Cornell's new baseball stadium - "Booth Field"

[upprdeck]

so if they plan on 500 people attending a game and the lot holes 80 cars where/how do they expect people to get there?  if you assumed 4 people in a car that still leaves about 200 people getting there in some other way or do they expect to have a non paved lot as well?

even if you assumed no spectators i would think many of the team would be driving there.  its not a simple walk with gear in tow.. you might have 10-20 cars with just normal personel/players/umps etc that doesnt leave much for 500 more people to show up.  But I suspect the crowds they get at Hoy will go down with less casual viewing out there.

[scoop85]

so if they plan on 500 people attending a game and the lot holes 80 cars where/how do they expect people to get there?  if you assumed 4 people in a car that still leaves about 200 people getting there in some other way or do they expect to have a non paved lot as well?

even if you assumed no spectators i would think many of the team would be driving there.  its not a simple walk with gear in tow.. you might have 10-20 cars with just normal personel/players/umps etc that doesnt leave much for 500 more people to show up.  But I suspect the crowds they get at Hoy will go down with less casual viewing out there.

500 people at a Cornell baseball game on a frigid late April day? I'll bet they're lucky to get 25 people there.

[Ken711]

so if they plan on 500 people attending a game and the lot holes 80 cars where/how do they expect people to get there?  if you assumed 4 people in a car that still leaves about 200 people getting there in some other way or do they expect to have a non paved lot as well?

even if you assumed no spectators i would think many of the team would be driving there.  its not a simple walk with gear in tow.. you might have 10-20 cars with just normal personel/players/umps etc that doesnt leave much for 500 more people to show up.  But I suspect the crowds they get at Hoy will go down with less casual viewing out there.

Perhaps by shuttle bus.

[upprdeck]

I think they get more people on the days they let the HS teams player there though.

[Cop at Lynah]

Not sure at what stage the construction is but there were a few concrete trucks pouring concrete this morning on site

[Cop at Lynah]

Foul poles are up as is the outfield fencing

[Ken711]

Foul poles are up as is the outfield fencing

Thanks for the update! If you get a chance to post some photos that would be great.

[upprdeck]

Foul poles are up as is the outfield fencing

i was kinda hoping for the softball look of poles with no fences.. it leads to more home runs.

[Ken711]

New baseball stadium to be named Booth Field.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/10/new-baseball-field-honor-generosity-rich-booth-82

[Cop at Lynah]

The turf has been put down on the playing field

[billhoward]

Sorry, "turf"? Pre-millennial, that meant grass. Now, if you're younger, I believe turf means "articial turf." Sort of a retronym thing. (As in, now you have to say "corded drill" to be clear.) William Safire, he of the NYT On Language column, did one on on retronyms -- corded phone, cloth diaper and, because he was a gentlemanly conservative but a conservative still, "English language radio."

[Trotsky]

because he was a gentlemanly conservative

Well.  Also a speechwriter for Nixon.

But compared to them today he was John Fucking Milton.

[Swampy]

Sorry, "turf"? Pre-millennial, that meant grass. Now, if you're younger, I believe turf means "articial turf." Sort of a retronym thing. (As in, now you have to say "corded drill" to be clear.) William Safire, he of the NYT On Language column, did one on on retronyms -- corded phone, cloth diaper and, because he was a gentlemanly conservative but a conservative still, "English language radio."

Technically speaking, wouldn't "grass turf" be the retronym?

Forgive me: I studied engineering, and so, I get hung up on technicalities.

[billhoward]

Sorry, "turf"? Pre-millennial, that meant grass. Now, if you're younger, I believe turf means "articial turf." Sort of a retronym thing. (As in, now you have to say "corded drill" to be clear.) William Safire, he of the NYT On Language column, did one on on retronyms -- corded phone, cloth diaper and, because he was a gentlemanly conservative but a conservative still, "English language radio."

Technically speaking, wouldn't "grass turf" be the retronym?

Forgive me: I studied engineering, and so, I get hung up on technicalities.

"Grass turf" would both be a retronym and a clarifier for millenians and Gen Z (my gawd, one of them just got elected to the Congress at 25) that this is the grassy, rabbits eat it, variant of the chemically spun sports field covering.

[jtwcornell91]

Sorry, "turf"? Pre-millennial, that meant grass. Now, if you're younger, I believe turf means "articial turf." Sort of a retronym thing.

As a Gen-Xer, when I hear "turf" I think artificial turf (or perhaps even Astroturf).  Grass is grass (or "natural grass").  But then I'm young enough that the other use of "grass" had fallen out of use before my peer group started using it.