Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.

In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?

  • anistorian@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Uuuh, tell me more of this Green Monster! I assume it is not the energy drink :p

    Nah, I think it is called a football field as well. But very true. There are some leeway as to quality, dryness/wetness etc. And I guess the curve of spinning balls would also be effected by air pressure in our football, but it would hardly be a mechanic or something I ever heard anyone talk about.

    lol statues on the field is so ridiculous. Like why xD ? A huge sting ray aquarium is cool though! I hope they keep that feature in whatever they build next !

    And wow. Going to each ball park would be a crazy undertaking. I hope you manage to do it!

    • capybeby@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      So you probably know that Boston is NOT on a grid. In fact many of the roads follow old cattle paths or new shorelines as the buildable land was expanded into the late 1800s. Fast forward a few decades and Boston wants to build a baseball stadium but there isn’t a lot of room… no problem! Well just build a giant wall in left field and it’ll all come out in the wash! So now Fenway looks like this:

      So that adds… weirdness generally but it also turns many doubles into singles, home runs into outs, and some of the other corners turn singles into home runs. And whoever is playing LF needs to ‘play the wall’ as they say. Bc the ball bounces off the wall, you gotta take that into account when positioning. Apparently routine catches aren’t YouTube video worthy lol so I couldn’t really find a video besides this one (which is another short so sorry if you can’t see it!) https://youtube.com/shorts/enCktNoC4TU

      Ah yeah that makes sense. It’s also probably easier to have consistent football fields bc they are a rectangle.

      Ikr!!

      Hehe thanks! 2 down, 28 to go!