r/baseball ranks ballpark roofs after Brewers closer Trevor Megill blasts Tropicana Field's
A blunt player quote turns into a fun fan debate about domes, plus a neat bit of TV history about yellow tennis balls.
Before Game 3 of the World Series, Brewers closer Trevor Megill complained that Tropicana Field's off-white roof is the same color as the baseball, making fly balls hard to track; EssentiallySports reports the quote, relayed by Talkin' Baseball, insulted whoever chose the color in profane terms. The site notes that under MLB's rules a ball that hits the Trop's roof or support cables over fair territory stays in play, and that a ball off a cable at Milwaukee's own retractable-roof park had gone the Brewers' way in the NLDS.
The thread, an image of the quote, drew about 13,000 upvotes in a 2.8-million-member community. The top replies ask for a tier list of roofs, with Toronto's SkyDome a popular pick; a Twins fan recalls loving the Metrodome until Target Field opened; others say the Trop was just renovated and could have been painted a different color. One commenter notes that tennis balls turned yellow partly because white ones were hard to see on black-and-white TV.
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Tropicana Field
After exploring [Melendez] Brewers closer Trevor Megill was very straightforward with his thoughts about Tropicana Field, the dome in question is profiled in Tropicana Field.
Wikipedia describes Tropicana Field, "The Trop," in St. Petersburg, Florida, as the Rays' home and the only non-retractable domed stadium in Major League Baseball.
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