Looks like the folks down at RFK have had some trouble properly measuring a baseball field too. I dont' see ths anywhere else so I figured I'd post it. I know that it's not the same as screwing up the angles of a soccer field, but was intersting to me none the less. Errors in the Outfield
Yes, but if we're grading on a curve, and every other stadium out there gets 100% (or darn close), that gives RFK an F.
according to an article I read on this problem (may have been the same article, I didn't click the link) the problem wasn't with mis-measuring the distance, but with misplacing the pads on the outfield fence. The 380 pads were placed too far out toward center field, and were adjusted to their correct positions after the error was found.
That's what they said the problem was, or at least how they corrected it. I'm not sure if there's any guidelines in how or where outfield fences are marked but I would think that usually they're there to mark 'power alleys.' A 'power alley' would be one particular place wouldn't it? And they apparently just decided to move the numbers to the right place to correct the measurement problem.... I suppose that's understandable if they're assembling and disassembling the wall but seems like a weak excuse to me.
Did anyone consider Project Mayhem involvement now that the Gnats have taken RFK away from the US Soccer pool of possible stadiums for qualifiers?
project mayhem fight club watch it good movie if you're drunk or stoned or both oh and edward norton is a damn good actor there was a post about the nationals outfield mismeasuring a few weeks back
Nope: Guatemalans protest Project Mayhem From this week's never-thought-you'd-see-it file, check out the protest filed by the Guatemalan soccer federation with the FIFA game commissioner. At their hotel the night before the game, the Guatemalans formally charge, "We felt accosted and disturbed by groups of American fans, who in a violent form intended to enter the rooms of our players, and who were stopped by forces in charge of security for the Guatemalan delegation." As someone who was on hand at the hotel in the wee hours of last Sunday morning (read my article in Sports Illustrated this week for more details), I can safely say that the 15 American soccer fans of Project Mayhem only intended to make noise, not war, when they descended onto the Guatemalans' hotel floor carrying air horns and other noisemakers. They simply wanted to wake up their visitors, and they had no desire for a security goon to kick and shove U.S. fans (and yours truly, I might add) and later pull out a stun gun, which he fired in the air but (thankfully) did not use. But then conflict is par for the course between the U.S. and Guatemala, which have exchanged protests this year like two silly little boys running endlessly back to their mothers. After their original meeting in Guatemala in July, the Guatemalans filed a protest with FIFA over the eligibility of U.S. midfielder Armas, while the Americans filed protests over the late switch in venue and a change in the game ball that took place the day of the contest. Besides the protest against the American fans last weekend, the Guatemalans also lodged complaints about not being allowed to do a walk-through at RFK the day before the game (U.S. Soccer says they were in fact allowed) and about having the pre-game technical meeting site changed to the U.S. team hotel. (It had rained, U.S. Soccer says, forcing the change.) Not one of the protests has been upheld so far, which means both sides are simply wasting their time. Yet the Guatemalans' protest against the U.S. fans does reveal one thing: Despite the Central Americans' claims that the noise-making didn't bother them, it did -- a lot, in fact. And that in itself is a victory for Project Mayhem. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/2000/09/03/glance/
Nope, just some guy who got blocks of tickets from the USSF under the guise of being a U.S. Supporters group then turned around and sold them to Hondurans on eBay.
What I find really funny is the fact that the players are crying like whiny little girls about 4 or 5 feet here and there when Frank Howard and Mickey Mantle used to knock the f*** out of the ball into the upper deck on a regular basis*** ***On beer and hotdogs