

Since its creation newer developments have come to Victoria, including one or two of our own projects, such as 62 Buckingham Gate.

That’s because the whole building rests on rubber shock absorbers to eliminate any vibrations. The audio engineer is Aaron Doerr.District and Circle line underground trains run directly below Cardinal Place, but you wouldn’t know it. Jane Mather-Glass is our production assistant. The show is hosted by Sarah Fenske and produced by Alex Heuer, Emily Woodbury, Evie Hemphill and Lara Hamdan. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. “Is it a more entertaining game that they can provide by altering the ballpark?” “At some point, they have to ask if they want to change this, and if that's what fans want to see,” he said. Though some people might be skeptical of changing things up at the stadium, Goold says it could give fans a better ballgame. In recent years, the Angels have shortened their fences, and the Mets moved in the fences at Citi Field twice. It could be as simple as moving the fences, or shortening them. Goold and Nathan agreed that changing the paradigm at Busch Stadium didn’t require a high-tech solution. “You say, OK, not just for a geographic region, but let's set it for a time of year.” (Nathan, however, didn’t think the humidor was the cause of the Cardinals’ troubles.) “If you want the ball to play the same in April that you do in August - that's the idea behind the humidor,” Goold said. Previously, teams in Phoenix and Denver used the humidors to adjust for their low humidity levels, but the Cardinals’ use goes beyond that. For the first time this year, the club is using a humidor to store balls, which Goold says was intended to affect the way the balls fly throughout Missouri’s fluctuating seasons. The team is examining other theories, too. And it's very, very hard to take that into account.” “And so the wind changes both in space and in time. “You're in the ballpark, you're in the stands, and you look at the flags overhead, and you see the wind blowing in one direction out there in left field that behind home plate is blowing in a different direction,” Nathan said. Nathan added that while it’s easy to study and control many factors that affect the flight of a baseball - like humidity, temperature and elevation - wind is one of the hardest things to account for.
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This is the Cardinals’ first full season since the skyscraper was completed.Īlan Nathan, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, agrees that One Cardinal Way could be the problem, suggesting that the building could be affecting wind patterns in the stadium. Some people speculate that One Cardinal Way, the high-rise that was built just beyond the outfield, might have something to do with the team’s worsening offense. Outfielders wonder about it as they're playing out there.”


“In batting practice, they talk about it. “Opposing teams are talking about it,” Goold said on Friday’s St. Busch Stadium, he wrote, “ranks in the bottom five” of ballparks for scoring and home runs. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote about the issue in September. Since the Redbirds’ hitting on the road has been stellar, team management is wondering if Busch Stadium itself is the problem.ĭerrick Goold, the lead Cardinals beat writer for the St. The Cardinals have been winning - but even so, the team’s offense has struggled at home.
