What are your personal thoughts concerning how this could potentially impact
the blog community?

http://www.dailytribune.com/ar.....942702.txt

Not sure if this will end up being a link, but the article makes it very clear that after the alterations were done to the outfield, the park is no longer considered a pitcher’s park. Also, there were alot more doubles and triples hit in the first 3 years of the CoPa’s existence, before they messed around with the outfield.

Referring back to the shrewd shopper conversation, I ‘m a person with champagne taste, but a beer budget. That’s the mindset I’m coming from. Since billfer doesn’t like analogies, I won’t talk about that here. Your use of the word “SMARTER” is the operative word here and that’s what the Tiger’s organization needs more of. The Yankees have a 24k gold lineup. Who wouldn’t want that? I love Cadillacs and Bentley’s, but drive a 19 year old Toyota. It’s worth it’s weight in gold. I’d trust it to take me anywhere.

It doesn’t have to cost you $200 million dollars to get you where you want to go.

And sorry don’t have any art currently, it’s pretty rare that people buy that kind of stuff for me anymore. I’m not the kind of gift recipient that pretends every gift is good, so in the past if somebody bought me a picture frame or not and asked me if I liked it, I would typically say yeah it’s nice but I don’t hang stuff up so I probably won’t use it. I’m very blunt and honest.

I actually do have one piece I forgot about in my garage. It’s a huge picture with a waterfall background that is electronic where there is a light roller that makes the water look like it’s moving. You can have that if you want.

Imagine where the fence would be if they had moved it in for Brad Ausmus instead. Although fans supposedly love lots of home runs, and there would be plenty of room for lots of extra seats for all those extra fans once they moved the fence…

My reasoning is because I want the Yankees to really stick it to the Tigers and further solidify themselves as an icon that symbolizes the best team in baseball history. I think they deserve it, because they do things the right way. They spend money to gain an advantage, and they don’t squander their resources, and that has helped them over time to grow revenues to help cover their aggressive spending.

I hope that the Yankees success serves as a catalyst to provoke change in Detroit. There would be less of an impact if the Phillies won, because they are in the Nat’l League and it would validate an excuse to spend money which we need more encouragement to spend money rather than to chicken out. If you want to seriously compete in baseball by spending less money, you better bring it with your GMs and your coaches and managers, or you have no shot, and we aren’t set up well in that area.

I’m only 30 years old, so I’ve spent my entire lifetime watching lousy Tiger’s baseball, absolutely pathetic fundamentals of baseball in every aspect of the game. We have ALWAYS had bad coaching, and bad GMs, and bad managers. We can’t run the basepaths correctly, we can’t decide when to PH correctly, or PS, or fielding shifts, or when to bunt or not to bunt, or when to steal. We don’t know how to shop for FAs and evaluate the best bargains, and we don’t know how to strategically trade players when their perceived stock is higher than their present/future value to our team. And frankly, I’m sick of it, and I’m not happy about it. Although I will still watch every single game next year, as I won’t quit on my hope that we can defy the statistical odds against us, and I’m addicted to baseball like a drug.

I hope that the Yankees winning gives SOME small bit of extra motivation to encourage Mr. Ilitch to aspire to one day be the best example of a baseball team and to start taking away from the Yankee’s status. Let’s hope the Yankees win to give us a loftier target to shoot for, and hope Mr. Ilitch will subsequently determine that we need to audit our philosophies as a team, and improve ALL areas of the game, from the management of the roster all the way down to every facet and element of the gameday tactical decisions, which we currently underachieve at in ALL AREAS with very disappointing deficiencies.

I”m pulling for the Phillies.
Great game by Lee tonight too bad we didn’t get him instead of Washburn!

This one chart here isn’t enough to adequately explore the topic of whether Comerica park is doubles friendly or not, and form a conclusive opinion in that regard.

The data sure supports the case that it is NOT doubles friendly, but it isn’t thoroughly convincing without other data and other angles explored and delved into. If I had to guess, I would guess Comerica park IS NOT friendly for doubles, but I can’t be sure based upon this chart alone, which ultimately means that DD may or may not be right when he makes that claim.

And I said in my post specifically that Laird and Everett applied ONLY to this year, with a different set of players contributing poorly in the previous years that are along the same lines of substandard doubles-capable hitters.