This quote just made me laugh ridiculously hard. I didn’t expect RA Dickey to say something like this. This is why RA Dickey has become my favorite Mets player on this team.
“They are building it in such a way that maybe you can undo it if it turns out to be a joke,” Dickey said. “Let’s say it turns out to be Yankee Stadium. We don’t want that, obviously.
“First, because we don’t want to be like the Yankees, and second because it wouldn’t be great for anybody, I don’t think. It looks like you’re going to be able to manipulate [the fences] over the years, which is smart.”
He also talked about how the changes could be a positive for the outfielders.
“If you hit a ball into that right-center gap, it was a triple for Ike Davis, let alone Jose Reyes,” Dickey said. “I mean, Yadier Molina was going to get a triple to right-center.”
“This gives you the option to not need three stellar, athletic outfielders in the outfield. Now you can hide a guy in a certain position in the outfield, because he doesn’t have as much room to cover.”
You can read the full article over at The NYDAILYNEWS.
What Dickey said made sense, except for this part:
“If you hit a ball into that right-center gap, it was a triple for Ike Davis, let alone Jose Reyes,” Dickey said. “I mean, Yadier Molina was going to get a triple to right-center.”
Won’t those “triples” now be home runs with the smaller dimensions?
What am I missing?
they were hit low
Thats what I was going to say. Hit between the outfielders and rolled to the wall.