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Post by bbg95 on Jun 21, 2024 20:21:00 GMT -5
im curious if the athletes had any say in it for softball. it looks like some of the games in Tokyo weren't actually in Tokyo. (albeit they were later) I would doubt there was much input from the athletes. When it comes to the Olympics, softball is kind of a red-headed stepchild as it is. Softball was left out of the Paris games but is being brought back in 2028 because of its relative popularity in the USA. After that, who knows. Anyway, the L.A. organizing committee and Oklahoma City have apparently been working on this arrangement for several years now. Softball is popular in Australia, so it should be on the program in 2032 Brisbane. But yeah, it really depends on the host country.
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Post by franknvb on Jun 22, 2024 12:20:40 GMT -5
Lots of great places but this is an LA classic. El tepeyac Cafe
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Post by bobinmd on Jun 22, 2024 13:13:57 GMT -5
Lots of great places but this is an LA classic. El tepeyac Cafe Hey man, where are those posts of mine you referenced? Thanks. 🤥
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Jun 23, 2024 11:05:07 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what.
seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium
it's softball, sheesh
just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Jun 23, 2024 11:14:45 GMT -5
The 1984 Olympics were an epic 2 weeks. Back then I had 2 jobs. My engineering job and I still worked at the forum. Easiest traffic ever in LA. Many companies closed for the Olympics and so many staggered their hrs to ease traffic. Got to see the 1st dream team and team Han ball finals. Favorite moments: Uruguay, they qualified late because of the Communist countries boycotting. The 1st game they didn't have uniforms. They had tee shirts and put their numbers on their shirts. After the game a couple of guys took of their shirts and the ink bread through on their skin. A company stepped up and g furnished uniforms for them. 2nd was sneaking into the finals of the usa Brazil men's volleyball. I wanted to go but it was sold out. I asked The person in charge of security at the forum if there is anyway to get in. She said thar my forumn pass for any venue. As long as they don't notice that you badge is a basketball figure and not a volleyball figure. All is all, it was a great 2 weeks!! 1984 was fantastic. best 2 weeks ever in Socal. so many people were expecting traffic to be horrible and many left town renting out their houses, and so many people ended up taking vacation and companies basically said work whatever hours you want to work and the freeways were devoid of traffic. Long Beach arena was for VB. HOnda will be a solid venue. trips to Dodger Stadium (Baseball), Coliseum (T&F), and Marina Del Rey (Marathon) were easiest drives ever. & tickets were easy to come by and reasonable organizers didn't re-invent the wheel on new facilities.
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Post by BearClause on Jun 23, 2024 11:25:40 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what. seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium it's softball, sheesh just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol Not just a much larger stadium, but clearly the best facility of its kind in the world. What they have at UCLA seems more like a high school venue. And no room for temporary seating. As far as canoeing goes, the standard now is for artificial whitewater runs, since they're a lot easier with regards to spectators. I suppose they could build one, but what would happen to it once the Olympics are done?
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Post by trojansc on Jun 23, 2024 11:53:16 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what. seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium it's softball, sheesh just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol Have you ever been to UCLA's softball field? The PAC had several facilities that were below par. Cal's softball field for one, is an absolute joke. They don't even have lights. How is it a stupid decision to allow more spectators? You can barely cram a little over 1,000 people into UCLA's park. If it had to stay in California - they could use Fresno State's softball field. I like their facility a lot.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Jun 23, 2024 12:14:10 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what. seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium it's softball, sheesh just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol Have you ever been to UCLA's softball field? The PAC had several facilities that were below par. Cal's softball field for one, is an absolute joke. They don't even have lights. How is it a stupid decision to allow more spectators? You can barely cram a little over 1,000 people into UCLA's park. If it had to stay in California - they could use Fresno State's softball field. I like their facility a lot. yeah, Fresno in July lol, 105 degrees, what a great choice!! so they seat 1300, bbd, they'll sell all the tickets, the athletes will be in LA where they should instead of isolated the idea of building a temp facility at probably 20 mil plus or more. known qty when LA Bid. it's how Olympic costs got out of control in the first place. just frggn play at UCLA, or even UCLA & Fullerton, it's really not that hard of a decision. of course it's great to allow more spectators, but it's really not necessary, especially if moving it to Oklahoma being the alternate
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 23, 2024 12:15:04 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what. seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium it's softball, sheesh just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol Have you ever been to UCLA's softball field? The PAC had several facilities that were below par. Cal's softball field for one, is an absolute joke. They don't even have lights. How is it a stupid decision to allow more spectators? You can barely cram a little over 1,000 people into UCLA's park. If it had to stay in California - they could use Fresno State's softball field. I like their facility a lot. I feel like if you have to all the way to Fresno, then you may as well just go the whole nine yards and put it in Oklahoma City. Softball already has a tough time in the Olympics where it's at the mercy of the host country. So when it is on the program, I appreciate it being put in the best possible facility.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Jun 23, 2024 12:21:32 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what. seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium it's softball, sheesh just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol Not just a much larger stadium, but clearly the best facility of its kind in the world. What they have at UCLA seems more like a high school venue. And no room for temporary seating. As far as canoeing goes, the standard now is for artificial whitewater runs, since they're a lot easier with regards to spectators. I suppose they could build one, but what would happen to it once the Olympics are done? lol, so ok if everything has to be played at the best facility in the US - doesn't bother me, not sure why it should be such a big deal. the best team will win the gold whether it's LA or OKC in that case, let's just move swimming to Indianapolis, lol better yet, in the future, just have a US bid, and not for any one city. I guess if people feel a need to have the most impressive venues for Olympics. move T&F to Oregon as well. softball will do just fine staying in LA.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 23, 2024 12:23:35 GMT -5
I’d be okay with that. Easier for me to get to and cheaper in the long run. It would do some Volleyball fans good to see Omaha in August. (Hint, it isn't always cold) In August, it's very hot and humid (I lived in Lincoln for five years, so I'm well aware). Pass. Maybe if it was like April or May. Anyway, Olympic volleyball can be at any large facility, and SoCal has plenty of options. Softball is very different, as Oklahoma City is the only place that can really do it justice.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Jun 23, 2024 12:24:13 GMT -5
UCLA has a softball stadium, yes it's not OKC, so what. seems like a stupid decision, just in order to get a much larger stadium it's softball, sheesh just go to the Kern or Kings river for canoeing lol Not just a much larger stadium, but clearly the best facility of its kind in the world. What they have at UCLA seems more like a high school venue. And no room for temporary seating. As far as canoeing goes, the standard now is for artificial whitewater runs, since they're a lot easier with regards to spectators. I suppose they could build one, but what would happen to it once the Olympics are done? lol, so ok if everything has to be played at the best facility in the US - doesn't bother me, not sure why it should be such a big deal. the best team will win the gold whether it's LA or OKC in that case, let's just move swimming to Indianapolis, lol better yet, in the future, just have a US bid, and not for any one city. I guess if people feel a need to have the most impressive venues for Olympics. move T&F to Oregon as well. softball will do just fine staying in LA.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 23, 2024 12:40:40 GMT -5
This article in the Washington Post was interesting. The surfing competition for the Paris Olympics will be held in Tahiti, which is a lot father away from Paris than Oklahoma City is from Los Angeles. Also, swimming and track and field will apparently swap schedules in Los Angeles due to SoFi hosting swimming and the opening ceremonies. Swimming traditionally is in the first week and is followed by track, but SoFi needs time to transform to a swimming facility. The pool itself will already be installed and covered during the opening ceremonies. I guess they need some time for some other changes. Edit: I made the mistake of going to the comments. I forgot how dumb many of the people commenting on Washington Post articles are. According to some of those Mensa candidates, there seemingly are plenty of places in LA that are just as good as Oklahoma City for hosting softball, lol.
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Post by BeachbytheBay on Jun 23, 2024 13:12:03 GMT -5
This article in the Washington Post was interesting. The surfing competition for the Paris Olympics will be held in Tahiti, which is a lot father away from Paris than Oklahoma City is from Los Angeles. Also, swimming and track and field will apparently swap schedules in Los Angeles due to SoFi hosting swimming and the opening ceremonies. Swimming traditionally is in the first week and is followed by track, but SoFi needs time to transform to a swimming facility. The pool itself will already be installed and covered during the opening ceremonies. I guess they need some time for some other changes. Edit: I made the mistake of going to the comments. I forgot how dumb many of the people commenting on Washington Post articles are. According to some of those Mensa candidates, there are plenty of places in LA that are just as good as Oklahoma City for hosting softball, lol. actually, NOT ONE PERSON has commented " there are plenty of places in LA that are just as good as OKC" not a single one. stating that one should or could keep softball in LA is a different matter than stating facility X is as good or better than facility Y . I guess if one feels softball has to be played at the best possible facility to be 'worthy', and have players isolated and playing in 95 to 105 degress, then OK then!! go for it, go to Oklahoma, and let them have that 1st rate Olympic experience!! god forbid they play at UCLA, it'll be such a poor Olympic experience if they do so! lmfao, guess someone did not really read the comments or has a reading comprehension issue.
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Post by bbg95 on Jun 23, 2024 13:13:43 GMT -5
This article in the Washington Post was interesting. The surfing competition for the Paris Olympics will be held in Tahiti, which is a lot father away from Paris than Oklahoma City is from Los Angeles. Also, swimming and track and field will apparently swap schedules in Los Angeles due to SoFi hosting swimming and the opening ceremonies. Swimming traditionally is in the first week and is followed by track, but SoFi needs time to transform to a swimming facility. The pool itself will already be installed and covered during the opening ceremonies. I guess they need some time for some other changes. Edit: I made the mistake of going to the comments. I forgot how dumb many of the people commenting on Washington Post articles are. According to some of those Mensa candidates, there are seemingly plenty of places in LA that are just as good as Oklahoma City for hosting softball, lol. actually, NOT ONE PERSON has commented " there are plenty of places in LA that are just as good as OKC" not a single one. stating that one should or could keep softball in LA is a different matter than stating facility X is as good or better than facility . I guess if one feels softball has to be played at the best possible facility to be 'worthy', and have players isolated and playing in 95 to 105 degress, then OK then!! go for it!! lmfao, guess someone did not really read the comments or has a reading comprehension issue. It's not literal. I'm paraphrasing the sentiment of some of the comments. And frankly, those were some of the least stupid of the comments that were in there. I won't even bother getting into some of the other asinine arguments. Also, your reading comprehension leaves a lot to be desired, lol. Edit: just to make it more clear that I'm not directly quoting anyone (pro-tip: if someone doesn't use quotation marks when they're talking about what someone else said, then they're paraphrasing rather than directly quoting), I added the word "seemingly" to the original comment.
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