FieldTurf is *almost* an acceptable substitute for real grass, if you simply *must* have an indoor stadium.
Retractable roofs are acceptable for baseball if they're only closed due to rain or dangerously high winds (i.e., >60 mph); anyone who closes it because "it's cold!" is a wimp who deserves to be beaten severely.
Ice hockey is also better outdoors, though on artificial ice. Witness the fact that NHL and NCAA hockey games played on artificial ice in football and baseball stadiums have invariably sold out, even when the forecast (as it was for one such game in Calgary) is for an air temperature of 40 below and an even worse wind chill. (While hockey on a frozen pond is fun, it's a little too unpredictable in terms of the ice surface and whether there's a thin spot that might suddenly plunge someone into ten feet of sub-freezing water...)
OJ Simpson probably did do it, but the jury still came back with the correct verdict--the defense successfully raised reasonable doubts, and the prosecution just completely and utterly fucked up their chances to skewer these doubts. (For example, given that the latex glove probably made the "bloody glove" not fit right, why not request a recess, and just go buy a pair of the same size and style gloves, admit them into evidence as identical to the "bloody glove," and have Simpson put *them* on, with no latex gloves? Given how much money you'd already spent on it, I doubt the California taxpayers would mind another $500 or so...)
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Date: 17 Aug 2009 17:08 (UTC)Retractable roofs are acceptable for baseball if they're only closed due to rain or dangerously high winds (i.e., >60 mph); anyone who closes it because "it's cold!" is a wimp who deserves to be beaten severely.
Ice hockey is also better outdoors, though on artificial ice. Witness the fact that NHL and NCAA hockey games played on artificial ice in football and baseball stadiums have invariably sold out, even when the forecast (as it was for one such game in Calgary) is for an air temperature of 40 below and an even worse wind chill. (While hockey on a frozen pond is fun, it's a little too unpredictable in terms of the ice surface and whether there's a thin spot that might suddenly plunge someone into ten feet of sub-freezing water...)
OJ Simpson probably did do it, but the jury still came back with the correct verdict--the defense successfully raised reasonable doubts, and the prosecution just completely and utterly fucked up their chances to skewer these doubts. (For example, given that the latex glove probably made the "bloody glove" not fit right, why not request a recess, and just go buy a pair of the same size and style gloves, admit them into evidence as identical to the "bloody glove," and have Simpson put *them* on, with no latex gloves? Given how much money you'd already spent on it, I doubt the California taxpayers would mind another $500 or so...)