Should baseball and hockey be required to have the same size fields/rings?

CHOPTALK · May 19, 2008

Dont you think that baseball and hockey should make all teams have the same size playing areas?

I mean you go to one stadium and center field is 404 and then the next one you go to is 420.

What if football did that where 1 team had a 100 yard field and the next teams was 110 or 95?

I know its been that way for over 100years, and probably very difficult to do because some stadiums cant be altered certain ways.

But it changes the outcome of games bigtime.

Just look at San Diego. Jack Murphy stadium was a launching pad.
Now in the new field you have to have a monster shot to get it over the right field wall.

I mean look at Houston. They have a hill in centerfield with a flagpole in the playing field.
Should'nt there be some kind of rule against that?

rjt721 · May 19, 2008

Hockey is played in a ring? Maybe you have hockey and boxing confused.

CHOPTALK · May 19, 2008

rjt721 said:
Hockey is played in a ring? Maybe you have hockey and boxing confused.

I confess I know zero about hockey.

I was talking to a friend of mine one time about the subject of baseball stadiums being different sizes and he told me that hockey floors or whatever you guys call them are also different sizes.

JohnnyB · May 19, 2008

CHOPTALK said:
hockey floors or whatever you guys call them

Some would refer to these as "rinks."

CHOPTALK · May 19, 2008

Johnny B said:
Some would refer to these as "rinks."

Thanks.
That shows you how little I know about the sport.

woodog22 · May 19, 2008

You have a AT&T park that was built around Barry Bonds & HR's. But triples ally has only taken away homeruns, mostly from opposing teams.

HatTrick · May 19, 2008

CHOPTALK said:
Thanks.
That shows you how little I know about the sport.

Then STFU about hockey then?

bilbal · May 19, 2008

CHOPTALK said:
I confess I know zero about hockey.

I was talking to a friend of mine one time about the subject of baseball stadiums being different sizes and he told me that hockey floors or whatever you guys call them are also different sizes.

All NHL rinks have been 200ft x 85ft since 1996

barman · May 19, 2008

YES...Baseball and hockey should have the same size rings for both sports.

Diamonds and shiny is a good start

gtc08 · May 19, 2008

ah give him a break with the hockey misquote. most americans dont even know hockey exists.

SkinsRaj28 · May 19, 2008

I'm pretty sure this topic was covered in this thread:

http://forum.therx.com/showthread.php?t=580322

X-Files · May 19, 2008

CHOPTALK said:
I mean look at Houston. They have a hill in centerfield with a flagpole in the playing field.
Should'nt there be some kind of rule against that?

Really? Right next to the homerun fence, i assume, rather than in the
middle of the playing field, where players could injure themselves
running into a pole. I know very little about MLB, but what's the point
of the hill?

Doug · May 19, 2008

texansfan · May 19, 2008

Tal's hill.

fhmesq44 · May 19, 2008

SkinsRaj28 said:
I'm pretty sure this topic was covered in this thread:

http://forum.therx.com/showthread.php?t=580322

Dagger. I always wanted to say that.

Cap'nCrunch · May 20, 2008

Ninja bump

fhmesq44 · May 20, 2008

You still owe Doug an apology.

maxdemo · May 20, 2008

texansfan said:
Tal's hill.

Fielding is a challenge there as well, due to the 90-foot wide, 30-degree incline grade, known as Tal's Hill, for team president Tal Smith, an element taken from Crosley Field and other historic ballparks (in a bit of gallows humor, the hill is also known as the "Grassy Knoll"), and the flagpole in play, an element taken from Yankee Stadium (before its remodeling in the mid-'70s) and Tiger Stadium among others. The difference is that the Crosley Field "terrace", which was half as steep at 15-degrees, was necessitated by the difference in elevation between field level and street level, while Tal's Hill is purely decorative. Both structures have been held in equal disdain by the respective outfielders who have had to patrol those areas. This hill has caused some of the most replayed catches in recent baseball history, and plenty of controversy as well. Lance Berkman said, "If the ball rolls onto the hill, it's not steep enough to roll back, so you have to go get it. Then there's the chance of running into the flagpole that's on it and getting hurt.” Fans started an online petition to remove the hill and flagpole, though the petition has since been discontinued.

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