OK, I am beginning to agree that we can handle Curt Flood to host even more of our games. I do like the larger field while playing defense (including the large infield throws.). But the is one problem:
NO HOMERUNS?!?!!

Ok, so there is the occasional inside the park HR. And Will and Ahmer have hit it out to right, and Carlos could too. But basically, the place is the anti-Coors field. Both Paul and I have hit balls maybe as hard as we can, and they haven’t gotten out. Nick hasn’t hit one out.
OK, I understand that this maybe shows that we’re not that great of hitters. Ok, fine.

Besides the HR totals, there I another problem to this: as an outfielder, it’s a ridiculous amount of space to cover. Its not that bad down the lines, but it’s soooo hard to cover the gaps. For example, most MLB fields have one deep area. At SBC, its hella deep to Right-Center. Astros, very deep to center. But it is very rare to find a park with two very deep fields. The reasons is that the outfields need to be able to cover all areas.
The result is exactly what we wanted to avoid by moving to Curt Flood: cheep hits. The field requires outfields to choose between guarding the lines or guarding the gaps, and either decision has major consequences. It makes it easy to dump a 2B down the line, or a simple fly ball to the gap is trouble.
Now for my idea:
I saw we set our own boundary for an outfield “wall.” We should set it closer… not DeFremery close, but close enough to where one-four balls could be hit over it. How we set rules as to how honest we’d be about it, if fielders could cross it, and whatever could be worked out.
If we did this, I wouldn’t mind moving even more (all? 75%?) of our games to Curt Flood.
This is not as stupid as it sounds. You know those sport fields with like 4 baseball diamonds on it whose outfields cross over each other? Its very common to paint a “wall.”
I wanna hear what people think. But could we pass on the “homeruns are stupid” arguments? This is an idea used by several park and rec departments in the Bay Area.