FB/BB Stadium Projects

[Zeebart21]

Here is a link to some expert curlers for the 2008 season...
http://www.easycurls.com/

And also, here is a video of a new curling technique, this may revolutionize the sport...

you're killing me, Smalls!

[rhineaux]

_ you're killing me, Smalls! _

I love The Sandlot reference...One of my most favorite movies of all time. I never noticed how much cursing was in that movie until I worked for the YMCA and showed that movie to my afterschool group. After the 3rd or fourth GD-bomb or S-bomb, a few of which occured while parents were picking up their kids, I decided it was time to mix in some kickball.

[rhineaux]

_ I've been wondering this since this became a sport, but what the hell is curling, and how is it a sport?!?

No offense to anyone that plays. _

Also kinda funny is that you said that you've been wondering about it since it became a sport. According to a history of the sport, it was first documented in the 1500s. This begs the questions, are you older than dirt? and do you know him? :-)

[Zeebart21]

I love The Sandlot reference...One of my most favorite movies of all time. I never noticed how much cursing was in that movie until I worked for the YMCA and showed that movie to my afterschool group. After the 3rd or fourth GD-bomb or S-bomb, a few of which occured while parents were picking up their kids, I decided it was time to mix in some kickball.

Even with the cursing, it is a great movie.

Z

[Ewhite]

_ Even with the cursing, it is a great movie.

Z _

A double feature of Sandlot and The Origianl Bad News Bears, Tanner Boyle is my hero.

EW

[Zeebart21]

A double feature of Sandlot and The Origianl Bad News Bears, Tanner Boyle is my hero.

EW

BRAVO!!!

Z

[rhineaux]

_ He will be donating 5mil and getting another 3mil to 5mil from some of his friends. There will be 3 different renovation proposals given to coach Robe....one for 5mil, one for 8mil and one for 10mil. _

$5, $8, or $10 Million??? That's really a phenominal amount. Take a look at the pictures on the USM site and what they did to their baseball stadium for about $2.3 million, it really means that the sky is the limit for the possibilities. (Then again, maybe not since LSU is putting about $30 Million into the new Alex Box, granted it is an entirely new site). I think that ours will probably take a little more work than USM's as we'll need to improve the actual playing surface and the lighting and so forth, whereas they might not have needed those improvements. And, their old press box was merely an elevated metal structure, so maybe ours will take some extra work to either replace the current grandstand or add onto it, and either build the structure down the 1st/3rd baselines and replace the newer bleachers (I can't see them getting rid of those since they are so new, but you gotta do what you gotta do, can't not make an improvement just because another one was just made), OR build it so the grandstand will connect somehow with the bleachers. Either way, I can't wait to see it or at least see what it will look like.

I feel that we have one of the better stadiums in all of college baseball, from the outfield pine trees, to the short brick wall around the field, to the first rows of seats being on field level, to the cooking club, and so forth. Hopefully the new design will help to enhace all of those things and add to them as well.

[ulforlife]

I don't know if I like the idea of a turf baseball field. That to me is not baseball.

[CajunCharlie]

_ I don't know if I like the idea of a turf baseball field. That to me is not baseball. _

Why not a turf outfield and a grass infield?

[rhineaux]

_ Why not a turf outfield and a grass infield? _

I too would prefer grass over turf. Turf isn't a bad thing (especially with our field situation), but the thing I really hate about it is having dirt only around the bases. So, i think it would be great if the whole thing was turf if they could still have the dirt through the base paths like it's suppose to be. They are able to do it at Tropicana Field.