Loon from Left
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It's time we addressed the REAL stadium issue
by Loon from Left
on Jan 18, 2007 4:39 PM PST
Wolff's talk about a new Fenway or Wrigley leads me to wonder: What does he plan to do with the left field fence? Will powerful electromagnetic fields attempt to duplicate Chicago's ground-rule ivy or the line-drive-killing, fly-ball-glorifying effects of the green monster? Will the wall around the stadium be a gigantic mobius strip, with the half-twist out in left, ensuring that any ball hit out there will fall into an interdimensional vortex and never return? Or does Wolff just mean that once he's built this place, he doesn't want to spring for a new one for at least 90 years?
All this is just distracting us from the real issue: by building in Fremont, Wolff is giving up on the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to go with the one stadium plan that everyone can agree on. Monkeyball's proposed floating stadium would not only be the greatest ballpark in baseball history; when sailing in international waters, it could be a country unto itself! To this end, and to supplement the great Monkey's versification, I have composed an unofficial national anthem for this new Athletics-Nation-state-to-be:
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One lunatic's "Keys To The [rest of the] ALCS!"
by Loon from Left
on Oct 12, 2005 3:03 PM PDT
I originally posted this diary over at Bleed Cubbie Blue, but since interest in the Sox/Angels series is just as strong over here, I figured I'd cross-post it (with a few slight changes)....
I worked this out coming home from work last night, turned on the game (on the radio -- despite Joe Morgan's color "analysis," I'll take Jon Miller's descriptions over a FOX TV broadcast any day of the week) and almost immediately heard Pods getting caught stealing. So now that it's too late for me to look like a game 1 prophet, probably the rest of the series will go exactly against my expectations. Even so....
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One lunatic's "Keys To The [rest of the] ALCS!"
by Loon from Left
on Oct 12, 2005 1:24 PM PDT
I worked this out coming home from work last night, turned on the game (on the radio -- despite Joe Morgan's color "analysis," I'll take Jon Miller's descriptions over a FOX TV broadcast any day of the week) and almost immediately heard Pods getting caught stealing. So now that it's too late for me to look like a game 1 prophet, probably the rest of the series will go exactly against my expectations. Even so....
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