OT: Field Of Dreams Game Tonight

[jibsey]

My 2 favorite baseball movies are this and The Natural.

 

[cohenzone]

The game is unlikely to be anywhere near as good as the movie, and I’m a Yankee fan. Agree with you on the baseball movies although Major League and Bull Durham are fun, not to forget Bad News Bears and 42.

 

[Chin Diesel]

If they don't have Ray Liotta walking out from the corn field in his White Sox uniform to come out and throw the first pitch, what's the point?

 

[MTBingNinja]

The game is unlikely to be anywhere near as good as the movie, and I’m a Yankee fan. Agree with you on the baseball movies although Major League and Bull Durham are fun, not to forget Bad News Bears and 42.

They should’ve played on the movie field

 

[Pgh2Storrs]

Very, very cool idea. The field looks amazing. This reminds me of the first Winter Classic that the NHL did with the Pens and Buffalo where, even though the ice was awful, the scenes with the snow falling were just incredible. Hopefully MLB doesn’t run this idea into the ground like the NHL has

 

[navery12]

Very, very cool idea. The field looks amazing. This reminds me of the first Winter Classic that the NHL did with the Pens and Buffalo where, even though the ice was awful, the scenes with the snow falling were just incredible. Hopefully MLB doesn’t run this idea into the ground like the NHL has

They're already well on their way by making it a yearly thing

 

[Chin Diesel]

They should’ve played on the movie field

So, I haven't been following this closely, and my next comment will verify that statement.

They aren't playing on the field from Field of Dreams??

I assumed they would have to put up a fence, improve the lighting and stuff for safety, but I had just assumed they were using the real field.

Good lawd. Now I'm definitely not interested.

 

[Pgh2Storrs]

They're already well on their way by making it a yearly thing

Yeah, that’s a mistake. Much like the Williamsport game during the LLWS, the small venue niche games are cool but they have a shelf life. If you wanted to do this every 5 years or so, then I can get on board but it will lose its luster by doing it every year

 

[zls44]

So, I haven't been following this closely, and my next comment will verify that statement.

They aren't playing on the field from Field of Dreams??

I assumed they would have to put up a fence, improve the lighting and stuff for safety, but I had just assumed they were using the real field.

Good lawd. Now I'm definitely not interested.

They built a field next to it rather than using it. It's MLB regulation field. Which stinks, I wanted to see a generic chain link fence holding back a Stanton foul ball, a capacity of 34 fans with no netting there, etc

 

[nomar]

If Aaron Judge doesn't walk off the field and magically transform into a doctor in order to save the life of a spectator, and then never play baseball again, I will be very disappointed!

 

[CTBasketball]

They built a field next to it rather than using it. It's MLB regulation field. Which stinks, I wanted to see a generic chain link fence holding back a Stanton foul ball, a capacity of 34 fans with no netting there, etc

I would love to see professional baseball players get bad hops 70% of the time on ground balls.

 

[Chin Diesel]

They built a field next to it rather than using it. It's MLB regulation field. Which stinks, I wanted to see a generic chain link fence holding back a Stanton foul ball, a capacity of 34 fans with no netting there, etc

I would love to see professional baseball players get bad hops 70% of the time on ground balls.

I definitely get the need to upgrade the movie field to MLB standards. That's a no brainer. I just figured they would use the movie field as the starting point. At a minimum use the original home plate and go from there. Unless you are the designers of Dunkin Donuts stadium, it's pretty easy to figure out all the dimensions from home plate.

And yes, having a fence with nothing but corn behind it would be awesome. Don't think you could do chain link whatever works.

 

[JonnyRI]

If Aaron Judge doesn't walk off the field and magically transform into a doctor in order to save the life of a spectator, and then never play baseball again, I will be very disappointed!

Wouldn’t you rather it be Stanton ?

 

[Wise2]

pic - original field in the back

 

[storrsroars]

I want to see Timothy Busfield walk across the batter's box while Lance Lynn is throwing 94 mph heat.

 

[TheChamps990411]

My 2 favorite baseball movies are this and The Natural.

Ive never seen either film.

 

[NJHusky]

I definitely get the need to upgrade the movie field to MLB standards. That's a no brainer. I just figured they would use the movie field as the starting point. At a minimum use the original home plate and go from there. Unless you are the designers of Dunkin Donuts stadium, it's pretty easy to figure out all the dimensions from home plate.

And yes, having a fence with nothing but corn behind it would be awesome. Don't think you could do chain link whatever works.

I had the same thought initially, but in seeing the photo the owners probably want to keep the original field intact for the tourist value.

Now they’ve got the original and an MLB ready field they can use for numerous events

 

[zls44]

I had the same thought initially, but in seeing the photo the owners probably want to keep the original field intact for the tourist value.

Now they’ve got the original and an MLB ready field they can use for numerous events

Exactly- they weren't gonna play on the original field as it's built so they didn't want to totally blow up the tourist trap for one game a year

 

[nomar]

Wouldn’t you rather it be Stanton ?

I'm not picky.

 

[nomar]

Ive never seen either film.

 

[jibsey]

They just had corn in the original field, here they made a fence where the corn comes up a foot or 2 above the top and then a thin maybe 1 foot top border and see through chain below so you can see the corn. I guess there was no way not to have a fence but wouldn’t it have been fun to not have a fence? Home run if hit into the corn and it’s not caught but an out if they catch it out there. An outfielder returning to the field with a corn stalk coming out of his pants would be kinda funny, but alas no.

 

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

You have to realize the movie site is around 280ft down the lines and 330ft to center. This was never an option.

 

[storrsroars]

You have to realize the movie site is around 280ft down the lines and 330ft to center. This was never an option.

If they used dead-ball era balls, it might've worked...

 

[Scoe]

Is there any doubt that Kevin Costner’s throwing out the first pitch. He just swore on the fox pre game btw lol.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Is there any doubt that Kevin Costner’s throwing out the first pitch. He just swore on the fox pre game btw lol.

He should he catching first pitch from Ray Liotta
Unless Costner is throwing it to his movie dad.