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1. flournoy Posted: March 26, 2012 at 09:22 AM (#4089219)I thought they were going to execute a fish from the tank on the visitor's dugout side for every HR?
I'm not getting a sex-with-women vibe from it.
They really should have temporarily relocated it to one of the stages at Ultra Music Festival though, it would have made a nice addition.
Also, I wonder what ideas we could generate(for this recent contest).
http://www.jeffpearlman.com/we-have-a-winner-book-giveaway-name-the-statue/
Watching that thing while tripping?... My god, I don't even want to imagine that.
Designer: What do mean actual. This is the what you requested.
Sampson: How the #### is a 16" home run feature supposed to work in a new stadium?
Designer: Look. Mr. Sampson. You gave me a napkin which explained the height of the work.
Sampson:I know what I wrote. #### the napkin.
Terrible. The Marlins deserve to be endlessly mocked for this.
Grooms was working on this bus at the time.
http://artbusnyc.blogspot.com/2011/10/artbusnyc-red-grooms-paints-town.html
Between this and the new uniforms, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to believe Loria is an art dealer.
Enough people have purchase a "Velvet Elvis" over time to amass a fortune.
Nope. Kinda seemed like the whole thing was moving in slow motion, and it wasn't nearly as impressive as I'd expect. The plumes of water shooting upward were particularly unremarkable.
If you're going to do this, it should be so over-the-top crazy that it's actually fun. This is just run-of-the-mill kitsch.
I do like what appears to be a well-lit marijuana leaf in the middle of the structure, though. Toke up and celebrate a Marlins home run is an excellent message, particularly in a state where so many of the team's fans are likely to be glaucoma sufferers.
I think something like lights on the fish, flamingos and birds would be a nice add.
That and lasers.
That and lasers.
Fireworks!
All I wanted were dolphins with friggin' laser beams attached to their heads. Is that too much to ask?
Winner.
And upon further review, how is something like this much different than a guy in a suit dunking himself in an oversized beer mug?
Maybe he owns one of those Thomas Kinkade "galleries"?
Well, this is just a test run --
In-season, a bag of money labeled "Steinbrenner" will be held aloft by a mermaid while a dolphin dressed as Poseidon lights it on fire.
/Yankee redneck
They should install this at
Joe Robbie Pro Player Dolphins Dolphin Land SharkSun Life Stadium and test that theory.I wouldn't put it past Stephen Ross.
Seconded. After all the hubbub I find it more boring than obnoxious.
Actually, what's impressive about this is that it's ugly, tacky, gaudy, cheesy, over-the-top, and kind of boring. It takes real skill to pull off that combination.
And it has that dime-store aesthetic that fits so nicely with the Loria regime.
Home Run Feature: Dead center field has a home run feature akin to Citi Field's Home Run Apple but different in design and feel. The piece, designed by Red Grooms, is located behind the outfield wall, partially visible during a game. It is between 50 feet (15 m) to 60 feet (18 m) tall, with bright pink, blue, aqua, and orange colors along with many moving parts. The art feature will rise from a pool of Grooms-designed water and dotted with clouds, pelicans and seagulls. Marlins will jump and laser lights will shine. The home run feature is budgeted at $2.5 million and included in the $515 million cost of the 37,000-seat retractable roof ballpark under construction.[24] Fan reaction to the home run display has been overwhelmingly negative, with a majority of people calling it "tacky."[25] Marlins players have also complained about the sculpture, claiming it could cause a distraction to batters, especially left handed batters.[26]
Now we know why Loria is so cheap with his players--he gets jobbed in every monetary transaction. $2.5M for THAT?
That's almost a tenth of his usual player budget, FFS.
HTF do you "design" water?
It will provide a wonderful backdrop for the upcoming Pink Flamingo Demolition Night promotion...
But this, this is definitely their finest moment.
The new startup is Jersey Jack Pinball. Their first game will be The Wizard of Oz. It is still in production, has not been released yet.
I'm aware of transfat. It's delicious.
No, you are not. What a letdown.
What amuses me is the marlin on top that’s just aimlessly spinning. It’s like one of those Food Network “Challenge” shows where a cake/candy/thing has to be ye high, so the chefs just tack on something to meet the height requirement.
I hope they haven’t really followed the Citifield apple, which took 15 seconds to reset, so it didn’t work for back-to-back homeruns. I don’t know if they’ve fixed it --- the Mets haven’t hit back-to-backs in 2 years. Or that’s what it feels like.
because your average fan would like to be the guy who slides into an oversized beer mug.
Hi, I'm Troy McClure... You might remember me from such fantasies as naked in the Marlins fish tank and if only I were a bank of blue neon lights with mechanical fish rubbing against me...
That sounds more dangerous than being on a trampoline.
We've covered this, nothing is more dangerous than a trampoline.
See, in the old days I could post as "Geraldo Rivera" and say "Wearing a hooded sweatshirt." Ah the good old days...
Same holds for the wheel on Wheel of Fortune. It looks huge on TV, but pay attention when Sajak or someone is standing near it, it's only about as wide as a person is tall. It'd fit with plenty of room to spare in your bedroom or even kitchen.
The Handle doctrine rub amok...
And, laser. The spinning Marlin should have lasers shooting out of its nose/snout/sword/ (you know, whatever's on the front of a marlin's face).
And yes, faster. Way faster. With music.
I'm kind of embarrassed that I'm thinking of ways to make that thing better.
Wire me the earnest money and I'll fax over some sketches.
I think I actually agree with this. Seriously, listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQDU-2qMre0
If you're going to have a cheesy display, then get cheesy with the music, too, and you can make it a fun experience.
"In the Navy", maybe.
This exactly describes the New Year's ball in Times Square. It looks huge on TV, but it's actually only about 7 feet wide, so in person, it's actually tiny and just about completely lost among all the other neon signage in the area.
The ball is actually now 12 feet in diameter (up until a few years ago they were 6 feet), according to Wikipedia. I only looked this up because I saw the ball in person this year, prior to New Year's Eve, and it looked a lot bigger than 7 feet.
If you had something like that at Old Trafford or Loftus Versvelt they burn it to the ground in the first 10 minutes.
No, it's going to play "Macho Man" and the scoreboard will have an animated video of the player who hit the home run dancing and posing.
That was the first choice, but was deemed incompatible with MLB's drug policy. They decided to go with a theme inspired by the second-most famous movie with a Miami setting, "The Birdcage".
Have to agree with some of the comments, this really needs more, it's nothing special as is. Fireworks, a lazer show etc. I'm not really seeing much real difference between this and the led light the Cardinals had in the seventies that flew around the scoreboard after a homerun.
I hope so.
I don't know what those things are but the names sound suspiciously European and soccerish and therefore don't belong in this thread which is going America all over your ass.
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