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When the City cut down hundreds year old pecan trees to build a parking garage on Barton Springs, I knew crap had changed.

I almost never drive into Austin these days.

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Where exactly do you think this happened?

There is a parking garage adjacent to the Palmer Events Center on Barton Springs Road, which is close to, but much different than Barton Springs and Zilker Park.

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You can rent a kayak in Town Lake

I don’t know if you are a real LSU fan or not. But I do know that you are an old fart who has spent a lot of time in Austin. Unless I am wrong, only old fart Austin residents call what is now named Ladybird Lake, “Town Lake.”

I was at UT in the 80s to early 90s. IMO like many old UT grads, I think the much smaller Austin was way cooler then. I have lived outside of Texas for over 30 years now. To me, any city as large as the current Austin is way too much of a hassle…

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I took my kayak to Town Lake for the 4th of July, and had a blast, went to South Congress afterwards, and the only shots were the ones people were drinking.

I still call it Town Lake, go to Barton Springs, take visitors to the State Capitol and the UT campus, go to the Continental Club, and can still deal with large crowds, or avoid them.

I was born at Bergstrom AFB, went to HS here and UT, moved all over the place, including Florida, Oklahoma, Louisiana & Colorado, and retired 20 miles from downtown Austin. I go to Austin when I want to, or just stay home.



Fawns born in the yard here every year ...



and they come back when they are older.



Sadly, I see bigger deer at home than out in the country.

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You are in the SEC now NumbNuts

#1 National Hardware (as a SEC member)
#2 Attendance (Cocks filling Southern Columbia even when they are down)
#3 Venue Size

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Texas, The State of ..., The University of ..., and the people and companies that choose to locate and live here, make money. Lot's of it. Always have and always will.

Given that The Moody Center sits on the some of highest priced real estate in the footprint of the SEC, "paying your on way" and the cost/benefit ratio is prioritized in every decision.

First and foremost, The Moody Center is a Music Venue, a world class music venue in "The Live Entertainment Capital of the World". Acoustics and sight lines were paramount in the design. They also have The University of Texas sports in there.

The Moody Center probably has the the highest utilization rate, and the highest revenue stream of any non-football venue in the SEC, or college sports for that matter. The ownership group includes George Strait and Matthew McConaughey, two Texas icons in the entertainment world. George Strait escorting and welcoming Bruce Springsteen to the Moody Center is unique to Austin.

Texas is in the middle of a $6 Billion Capital campaign, the centerpiece being a MD Anderson Cancer Center affiliated with the UT-Dell Medical School. Texas may have some issues, money isn't one of them.

The Moody Center was always envisioned as a UT public-private partnership, as the University would never spend $375 Million on a basketball arena. It took a number of iterations to get the right mix of ownership and business partners, who would pay for something owned by UT.

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Congrats Sooners.

Well deserved.

No offense to the OP in the other post, but the field dimension given (per Wiki) are way off for the 3 fields I looked at. A lot of the natural grass fields don't have the bases on the field when Google Earth took photos, so exact measurements were difficult and not consistent. One good thing about the turf fields, home plate is always in the same place.

My Google Earth measurements are not exact, but representative, and there are some minor differences in my photos.

I made a rough overlay of Foley Field on top of Disch-Falk for a visual comparison.



As with most teams that come to Austin, they display awesome "Warning Track Power" when they play in Austin, or in Omaha. Disch-Falk opened in 1975 and was built to resemble Rosenblatt in Omaha. The Yeti Yard (Left Center) & Ford (Right Center) field level spectator areas used to be part of the playing field while Gus was coaching.

There was a lot of discussion about the HR Derby's this weekend.

Georgia, and most teams, have some big guys that can mash it anywhere. Miss State, and others, were throwing beach balls down Broadway, and paid the price.

There is, and always has been, a big difference between a Pitcher, and a guy that throws upper 90's. One leaves 17 guys stranded on base and one gives up back to back to back HR.

Texas also has a few guys that mash it also. Carson Tinney (C) hit a grand slam that was dead center that was 114 MPH off the bat.

Should be a fun CWS.

The individual screen shots of Disch-Falk and Foley Field.

Yellowstone.

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I wonder how many people on here know that when the Dodgers first moved to LA... they played baseball in the Coliseum for like the first three years. Left field was like 250 ft. Right field was like 440 ft.

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The Colorado Rockies played in Mile High Stadium (football) their 1st year.

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When they gave up the ridiculous home field advantage of having a cliff in play, having springy astroturf was the next best thing. Now, with so much field turf around, it’s not an advantage, and probably is a little bit of a negative on the recruiting trail (why play on tha same surface most high schools use rather than a natural surface like the big leagues would be the pitch).

They went from Astroturf to grass for a while at the football stadium, so it can be done. If I recall correctly, wasn’t Baum Walker built with Astroturf (and the accompanying concrete base) when it was first built (old George Cole Field had the nastiest Astroturf you ever saw)? Now, they have a beautiful grass field with no turf whatsoever (a real rarity). If Arkansas can do it, at their latitude, every SEC school can do it. Texas and Georgia having fake grass is just sad.

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It isn't Astroturf.

Well, about the only flat dirt had the UT Campus on it when Clark Field was built. So they shaved off a place between the limestone hills.



Playing on a flat field w/ no transitions, divots, or mud puddles facilitates clean fielding, a must if you want to play in the bigs.

When DF was built, they hosted the HS State Playoffs, which put too much pressure on a natural grass field. Now, they are played at Dell Diamond.

In my other posts, I showed Google Earth photos of some fields. The Turf fields look like baseball fields all the time, which means they can be used all the time. For the grass fields, the majority of the pictures show turf undergoing maintenance, which means they can't be used. Texas doesn't have the luxury of vacant space to use as a practice field.

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Interesting look at fair play sq footage, fair territory in SEC Baseball Stadiums

I’m guessing you pulled this info from school websites. Other source?

I’ve looked at this before on Google Earth, and the playing fields change dimensions over time. On some fields, the diamond itself changes from year to year, and almost all the fields have moved the fences over time.

The irregular shapes of the various ballparks makes the “power alleys” inconsistent. Straight away CF is not the deepest part of Disch-Falk.

I can’t post my screenshots on this site, but I’ll post them on a better forum and paste them here.

The 314’ listed for Georgia’s right field is generous.

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Disch-Falk Field dimensions (per wiki):

Left field: 340 ft

Center field: 400 ft

Right field: 325 ft

Power Alleys: 370-365 ft

Per Google Earth, Disch-Falk 3/2025, 106,184 Ft2

Deepest Point @ 402 ft




Disch-Falk 11/2009, 111,918 Ft2

Deepest Point @ 408 ft

2025 dimensions are the orange polygon



Georgia - Foley Field (per wiki):

LF: 350 ft

LC: 370 ft

CF: 404 ft

RC: 365 ft

RF: 314 ft

Per Google Earth, Foley Field 10/2025, 98,190 Ft2

Deepest Point @ 384 ft (404ft? Umm, No!!!)

The porch in Right Field is a whopping 308 ft.



Per Google Earth, Foley Field 11/2013, 101,393 Ft2

Deepest Point @ 395 ft

2025 dimensions are the red polygon



I would expect there is similar "creep" on all the fields.

Cliff Gustafson wanted DF to resemble Rosenblatt Field in Omaha. The turf was state of the art in 1975, and Cliff recruited for it, premier pitching, guys that could run and play defense, and play small ball on a fast track.

Augie brought the fenses in, probably to let guys put up better HR stats, and minimize the need for premier pitchers, with pitch counts becoming the norm.

Schloss is a combination of the two. Pitching & defense, with disciplined hitters that go deep in the counts, forcing the other teams to go deep into their rotations.

2nd. & 3rd hitters are stupid for swinging at the first pitch.

Make him throw a strike before you swing. You need baserunners.

Augie would be chewing their asses.