Fenway Park Snow Jump!

[James]

The comp starts today. This is pretty cool.

http://www.boston.com/sports/2016/0...competition/42zshQ8mSmCNBGuZdMlt6J/story.html

 

[NESkiBum]

It was pretty cool. Was there tonight.

 

[Tricia]

Oh Wow!

 

[James]

It was pretty cool. Was there tonight. View attachment 3866

Nice! Way to represent!

 

[Lorenzzo]

Now if they could just combine actual live batting practice while the jumping was going on, well, that would really be something and I'm certain it would boost ticket sales.

BTW, were the concessions open for this?

 

[Philpug]

It was supposed to be on NBC-SC but I couldn't find it.

 

[Dadskier]

A friend of mine got to go earlier in the week. They needed volunteers to pack down the snow on the jump since it's not really groomer friendly.

 

[NESkiBum]

Now if they could just combine actual live batting practice while the jumping was going on, well, that would really be something and I'm certain it would boost ticket sales.

BTW, were the concessions open for this?

Yes the concessions were open.

 

[NESkiBum]

It was supposed to be on NBC-SC but I couldn't find it.

I was saw it on Today and they did say it was going to be on tonight. They were having commercial breaks throughout the night.

 

[Ron]

Dan Egan is somehow involved with the coverage of this.

 

[crgildart]

It was pretty cool. Was there tonight.

Did you tag it with some PugSki stickers???

 

[Dave Petersen]

It was supposed to be on NBC-SC but I couldn't find it.

I was channel surfing last night and came across it. More coverage tonight.

 

[Lorenzzo]

There are so many right and wrong things about this I can't get my mind around it...it's blown.

 

[Tricia]

Dan Egan is somehow involved with the coverage of this.

Here is the link to the Degan live stream.
http://livestream.com/Degan/BostonBigAir?t=1455146548143

 

[Dave Petersen]

I have been following the construction of the jump -

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154078475711535.1073741863.63368076534&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154063526066535.1073741859.63368076534&type=3

 

[Don in Morrison]

Aha! Boston is slyly testing the waters for an Olympic bid. Build a bunch of similar ramps around the stadium, one for SL, one for GS, one for DH, one with a half-pipe, a flat surface around the top for X-C, etc. Ice skating on the floor. They can stage the whole Olympic Games at a single stadium! 'Cept for the stadium seats will be obscured by all the infrastructure, but hey, that's what cameras are for. Then when it's done they can tear it all down and re-use the scaffolding elsewhere.

(They always encourage me to think outside the box, but I don't think they really mean it.)

 

[James]

Start the downhill on top of the Prudential building?
Bostoners did reject the summer games but winter wasn't tried.

 

[Lorenzzo]

This is circus disrespecting our greatest living athletic cathedral. Hallowed ground as this deserves as much or more respect as a church or synagogue. Would they set up a monster truck mud dash at Augusta National? Not a chance in Hooting (Hootie?) hell. Yes there is a longing for hickory against horsehide, the echoing of fastball against padded leather in the winter but so is there for...um...say...sexual infidelity or at times larceny. But decent people resist those urges as they should resist this cheap, shoddy, blasphemous display of infidelity. I hang my head over this and hope...no...demand and hope? Crap not finding it. Ok...I earnestly with great force hope that this is not the harbinger of what we as Americans are now willing to sell, that is, any and all things precious, holy and sacred.

That's what bothers me about this.

Rant over /////

 

[James]

It's a freakin' stadium. You do stadium things in it. It sits empty all winter. They played hockey there too. Guarantee if you could do monster trucks there they'd fill it.
More apt comparison would be hot air balloons at Augusta.

 

[crgildart]

Switch double back was my favorite trick, old school and new school combined FTW.. So what if it wasn't as technically difficult according to the criteria. Pretty sure nobody that sets the DOD ever threw one of those..