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Gator Baseball The dawn of a bold new UF error
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As our Prez Dr. Fuchs says " Our goal is become the next Vanderbilt University both in academics and baseball". "To accomplish this goal we need one more NC and this new stadium is the first step". No he didn't say that ,and it was simply a parody. But you get the picture. Plus we will have beer. :)
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It is fvkking baseball. We could have dozed the GD field and started working immediately on the football facility, and played a few baseball games at the Santa Fe or GHS. The 14 fans wouldnt care. parking is easier. And the baseball team care either. they are getting a Taj Mahal built with 20000 empty seats.
Just like we had basketball play somewhere else for a while.
EDIT: look, I want a baseball players to have what they need. I was a baseball player once. it's a fun sport, but very hard to watch. However I don't understand why we're building a facility with 10 (or is it 50) times the seats that we need for them. We could put up a small portion of the project design in a way that's modular and you can add later if we happen ever to need it. we aren't building a new swamp with hundreds of empty sky boxes and 940,000 seats.
it wouldn't actually frustrate me so much if we did this overkill facilities on football too, which obviously we don't. In fact we're told we should be happy that they painted the locker room and added LEDs.
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Stricklin’s a baseball guy and an outsider. I’m sure he’ll tell anyone he gets it about the value of Florida football, but this was simply a bad administrative call even if the football people were supposedly given the final say-so over the order of things.
There’s an elaborate baseball stadium being built at precisely the time we’re desperately trying to get back into the football discussion absent top-notch facilities.
Not a good look.
There’s an elaborate baseball stadium being built at precisely the time we’re desperately trying to get back into the football discussion absent top-notch facilities.
Not a good look.
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bUt wE hAd To BuILd bAsEBaLl TaJ MaJAl!!!!
somehow they feel if we're going to spend 50 million on football at some point we have our first have to spend 50 million on softball, 50 million arms baseball, and 50 million on gymnastics first.
somehow they feel if we're going to spend 50 million on football at some point we have our first have to spend 50 million on softball, 50 million arms baseball, and 50 million on gymnastics first.
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I think he’s projecting.
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I'll see you at the next game. Or wait, no I won't.
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Btw, how many baseball games are you going to this year?
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Maybe a couple. Maybe none. Maybe ALL OF THEM.
We rarely went to them before because the stadium was hot as f*ck. Good chance we'll make more of an effort to go up now that they have shaded seats.
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for what its worth comment:
I live in Ocala and have had baseball season tickets since 1998. I use to go to a lot of Gator football games but baseball is more laid back and a whole lot less expensive. I get up to about half of the midweek games and 2/3 of the weekend series. As expected, attendance is better when we are good and worse when we are bad. That can also be extrapolated to the teams we play (better or worse) and the weather (better or worse). I don't have the statistics in front of me but a decent game's attendance may be about 2,000 and a good game's attendance is 4 to 5 thousand. Since we play a pretty tough schedule I am guessing it is pretty common to have 3,000 or more.
In order to understand why the money and time are being invested in a new stadium it is important to note several factors:
1. Our baseball facilities are lagging behind the rest of the conference
2. Florida is rated by many baseball writers to be the best program in the country over the past 10 years
3. Keeping Sully is a priority (not necessarily to me but I wont go into that here)
4. The biggest reason is for expansion of the football facility which requires wiping out McKethan
One reason I love Gator Baseball is exemplified in two kids that I have watched play at McKethan
Past: David Eckstein who won 2 world series, a world series MVP and a 2 time all-star.
Memory Lane: Boston Red Sox draft infielder David Eckstein
Present: Pete Alonso just won the MLB Home Run Derby, played for the NL in the MLB all star game, set a new NL single season rookie home run record and won the NL rookie of the year.
Pete Alonso, 1B, New York Mets
I live in Ocala and have had baseball season tickets since 1998. I use to go to a lot of Gator football games but baseball is more laid back and a whole lot less expensive. I get up to about half of the midweek games and 2/3 of the weekend series. As expected, attendance is better when we are good and worse when we are bad. That can also be extrapolated to the teams we play (better or worse) and the weather (better or worse). I don't have the statistics in front of me but a decent game's attendance may be about 2,000 and a good game's attendance is 4 to 5 thousand. Since we play a pretty tough schedule I am guessing it is pretty common to have 3,000 or more.
In order to understand why the money and time are being invested in a new stadium it is important to note several factors:
1. Our baseball facilities are lagging behind the rest of the conference
2. Florida is rated by many baseball writers to be the best program in the country over the past 10 years
3. Keeping Sully is a priority (not necessarily to me but I wont go into that here)
4. The biggest reason is for expansion of the football facility which requires wiping out McKethan
One reason I love Gator Baseball is exemplified in two kids that I have watched play at McKethan
Past: David Eckstein who won 2 world series, a world series MVP and a 2 time all-star.
Memory Lane: Boston Red Sox draft infielder David Eckstein
Present: Pete Alonso just won the MLB Home Run Derby, played for the NL in the MLB all star game, set a new NL single season rookie home run record and won the NL rookie of the year.
Pete Alonso, 1B, New York Mets
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Send us some pics of 2-5k people at the game this season.
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Prove there was not 2-5K at good games.
