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re: Artificial turf infield
Posted on 4/12/24 at 9:27 pm to TigerLunatik
Posted on 4/12/24 at 9:27 pm to TigerLunatik
That’s as ugly as the turf in Austin.
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Posted on 4/12/24 at 9:30 pm to TigerLunatik
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Maybe they will be able to afford grass and dirt this time.
Tennessee has plenty of money. Since going to turf, they have less rainouts. Going to turf was an option. Tennessee had natural grass in 2017.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 9:30 pm to 731Vol
This isn’t true
Posted on 4/12/24 at 10:06 pm to TigerLunatik
That has to be the ugliest stadium in the SEC. Looks like a high school ball field in that picture.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 10:07 pm to Chromdome35
What is it with the color orange and turf baseball fields?
Posted on 4/12/24 at 10:08 pm to ColoradoAg
Because Knoxville has seasons. It’s in the 40s tonight.
Posted on 4/12/24 at 10:18 pm to TigerLunatik
baseball should be played on grass and dirt, not plastic
if a cow can't eat it, don't play on it
if a cow can't eat it, don't play on it
This post was edited on 4/12/24 at 10:20 pm
Posted on 4/12/24 at 11:40 pm to LewEvansFan
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Because Knoxville has seasons. It’s in the 40s tonight.
Surely Neyland has turf too then.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:02 am to TigerLunatik
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Surely Neyland has turf too then.
Do yall not play on the same field? Surely your teams warning track shots would be 50' beyond the fence bombs? This is equally as absurd as uga and usc fans claiming our field is somehow only injury causing on their players knees. Suck it up. You lost tonight. There's 2 games left.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:04 am to LewEvansFan
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Smokies Stadium, home of the Double-A Tennessee Smokies in Kodak, Tenn., was honored as STMA’s Baseball Field of the Year. The field has been maintained by BrightView for the last three years.
“It’s an honor to be recognized on a national level from a prestigious organization such as the Sports Turf Managers Association,” said Anthony DeFeo, Operations Manager for BrightView’s Sports Turf Management.
DeFeo has been the Head Groundskeeper at Smokies Stadium, promoted as “America’s Friendliest Ballpark,” since BrightView completely renovated the field. DeFeo and his team started from scratch and installed a new playing surface, which included a switch to Lattitude 36 Bermuda grass.
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Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:14 am to LewEvansFan
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Because Knoxville has seasons. It’s in the 40s tonight.
The Minnesota Twins have a grass field. There’s no reason for an agricultural university to have a turf anything. You don’t have to defend it. I don’t know a single UT fan irl that likes your turf field.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:17 am to Themicah86
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Do yall not play on the same field? Surely your teams warning track shots would be 50' beyond the fence bombs? This is equally as absurd as uga and usc fans claiming our field is somehow only injury causing on their players knees. Suck it up. You lost tonight. There's 2 games left.
None of this has anything to do with the season being the reason that the baseball field has turf which is what you quoted and responded to.
To address your post, Tennessee is better than LSU. I never said that they were not. Vitello is an outstanding coach. But, to act like Tennessee's ballpark isn't different than any other field is absurd. Fielding on turf is different for infielders. Sliding on a turf infield is different for runners. Batting on a turf batter's box is different than dirt. A smaller outfield is much different than a deep one and the Vols players are used to all of that while other teams are not.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:18 am to lsufball19
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There’s no reason for an agricultural university to have a turf anything
Even if they do want to have turf, at least just have turf for the grass and not the fricking dirt.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:27 am to TigerLunatik
But it's sooooo pwetty!!
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:38 am to lsufball19
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The Minnesota Twins
MLB
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:45 am to TigerLunatik
But, to act like Tennessee's ballpark isn't different than any other field is absurd. Fielding on turf is different for infielders. Sliding on a turf infield is different for runners. Batting on a turf batter's box is different than dirt.
You're implying that either we intentionally do this to cause other people problems or we're to broke to invest in even a reasonable stadium that meets the standards of apparently every single stadium in the entire country. I find either hard to believe.
You're implying that either we intentionally do this to cause other people problems or we're to broke to invest in even a reasonable stadium that meets the standards of apparently every single stadium in the entire country. I find either hard to believe.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:45 am to TigerLunatik
I've seen worse
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:54 am to TigerLunatik
That entire stadium is a disgrace to the national pastime.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:55 am to Themicah86
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You're implying that either we intentionally do this to cause other people problems or we're to broke to invest in even a reasonable stadium that meets the standards of apparently every single stadium in the entire country.
I am not implying anything other than the field fricking sucks and a few Tennessee fans on this board are trying everything under the sun to say that it doesn't and that it's not much different than any other field.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:39 am to TigerLunatik
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TigerLunatik
Ugly arse turf field and no CWS championship banners in sight
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