chiefsfan
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RE: SBC Baseball 3/18-19/2014
(03-18-2014 08:15 PM)Ole Sleepy Wrote: (03-18-2014 08:06 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: (03-18-2014 07:59 PM)Ole Sleepy Wrote: (03-18-2014 07:55 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: (03-18-2014 07:52 PM)HCJag Wrote: Georgia Southern now up 12-2 over Clemson in the 7th. Eagles' offense is tearing it up this year. # 1 in the country with 29 home runs through 20 games is impressive.
29?
We have 4 homeruns all season...and three of them came this week, in the same game, by the same player.
I can't wait to get you guys in Tomlinson and let you experience the Spring Winds. Try hitting one out then.
That's Charles Barkley terrible right there.
Please elaborate on this Spring Wind phenomenon.
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In Arkansas, every Spring the winds shift to come out of the South, bringing in all the Warm Moist air out of the Gulf Of Mexico. It brings in warm temperatures (and Severe Thunderstorms...but that's another story).
Our park is built out in a clearing, with no wind protection. That means, every spring during baseball season, opposition comes into our park and finds a steady wind at 15-20 mph blowing straight in from Center Field.
It renders us unable to recruit a power hitter. You play here, you better know how to play small ball... because odds are, you're going to deal with the wind at least once or twice in a 3 game set.
That's a hell of a home field advantage if you are playing a power team like us. Hope we play you guys when the winds are too bad.
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Its great in a way, but tough in a way. If you are down late...it takes the homerun ball away at times, meaning you have to manufacture. That can be hard on anyone...even the home team.
I have seen some of the best hitters in the Sun Belt come in here and be rendered obsolete by this park. The teams that win here are the teams that are filled with high average guys, who don't necessarily have to hit the long ball to win. It doesn't mean they have to go crazy and bunt way too much like we do, but you better be at least decent at running the bases.
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