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Post by eugenedave on Apr 23, 2017 18:28:25 GMT -8
all within the State of Oregon (assuming you consider spewgene part of the state) If all goes according to plan, next out of state game is in Omaha! There have been times when i thought the People's Socialist Republic of Eugene was not a part of the great state of Oregon. I literally live as far north in Eugene as you can, and still be considered to be in the city. My neighbor across the street address puts him in Junction City, and he pays 1/2 the property tax I pay. What a deal. I keep thinking of the O State ballers song from a decade ago. "Steady Omaha bound from the top of the Pac-10". And they still need to move those outfield fences in at TD Ameritrade. |
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Post by badwack on Apr 23, 2017 20:03:38 GMT -8
I'm thinking someone should bring in some extra special Hitting Instructor to get these guys going with the Bat. We are damn good but leave far to many runs on the table. We need far better hitting. Just saying.......
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Post by beaverdreams on Apr 23, 2017 20:39:02 GMT -8
Hah, well the irony of course is that Corvallis is a way more liberal, enlightened place than that hell hole.....Springfield West! Lol....
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Post by mbabeav on Apr 24, 2017 9:28:52 GMT -8
I'm thinking someone should bring in some extra special Hitting Instructor to get these guys going with the Bat. We are damn good but leave far to many runs on the table. We need far better hitting. Just saying....... Gotta balance that by saying that we are seeing some of the best pitching in the country, some of the best defenses, and still finding ways to win when other teams just can't quite get over that hump against us. That to me is the difference between a good and a great team. We could be 28-7, top 10, and not a lot of people would be complaining after last year. But we are 32-3, #1, and well if this is a slump, I will take it! |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 24, 2017 13:42:56 GMT -8
all within the State of Oregon (assuming you consider spewgene part of the state) If all goes according to plan, next out of state game is in Omaha! There have been times when i thought the People's Socialist Republic of Eugene was not a part of the great state of Oregon. I literally live as far north in Eugene as you can, and still be considered to be in the city. My neighbor across the street address puts him in Junction City, and he pays 1/2 the property tax I pay. What a deal. I keep thinking of the O State ballers song from a decade ago. "Steady Omaha bound from the top of the Pac-10". And they still need to move those outfield fences in at TD Ameritrade. TD Ameritrade's dimensions are the same as Rosenblatt's were. What should the dimensions be? The same as at Goss Stadium? Fences five feet closer and eight feet closer in center? Also, one should remember that prior to 2002, Rosenblatt's dimensions were 343 to left and right, 370 to the power alleys, and 420 to center. Although Oregon State played in the 335/375/408 version of Rosenblatt, Rosenblatt was not always that small. |
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Post by mbabeav on Apr 24, 2017 14:25:42 GMT -8
There have been times when i thought the People's Socialist Republic of Eugene was not a part of the great state of Oregon. I literally live as far north in Eugene as you can, and still be considered to be in the city. My neighbor across the street address puts him in Junction City, and he pays 1/2 the property tax I pay. What a deal. I keep thinking of the O State ballers song from a decade ago. "Steady Omaha bound from the top of the Pac-10". And they still need to move those outfield fences in at TD Ameritrade. TD Ameritrade's dimensions are the same as Rosenblatt's were. What should the dimensions be? The same as at Goss Stadium? Fences five feet closer and eight feet closer in center? Also, one should remember that prior to 2002, Rosenblatt's dimensions were 343 to left and right, 370 to the power alleys, and 420 to center. Although Oregon State played in the 335/375/408 version of Rosenblatt, Rosenblatt was not always that small. The big difference here is the orientation of the field - TD Ameritrade is laid out so that the strong southerly winds that are almost constant during that time of year are blowing in - frequently at 20+ mph. Almost impossible to hit the ball out unless you pull it to the shortest parts of the park. At old Rosenblatt, Danny Hayes hit would have cleared the fence by 50 feet. A lot of people still say that the hardest hit ball at TDA was the ball Michael Conforto hit to dead center field. It was directly into a 25+ mph wind and hit the warning track and bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 25, 2017 14:12:28 GMT -8
TD Ameritrade's dimensions are the same as Rosenblatt's were. What should the dimensions be? The same as at Goss Stadium? Fences five feet closer and eight feet closer in center? Also, one should remember that prior to 2002, Rosenblatt's dimensions were 343 to left and right, 370 to the power alleys, and 420 to center. Although Oregon State played in the 335/375/408 version of Rosenblatt, Rosenblatt was not always that small. The big difference here is the orientation of the field - TD Ameritrade is laid out so that the strong southerly winds that are almost constant during that time of year are blowing in - frequently at 20+ mph. Almost impossible to hit the ball out unless you pull it to the shortest parts of the park. At old Rosenblatt, Danny Hayes hit would have cleared the fence by 50 feet. A lot of people still say that the hardest hit ball at TDA was the ball Michael Conforto hit to dead center field. It was directly into a 25+ mph wind and hit the warning track and bounced over the fence for a ground-rule double. The big differences are orientation of the field and elevation. Rosenblatt was also up on a hill (1,148 feet, 161 feet higher than TD Ameritrade), which increased the effect of the wind and also decreased the gravity. The two ballparks in the Majors with the most home runs are Coors (5,186 feet above sea level) and Chase (1,061 feet above sea level), the two parks with the highest elevation. The prevailing wind in Omaha is SSE in June, but the wind is very rarely that 20+ mph. Although, when it is strong, it does come from more of a southerly than a SSE direction. In 2013, the wind during game 1 never exceeded 10 mph. It was very windy before the game started, but the wind was coming from the NNE. The wind came from the SSW for most of the game switching to SSE between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. local and back to SSW by 5:00 p.m. I looked into this, though. Here are some interesting (or not) tidbits. Dimensions are 375 to the power alleys, but there is something squirrelly there, as right field is straight, whereas left field is arced, so one or the other (or possibly both) of the power alley measurements is probably wrong. (Most people think that the right field power alley measurement is high.) The field is oriented in order to give people sitting in the stadium a better view of downtown Omaha. If the field were oriented the same way as Rosenblatt, the view would not be as good. Further, the right field was required to be straight (and to have a 335 measurement down the line to right) in order to get funding, because the UFL Omaha Nighthawks were based there for the 2011 and 2012 seasons before the UFL folded. The Omaha Mammoths of the FXFL were also there in 2014. In football configuration, the south end zone ends 5 feet away from the right field wall. The north end line is the third base line with the north end zone taking up 10 yards of foul territory. Left field could be different dimensions, which would bring center field in, but the right field dimensions must remain static. The field could be oriented the same way as Rosenblatt but that would lock left field in place. Rosenblatt was an East-West football stadium, which was one of the reasons that it was ultimately decided to demolish it. The fix to the home run drought from 2011-2014 was to change the balls. That seemed to work for 2015, but home runs were down again in Omaha in 2016. If home runs are down from 2017-2019, expect the NCAA to try and implement another change in 2020. |
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