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I don't know about such a study o cover he canals in California. However, there was a cost estimate run on covering the canals that make up the CAP in Arizona. The average size of the aqueduct is 80 feet across the top and 24 feet across the bottom and the water is 16.5 feet deep. The Bureau of Reclamation made the study and estimated the cost to be prohibitive. Covering the canal would have quadrupled the project's original cost to nearly $16 billion for 385 miles. I believe that the California Aqueduct has about 400 mile of open canals, so that would give a baseline to start from on the cost.— June 4, 2015 3:59 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder I could go into a very long and technical response about MLB scheduling, but I won't. Instead, I will make it as concise as I can. MLB and the Padres don't make up the schedules. Baseball scheduling has been outsourced for many years, since back in the 80's, I believe. It has been done for about the last 10 yrs by a company called The Sports Scheduling Group.There are many technical requirements which go into the schedule which are part of the MLB basic agreement. Without getting too technical, there are basic rules for starting times that have to be adhered to. They take into consideration the requirements for days off, travel times and days for teams, what times the teams played the previous day, what times the teams play the next day, where the team just played, where they play next etc. The requirements take up several pages in the basic agreement and it's all done by computer. Even when games have to rescheduled, they have to follow the same rules which is why in many cases the makeup game is listed as TBD. In short, the Padres ownership doesn't have the ability to schedule more days games, or make any unilateral changes to the schedule,for logistical or any other reasons.— June 4, 2015 10:14 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Ahh, the good old days. Two leagues, two divisions and only the NLCS and the WS. Things haven't been the same since the realignment in 1994. None of this wild card crap back then, it was win and you're in. Personally, I'd like to go back to pre-1969. Life was so much simpler then.— June 4, 2015 9:51 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder The sweep by the Yankees in 1998 was decisive. I think the Yaknees scored double the runs the Padres did. The 1984 World Series, I would say maybe not so much. I think there was only one game in which the Padres got blown out. If I remember right, it was the 1st game back in Detroit and the Padres started only lasted an inning or 2 and gave up a bunch of runs. The other games were pretty close. There were a couple of base running mistakes and a couple of home runs that cost the Padres. Even the final game was close until the 8th. I think the Padres were only down a run or 2 in the 8th when Gossage f*cked up by trying to pitch to Kirk Gibson, threw him a fat one right down main street and Gibson knocked it into the upper deck in right field. THAT was pretty decisive, but the other games, not so much.— June 4, 2015 9:31 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder Again, the idea of having one of their affiliates, in this case,AAA close to San Diego is not a puzzling one. Off the top of my head, I can think of the Braves, Mariners, Phillies having AAA team pretty close to the parent clubs and a few teams have their AAA team teams within a100 miles or so. And don't forget that the Padres A club is in Elsinore. And from a logistical sense, I can understand it also. If you need to call a guy up, you could make the move literally a couple of hours before the game and he's just a car ride away. Or sending a player to AAA for a rehab assignment, something the Padres have seemed to do a lot in recent years. Now, a player has to go to El Paso. You lose a day coming and a day going. In Esco, the player would be just up the freeway much more convenient in a variety of ways. As I said, not really puzzling in terms of wanting to have the team that close. The only thing puzzling is why Escondido would have even considered giving Moorad the keys to the bank— June 4, 2015 9:08 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder my wife and I had season tickets at the Murph for nearly 20 yrs, so I saw a lot of games there as well. But the question is, how many games have you seen at Petco? My guess is very few, if any.— June 3, 2015 8:32 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Yeah, that was in 2010, but I don't recall anything puzzling about it. Moorad bought the Portland Beavers and wanted to move them down to Esco. The team played in Tucson for 3 seasons in the mean time. Moorad eventually sold the team to a group in El Paso and they began playing there as the El Paso Chihuahuas last season. The Escondido plan fell apart when the California Supreme Court upheld the decision by the State to abolish redevelopment agencies. That's when Escondido pulled the plug. As I said, nothing puzzling.— June 3, 2015 8:26 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
shirleyberan What do you call a Padres player with a World Series ring? A thief.— June 3, 2015 8:13 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder, that could very well be true, which could also mean that as recently as the 2012 season could also fall under that novelty effect period. I wouldn't believe everything i read though, if I were you. I don't have any personal knowledge either way, having left SD about 10 yrs prior to Petco opening, and about that time we were getting ready to leave So Cal altogether. I can say this, though. Of the people I still know in SD, allmost everyone has told me the same thing and that is the reason they may have stopped going to games is because they got tired of watching a bad team. Not a single one has ever said it was because the newness of Petco wore off or they didn't like the location. You have your opinions and I have mine, Opinions vary.— June 3, 2015 8:09 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
don bauder Actually, your comment about FDR not allowing night baseball is incorrect. It's pretty well known that in January of 1942, FDR wrote a letter to Kenesaw Landis. In it, he left the final decision about whether or not to play baseball up to him and the owners. In that letter he said: "I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going" and added that he would like to see more night games that hard-working people could attend.— June 3, 2015 7:52 p.m.