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Originally posted by PeteU View PostLike I said, comp tickets (free tickets given out by the team as a gift) will not count towards the paid attendance figure, hence why it doesn't appear on paper that it was a capacity crowd even though in actuality it most certainly was.
Look at all the ballpark openings over the past 20 years and I guarantee that nearly all of them won't be listed as being full paid capacity because of the comp ticket factor.
The Marlins opening day was a huge ticket sold out long in advance. Believe me on this.
That said, it's been well noted that the announced attendance has no coorelation to actual people in the stadium. There is no IRS oversight, not laws saying it must be exact. Most times the stadium will fabricate a number that sounds good.
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It will be interesting to see what they do. Regardless, it is better to build with a big field in mind because you can't push the fences out. Cincinnati a prime example. The right field line is actually more shallow than SUn Life. The left field line is 10 feet deeper and of course once you get into the alleys and straight away center it is much deeper.
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Distance markersI see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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Originally posted by jnakamura View PostDistance markers
I had to confront this same issue at the 2009 AAA All Star Game Home Run Derby at PGE Park in Portland, when the event guys asked me to help them put up distance signs around the outfield as targets for the hitters: any time your target is above the field, you can't say ahead of time how far a ball went that hit it - high flies will end up less, and line drives more...ESPN Home Run Tracker
Home run distances for every home run hit in MLB
http://www.hittrackeronline.com
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Originally posted by gator92 View PostThe 502 marker could be accurate, although obviously a ball passing through that sign could end up with a lot of different distances, depending on the height of its trajectory. The 401 and 447 markers are both short, though - anything hitting either of them will almost certainly be 10-20 feet longer than those markers, given that you're expressing distance as the projected distance back down to field level.
I had to confront this same issue at the 2009 AAA All Star Game Home Run Derby at PGE Park in Portland, when the event guys asked me to help them put up distance signs around the outfield as targets for the hitters: any time your target is above the field, you can't say ahead of time how far a ball went that hit it - high flies will end up less, and line drives more...I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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Originally posted by PeteU View PostProbably because after years of playing at a stadium with 67,000 seats that made even healthy sized crowds of 30,000+ look anemic, Marlins brass wanted to go in the opposite direction. And if more that 37,000 people wanted to get in but couldn't, then it would just go to the concept of demand and make the Marlins a hotter ticket.
That and it probably wouldn't be too wise to have a stadium that is too large in that neighborhood given the parking situation.
I'm okay with that with one exception--post season games. When the Marlins made the postseason, Joe Robbie Stadium was an entirely different stadium. 67,000 screaming fans created a huge advantage for them. You won't get that in the new park.
the size of the previous place and the inconveniences to the neighborhood have nothing to do with it.
mlb is a bu$ine$$ and the marlins take it to absurd levels, look for more of this from your local owners soon...the turd in the punchbowl
reality really sucks.
enjoy the game more...
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Originally posted by Jbutta29 View Postreally wanted to like this park, but the colors just kill the whole look of the thing for me.
shameless...the turd in the punchbowl
reality really sucks.
enjoy the game more...
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In case anyone was wondering where the Orange Bowl field would lay on the Marlins Park field, a few years ago I put together an approximate overlay of the two:
miami-ballpark-orange bowl.jpg
miami-ballpark-orange bowl-fieldlayout.jpg
So the locations of perhaps the two most iconic Orange Bowl moments (in my opinion) -- Namath running off the Super Bowl III field doing the "we're #1" finger wave and Phelan's catch of Flutie's hail mary -- are covered by the stadium itself, though the spot where Flutie threw the pass is about halfway from 1st to 2nd where the grass meats the dirt. All approximate, of course.
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Originally posted by jnakamura View PostI believe those markers are not indicitive of how far a ball hitting those signs will have traveled, simply how far those signs (spots) are from home plate. For example, any ball hitting that 447 marker would be "taped" at close to a 500 ft blast.ESPN Home Run Tracker
Home run distances for every home run hit in MLB
http://www.hittrackeronline.com
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