Oakland Park Baseball

We've been through this before but I'm at work bored and I love maps, geography, weather satellites and measuring and other lame boring stuff like that. I'm also a Virgo and can't rest until I satisfy my need to be right. Google Earth has a nifty measuring tool and my dimensions measruring on my monitor.

All that none sense being said. The dimensions fron our two fields are as follows:

DeFremery:

approximations give or take a foot or two (rounded to the nearest 5 foot increment.

LF line: 215 ft
LC: 240 ft (midpoint between LF and C)
C: 310 ft
RC: 240 ft
RF: 220


Curt Flood:

LF: 270 ft.
LC: 310 ft.
C: 500 ft
RC: (WHO Cares)
R: 260

Check out Google Earth (Keystone) and use the Coliseum or Pac Bell as a control to validate your measurements since you know what those dimensions are.

Brings up a couple of questions:

Why has no one hit it out of LF at Curt Flood ? When you hit one out of DeFremery,especially left, it normally goes across the street (it has to if it 's going to clear the fence). That being said, the distance between where a homer lands at DeFrem and the porch in L @ CF is about the same.

If the distance between L and R at Curt Flood are about the same ( with a 20ft fence in R), why do lefties seem to have a much easier time hitting it out at CF ?

Just things I'm pondering here at damn near 1am on a Saturday night.

We should have a running pool to see who will hit it out first at CF.

Well, Rich and I measured DeFremery our selves, and found LF to be about 260 (forget exactly). But this is an interesting point:

AntMoOAK wrote: Why has no one hit it out of LF at Curt Flood ? When you hit one out of DeFremery, especially left, it normally goes across the street (it has to if it 's going to clear the fence).

Maybe we shouldn't allow metal bats at Curt Flood either!! By the way, I need to vent: LET PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FUN! If I, or Carlos, or Paul, or Chris, or AntMo hit it out of any field, let us fucking enjoy it! If you don't wanna use metal that’s fine. I don't rag on ya'll cuz you're not hitting any HRs, so leave us alone when we do the opposite! If we're gonna say that good hitters should not use metal, than maybe the MLB should require Bonds, Tejada, Ortiz, and Jones to not wear batting gloves. Damn!

Now that that rant is outta the way, I would guess that one reason we don't hit homers outta Curt Flood is because of the mental issues. It feels like you can't hit it out to left their, so people don't believe in their ability. Also, baseballs have a way of rising at a mellow slope to their crest, and then dropping at a much sharper angle, nearly 90 degrees to the ground. I'm too tired to explain why this has something to do with it.

i think curt flood is hard to hit it out of right cuz the line is shallow but it fuckin booms out thats what i think, defremery is real small but its fun but i like curt flood better...thats just the peoples champ talkin

retep wrote:Well, Rich and I measured DeFremery our selves, and found LF to be about 260 (forget exactly).

This measurement simply cannot be correct.

Maybe we shouldn't allow metal bats at Curt Flood either!! By the way, I need to vent: LET PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FUN! If I, or Carlos, or Paul, or Chris, or AntMo hit it out of any field, let us fucking enjoy it! If you don't wanna use metal that’s fine. I don't rag on ya'll cuz you're not hitting any HRs, so leave us alone when we do the opposite! If we're gonna say that good hitters should not use metal, than maybe the MLB should require Bonds, Tejada, Ortiz, and Jones to not wear batting gloves. Damn!

I don't like it because it subtracts from the game for several reasons that I have stated before... and "letting (specific) people have their fun" is not worth turning the game into a dull slugfest. I come to play baseball, not some retarded third grade home run derby.


Edit: Oh, and Peter- if you really want to continue debating this issue, I have made several comments in the thread devoted to it that you have yet to respond to.