Talk:TELUS Field

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Has anybody ever computed the Park Factor for Telus Field? It's longer to CF than any MLB ballpark except Minute Maid, and is roughly the same size as Coors (and being a kilometre closer to sea level). But I can't find anywhere that discusses whether its a pitchers park, or by how much.

[edit] Turf type

This needs to be updated. Before the Cracker Cats took up residence, the original artificial turf was replaced with the new-style (field-turfesque, but not field turf) turf.

[edit] Infield Turf

The reason for Telus Field having an artificial grass infield wasn't because the northern winter makes it too difficult to grow infield grass. John Deucy Park/Renfrew Park didn't have much problem growing it's infield grass. The reason I heard from Park officials/press statements was because the artificial turf was cheaper to maintain than real grass, and the turf allowed them to use a drainage system which drained water much quicker. I can't remember the exact stats but the new drainage system could drain the infield in an hour or two what would have taken at least a day for real greass. So the main reason for the articifical infield was the potential of fewer rainouts due to a much quicker draining infield. I'll try to find the time to track down some Trappers programs around the time Telus Field opened to see if they mentioned the reasoning behidn the artificial infield. Or perhaps i'll try to find Kowalchuk's E-mail and just ask him. Although i'm not sure how to cite either one. --Nechevo 05:29, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

For that matter the idea that The Minnesota Twins asked for the carpet so that their prospects could get used to playing on Astroturf is clearly wrong since The Oakland A's and not the Twins were the Trappers parent club when Telus Field was made. --Nechevo 05:46, 12 March 2007 (UTC)