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**alnorth** · 04-20-2009, 08:14 PM

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog...e=olney_buster

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4080195

http://www.accuweather.com/news-weat....asp?#extremes

Interesting articles on ESPN and other sites. Its early, but we may have an explanation for those high-scoring games in New York. Apparently the configuration of the seating may have inadvertantly created some sort of wind tunnel effect blowing to right field. Rival team scouts have sent the word out around baseball that Yankee Stadium now plays more like Coors Field.

That may be exciting for fans, but the Yankees may have screwed themselves with their $1.5 Billion-dollar ballpark. If you want to compete, you do NOT want a hitter's paradise. Good pitchers are rarer and harder to sign as free agents than hitters. You can find a lot of servicable hitters and a few superstar bats every year, but only the best teams have good pitching. If the new stadium plays short, the Yankees could have problems getting free agent pitchers to wear pinstripes. There are plenty of wealthy teams that play in good pitchers parks.

tk13 · 04-20-2009, 10:24 PM

Yeah they were talking about this after the 22 run game. Some of these balls being hit out just look like pop flies. I think it is different because the park faces in a different direction than the previous one. So they might have really created a jet stream factor for an already short RF fence.

kcfanXIII · 04-20-2009, 10:50 PM

too soon?

Sure-Oz · 04-21-2009, 12:35 AM

Sweet, when arod comes off the DL he'll hit 60 hrs for me!

Sure-Oz · 04-21-2009, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by tk13

Yeah they were talking about this after the 22 run game. Some of these balls being hit out just look like pop flies. I think it is different because the park faces in a different direction than the previous one. So they might have really created a jet stream factor for an already short RF fence.

This could explain chin meing wangs 23 earned runs in 6 innings?

Miles · 04-21-2009, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

This could explain chin meing wangs 23 earned runs in 6 innings?

Only 8 of the runs. His first two terrible starts were on the road.

**RealSNR** · 04-21-2009, 12:57 AM

Here's the New Yankee contractor. Blame him

**Dylan** · 04-21-2009, 01:06 AM

Jethopper · 04-21-2009, 01:54 AM

wow talk about inflated numbers every year

Valiant · 04-21-2009, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by alnorth

The field and wall is the same dimension, but the stadium faces a slightly different direction, and the upperdeck seats are less "tiered". Apparently the difference between the lower and upper seats in the old park was so sharp that it created a wind break, but the new seats are more "sloping".

And tons of people got ****ed out of seeing part of the field out there..

The_Doctor10 · 04-21-2009, 04:10 AM

This just made my night even better; Flames win 4-2, and the Yankees wasted a billion and a half dollars to build Coors field v2.0

MIAdragon · 04-21-2009, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by T-post Tom

And they spent all that money on pitchers for what is now a team that plays in an apparent "hitter's park."

all the more reason to pick up good pitchers.

PRIEST · 04-21-2009, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by DeezNutz

The Sox must have successfully buried a jersey.

This

wild1 · 04-21-2009, 06:34 AM

You would have to see the numbers over a whole season, it could just be the conditions there over a few days and that one inning generating all the talk couldn't it?

Delano · 04-21-2009, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by wild1

You would have to see the numbers over a whole season, it could just be the conditions there over a few days and that one inning generating all the talk couldn't it?

If anything, the numbers may go higher in the summer.

They'll have to engineer some major fixes.

Frazod · 04-21-2009, 06:40 AM

One of my best friends who lives in New York has already been to the new stadium. He says it sucks, and despite the massive price tag and endless knobjob the Yankees are getting from ESPN over it, the place is nothing special. While I'm sure it's better than its shit-pit predecessor, for the money, it seems they got screwed. And now this on top of it.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch.

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