Seattle gains a new recruiting tool

The only reason any player would choose the Mariners is not for a chance to win but I am greedy show me the money.

New recruiting tool...."we stink every year, and doubt you'll get paid what you're worth but hey, we'd love to have you".

No thanks.

Teams moving the fences in is one of my pet peeves. We should be reading more articles about how teams in the bandbox parks are moving their fences out......not the other way around. Places like Safeco and Petco should be the standard bearers.

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Originally posted 11:42 AM ET  10.03 by ElevenRingsSTL

Teams moving the fences in is one of my pet peeves. We should be reading more articles about how teams in the bandbox parks are moving their fences out......not the other way around. Places like Safeco and Petco should be the standard bearers.

Solution: add "co" to the end of every stadium's name.

It would be much harder to hit HRs in Fenwayco.

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Originally posted 12:26 PM ET  10.03 by Martel - Moopsbane

Solution: add "co" to the end of every stadium's name. It would be much harder to hit HRs in Fenwayco.

Fenco. I like that.

Don't do it, Mariners. Make the visitors to your park. Embrace your differences. Distinctive fields is one of the things that distinguishes baseball from the other sports, whether it is the wall in Fenway, the ivy in Wrigley, the hill in Houston, the Bay SF or the foul territory in Oakland.

Shorten it and they will come...

Seattle is on the right track, but they play in the same division as the A's, Rangers and Angels, all of whom had a winning record this year.

Tough luck. Least you can beat the Astros for the next couple of years.

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Originally posted 06:10 PM ET  10.03 by THE BISHOP!

Shorten it and they will come...

I'd say your wife begs to differ

QUOTE(#3):

Originally posted 11:42 AM ET  10.03 by ElevenRingsSTL

Teams moving the fences in is one of my pet peeves. We should be reading more articles about how teams in the bandbox parks are moving their fences out......not the other way around. Places like Safeco and Petco should be the standard bearers.

In general I agree with you, but Seattle is an exception. It is a big park, but the real problem is that the ball doesn't carry. Except for the last couple of weeks in August, and the first couple of weeks in September. you can shoot the ball from a Bazooka and it won't reach the fences. It is like having a park where the fences are 500 feet away.

Granted, when the weather finally warms up in mid-August, it will be sort of a hitters park for a month or so, but the rest of the year it will be a pretty fair park if they move the fences in. I like baseball in a fair park, where if the hitter does his job and crushes the ball it goes out, or if the pitcher does his job and gets the hitter to "just miss" the ball is an out on the warning track.

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Originally posted 11:42 AM ET  10.03 by ElevenRingsSTL

Teams moving the fences in is one of my pet peeves. We should be reading more articles about how teams in the bandbox parks are moving their fences out......not the other way around. Places like Safeco and Petco should be the standard bearers.

The days of fans wanting 2-1 ballgames, games featuring 6+ innings of nothing, is far in the rear view mirror.

The coming to safeco 378 left power alley is actually comparable to much of mlb. With Seattle's cool, damp air, and wind often blowing in from the north, the park will still very much favor pitchers.