****Official Red Sox-Indians ALCS Thread**** (1 Viewer)

[HellToupee]

It's not a launching pad anymore - with the addition of the humidor. Also it is getting cold and the ball doesn't travel as well at this time of the year.

It looks like a lot of you don't know much about the Rockies - let me know if you need to be educated in any way.

Actually it looks like you don't know a whole lot about hte rockies anymore if you don't think Coors field is still a launching pad. Park factor data from ESPN (2007):

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/parkfa...amp;season=2007

HR:

Coors: 1.21 (5th)

Fenway: 0.876 (23rd)

Well icon - it used to #1 by a lot - by a whole lot. Now it is 5 and not that far off of some other parks below it, and it is losing it's reputation. So it has dropped dramatically and while it favors the hitter it really is a lot different to the pre-humidor days. You don't see the check swing hits go out of the park. You need to actually hit it. Also in addition to being a Mile High, in the summer we enjoy 10% or so humidity days for days on end - in the fall we have far fewer of those type of hot dry days. On those hot dry days the ball would absolutely fly out of the park - when it is cooler and damper physics tells us that the baseball faces greater resistance than the ball on a dry day. Expect some home runs - but they will be closer to legit.Now if you want to compare ballparks then yes we have a higher rating then Fenway - we don't have the green monster to stop a lot of the homers. While it is a short porch the height does stop quite a few of them from carrying their full distance, I've seen a lot of bullets of the top of that wall. In fact I've seen more than "cheap" home runs down the very short right field line there(I almost caught one there - whenever I come in from out of town invariably I get stuck in the right field corner - they should have chiropractors on site)

Thought Coors was a big doubles park now . .....Yes-No?

 

[Bobcat10]

Per my folks who were sitting in the grandstand behind home plate last night, after the game Eric Wedge came over to congratulate Francona and got a huge ovation from the fans. Wedge tipped his cap to the fans for the applause. They said it was quite touching. Sox fans know what it's like to get so close, yet still not finish; They can sympathize with Wedge.

I would hope this was after things "died down" a bit in the stands and on the field.

 

[Green94]

Per my folks who were sitting in the grandstand behind home plate last night, after the game Eric Wedge came over to congratulate Francona and got a huge ovation from the fans. Wedge tipped his cap to the fans for the applause. They said it was quite touching. Sox fans know what it's like to get so close, yet still not finish; They can sympathize with Wedge.

Very cool, love both Gardsie and Wedge. Great managers in the AL Central. Oh yeah, Leyland is pretty good too.

 

[Tecumseh]

Congrats to the Sox and their fans. The reached deep when they needed it, and won it going away.

 

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Per my folks who were sitting in the grandstand behind home plate last night, after the game Eric Wedge came over to congratulate Francona and got a huge ovation from the fans. Wedge tipped his cap to the fans for the applause. They said it was quite touching. Sox fans know what it's like to get so close, yet still not finish; They can sympathize with Wedge.

Very cool, love both Gardsie and Wedge. Great managers in the AL Central. Oh yeah, Leyland is pretty good too.