Twins to trade baggie for a piece of the rock

No more baggie. I like the stone wall idea a lot.

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I like it, too.

by Jesse on Aug 16, 2008 10:11 AM EDT reply actions

picture and story make it sound like there’s going to be some very odd plays off that wall. What I don’t get is will the first 10f eet or so have padding? If not, look out there maybe some players bouncing off that rock and onto the DL quick. Imagine the Gomez hit against the Cleveland wall… now picture that wall made of rock…

see what I mean?

by caluofmn on Aug 16, 2008 11:33 AM EDT reply actions

I'm sure there

will be some form of protection for the players. It’d be madness to expect people to want to play anything against that kind of a wall.

by Jesse on Aug 16, 2008 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Padding

It will exist.

But it doesn’t exist in Wrigley.

by Johnny Safron on Aug 16, 2008 12:11 PM EDT reply actions

no padding on the green monster as well

by caluofmn on Aug 16, 2008 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe not an injury risk

Unless I’m reading this wrong, I don’t know that this is a field-level wall (emphasis mine):

The porch, with several rows of seating, will hang out over the field. The facade bearing the rough-cut stone, about 90 feet long and several feet high, will be in play.

That implies to me that this will stick out from a second deck or something, not that it will be part of the rest of the outfield wall. I haven’t seen any pictures or anything, so I could be way off base here.

"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

by BeefMaster on Aug 16, 2008 2:41 PM EDT reply actions