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[Duke Humphrey]

And words cannot do it justice. There are no complaints or shortcomings. It is spectacular and second to none.

 

[HotMop]

And words cannot do it justice. There are no complaints or shortcomings. It is spectacular and second to none.

Did they add the waterfall?

 

[CoolDawg]

It is an awesome stadium! If we can't recruit a national championship team to play in this stadium, then shame on us. The only thing I don't like is the green monster fence in centerfield. It now looks ugly, really dated, oddly out of place, and takes away from the beauty of the rest of the stadium.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

The only “water” that was falling was “baseball water” and it was plentiful

 

[Awwhellnaw]

You mean the Doggie Doo-ettes didn’t ruin your whole exiperence???**

 

[Shamoan]

How were the food options/concessions? Last I saw it, it was still a work in progress

 

[Todd4State]

It is an awesome stadium! If we can't recruit a national championship team to play in this stadium, then shame on us. The only thing I don't like is the green monster fence in centerfield. It now looks ugly, really dated, oddly out of place, and takes away from the beauty of the rest of the stadium.

Every stadium in America has some kind of a batters eye. The only other viable option is a berm- like some MLB teams do. And even with a berm a lot of stadiums have a green and or black wall above that. But I don't believe that is an option for us because of a building behind CF at Dudy-Noble that is painted white.

It's a necessity and a safety feature because if someone can't pick up a ball and it hits them in the head it could be potentially really bad.

 

[CoolDawg]

Every stadium in America has some kind of a batters eye. The only other viable option is a berm- like some MLB teams do. And even with a berm a lot of stadiums have a green and or black wall above that. But I don't believe that is an option for us because of a building behind CF at Dudy-Noble that is painted white.

It's a necessity and a safety feature because if someone can't pick up a ball and it hits them in the head it could be potentially really bad.[/QUOTE

Thanks! You make some excellent points. I obviously know nothing about designing baseball stadiums.

 

[HotMop]

Every stadium in America has some kind of a batters eye. The only other viable option is a berm- like some MLB teams do. And even with a berm a lot of stadiums have a green and or black wall above that. But I don't believe that is an option for us because of a building behind CF at Dudy-Noble that is painted white.

It's a necessity and a safety feature because if someone can't pick up a ball and it hits them in the head it could be potentially really bad.[/QUOTE

Thanks! You make some excellent points. I obviously know nothing about designing baseball stadiums.

Uhh, first time seeing one of those walls?

 

[cowbell88]

In high school, we had to do the opposite. Pitchers and fielders eye. Our gym was in background behind backstop and we could not see the ball coming off of bat.

 

[MedDawg]

Every stadium in America has some kind of a batters eye. The only other viable option is a berm- like some MLB teams do. And even with a berm a lot of stadiums have a green and or black wall above that. But I don't believe that is an option for us because of a building behind CF at Dudy-Noble that is painted white.

It's a necessity and a safety feature because if someone can't pick up a ball and it hits them in the head it could be potentially really bad.

We used to have a second green wall to block the white building. I suggested they paint that side of the building green to keep from having a second wall and they did it for the new stadium.

Painted part of the building, anyway, enough to provide a larger batter's eye. Still a lot better than an out-of-place second batter's eye wall. Even if it's not needed for a batter's eye, they should paint the whole side of the building green.

I like our batter's eye wall. It's huge. Oversized like other aspects of the best stadium in college baseball. The huge wall also hides the center field camera.

A berm isn't an option because we use the area behind the wall for a concourse and bathrooms.

 

[kired]

Lol, we had a light beige field house behind our backstop in high school. It’s like they tried to perfectly match the color of a dirty baseball. Center & right fielders loved it...