Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Already

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Have you seen how the philly preseason is going? No point in wasting a mtahc on that

It is fitting that red bull be surrounded by aluminum.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Good idea, but in Guadalajara I have no idea how they'd keep the goats from ending up in the stew pot. Even I loves me a good bowl of birria!

 

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Any know what is going on with the live webcam? All they have is a picture of both the exterior/interior of the stadium. Are they trying to surprise us?????????????????

Elvis Minaya

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

More like trying to prevent folks from freaking out. There are only about 10 days left before the soft opening. The snow didn't help with the final seat installation, I'm sure. But, I'm confident things will be worked out by the 20th.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

The first soft opening game of the U17/18 teams is on March 13th at 4PM.

Season ticket cards are to be mailed by the end of this week.

The gift this year is a scarf with your section number on it.

In the package will be a CD explaining how to get around, where the parking is etc.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

of course you do, you're a chupacabra!!!!!

 

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IT'S A TRAP!!!!!

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

The RioT is the best stadium in MLS...for now. Red Bull Arena is looking very spectacular.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

The best stadium for the next 18 days, aftewards, its THE ARENA in Harrison, NJ.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Yeah, good luck with that.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea



http://hhamilton.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834521a5369e201310f5133fb970c-pi

The area around the stadium is looking nicer, with the street lights, fencing and benches.

 

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^^^^^ Disaster.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Not a disaster, but it ain't gonna look great on opening day. Half in great shape and the other half a patchwork, most likely. Oh well.

TFC hasn't laid their pitch yet either, though they have a longer time to get it ready with away games to start. Incidentally, looks like I owe Matrim an apology regarding the undersoil system if that is the culprit, but I was only going on what I was told, admittedly not by anyone involved in groundskeeping.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

get this fixd now red Bulls if some bodey forgot to tern the heating on for one side of the grass then that parson shold be cand.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

what happened? well atleast there's a brand new bright 360 lcd screen to distract us...

 

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I don't know if I'd panic just yet. Are there any details or backstory info other than "disaster"? It could very well just be a crappy camera phone photo taken at night with less than ideal lighting. I dumped it into my photo editor and with nothing more than simple brightness and saturation tweaks it looked like this:

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Great job Chupacabra, now we can rest in peace.

 

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This picture was posted as part of a series of pictures taken by someone who drove around the stadium on Saturday. Field looks a little greener there, and if I had to choose one to use as a reference for reality I think I'll use this one... Here's a link to the page it came from.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Umm... well, the link was posted above! Sorry for posting it again!

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

At first, I thought the picture in the previous posts looked like a picture way out of white balance, as Chupacabra suggested. But, on the edge of the tarp, there is a very dark area, which looks like grass, next to what then looks like, well, dirt.

Then there is this picture from tonight, which looks very much like they've completely ripped out the sod on that half of the pitch. D'oh On the bright side, they are testing the led screen tonight, it would seem. The sod will be fixed. Good thing we have an owner with deep pockets

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Statement from Stover on the field condition:

http://www.thevipersnest.com/2010/03/talking-turf_02.html

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

By portions I think he meant HALF ....In any event it looks like we will have a green pitch to play on by the Santos game.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

Yes, a LARGE portion. In any case I think we'll be OK.

 

Re: Red Bull Arena Construction Thread 8 : Enough Waiting for our Fully Operational Death Star Alrea

And the problem portion is the south end as expected. With the angle of the sun always shining slightly south to north, the roof at the south end has blocked out all sunlight to the south end of the pitch. If you've followed the webcam back in the fall you could see that the southern third of the pitch was always in a black shadow from dawn til dusk. No wonder the roots didn't take when the grass hasn't seen any light.