The Mighty Mite

Civale didn’t full anyone in the first.

Me too.

Actually nowadays there are no bad stadiums except of course for Tropicana Field and the abomination in Oakland which is adios, just some stadiums are better than others with IMO PNC Park the best of them all, no goofy fake quirks, just a solid very nice looking ballpark with a great view of the Pittsburgh skyline. One other note, go to a site like Trip Advisor where real fans give their views on The Rate and other ballparks.

That’s about all he could get for Hauser.

It was a ball and huge bad call.

Came so close to sweeping the Tigers, hitting disappeared in 2 of the games, we scored more runs in the series.

Mead is no speed demon.

I have a lot of experience with aches and pains, 65 years of golf along with 25 years of tennis plus all the sports I played in my school years but I’m still able to tee it up 2-3 times a week and ride my bike.

Petco is a good park but having that old factory building down the left field line is sort of silly. I can't remember the site where the Rate was rated middle of the pack. When I want to find the latest rankings I just Google MLB ballpark rankings.

I’m starting to believe that he knows what he’s doing, his biggest problem is he’s working for a cheap jerk. If he continues to improve, it will be interesting if Ishbia keeps him around.

Most of the reviews lately have it rated a bit higher, I saw one earlier in the year that had the Rate in the middle of the pack. There is no way it’s worse than the Trop, Anaheim Stadium, Rogers Center, Bank One and a few others. One other thing, some of the Retro stadiums are just plain phony with goofy unnatural quirks. Some of the parks of yesteryear built in the early 1900s had quirks that were real and were there because of the acreage they were built on, most of those old parks were built on city blocks that weren’t close to being square, they were more rectangle or worse thus the Green Monster in Fenway, high right field fences in Ebbets Field and Connie Mack Stadium, weird layout of Crosley Field which gave it the Moon Deck bleachers in right field, old Braves Field which had the Jury Box bleacher in right field, the Polo Grounds which was a much better Football stadium than Baseball, Griffith Stadium which had a jigsaw piece in center field because of two home owners who refused to sell their houses, the right field overhang in Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium with the short homer porch in right field and Forbes Field which was a mishmash and actually pretty ugly. I’m pretty sure old Comiskey was the only park that was built on land that was large enough that there were no quirks and with a fair symmetrical design, no cheap homers at the Palace, if you hit one over the fence, you earned it regardless of where you hit it.

He’s a bit hyper but he’ll settle down as he becomes more experienced.

All these bad balls and strike calls are getting old. I’m ready for the electronic strike zone.

Yep, I know exactly what’s going on, was a low single digit golfer, now I’m a 12 handicap.

Beni is really out of whack.

Shades of 1969.

32 years coming up in December, you get used to it. Erin is out in the Atlantic quite a way and is expected to jog to the north over the weekend.

Don’t move to Florida, it’s hot from early May to early October, we never turn the AC off during that period and sometimes it’s longer but I’m out there playing golf and bike riding, heat index today was only 101.

That was a huge mistake in the UD with the concourse at the same level as the first row especially when the the park opened and it was 29 rows. Just horrible, I'm sure it was a cost cutting measure.

The upper deck isn’t that bad especially after lopping off 8 rows in 2004 along with a cozier roof, it’s no worse than a lot of the other new retro parks. If there was one less tier of suites it would be just about ideal.

Good start to the inning.

Lets get a couple here and win this game.

Super DP.

Paddack was lucky he only gave up the one run.

Another hard hit ball but foul by Tauchman.