Signage Update: PepsiCo Park

With a new baseball season upon us, I thought it was high time to do some maintenance at PepsiCo Park.

The act of rolling the dice in the tower has an unfortunate tendency to wear down the paper signage that is placed in the exit chute, so I took it as a chance to place a logo that I should have put on the park two years ago.

You can see the damage to the top of the paper sign on the left with the old 1940s Pepsi logo.

I simply had no time (or reason) to replace any of the existing signage back in 2015, when this should have been up for Back to the Future’s 30th anniversary.

It’s made of 110 lb card stock instead of 25 lb printer paper, so we’ll see how well it holds up under the punishment.

This is only the second time that I’ve replaced the logo in the chute due to wear and tear from the dice.

Trial run is tomorrow, for Opening Day 2017.

On deck: game two of a three game series between the Dodgers and the Giants, May 27, 1967.

Stay tuned!

Movies – Books

Before every baseball season, there’s a list of movies that I try to watch to psych myself up for Opening Day.

  • The Natural
  • Field of Dreams
  • 42
  • Major League

This season I’m going to try to get through the books that 3 of those movies are based on.

Stay tuned!

1917

If there’s anything I’m learning from playing this 1917 MLB replay, it’s that the game was played very differently (obviously) back then.

I’ve started play on day two, and in the game I’m currently playing (Senators @ Athletics), I just had the weirdest double play that I’ve ever seen:

Bases loaded, 1 out.  I try a suicide squeeze, resulting in a strikeout and the runner on third getting caught stealing home.

I think this season replay is teaching me how to play this game better, in general.  I’d ignore the solitaire charts in my 1958 replay, and slowly started using them in my 1967 replay, but I’m using them whole hog in the 1917 replay.

Day two results should be posted shortly.

Stay tuned!