re: Time to move the series

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All I see is a bunch of whiny bitches on here. This field is not much bigger than the Box! 5 ft further at the corners, 10 ft further in the gaps, and 3 ft further in dead center. Of course if the wind is blowing in at 25mph you're not going to hit it out...it'd be the same at the box if the wind was blowing at at 25mph. Everyone has to play on it, so what's the big deal? It's literally only 5-10ft bigger field

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That's all fine and dandy but they set it up with the predominant wind that always blows in. So your dimension comparisons are meaningless.

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Of course if the wind is blowing in at 25mph you're not going to hit it out...it'd be the same at the box if the wind was blowing at at 25mph

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That is not how weather works. We live in the Northern Hemisphere where summer time winds are predominantly out of the north. This is even more so the case in the plains states. For them to orient a baseball stadium in the direction they did was just plain stupid.

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Everyone has to play on it, so what's the big deal? It's literally only 5-10ft bigger field

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Because they wind always blows in there. It’s the natural wind pattern. Like here the wind blows out the south unless a cold front comes through. For YEARS the design plus placement of the field has cost teams runs. He’ll Mississippi St lost out one year when a guy hit a ball that’d been on Nicholson at the Box yet guy catches it on the wall. Same for TCU. Game winning homerun in any park in America but they are home right now.