After one of my recent Ballpark Review editions, someone made the comment that they don’t think it’s fair for me judge a park based on my personal experience at just one game. Too many variables, they claimed. I could catch them on a bad night, with bad weather, or a lousy matchup, or a listless crowd, or whatever. It would be more fair to go to several games, this person argued, and get a broader experience before drawing a conclusion.
All of which I read and absorbed, and then thought to myself: “No shit.”*
(*Note: Sorry for violating my own profanity ban, but honesty is more important.)
Since there are apparently some folks out there reading these reviews and thinking my personal one-game samples are insufficient to draw your own conclusions about baseball venues, let me be really, really clear; I agree with you. Of course a one-game sample isn’t fair. Of course I’m going to catch some ballparks on good days and some ballparks on bad days, the same for the teams, and the crowds. Of course seeing a full weekend’s worth of games, or maybe even an entire homestand, would provide a more representative cross-section of experiences at a particular park. That’s entirely correct. I would hope everyone reading this would already know that without me having to explicitly say so.
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