OmahaHi's really, really, Asinine trade and Stadium thread.

It’s my thread and I so command it.

Pretty Please?

pretty, pretty, pretty please : )

…to see a long drive to the OF ‘wall’ get redirected at 300mph; 1000+ foot HR initially to LF that clears the stadium confines beyond RF?

(at least the one I went to, Koshien Stadium in Osaka, home of the Hanshin Tigers.)

1) The stadium is sectioned off; you must enter in at the gate that corresponds to your section, and there are fences prohibiting seat hopping in between the stadium.

2) Because of the stadium sections, your food options are limited strictly to the items within the section you’re at. You better enjoy a 11 buck bento box, because that’s all you’re getting if that’s what’s there.

3) You’re not allowed to keep foul balls you catch. Some of the more fan-friendly stadiums will give you a goody bag in exchange for them, but in others the stadium attendants just come by and take them back. I don’t know why; perhaps to prevent you from throwing them back on the field?

4) At Koshien, there’s a barbed wire fence preventing access to the field from the stands. This comes from a playoff game a number of years ago where the fans stormed the field after the umpires suspended the game.

5) If you sit in the outfield designated cheering sections, you better be dang ready to cheer. And by that, I mean attending regularly scheduled practice sessions, wearing all your gear, and not stopping as long as your team is at bat. There are specific cheers for each team member, and you better know them all. It’s like a college football game atmosphere out there. You can witness this trickle down even to the Japanese Little League World Series team; the parents all don’t stop cheering until their team is back on the field.

6) During the 7th inning stretch, everyone blows up balloons and sends them flying into the air. It’s fun, and they give you the balloons.

7) They sing the team song if the home team wins, and it’s best if you know it. On that note, everyone in this thread dang well better know the words to celebration by the beginning of next year.

As soon as they break ground I’m buying season tickets.

Especially for reasons 2, 4 and 5.

Seeing as we have this crappy stadium for the time being, maybe we should hire a “name” manager. The way I think of it is like this: say Jayson Werth or someone would normally take 5/95 to sign. For us, though, he’d want a “crappy stadium premium” of 5/110, a 15M premium. If we hired a big name manager (Bobby Valentine?) for 3/9, we’d potentially a) get Werth to sign here and b) save 6M. That any FA came here might beget more FA, and help us until we do get our new place.

Thoughts?