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Post by 'Guest' on Aug 26, 2004 14:31:44 GMT -6
whats the scoop on the grass? whats new?
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Post by Hognoxious™ on Aug 26, 2004 18:37:45 GMT -6
The grass planted last year was mostly rye - fast growing, good thick green grass for the season.
What needed to be planted was a mixture with some bermuda (I think) and hybrids that would take longer to grow to playable, but would make for a much better, longer lasting surface for the future. There just wasn't time to do it right last winter.
The field looks pretty much the same, which is a good thing! It'll play better and look better longer.
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Post by Dale on Aug 26, 2004 20:13:32 GMT -6
Hopefully we'll see fewer large chunks of grass being dug up, fewer divets in the outfield, fewer lumps in front of the plate and fewer dead spots. All good things!  |
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Post by Hognoxious™ on Aug 27, 2004 7:50:54 GMT -6
when you consider the 3 weekends of trying to work in games around often torrential rain, and that the grass was really just a make-do until we could resod it - it held up pretty good.
I never - AND I MEAN NEVER - thought we could get the games in we got in last year with real grass. That's why I had always been okay with turf. I really had to eat a lot of those words, particularly on the Tennessee weekend...
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Post by Dale on Aug 27, 2004 9:20:00 GMT -6
I was the same way. I was worried about losing alot of games to the weather, but I was pleasantly surprised.
I was never more impressed with how the grass held up than I was the weekend of the state high school championship games. Five games in one day can tear a field to pieces, but the grass held up really well.
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