Dodgers-Sox exhibition games to draw 115,000, feature wall 201 feet from the plate.

[SirFozzie]

This is insane. I'm all for the exhibition, 115,000 attendance is awesome.. but 201 feet from home plate to the left field wall, er.. net? Which is 60 feet high?

Apparently we're playing arena Baseball :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/sports/baseball/26coliseum.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[Pumpy Tudors]

I'm all for this. Exhibition baseball - while perhaps useful for the players - is not exactly the most exciting thing to watch. I think they ought to do outrageous things like this in spring training. I mean, you don't want to mess with things like the dimensions of the infield, but what about playing a game with no outfield walls and 5 outfielders? Throw "hot zones" into the outfield, and if the ball lands in one of the hot zones, it's a ground rule double? Instead of an outfield wall, put a narrow moat there. Treat the moat like the wall. If the ball sails over it, it's a home run, unless the fielder is playing really deep, jumps over the moat, and catches it. To add on to that, if the ball lands in the moat, the offense scores double runs for that homer. Imagine an 8-run grand slam.

This shit needs to happen. Hell, it's just exhibition.

[Dr. Sak]

PUT GATORS IN THE MOATS!!!

[Pumpy Tudors]

Oh, I forgot to mention that there should be gators in the moats.

[MikeVic]

They should just play Blurnsball already.

[DanGarion]

I'll be there!

[Ksyrup]

I was wondering what the hell Charlie Steiner was talking about earlier.

[Young Drachma]

neato.

[Maple Leafs]

So this is an essentially meaningless but fairly novel game, and it features the Red Sox and Dodgers?

I wonder if ESPN will cover it.

[SackAttack]

That was the layout in 1959, when the Dodgers and White Sox played in the World Series.

I'd rather have seen the White Sox in this exhibition for that reason, but hey.

[Young Drachma]

So this is an essentially meaningless but fairly novel game, and it features the Red Sox and Dodgers?

I wonder if ESPN will cover it.

Exhibition game, since the Red Sox are on their way back from Japan and need to get adjusted to being here. And a novelty for the Dodgers 50th anniversary of moving to Los Angeles and ripping the hearts out of all of Brooklyn. ;)

[Pumpy Tudors]

That was the layout in 1959, when the Dodgers and White Sox played in the World Series.

I'd rather have seen the White Sox in this exhibition for that reason, but hey.
I thought the only Sox in MLB were the Red Sox.

[Lathum]

About 100,000 of them will show up in the third and leave in the seventh

[DanGarion]

About 100,000 of them will show up in the third and leave in the seventh


HAHAHAHA I've never heard that one before!

[SackAttack]

About 100,000 of them will show up in the third and leave in the seventh

The show up in the third bit, I gotta tell you, until recently the parking situation at the Stadium sucked BALLS.

Couple of years ago, I went to opening day, got there well over an hour before the game. The lots filled up in a hurry, but a BIG part of that was lack of enforcement of the 'no tailgating' rule, and so lots were getting closed with lots of parking spots unfilled because, well, dudes were BBQing there.

They finally opened up some of the empty'ish VIP lots to the folks who were just endlessly circling the stadium looking for some lot, ANY lot, that hadn't been locked yet.

I got to my seat in the bottom of the 6th inning.

That's an extreme example, but when it was a free-for-all, that happened more than you'd think.

Now that they've got some semblance of order in the parking lot, I would expect to see the late arrivals tail off, at least. Dunno about the 'leave in the 7th' bit, but it's much easier to get to/into the stadium on time now than it was even just 3-4 years ago.

[DanGarion]

1958 - 2008

Year Ballpark Name Attendance Game Average Season Total N.L. Average
1958 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 1,845,556
1959 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 2,071,045
1960 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 2,253,887
1961 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 1,804,250
1962 Dodger Stadium 2,755,184
1963 Dodger Stadium 2,538,602
1964 Dodger Stadium 2,228,751
1965 Dodger Stadium 2,553,577
1966 Dodger Stadium 2,617,029
1967 Dodger Stadium 1,664,362
1968 Dodger Stadium 1,581,093
1969 Dodger Stadium 1,784,527
1970 Dodger Stadium 1,697,142
1971 Dodger Stadium 2,064,594
1972 Dodger Stadium 1,860,858
1973 Dodger Stadium 2,136,192
1974 Dodger Stadium 2,632,474
1975 Dodger Stadium 2,539,349
1976 Dodger Stadium 2,386,301
1977 Dodger Stadium 2,955,087
1978 Dodger Stadium 3,347,845
1979 Dodger Stadium 2,860,954
1980 Dodger Stadium 3,249,287
1981 Dodger Stadium 2,381,292
1982 Dodger Stadium 3,608,881
1983 Dodger Stadium 3,510,313
1984 Dodger Stadium 3,134,824
1985 Dodger Stadium 3,264,593
1986 Dodger Stadium 3,023,208
1987 Dodger Stadium 2,797,409
1988 Dodger Stadium 2,980,262
1989 Dodger Stadium 2,944,653
1990 Dodger Stadium 3,002,396
1991 Dodger Stadium 3,348,170
1992 Dodger Stadium 2,473,266
1993 Dodger Stadium 3,170,393
1994 Dodger Stadium 2,279,355
1995 Dodger Stadium 2,766,251
1996 Dodger Stadium 3,188,454
1997 Dodger Stadium 3,319,504
1998 Dodger Stadium 3,089,222
1999 Dodger Stadium 3,098,042
2000 Dodger Stadium 2,880,242
2001 Dodger Stadium 3,017,143
2002 Dodger Stadium 3,131,077
2003 Dodger Stadium 3,138,626
2004 Dodger Stadium 3,488,283
2005 Dodger Stadium 3,603,680
2006 Dodger Stadium 3,758,421
2007 Dodger Stadium 3,856,753
137,682,659 Fans can't be wrong!

[Fonzie]

PUT GATORS IN THE MOATS!!!

And the moats need to be filled with acid. And the acid needs to be on fire.

[Fonzie]

But the gators should be acid- and fire-resistant.

[kingnebwsu]

Real acid?

[Dekanth]

You know what would be really crazy? Play a game without any players who have taken steroids in their lives! You just never see THAT anymore.

[MrBug708]

Parking is going to be a nightmare on Saturday. Paying 70 dollars to some guy who probably will be selling your car in an hour anyways. You probably could have made the other team the D-Rays and Dodger fans probably would have bright in 115K fans.

[JonInMiddleGA]

You know what would be really crazy? Play a game without any players who have taken steroids in their lives! You just never see THAT anymore.

Tee-ball is your best bet.

[McSweeny]

Tee-ball is your best bet.

even that may be pushing it

[DanGarion]

Parking is going to be a nightmare on Saturday. Paying 70 dollars to some guy who probably will be selling your car in an hour anyways. You probably could have made the other team the D-Rays and Dodger fans probably would have bright in 115K fans.

Parking around the complex is going to be $25

[Dr. Sak]

But the gators should be acid- and fire-resistant.

I had one simple request...

SHARKS WITH FRICKEN LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR HEADS!!

[DanGarion]

Here are some pictures from the game that I took with my camera phone. Sorry for the lack of quality, the camera I was going to use seems to have broke!

http://www.dangarion.com/general-news/pictures-from-tonights-record-breaking-dodgers-game/

[Shkspr]

You know what would be really crazy? Play a game without any players who have taken steroids in their lives! You just never see THAT anymore.

Of course not. Players who don't take steroids don't care enough about winning. The game is better off without them.