A thorny problem. In these contagious days, I wouldn’t be too keen about another team coming into GABP and using the home clubhouse. A minor league ball park, preferably a top end AAA stadium, makes sense.
A thorny problem. In these contagious days, I wouldn’t be too keen about another team coming into GABP and using the home clubhouse. A minor league ball park, preferably a top end AAA stadium, makes sense.
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Refusing to play in Buffalo seems like a vanity issue for the players.
But with no fans it really doesn't matter I guess.
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Not in the east, but Omaha hosts the college world series every year.
(And is home to the Creighton Blue Jays...)
Bunch of universities in the south have facilities that regularly host regionals and super regionals. And with students likely going online at many schools this fall, could be dorm room capacity at those universities as well.
Apparently the lights are fine for play but are below the std for tv.
Good article on the Buffalo stadium here:
https://buffalonews.com/sports/insid...599b83e0d.html
You've heard a lot the last few days about the Sahlen Field lights, which were upgraded in 2011 with poles that were much shorter than the ones originally installed at the park's opening. Players universally told you then that the situation on the field greatly improved. Fans continue to tell you they got the short end, as it's noticeably darker in the seats, especially in the upper level. The lighting issue for the Blue Jays and MLB is much more about the view for television than the game.
The clubhouses are only marginally smaller than new Triple-A parks, but MLB clubhouses have just become a game of one-upsmanship in each city. There is, however, plenty of space for social distancing here, perhaps even using the suites as dressing quarters as the Red Sox have done in Fenway Park.The Sox, in fact, have become a prototype for using all your available space. They've repurposed the Fenway concourses for weight rooms and batting cages, and the Bisons had plenty of room to do likewise. With no fans, the ballpark footprint here is large. Two levels, a giant outdoor plaza, a center field area. Lots of places for the Blue Jays and opponents to do what team president Mark Shapiro called "reimagining" when he talked to reporters Saturday.
Last edited by klw; 07-20-2020 at 08:58 PM.
The lights issue seems absurd to me. If it’s fine to play, then maybe they just have to accept that Blue Jays “home games” this year wont look quite as good on TV as they normally would. I mean, it’s not like the TV screens will be showing a black out. It will probably look a little low-rent as far as an MLB TV production goes, but I think viewers would survive.
The AAA stadium in Omaha might be a better option than the CWS stadium downtown, although I'm sure the "TV lights" are better at TD Ameritrade (the CWS stadium).
They’ve played Major League Baseball in Williamsport.
I bet they play at PNC Park in Pittsburgh to start the season until they can work something out
Last edited by Ron Madden; 07-21-2020 at 07:04 AM.
Unless there's a major highway I'm missing, Pittsburgh is closer than Baltimore. Of course Cleveland and Detroit are the closest, but I'm assuming the schedule doesn't work out. Pittsburgh needs a major league team this year anyway. Of course they could always play in Montreal, but that wouldn't help anything.
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I feel for the players (and seem to be one of the few, based on the comments here). It'd be pretty difficult to uproot my plans, family, living arrangements, and familiarity with a city to play ball in... Buffalo. Pittsburgh-- any MLB city, really-- isn't ideal either, but at least they've got major league amenities and familiar culture/ people who you know and know you. Getting an apartment would be remarkably difficult, I'd think, especially on notice as short as this.
They (the players) have likely lost deposits or won't get back deposits and/or are paying mortgages on houses they're not allowed to live in. And they'll have to spend cash on new arrangements. If families are in another place, that's three houses to pay for, not to mention the upkeep, worry, and travel. And you're getting taxed a fairly substantial portion of your check for having the pleasure of not living in your normal baseball season house/ condo.
It'd kinda suck, honestly, as compared to other MLBers.
Last edited by Bourgeois Zee; 07-21-2020 at 09:23 AM.
I mean, it's a two month season. Just not a big deal. If this were a normal 162 game season, sure, that's a long commitment. But for two months? Nah.
Which would make it even more difficult. Having to deal with all this for two months of ball? The headaches inherent in moving-- for such a short time?
That's okay, though-- they're all millionaires and should consider themselves lucky for playing a kid's game, amirite?
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