Tamba – Dan Muller is known for two decades. Some of the children are on his employees. Men withdrawing from the middle are the ones who wander, slide and end up under the thing. Also, wet hemp fabric is heavy cannabis fabric. It is often more difficult to get it.
Muller said: “You feel it in your bathrooms.”
As Tampa Bay Rays Project and Field Manager, Moeller is responsible for the team’s territorial staff. He has seven full -time employees and eight part -time workers, most of whom gathered in the grass in Idd 32 minutes before the first stadium on Friday to see one of their yellow Sunburst logo on the back of the hill.
For the first time ever, this logo fits more than the privilege. The rays were really playing baseball in the sun.
The opening match for the season on Friday in George M. Steinberner Field cannot be better. Six months after the Milton Hurricane on the surface of the Tropicana field, the rays had a new home. The building was converted with radiology signs. The temperature was 84 degrees with cooling breeze to the left field. Ryan Pepiot developed six roles, linked a march from the two positions in the seventh match, and hit Kameron Misner-27-year-old on the first opening day list in ninth place. The entire matter was a victory for the solution to organizational problems and late implementation. The rays are not defeated.
Now the real challenge begins.
The rays celebrate Cameron Misser’s rays to give them a 3-2 victory in the opening match in the Steinberner field. (Kim Kim Kamel Nitzl / Imagn)
It begins to distilize with sweat in Florida’s humidity, and for external players fighting the wind in an outdoor court without a third surface. It begins to start jugs in an attempt to exceed six roles in the burning summer heat, and for training employees who are concerned about the delay of rain and the double heads that the bulls are striving. There will be no place in the baseball game this summer just like Steinbrenner Field.
“We want to create some home field feature with that,” said Rays Kevin Cash. “I would like to look within two or three weeks when the atmosphere becomes hot in the summer and I see that we embrace it, and that the other teams wander around it.”
Muller does not want to hear any complaints. The hill is still 60 feet, six inches from the home panel. The rules are still 90 feet. Basebol is baseball. But the Rays Grouments crew, which cuts its teeth, keeps the artificial grass in an environment controlled by the climate, must now right and maintain a court in the sun.
Moeller and Head Groundskeeper Mike Deubel know what people assume about their functions in Tropicana Field: They were mainly responsible for carpets. It is a completely wrong and completely fair description (although they had to sweep the seeds of sunflower with DustPan and Brom that did not help dispel this idea). Do you know how to maintain moisture in dirt that is constantly absorbed through concrete below and air conditioning above? It is not easy.
But Muller and his crew are now running the natural grass in a risky climate that extends from the incendiary heat to sudden rains in a moment. Mueller and Debil worked abroad before. They know what they are. Some of their employees, on the other hand, are in a night lesson in patience, accuracy and wet socks.
Muller has increased his budget to bear additional clothes so that his crew could change when he was soaked in a popup, and sent most of his crew to work in Yanxiz during the spring training so that they can learn how to prepare the field (some of the Yanxiz staff is committed to help).
In fact, the Rays crew got the cannabis several times this spring, but they still did not pull it in the middle of the eighth half, when the Pete Fairbanks loses the bulls and the shower in the middle of the match became a great precipitation because the referees waited for a long time, and arrested the fingers, in the hope that the rain will come out in a magical way. They did not pull the cannabis cloth already wet, the matter is late, and there is no news when they return to the house.
“Welcome to the major tournaments,” Muller said.
This same idea applies to Rays also. Many of them were in the major tournaments for years, but they never resemble this. Pebiot spent more time in the sauna this spring. He also remained in the hot bathtub and went on after the exercise paths with his wife. Anything to get his body is used for heat.
“No one will get used to 105 and disgusting moisture,” said Peiot. “But what you adapted to.”
The rays tested its players in the spring to determine the amount of sweat – the second base man Brandon Loui is a 2 -level jacket, a moderate jacket – and this information was used to help plans to customize the amount of water and sodium that will have to be replaced every night. Nevertheless, Shortstop Taylor Walls originated in Georgia and played a university ball in Florida. It is convinced that heat and humidity will be manageable for nine roles. It is more worried about rain, because when this sudden shower in the Gulf coast is still expelled some ball games, and the double heads in this climate will be exhausting.
This is what the money is also worried. He can limit his pre -work team to keep players rest, and he can pump them full of water to maintain moisture, but double heads are hell on the staff staff, and while Steinbrenner Field has audiences with Missters in the hidden, there is nothing to stop the rain.
The baseball game in the main league modified the ray schedule in respect to the weather in Florida. Rays plays 19 home matches between March 28 and April 20, which means that they will play for nearly a quarter of their table of home before the start of the summer. The barter is that the rays will only play 12 home games between June 23 and August 18. They will spend about half of August on a two -week road trip, from four cities, will include stopping in Sacramento to play athletics in The Athletics last Minor LEGUE BallPark hosted the major league matches this season.
The sun, rain, wind and shades at home. Long trips than usual on the road. It will be completely unfamiliar, but the rays won the opening day with strong promotion employees and a deep seat, so it may not be different after all.
“Many differences,” Cash said. “But now we are more likely to breathe, and we will likely spend hours talking about how to achieve this in our favor.”
(Steinbrenner’s upper image on Friday: Mike Carlson/MLB photos via Getty Images)