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Anonymous wrote:If softball or baseball you can go rake and take pictures and ask the county to open it. No parents want to do that though, it’s just easier to complain. Not sure about the grass fields.

That's utter BS. If you offer parents the chance for kids to play for 20 minutes work, they'll do it. I've literally never been asked.

Lazy coaches… our coaches are always out there trying to get the fields ready and ask for volunteers. Usually, we have the kids help.

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of fields? My kids play softball, which means all dirt infield, and so those fields close all. the. time.

Plus they build more turf baseball fields than softball fields because Title 9 doesn't matter it appears.

What a dumb take. Tell me how many 60 foot turf fields there are in the county?

Anonymous wrote:If softball or baseball you can go rake and take pictures and ask the county to open it. No parents want to do that though, it’s just easier to complain. Not sure about the grass fields.

That's utter BS. If you offer parents the chance for kids to play for 20 minutes work, they'll do it. I've literally never been asked.

Anonymous wrote:If softball or baseball you can go rake and take pictures and ask the county to open it. No parents want to do that though, it’s just easier to complain. Not sure about the grass fields.

You can't rake a dirt infield until you're leaving less than 1/4" deep footprints. That wasn't happening on a lot of fields the past couple days - not sure if it will even happen today for those fields that drain poorly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of fields? My kids play softball, which means all dirt infield, and so those fields close all. the. time.

Plus they build more turf baseball fields than softball fields because Title 9 doesn't matter it appears.

No, softball can't use turf because the infield needs to be a fast (dirt) surface so a ground ball isn't slowed down due to the structure of a softball (vs a baseball).

Also, softball is played on a 60' field - there aren't many 60' turf fields around.

The bolded isn't true at all. Plenty of softball games are played on turf. Just because there's still more small ball in softball than baseball doesn't mean it can't be played on turf - especially at the lower levels!

Fairfax County is turfing over all the softball fields at Wakefield Park, starting with field 8 sometime this year. They already allocated the money for it a couple years ago. It's true there aren't many 60' turf fields around, but that's because they chose not to do it, not because they couldn't or shouldn't.

My kid was practicing with 3 other teams on a 90' turf baseball field last night, just to get reps in.

If softball or baseball you can go rake and take pictures and ask the county to open it. No parents want to do that though, it’s just easier to complain. Not sure about the grass fields.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What kind of fields? My kids play softball, which means all dirt infield, and so those fields close all. the. time.

Plus they build more turf baseball fields than softball fields because Title 9 doesn't matter it appears.

No, softball can't use turf because the infield needs to be a fast (dirt) surface so a ground ball isn't slowed down due to the structure of a softball (vs a baseball).

Also, softball is played on a 60' field - there aren't many 60' turf fields around.

Anonymous wrote:What kind of fields? My kids play softball, which means all dirt infield, and so those fields close all. the. time.

Plus they build more turf baseball fields than softball fields because Title 9 doesn't matter it appears.

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know about the drainage issue. Dumb question but there’s no way to retrofit some of the fields to drain better?

Yes, of course, but there has to be an effort to rally support of the county board, a bond must be presented and then voted on by citizens. Amazing that someone has the audacity to come and complain about a field closing with not understanding the basics of how a county works.