Sunken Pressbox

Got sent to cover one of our last remaining area schools in the baseball playoffs at a ballpark with a sunken pressbox.

Field level is about 2 1/2 feet above the pressbox floor. When seated, my line of sight is maybe three feet above the playing surface.

It's definitely a different perspective, but it makes it tough to judge how well a fly ball is hit.

Are there any other ballparks out there with this kind of setup? It's kind of like being in the dugout seats they used to have at Dodger Stadium.

 

Was there a man with a big hat, bigger mustache and a radar gun next to you?

 

No, just mee in a little 6-by-4 cubicle with a radio guy on the other side of a divider.

 

Is the field located on an old bombing range or something?

 

Sunken Pressbox Live is my favorite Jeff Tweedy album.

 

Don't forget the cigar.

 

I know of one that's at field level with the stand on top of it. Makes it a pain to see the near corners of the field when they play soccer there.

 

The guy at the Dodgers' games right? What is his story? I don't cover sports so I don't know, but I did grow up watching the games on TV with Vin Scully and always wondered ...

 

I'm pretty sure it's not, but the surrounding terrain (that vast cultural wasteland known as West Texas, as my English IV teacher would call it) makes it kind of hard to tell.

The facility is only about four years old and is on the same lot as the host high school.

However, there are a lot of pumpjacks nearby. Maybe they thought they'd hit another well if they dug deep enough.

 

soooo ... why not watch the game from somewhere else?

 

I always thought that guy was the inspiration for the Panama Jack logo.