I noticed this last year, but having watched my share of college baseball playoffs this season, it seems to be more prevalent this year.
Fake dirt?! Brown astro-turf? Good lord, is nothing sacred?
Who else remembers Hank Aaron reaching down to grab some dirt and rub it on his hands during his at-bats? No batting gloves on Hank. Nor did he wear those gay oven mitts when he reached base.
I am clearly too old and cranky.
And then when you see a real grass field, you wonder whether it is fake.
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On her feet. The heat coming off this shit was terrible. The kids hated it.
and schools with all purpose fields tend to use a mixed height fake grass, but to do it right, you need different length turf for FB vs lacrosse, and probably variations for baseball, soccer, field hockey, etc..
The better stuff is fairly soft but the cheaper stuff that lasts longer is usually rough and gives you horrible carpet burn. My son ends up wearing fairly thick leg and arm protectors even when it's warm because when he doesn't he ends up with abrasions and those take a while to heal and can get infected.
I know sometime back female soccer goalies were showing up with disproportionate versions of some cancer apparently due to not moving much on the turf and use of ground up tires. Probably obvious, but I'm not a fan.
game with copious cuts and possible tetanus and staph infections, but dammit, we liked it that way!
Get off my lawn!
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