<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - ballparks</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/ballparks</link><description>Newsvine - ballparks</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:01:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:08:53 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>PETA gives Philadelphia's Citizen's Bank Park nod as most vegetarian-friendly ballpark</title>
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After a run of four consecutive titles before being bumped last year, the Citizens Bank Park has retaken first place in PETA's list of the Top 10 Vegetarian-Friendly Ballparks.
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Sautter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Michael Sautter]]></source><link>http://michaelsautter.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12661593-peta-gives-philadelphias-citizens-bank-park-nod-as-most-vegetarian-friendly-ballpark</link><guid>http://michaelsautter.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/10/12661593-peta-gives-philadelphias-citizens-bank-park-nod-as-most-vegetarian-friendly-ballpark</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>mlb</category><category>food</category><category>baseball</category><category>ballpark</category><category>peta</category><category>vegan</category><category>vegetarian</category><category>ballparks</category><category>citizens-bank-park</category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:01:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=michaelsautter1188B536-B1BF-8457-5C7B-8AD006FF7407.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="77" width="77" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=michaelsautter1188B536-B1BF-8457-5C7B-8AD006FF7407.jpg&amp;width=120" width="77" height="77" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Nats Park: an increasingly bad deal for D.C. taxpayers</title>
<description><![CDATA[I've long been opposed to the use of public monies to finance Major League ballparks.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Calcaterra]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Circling the Bases]]></source><link>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/29/3086589-nats-park-an-increasingly-bad-deal-for-dc-taxpayers</link><guid>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/29/3086589-nats-park-an-increasingly-bad-deal-for-dc-taxpayers</guid><category>sports</category><category>nationals</category><category>ballparks</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:23:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F3086594.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="173" width="231" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F3086594.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Can't chop the Trop</title>
<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I mused that rather than building a new ballpark, maybe the Rays would be better off simply taking a can opener to Tropicana Field, refitting it with grass and a retractable roof, and otherwise making the best of things.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Calcaterra]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Circling the Bases]]></source><link>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/16/2935396-cant-chop-the-trop</link><guid>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/16/2935396-cant-chop-the-trop</guid><category>sports</category><category>rays</category><category>tropicana-field</category><category>ballparks</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F2935399.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="162" width="283" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F2935399.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="69" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The ballparks of the future sound simply dreadful</title>
<description><![CDATA[Now that almost every team has built a new stadium in the past 20 years (whether they needed one or whether they did not), some clever folks are speculating what the next generation of ballparks will look like:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Calcaterra]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Circling the Bases]]></source><link>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/21/2847056-the-ballparks-of-the-future-sound-simply-dreadful</link><guid>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/21/2847056-the-ballparks-of-the-future-sound-simply-dreadful</guid><category>sports</category><category>ballparks</category><category>nightly-news</category><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F2847058.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="230" width="392" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F2847058.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">nul</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Baseball goes green for Earth Day</title>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe the green peacock on the main NBC Sports page tipped you off, but if not, know that today is Earth Day.  Baseball knows it, and they're doing some stuff about it:

Happy Earth Day.

Everyone is invited to the party.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Calcaterra]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Circling the Bases]]></source><link>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/22/2717830-baseball-goes-green-for-earth-day</link><guid>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/22/2717830-baseball-goes-green-for-earth-day</guid><category>sports</category><category>environment</category><category>ballparks</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:08:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F2717834.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="270" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2Fcalcaterra2F2717834.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Private business, public dollars</title>
<description><![CDATA[In my other virtual life, I spend an awful lot of time railing against public financing for ballparks, and in recent months, most of that time was spent opposing the new Marlins' stadium.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Calcaterra]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Circling the Bases]]></source><link>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/09/2660163-private-business-public-dollars</link><guid>http://bases-old.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/09/2660163-private-business-public-dollars</guid><category>florida-marlins</category><category>ballparks</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>MLB Ballpark Ratings</title>
<description><![CDATA[Essentially, this is a measure of how satisfied fans are with their hometown ballpark experience. The happiest? Cleveland. Progressive Field, home of the Indians, finished first with Milwaukee's Miller Park a close runner-up.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sectim42]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Sectim42]]></source><link>http://2timothy42.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/30/1462835-mlb-ballpark-ratings</link><guid>http://2timothy42.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/30/1462835-mlb-ballpark-ratings</guid><category>mlb</category><category>sports</category><category>baseball</category><category>ballparks</category><pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 03:42:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Calculating Curves: A Statistical Guide to &quot;Nastiness&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[Cameras have been put into ballparks around Major League Baseball this season to help accumulate data on the break, drop, velocity, wiggle, shift, cut, slide, plane, tumble and veer of pitches.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[dgstet]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[dgstet]]></source><link>http://dgstet.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/20/907189-calculating-curves-a-statistical-guide-to-nastiness</link><guid>http://dgstet.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/20/907189-calculating-curves-a-statistical-guide-to-nastiness</guid><category>mlb</category><category>sports</category><category>baseball</category><category>stats</category><category>statistics</category><category>sabermetrics</category><category>ballparks</category><category>mlb-com</category><category>sports-writing</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Smoking in Ballparks</title>
<description><![CDATA[MLB must join the trend to curb smoking by forcing all the clubs to ban smoking within their ballparks]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Unofficial MLB]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Unofficial MLB]]></source><link>http://mlb4u.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/02/751925-smoking-in-ballparks</link><guid>http://mlb4u.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/02/751925-smoking-in-ballparks</guid><category>sports</category><category>baseball</category><category>smoking</category><category>ballparks</category><pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2007 06:28:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>