espn and mckeon have said that the field is in absolutely horrible shape and that its like playing on I-95. do u think it was the field that made luis boot the double play ball yesterday?

 

We really need our own stadium cause this flat out sucks

It always creates more errors, but yesterday and Friday were ridiculous.

Well it is their stadium, hence the name. Guess it was payback for that thing against the Patriots two years ago when Mare missed two game winning field goals.

 

 

The Marlins need to get outta there.

The grass was never that short during the season, now it's shorter than a damn putting green with ruts everywhere. I think if the field was slower Luis would have had that ball, but playing "what if's" won't change what happened.

The field probably f***ed us over. That error by Louie would have been a double play. The situation would have been two outs, runner on third. We would have won.

100% YES..."Dolphins" Stadium is very much to blame for a lot of crap these days...yesterdays misplayed double play ball and Easley's injury...

 

BUT...as Jack would say, both teams played on the same field whether it was a good field or not...

 

so, while it is part of the problem, we CANNOT put all our blame on the field...it's immature and irresponsible...

 

The Marlins need to take what they have and work with it...because ultimately, the team itself is at fault...

 

Thanks for nothing and you're welcome even less...

Both sides had to play with the same field. The Marlins are not concentrating and lack focus. No one's fault but their own.

Both sides had to play with the same field. The Marlins are not concentrating and lack focus. No one's fault but their own.

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Exactly.

It's just something we have to learn to work around. We can blame the field and/or Dolphins as much as we want but is MLB going to sympathize? I don't think so.

hmm, didn't we win two World Series in Dolphin Stadium? Stop looking for excusses, our team choked on the field yesterday

I do think the field has contributed to some errors, and I definitely think it's the reason Easley got hurt... however, as others have said, both teams have to play on that field, so it can't be entirely to blame. The balls on the ground move just as fast for the opponents.

 

Needless to say, we need our own stadium.

Both sides had to play with the same field.

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All that needs to be said

Both sides had to play with the same field.

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All that needs to be said

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No it's not.

Since we have what I'd like to think is the beter defense I'd prefer to play on a field that wasn't a runway with ruts and seams. Take the "luck of the bad bounce" out of the equation. We got the bad breaks yesterday. I'd prefer to have no bad hops for either team. Make it skill against skill.

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We would have won the game....period...if the field was like it was pre-football. We've had this situation for years. It was never a problem like it is this year. It dates back to a football game that was played on the field about 3-4 weeks ago, right after a drenching thunderstorm deposited 2 inches of water on the field. The field has been like cement and a disaster ever since.

Both sides had to play with the same field. The Marlins are not concentrating and lack focus. No one's fault but their own.

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This is true.. but ya know the guys have a grueling schedule and have not had a day off since, what, September 1st I think? And prior to that the last one they had was in early August. It's not an excuse by any means, but I think it's possibly part of the reason for their lack of concentration and focus.

Both sides had to play with the same field. The Marlins are not concentrating and lack focus. No one's fault but their own.

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That is the single dumbest thing I have ever read here and if any mod or board op wants to censure me or kick me out for a week for saying so, be my guest.

 

To see the agonizing look on Luis Castillo's face, or Jeff Conine's, or any of the other guys out there, and the collective pain so plainly visible on this Marlins team when their nightmare finally ended, and to think they didn't care, or weren't trying their damnest, ought to have their heads examined.

 

The field is a nightmare, I have never seen it like this in thirteen years of going to Marlins games. And it didn't happen by accident.

The field is a nightmare, I have never seen it like this in thirteen years of going to Marlins games. And it didn't happen by accident.

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You're right, I heard that Saban was out on the field Friday night pouring acid all over the field. And then he had the offensive line go out there to drag their cleats all through the infield grass as well as the outfield.

 

Both teams play on the same field, so the Phillies had just a big of chance to have a bad hop as we did. Bad hops even happen in the best of conditions. Plus I see how the field played a role in the ball that dropped between everyone and the Jones play for sure. :plain

Both sides had to play with the same field. The Marlins are not concentrating and lack focus. No one's fault but their own.

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..... The field is a nightmare, I have never seen it like this in thirteen years of going to Marlins games. And it didn't happen by accident.

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Damn, why don't they give a crap about the Marlins?? It's disgusting. The field is horrendous. Thankfully, Damion didn't break his foot because of that field. I don't know the particulars about the Marlins' owner's arrangements with the ppl responsible for Dolphins Stadium, but if I were him i'd be raising holy hell over the condition of that field.. and that would have been before one of my players got hurt. :confused

The field is a nightmare, I have never seen it like this in thirteen years of going to Marlins games. And it didn't happen by accident.

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Care to explain? I don't disagree, but I am just wondering what you mean by that.

The field is a nightmare, I have never seen it like this in thirteen years of going to Marlins games. And it didn't happen by accident.

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You're right, I heard that Saban was out on the field Friday night pouring acid all over the field. And then he had the offensive line go out there to drag their cleats all through the infield grass as well as the outfield.

 

Both teams play on the same field, so the Phillies had just a big of chance to have a bad hop as we did. Bad hops even happen in the best of conditions. Plus I see how the field played a role in the ball that dropped between everyone and the Jones play for sure. :plain

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Perfectly said. The field the Marlins play on right now will never be as bad as the Vet though. That field helped run Scott Rolen out of town, and was giving him chronic back problems. Dolphins Stadium is nothign near the craphole Veterans Stadium was.

The field is a nightmare, I have never seen it like this in thirteen years of going to Marlins games. And it didn't happen by accident.

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Both teams play on the same field, so the Phillies had just a big of chance to have a bad hop as we did. Bad hops even happen in the best of conditions.

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To be more accurate, the chances of one team or another being hurt by the field is random in any one game. Over the course of an entire season, it evens out. Unfortunately for the Marlins, the field conditions are horrendous only during a relatively small part of the season. So, the Marlins got the short end of the stick yesterday. Perhaps this will happen to another team when the Marlins are losing badly. Basically, the bad field by chance screwed us more in this series than it did the Phillies.

To answer Prin's question, and this is from front row upperdeck where you really have a tremendous view, seams in the sod are clearly visible, the infield grass is cut so short it looks like that really cheap indoor/outdoor carpeting you see at Home Depot, not the stuff that looks like astroturf, but the really thin cheesy stuff, it actually has a sheen to it. There are bare spots in front and behind the mound and down the third base line, and there have to be at least fifty noticable patches around the outfield side of the infield from third to first.

 

Whole sections, fifty to a 80 square yards in spots have been patched. There's one in right field looks to be a completely different type of grass from the rest of the field. I think it was Jack McKeon who said he had to be careful where he stepped when he went out to the mound.

 

For anyone who sits downstairs, I suggest you go upstairs (take the escalator) for a minute before the game and see for yourselves. If you were there Friday and saw Easley go down you know what I'm talking about. I don't know if they showed it on tv but from where I sat it looked like he stepped and there was nothing there.

The conditions seemed ok for the first 8 innings of yesterday's game

The conditions seemed ok for the first 8 innings of yesterday's game

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Yeah, I guess you were there huh.

I have never seen the turf as bad as it looks now. Marlins2003 pretty much summed it up on how it looks.

 

It's nastro-turf (natural astro-turf). :mischief

 

I know this is sacreligious but seeing as how it gets worse every year I'd consider FieldTurf.

I have never seen the turf as bad as it looks now. Marlins2003 pretty much summed it up on how it looks.

 

It's nastro-turf (natural astro-turf). :mischief

 

I know this is sacreligious but seeing as how it gets worse every year I'd consider FieldTurf.

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There's stuff NexTurf as well. I dunno if it's thing as nastro turf. NexTurf has little rubber grains in it for support and softness. I've played soccer on it before, the stuff is amazing.