Someone Help my Duh Moment Please (Baseball)

[MeridianDog]

Here is the team practicing today. Field is looking good, warning track is now maroonish, chair back seats are making progress going in

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Not that I am all that worried about inconvenience to visiting teams because I'm not, but I see our bullpen and my OCD immediately hits hard that there is no similar visitor's bullpen. Symmetrical balance in the world and all....

Where will the visitor's ball chunkers warm up? Parking lot?

 

[DNADAWG]

Visitors bullpen is in front of their dugout

Visitors bullpen is in front of their dugout....Kinda like other places we have played at that have warm up area on the actual field.

Here is the team practicing today

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Not that I am all that worried about inconvenience to visiting teams because I'm not, but I see our bullpen and my OCD immediately hits hard that there is no similar visitor's bullpen. Symmetrical balance in the world and all....

Where will the visitor's ball chunkers warm up? Parking lot?

 

[MeridianDog]

I guess we told the field designers that a little bit of berm seating for visitor fans was more important than designing the visitor pitchers' warmup area to put it a few feet off the field. Of course, I donated absolutely nothing towards the new stadium and field, so I have no justification to say much, if anything about their layout and design.

 

[HotMop]

It's an inconvenience for them to not have a true bullpen, while our guys can sit in the bullpen and relax they have to warm up on the field of play. Lots of MLB fields employ the same thing.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

I guess we told the field designers that a little bit of berm seating for visitor fans was more important than designing the visitor pitchers' warmup area to put it a few feet off the field. Of course, I donated absolutely nothing towards the new stadium and field, so I have no justification to say much, if anything about their layout and design.

I heard Cohen wanted it this way for the home field advantage. I love the idea.

 

[EthelTheBulldog]

Money involved. More seating and saves money

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

People pay more for seats than visiting teams pay for bullpen space...

Also, it's that cutout area on the left (down the RF line. The bullpen catchers are somewhat shielded from line drives. It's not totally in the field of play like other places.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

I heard Cohen wanted it this way for the home field advantage. I love the idea.

Kind of like how some teams don't have stalls or toilet paper in visiting teams football dressing rooms.

 

[EngDawg]

It’s a home field advantage sort of thing.

Interesting side note: when Populous was designing AT&T Park in SF, the forgot to put in Bullpens, so it’s one of the few modern parks to have the old fashioned pens down the baseline.

 

[msubrave]

I can't think of one mlb stadium where the visitor pen is on the field but the home team pen is off the field.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Guess who will be using that visitor pen during the regionals/super regionals?

 

[bulldogcountry1]

Guess who will be using that visitor pen during the regionals/super regionals?

They changed the rule where the host team can stay in their home dugout.

 

[HumpDawgy]

I heard Cohen wanted it this way for the home field advantage. I love the idea.

Having the visitor's bullpen somewhere in the outfield surrounded by all our lounge lizards would be a better home field advantage IMO.

1. Having a longer trip to the pen and then to the mound.
2. Having rowdy drunk fans being a distraction. (Shouldn't we use the LFL and outfield terrace to our advantage?)
3. Not being a safety issue (line drive takes out pitchers)
4. Having more premium seating along the first base line where opposing teams feel claustrophobic with fans all around them.
5. Better stadium symmetry. (Yes, I also agree that symmetry is important. OCD kicking in)


I will have to disagree with Cohen (aka IB) on this one.

 

[thekimmer]

It’s a home field advantage sort of thing.

Interesting side note: when Populous was designing AT&T Park in SF, the forgot to put in Bullpens, so it’s one of the few modern parks to have the old fashioned pens down the baseline.

Nope not true. This is an urban legend.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

They changed the rule where the host team can stay in their home dugout.

Good. I always thought that was stupid as hell.