God Bless Tropicana Field
When shit like this happens, all I can think about is how lucky the Rays are that something like this didn’t happen when they hosted the World Series in 2008. It was something that nobody really thought about, because they were awful from the beginning of their existence right up until the year before their first World Series appearance. But they’ve been consistently in the mix ever since that year, and along with Tropicana Field being in the worst possible location to attract large crowds, you have to figure that these stupid fucking catwalks are right up at the top of the list as to why they’re getting a new ballpark. I couldn’t imagine being a fan of a team in a big game in which the momentum shifted or the game itself was altered because of how terribly a baseball stadium was constructed.
This moment with Francisco Lindor is a prime example of how Tropicana Field can effect the outcome of a game, because that’s an out in any other ballpark in the world. But there is no better example of why Tropicana Field is such a joke than last August when Kevin Kiermaier climbed the wall in centerfield, only to have the ball land almost out of the camera shot.
Yeah, it would’ve been a home run anyway, but that’s not the point. Everybody remembers Joe Carter’s legendary walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series. Imagine for one second that Carter’s home run was actually Kendrys Morales’ home run. I’m sure fans would argue that they don’t care how they win the World Series as long as they win the World Series, which I agree with one hundred percent, but nobody wants to see a walk-off catwalk home run in October.