New Sod Arrives at Comerica

[401don]

Is anyone else a little nervous that a team that already lost its shortstop and left fielder is installing new grass on frozen ground a week before opening day?

http://www.freep.com/article/2014032...erica-Park-sod

[MikeyinBrooklyn]

They have little choice in the matter. But I am not too nervous; there is risk of injury every day on every field. Look at that Reds pitcher who took a liner off the face last night. It was bad, and it could have been much worse.

[drjeff]

The hockey rink messed up the resodding, which should have happened last fall. Could be a disaster in April.

[gnome]

With the temps going down to the 20's at night, I am not believing that this sod is going to root. I imagine they will have to staple it down but just can't understand the physics of running on loose slabs of turf.

i laid sod a years ago and was told to stay off of it for a month, and that was in the late summer.

[Lowell]

Ground ball pitchers like Porcello should love it. Nice soft squishy sod deadening hot gound balls. Just as long as it isn't frozen hard...

[ddaydetroit]

Why is baseball the game of summer starting in March ?

[Goose]

they are going to staple it down, there is no way, no how, its going to take root in time... if its rainy its going to be a mess, i don't see how even in perfect weather that its not going to be poor field conditions....

[MikeyinBrooklyn]

they are going to staple it down, there is no way, no how, its going to take root in time... if its rainy its going to be a mess, i don't see how even in perfect weather that its not going to be poor field conditions....

It will be poor conditions for a little bit. They chose to re-sod in the spring. In most years it would have been at best a minor nuisance. This year will be a little ugly, like old days before modern techniques, drainage and lawn care. Maybe they should play this season in the old-timey uniforms.