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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

 

 

Ehh... I think there'd be a bit more to worry about than a month of baseball if someone were to get Tetanus... it's a potentially fatal disease.

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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

 

 

Ehh... I think there'd be a bit more to worry about than a month of baseball if someone were to get Tetanus... it's a potentially fatal disease.

 

Fatal? Maybe 200 years ago before antibiotics. Granted, if Tetanus goes untreated early the latter treatments can be pretty painful, but not a big deal nowadays.

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Here is an awesome picture taken within the stadium looking towards the city. Got it from LoMo's Twitter:

 

 

 

For those who can't see the photo in Schnellers' link.

 

 

No photo or rendering of the ballpark has made me more excited.

 

That's beautiful right there. Not a good time to leave Miami (at least 5 years for me).

 

Edit: Is that the LCD screen I see on the far right?

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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

 

 

Ehh... I think there'd be a bit more to worry about than a month of baseball if someone were to get Tetanus... it's a potentially fatal disease.

 

Fatal? Maybe 200 years ago before antibiotics. Granted, if Tetanus goes untreated early the latter treatments can be pretty painful, but not a big deal nowadays.

 

Well not fatal as it used to be... but it probably still has a high mortality rate (something like %5-10 I'd guess).

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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

 

 

Ehh... I think there'd be a bit more to worry about than a month of baseball if someone were to get Tetanus... it's a potentially fatal disease.

 

Fatal? Maybe 200 years ago before antibiotics. Granted, if Tetanus goes untreated early the latter treatments can be pretty painful, but not a big deal nowadays.

 

Well not fatal as it used to be... but it probably still has a high mortality rate (something like %5-10 I'd guess).

Wikipedia* says 11% "in recent years".

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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

 

 

Ehh... I think there'd be a bit more to worry about than a month of baseball if someone were to get Tetanus... it's a potentially fatal disease.

 

Fatal? Maybe 200 years ago before antibiotics. Granted, if Tetanus goes untreated early the latter treatments can be pretty painful, but not a big deal nowadays.

 

Well not fatal as it used to be... but it probably still has a high mortality rate (something like %5-10 I'd guess).

 

Yeah I get what you're saying. I was just trying to make a point that anyone with access to medical care shouldn't die from tetanus. Of course this isn't the case with the aforementioned 7-11% of the cases in the US. By the way the number of cases each year barely reaches 40 and most of those are probably 'injecting-drug users' (what they call them).

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It won't be ready. But it will drum up some attention, it will be something that the media will cover, a few players hitting while the place is still under construction. I'm just dreading the possibility of a "Mike Stanton will miss the first month of the season after developing lockjaw from stepping on a nail during batting practice at the new stadium construction site" story.

 

 

Ehh... I think there'd be a bit more to worry about than a month of baseball if someone were to get Tetanus... it's a potentially fatal disease.

 

Fatal? Maybe 200 years ago before antibiotics. Granted, if Tetanus goes untreated early the latter treatments can be pretty painful, but not a big deal nowadays.

 

Well not fatal as it used to be... but it probably still has a high mortality rate (something like %5-10 I'd guess).

Wikipedia* says 11% "in recent years".

 

Don't know why, but I'm actually surprised it's that high. Of course now that you say it I guess I can see the reasons why, just not something I would have guessed. I get a booster shot every couple of years and you don't even need to see a doctor to get one.

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I'm guessing the majority of the people that died are in 3rd world counties without available medical care and what not. Or people that just had it undiagnosed. But I think that if you get to a doctor on time, Tetanus is no big deal anymore.

 

Plus, I love all this Wikipedia quoting! Brings me back to my Middle School years when entire research papers were done on Wikipedia and I would just paste the URL in my bibliography :lol

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