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Who Designed Tropicana Field?

July 2, 2008 · Filed Under MLB, RED SOX 

Tropicana Fieldby the goat… What is the story with The Trop and these ridiculous catwalks? I mean if you are an architect and you are at the level where you land a job designing a MLB stadium, how is it that you don’t take into account how high a professional baseball player can hit a fly ball?

It’s easy, hire a couple of ex-big leaguers for a few hours if need be, bring them to a field somewhere and have them hit a couple of hundred baseballs. Take some measurements and make all points above the playing field in all stadiums ten feet taller than the highest fly ball. How hard is that?

What blows my mind is it is not an anomaly, there are others out there *cough* Minnesota. Maybe Bud Selig has to step in here and put altimeters in all baseballs, this way MLB can keep track of the highest fly balls hit and sell that information back to the franchises when they are building new stadiums. It could open up an entirely new stream of revenue for baseball, and I vote the money goes into a kitty to be used to buy a beer for everyone that wants one at all games. But I digress.

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2 Responses to “Who Designed Tropicana Field?”

  1. Bushy on July 6th, 2008 9:29 pm

    no you don’t.

  2. the goat on July 7th, 2008 7:41 pm

    I don’t? I thought I did. Or are you saying the subconscious reason I wrote that entire post was just to try and get a free beer? That is entirely possible.

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