jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan) (06/06/85)
How about this, IF the Cubs make it to the WS, AND ABC forces all Cub home games to be played at night, then let's not watch. I know this will be tough, but when large corporations start pushing me around, I get mad. First the Indy 500, shown 5 hours after the result is known. Then the 84 Olympics, and now the world series. Me, I like sports, and I like them 'natural'. Real grass, with mud and and sweat and sun. Baseball should be played on grass, with the sun shining down and cold beer in the stands (not lite beer). Football should has a nip in the air, and when the game is over, the linemen should have grass stains and mud ground into their uniforms. People (read announcers) who tell me that the conditions under a dome are perfect are lying. Here in Toronto, there is a group called Friends of Outdoor Baseball. They are a group of citizens who are dedicated to perserving outdoor baseball in Toronto, and, I feel, their vocal opposition to a dome stadium in Toronto, has resulted in a compromise, a dome with a retractable roof. If this works, then I'll get baseball AND sunshine, if not, I'm stuck. So, enough of technology, grass and sunshine and rain and wind are better conditions to play an outdoor game than the air-conditioned sterile space of a dome. Jim Sullivan
mcal@ihuxb.UUCP (Mike Clifford) (06/07/85)
> How about this, IF the Cubs make it to the WS, AND ABC forces all Cub > home games to be played at night, then let's not watch. I know this > will be tough... > Here in Toronto, there is a group called Friends of Outdoor Baseball. They > are a group of citizens who are dedicated to perserving outdoor baseball > in Toronto, and, I feel, their vocal opposition to a dome stadium in Toronto, > has resulted in a compromise, a dome with a retractable roof. If this > works, then I'll get baseball AND sunshine, if not, I'm stuck. > > Jim Sullivan If the Blue Jays end up in the World Series against the Cubs, I think it would be a good idea for you to not watch the contest. Too demoralizing for you! :>) And regards this retractable roof compromise: I think the F.O.B. got took! They should have stuck to their position: No roof! You can figure out what is going to happen...the construction will start, problems will occur with the retractable roof feature, so they scrap the idea and install a permanent roof! Wait and see! Mike Clifford