may be altering intellectual property. Seems silly, as it seems very doable, but legal stuff gets so in the weeds.

Ah, thanks for checking on that. I have the ESPN Gameday on sometimes, so I guess I'll look over there for away games for the box.

A little behind in the thread, but last game thread I was on, someone pointed out the box was not visible for the strike zone. It's back now for MASN.

Very similar set up - love it!

All set for the home opener. Got the game and O's Hangout side by side. And my Birdcaster guitar behind the TV. My wife is watching with me. We watched the April 8 game together on our anniversary, so here's hoping for a win this time.

Kind of surprised they didn't come up with this earlier. I guess these were too big to strap on one's wrist in '71 and it took 51 years to shrink it down.

An Ooops-Dor check swing hit.

Good grab! Could have been so much worse of an inning to try to come back from.

The check bounced? Or they purchased the (Syd) Thrift Package, perhaps?

Same. Frustrating.

Agreed. And as I say, I'm ok with it and excited to see it for myself. Clearly getting the fences as far back as feasible won out over softening the bullpen angle.

Agreed. It's a trade-off. But as I say, it tapers from the 376 bullpen angle or so to aboout 390 where the guy is on the ladder. I believe it was 364 in dead LF previously. It's a roughly 40 feet or so length of fence where it's less than the severe drop back per the new configuration.

I'm ok with it for now. As others have said, let's see how it plays out. I do think it would not be terribly hard to modify it in the way I highlighted below in red (bottom photo) if they find the hard sharp angle more dangerous than envisioned. The way I drew it in the lower image, the wall would be similar to the Fenway right-center field angle. I counted the seats from the O's ticket page and it would span 34 seats to get from the corner to the end of section 84. The upper photo shows that it could join about where the workers are applying the padding. Curiously the O's ticket page still shows the old dimensions, but the seats that are gone are grayed out (unavailable). If they went this route, I'm guessing the wall would be about 390 where the guy on the ladder is and it decreases until it reached the 376 of the bullpen angle. It's 398 with the current reconfiguration in that last section before the bullpen.

It's "Men With Hats Run The Bases" night after the game.

I've seen photos from that ear. Rather comical. Or maybe just have wooden bleachers there tucked into the wall like the rollout ones at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Bromo Corner. Maybe paint a simulated aclock face and turret to it.

Makes me wonder if eventually the practice fields (and even the main ballpark) in Sarasota will take on these dimensions in order to help players get familiar with the angles, etc.? Seem I read that the existing ones all had Camden Yards dimensions.

I know nothing about construction, but that looks not too different than the Jan. 26 photos. Maybe it's what's happening just out of sight or behind that tarp where the progress is. I do know that the section with new playing surface has to drain (or be connected to) the rest of the under-the-field drainage system. Maybe that is what they've spent effort on the last 3 weeks.

Wow. Rather surprised it's taken 5 pages for no one to post a Two Sheds Jackson reference.