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Are Race Car Drivers Athletes
I ask this because my son is racing at a NHRA track, entering the high school bracket division, there are 11 schools reprisented, with 38 individuals participating, my son's school has indicated they dont like their name assosiated with racing, because it is not an athletic event! He is not allowed to work on his "RACECAR" in auto shop, he recieves no funding from booster club. Because my son drives a drag car does this mean he is not an athlete?
I always thought racecar drivers were athletes, I guess I could be wrong.
I saw one of those off-season, Sunday afternoon sports shows way back in the early 80s where they pitted athletes from various sports - football, baseball, basketball, hockey, tennis, etc. - to see who was 'best'. They lifted weights, swam, played tennis, did 100 yard dash, 1/4 mile run, all that stuff. Funniest episode was a swimming race where heavy weight boxer Joe Frazier nearly drowned! He had no clue how to swim. anyway, they had NASCAR and Formula champs competing too. To say they were non-athletic is the understatement of the century. I quickly went from feeling embarrassed watching them flail around to actually fearing for their lives. Some of the events like weight lifting were down right dangerous for them. No, they are not athletes and their occupation is called a 'sport' just because there is nowhere else to put it in the newspaper.
Conversely, you need to educate the officials at your school as to the quality activity your son is participating in. Just because it isn't an athletic event, organized drag racing is still a very worthwhile activity that the school should promote. Get on your soap box and change your little corner of the world for the better!
After driving around a racetrack in a triple layer nomex suit and helmet, getting forearm pump after 10 minutes of driving and losing 10 pounds in 20 minutes after one heat race I would have to say it's a sport. I cannot imagine what the guys in F1 go through after an hour dealing with double digit G loads, that is seriously hard work that only fighter pilots can understand.
Depends on the type of motorsport were talkin bout? I don't think drag racing for 10 secs quite qualifies as physically taxing although the pit thrash between rounds can be pretty crazy!
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself.
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Race drivers are definitely athletes. Maybe not every driver could run a marathon tomorrow. But marathoners could'nt jump in a car and drive it right either.
Now the thing with the School not accepting it. That could be political correctness ( not condoning racing) or just pure ignorance. Could also be they want to protect what funds they have for the more "mainstream" sports.
Just remind your kid that ten years from now very few, if any, of those School "athletes" will still be playing in their chosen sport. But auto racers tend to stick with it. He will be racing when he is forty, with years of experience. The rest, they will be fat, bald, and boring.
Anyone who thinks auto racers are not athletes, have never raced.
As far as funding from booster clubs.... skip that. Try local businesses, service clubs, or police and fire fraternal orders.
Good luck, maybe I will race him someday.
Hell yes driving a racecar makes you an athlete. Tell those boneheads at his school to go out and drive a car thats a few inches from the asphalt and corners like its on rails at 140+ mph and see if they can walk normally. The G force alone thats exerted upon the body makes sure you will be in shape by next race, otherwise there won't be one because you'll still be in bed with ben-gay and heat pads. Driving a car is not only taxing on the body, but to properly compete you must also use you eyes ears and sometimes your nose. So not only is it a mode of training on how to handle a vehicle but it improves motor skills, no pun intended. Tell those goons that if race drivers aren't athletes then lets see them go out and strap themselves in and win the Cart series. Thats enough to boil your p-nuts...I tell ya.
Bowtienut - according to the dictionary, I guess you could say someone who has the hand eye and foot coordination and the experience that it takes to compete in NHRA events such as in top fuel, is an athlete. And those kids that do Motocross and Super-cross? You bet, they're athletes.
ath¡lete [ áth leet ] (plural ath¡letes)
somebody with athletic ability: somebody who has the necessary abilities to participate in physical exercise, especially in competitive situations such as games, races, and matches
This doesn't mean you can expect your district's school athletic director to jump head over heels for motorsports. It ain't too likely to happen in this lifetime. This is one of the biggest reasons why some of the best adult car clubs around, have special fundraisers for highschool automotive programs and special cruise night awards for the best teen projects cars and trucks.
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That's what I meant to say, race drivers are splendid athletes.
I wish I could agree with y'all!! Today I watched the big fat neighbor push around the lawn mower for 90 minutes. He was sweating, losing just a few pounds, lifting, pushing, pulling and fighting arm pump but I wouldn't call him an athlete! Last time I was at Maple Grove Raceway it looked like a candy and beer convention! I think the poorest conditioned sports athlete could go toe to toe with the best conditioned racer! The condition of the modern racer may have more to do with corporate sponsorship than trying to keep up with the car! A few people I know that are sponsored are given trainers to keep a healthy look for the public as part of the contract.
Is racing a sport?....YES
Are racers Athletes?....Well, yes but with an asterisk*
Kinda like Jeeps are Mopars!!!!
I have never met John Force, but I have seen on tv after a 5 second pass he looks like heavy wieght fighter after 10 rnds, out of breath, struggling to speak, sweating, ect.... it seems to me this takes athletic ability.
maybe he just needs more Powerade!
I am on my soapbox and not gonna let this issue die with the school, if they wont let him reprisent the school he cant finish the season. He is doing very well, the school is in third, AND HE IS BY HIMSELF, the other schools have three to five drivers!
I have to think this is going to be one of those "opinion" discussions. Eye hand coordination, reflexes, stamina, desire, all attributes to be a good racer. Same thing goes for video game tournaments. How many events in the Olympics do you consider to be a sport?
synchronized swimming? yech! Here's a list from a website:
Team Handball
Modern Pentathlon
Mountain Bike
Track & Field
Rythmic Gymnastics
Beach Volleyball
Water Polo
Synchronized Swimming
Field Hockey
Table Tennis
There's few here that I wouldn't consider athletic. What the school should realize is that any activity that teaches a kid something productive, keeps him away from bad influences, and gives hom something positive to do is a good thing. Find a way around liability problems. There's quite a few schools out there doing this now, the kids that aren't involved with the traditional sports now have a niche of their own. Dan
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain
My point exactly, why do we think an athlete as only someone who can run fast, jump high, kick far, catch a football with one hand, leap over tall buildings in a single bound, ect. ect....
We can no longer stereotype athletes, it is an ability to perform a sport, no matter what the sport is.
My son is a gaurd on the Varsity football team, so he is an athlete while playing football, but when he races his car in a sanctioned event he is not, I dont think so!
As far as liability I signed a release of libility for him to race, ie. the track, NHRA, SPONSERS, BLA BLA BLA.....
my son is trying to encurage his friend to come and race (HELP),
now they are hesitant.
Most definitely. It takes endurance to pilot a car at high speed for hundreds of miles. There is no money ( or recognition ) in it for the schools so they have no interest in supporting it.
What about golf? How much actual time do you spend using your muscles?
If you have ever watched Sat Night Live, you know Syncronous Swimming is under going a revival and is a sport!
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Hey, it just dawned on me - I am a top athlete too! I am far superior to most other athletes with respect to endurance, spending 10 hour days in a 110F shop without stopping for lunch. Strength-wise, I am world class, lifting 300# truck beds into place, 200# cast iron hydro trannys into position while laying on my back under a car, carry built 200R4 trannys all over the shop, installing pickup doors and 9" Ford rear ends single-handedly. That is just the strength skills - I also have extraordinary eye-hand coordination, putting together carburetors, automatic trannys and installing frenched tail light housings. Move over Michael Jordan, get out of the way Barry Bonds, step down Kurt Warner, I am the greatest!!
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|11.17.14 at 7:40 pm ET
Milton native Alex Hassan got to realize a childhood dream by making his big league debut at Fenway Park in 2014. Now, caught behind a raft of outfielders in the Red Sox farm system, Hassan will head elsewhere to see if he can claim an opportunity to be a more lasting opportunity in the big leagues.
The A's were awarded a waiver claim on Hassan on Monday. Though he has a minor league option remaining, the 26-year-old is expected to get an opportunity to compete for a big league platoon role.
Hassan was originally taken by the Red Sox as a pitcher out of Duke in the 20th round of the 2009 draft. However, the two-way college player proved so impressive as a hitter in the Cape League that summer that the Sox ended up signing him as an outfielder. In six pro seasons, he was one of the most consistent hitters in the system, hitting .291 with a .396 OBP and .436 slugging mark while demonstrating excellent pitch recognition and strike zone awareness. His lack of power and the fact that he was a corner (both outfield corner spots and first base) limited his ceiling, but his consistent approach led to a sense that he stood a good chance of being a big league contributor in the right role.
|Red Sox minor league roundup: Alex Hassan streaking; Will Middlebrooks brouhaha; Michael Kopech, Kevin McAvoy make strong early impressions
|07.19.14 at 8:53 am ET
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox farm system on Saturday:
— Outfielder Alex Hassan homered for the fourth straight game, going 1-for-3 with a walk and his sixth longball of the year. He's amidst a few impressive streaks, among them, including a 12-game hitting streak and a 21-game streak of games in which he's reached base via hit or walk. Since rejoining Pawtucket on June 10 following the first big league stint of his career, Hassan is hitting .374/.459/.661 with five homers and 22 extra-base hits in 31 games. He has an extra-base hit in 10 of the last 11 games.
— Outfielder Shane Victorino went 1-for-4 with a double while playing seven innings, giving him three hits in the last two rehab games (all against right-handed pitchers). The Red Sox will check in with Victorino on Saturday to see if he's physically ready for activation from the disabled list.
— Third baseman Will Middlebrooks had an eventful rehab game, going 0-for-2 with an almost-three-run-homer that was instead brought back into the park by a leaping outfielder for a sacrifice fly and getting hit by a pitch that nearly incited a brawl. The plunking on the arm was delivered by Esmil Rogers, the same right-hander who ended Middlebrooks' rookie season in 2012 by breaking his wrist with a fastball. According to the Providence Journal, Middlebrooks slammed his bat to the ground by home plate and expressed his displeasure with what he deemed to be an intentional pitch to Rogers.
'He didn't mean to hit me [in 2012],' Middlebrooks told the Journal. 'I didn't agree with tonight just because there was a base open, he missed me and then he hit me. I didn't agree with that. I thought that was bad baseball. I'm not a guy to charge the mound, especially here. I'm here trying to get my innings up, not trying to fight people. It [ticked] me off, yeah'¦ He should carry himself better than that. Think his emotions just got the better of him.'
— Right-hander Steven Wright allowed three runs on three hits (including a solo homer and double) by the time he'd gotten through just six outs, but the knuckleballer then settled to retire 17 of the last 19 batters he faced, permitting just one more hit (a single) with another batter reaching on an error. Wright totaled eight innings — his third straight outing of eight frames — in which he allowed the three runs on four hits with two walks and two strikeouts. He has a streak of five straight starts and seven of eight outings in which he's worked at least seven innings, and in nine starts on the year, he has a 5-1 record, 2.21 ERA, 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings and 2.1 walks per nine, with Triple-A opponents hitting just .188 against him. Read the rest of this entry »
|Dreams fulfilled, surprises, mistakes, slights: Red Sox players share draft day memories
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The 2014 MLB amateur draft begins Thursday. Years after being drafted, members of the Red Sox shared their draft day memories and the excitement of realizing their dreams of playing professionally.
Jonny Gomes: Drafted by Rays in 18th round, 2001
Gomes didn't have set plans to play baseball in college, let alone expectations of doing it professionally. He had booked a cruise, his first vacation, during the 2001 draft and had no intentions of canceling it following a workout with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
"I don't even have a college scholarship. What makes you think I'm going to go professional?" he recalled thinking.
When he returned home from the trip two days after the draft, he was surprised to hear a message on his answering machine saying he had been selected by the Devil Rays. Gomes hadn't hired an agent – he didn't think he would be in the position to need one — so he called back to negotiate on his own. The Devil Rays offered an $18,000 signing bonus for the 18th round. Gomes countered with $20,000 and they agreed. (He hired an agent following his first season in the instructional league after learning of bigger deals other players had received. "I said, 'Huh, I'm way off.'")
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|Red Sox minor league year in review: Corner infielders
|09.25.13 at 4:11 pm ET
As the major league season wraps up, WEEI.com will also wrap up its minor league coverage of the 2013 campaign by looking at the depth of prospects at the different position groupings in the farm system. Today: Corner infielders. Tuesday: Catchers.
Overview: First and third base are traditionally positions that supply much of a lineup's thump. More home runs have been hit by first baseman than any other position; third basemen rank third in that category. (Right fielders are second.) Yet the Sox' minor league system doesn't have that prototypical masher at those positions, at least not in the upper levels of their farm system.
"We probably don't have as much of a corner bat, a profile corner bat type than maybe we've had in the past," said GM Ben Cherington in this recent podcast. "We've got some guys who we think can hit, but that may be an area that we don't have as much of."
The Sox have long focused on adding up-the-middle athletes to their organization with a chance to impact the game in numerous ways. Aside from Jason Place (first round, 2006) and Bryce Brentz (supplemental first round, 2010), the team hasn't employed its top picks on players whose defining trait has been power. Aside from Michael Almanzar (2007) and, this year, Rafael Devers, the team has likewise made its most significant international commitments to up-the-middle players instead of corners.
The result is that the strength of the team's minor league system isn't found in power-hitting corners. Indeed, it's telling that the organization's top corner prospect right now — a very good prospect, it's worth mentioning — has not yet hit as many as 10 homers in a minor league season. Meanwhile, there is no one in the organization who is ready to step in as an everyday first baseman in 2014, suggesting that the team's only options are to try to bring back Mike Napoli, shift Will Middlebrooks to first (something that would presumably require the club to feature Xander Bogaerts at third) or hit the trade or free agent market.
Here's a look at the performance of Red Sox corner infielders throughout the minors this year (skipping both Will Middlebrooks — who does embody the power-hitting third base/corner profile — and the traded Jose Iglesias, since most of their work took place at the big league level, as well as Xander Bogaerts, given that he's more likely viewed as a shortstop): Read the rest of this entry »
|Red Sox minor league roundup: Mookie being Buxton/Springer; Henry Owens joins elite Red Sox pitching prospect pool; Blake Swihart, game-changer
|09.02.13 at 8:09 am ET
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox farm system on Sunday:
— For the sixth time in 10 Triple-A starts since the beginning of July, knuckleballer Steven Wright did not allow an earned run. The right-hander logged five shutout innings, tossing a complete game (albeit of the rain-shortened variety) while allowing three hits, walking two and striking out two. In his last 10 minor league appearances, Wright now has a 2.04 ERA with 38 strikeouts and 23 walks while permitting just one homer in 61 2/3 innings. He has given up two or fewer walks in five of his last six starts.
— Jackie Bradley Jr. went 1-for-3 with a double and two strikeouts while getting hit by a pitch. In 79 games this year with Triple-A Pawtucket, he's now hitting .273 with a .373 OBP and .470 slugging percentage — marks that look fairly similar to what he did last year after a mid-year promotion to Double-A Portland, but with more power. In 61 games last year with Portland, Bradley hit .271/.373/.437. While he was not among the Red Sox' first wave of September call-ups on Sunday, given that both Shane Victorino and Jacoby Ellsbury left the contest with injuries, it's possible that the Sox will choose to give themselves a bit more outfield depth by recalling Bradley.
— Outfielder Alex Hassan, in his first game since August 15 (he'd been on the DL with a broken finger), went 2-for-3 with a walk. Though his playing time has been limited severely by injuries, he's had a spectacular offensive year when able to play. The 25-year-old is hitting .321/.434/.462. While the Sox' decision to put Hassan on the 40-man roster last winter came as something of a surprise following a year in which he hit .256/.377/.365 as a 24-year-old in Pawtucket, his performance this year has been sufficiently outstanding that he would stand virtually no chance of clearing waivers if the Sox were to attempt to remove him from the 40-man roster.
— With catcher Ryan Lavarnway moving up to the big leagues, the Red Sox promoted catcher Christian Vazquez to Triple-A Pawtucket after a performance that suggests he deserves mention as one of the top catching prospects in all of the minors. In his age 22 season (Vazquez turned 23 just last month), the 2008 ninth-rounder hit .289 with a .376 OBP and .395 slugging mark while throwing out a whopping (and league-leading) 46.5 percent of attempted base stealers. For all of Vazquez's exceptional defensive tools, it is necessary to note that he committed 23 passed balls — far and away the highest total in the league, and not just a product of the occasional presence of knuckleballers in Portland — but his potential to be an elite defender who controls the game along with a player capable of showing above-average hit and on-base skills (particularly for his position, where the big league norm this year was a .248 average and .314 OBP) suggests a player who now must be considered a potential everyday catcher by the 2015 season.
— It likely wasn't the final note for which Henry Owens might have hoped with Portland. He suffered his first loss in Double-A, allowing three runs on six hits (five extra-base hits: two homers, three doubles) in 5 2/3 innings. Still.
The left-hander punched out eight and walked one while filling up the strike zone by throwing 67 of 100 pitches for strikes on Sunday. That capped a season-ending, six-start stretch in Portland in which Owens went 3-1 with a 1.78 ERA while racking up 13.6 strikeouts per nine innings (albeit with 4.5 walks per nine). Though he was the third-youngest pitcher in the Eastern League this year, Owens achieved dominant results against older opponents, as evidenced by his .167 opponents' batting average.
On the year, between High-A Salem and Double-A Portland, Owens absorbed a considerable innings boost — he went from 101 2/3 frames in 23 outings last year to 135 in 26 starts this year — but sustained dominance throughout his increased workload. The 21-year-old left-hander held opponents to a .177 average on the year (the second lowest mark among all pitchers with full-season minor league affiliates). He went 11-6 with a 2.67 ERA. He punched out 169 batters (the highest strikeout total by a Sox minor leaguer since Clay Buchholz punched out 171 in 125 innings in 2007). He had a 0.89 WHIP.
There have been few seasons like that among recent Red Sox pitching prospects. The ability to generate swings and misses in such volume has been rare. Indeed, since 2000, Owens is just the sixth Red Sox minor leaguer to punch out at least 150 batters in a season. Here he is in comparison with the other five: Read the rest of this entry »
|Red Sox minor league roundup: Impressive showing for Xander Bogaerts at third; Deven Marrero's solid debut; big day for Travis Shaw; Brian Johnson dominates
|08.14.13 at 12:16 pm ET
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox system on Tuesday:
— Catcher David Ross, whose rehab moved to Pawtucket after a pair of games with Portland, went 0-for-3 with three strikeouts on Tuesday. However, he successfully caught knuckleballer Charlie Haeger for five innings without a passed ball and he also combined with Haeger to gun down burner Billy Hamilton on a stolen base attempt. One observer had Ross with a 1.92 second time on his throw from home to second, and with Haeger having gotten the ball to the plate in 1.17 seconds, Hamilton — who is second this year in the minors with 69 steals — had no shot.
— Xander Bogaerts had his eighth start at third base in 55 games since his promotion from Double-A Portland, and went 3-for-4 (all singles) while also playing a solid defensive game that included a 5-4-3 double play (described by PawSox manager Gary DiSarcina to reporters, including Tim Britton of the Providence Journal, as "outstanding") and an impressive play in which he backhanded a ball behind the third base bag and offered a considerable display of arm strength to gun down the runner at first.
Though Bogaerts is learning third base, the undertaking has not impacted his offense adversely. In his eight games at that position, he's hitting .355/.429/.548 in 35 plate appearances. He's hitting .270/.349/.425 as a shortstop.
— Outfielder/1B Alex Hassan added to a recent hot stretch, going 2-for-2 with a pair of singles and two walks in four plate appearances. In his last five games, he's hitting .467/.619/.467. Interestingly, all eight of his outs during the stretch have come via strikeout. On the year, he's now hitting .315/.430/.461.
— In his Double-A debut, Deven Marrero went 2-for-4 with a walk. It was his fourth multi-hit game in his last six contests (with the first three having come with High-A Salem before his promotion), a span in which the 2012 first-rounder is hitting .409/.552/.545. In 86 combined games between the two levels this year, the 22-year-old is now hitting .259/.345/.336 — numbers that are largely in line with the .268/.358/.374 he posted in a 64-game pro debut last year with Lowell. Read the rest of this entry »
|Red Sox minor league roundup: Brian Johnson's perfect day; Travis Shaw's glimpse of a possible Fenway future; Xander Bogaerts, on-base machine
|07.28.13 at 2:11 pm ET
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox farm system on Saturday:
— PawSox outfielder Bryce Brentz, according to Tim Britton of the Providence Journal, underwent surgery to repair his right meniscus on July 16 that will likely end his year. Thus would end a bizarre and ultimately disappointing year in which the outfielder showed slugging potential but still showed an inconsistent approach that raises questions about the 24-year-old's future likelihood of being an everyday big league corner outfielder.
— Shortstop Xander Bogaerts went 0-for-4 but took a walk, giving him 24 straight games in which he's reached base. He has 23 walks and 28 strikeouts with Pawtucket. Surprisingly, he's walking with greater frequency (14.1 percent, compared to 13.5 percent in Double-A) and striking out less often (17.2 percent, as opposed to 19.7 percent in Double-A) than he did in Portland. That ability to demonstrate improved strike zone management against higher level competition will add further fuel to the perception that he is a player who can be challenged by the big leagues — though some team officials continue to caution that Bogaerts would benefit from more development time in Triple-A.
— Third baseman Will Middlebrooks went 1-for-4 with a walk and two strikeouts. The 24-year-old feels that he's made meaningful strides in his offensive approach, as he explained to Rob Bradford.
— Right now, the best hitter in Pawtucket is Alex Hassan. The 25-year-old went 2-for-4 with a double. He's reached base in 18 straight games, during which he's hitting .359/.468/.578 with three homers and five doubles.
— Right-hander Brandon Lyon had his best outing since signing a minor league contract with the Sox, tossing a pair of shutout innings while giving up a hit and striking out a batter.
— In the Futures at Fenway game, Travis Shaw got to showcase the swing that Sox officials have long believed is well-tailored for Fenway Park — albeit in somewhat unexpected fashion. A first baseman who, at his best, exhibits a tremendous ability to let the ball travel deep and then drive it from gap to gap had a landmark game in what has been a challenging month and season, going 3-for-4 with a single, double and homer. Shaw is hitting .226/.343/.408 this season, but he's still shown power (13) and the ability to work walks (60) even through his season-long struggle. In July, he's hitting just .183 with a .272 OBP, but he's turned up the power, going deep six times in 22 games. Read the rest of this entry »
|Red Sox minor league roundup: Progress for Allen Webster; Alex Hassan raking; Xander Bogaerts streaking; Jamie Callahan dominates; Sean Coyle returns
|07.27.13 at 1:03 pm ET
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox system on Friday:
— Allen Webster, five days removed from a mess of a start (1 1/3 innings, 7 runs, 5 walks) that had the Sox wondering if they might have to alter his routine to recalibrate his fastball command, took a step in the right direction on Friday. He threw six innings, allowing two runs on three hits while striking out four.
His command wasn't exactly pinpoint — he walked three and hit a batter — but in contrast to his prior outing, he was able to self-correct when his command went astray and thus was able to do enough to harness his stuff in the strike zone to offer reminders of his vast potential. He threw his first five pitches of the game for balls, then gathered himself to straighten out his fastball and start the game with 4 1/3 no-hit innings. He again lost his command for a stretch in the late fourth and fifth innings, but after he gave up two runs on three singles in the fifth, he restored order to pitch a perfect sixth to conclude his night.
It was easily Webster's best outing since being sent back down to Triple-A. He is 0-2 with a 10.50 ERA, 11 strikeouts and nine walks in 12 innings since moving back down to Pawtucket.
— Like Webster, Jackie Bradley Jr. has been struggling since being sent down. He went 0-for-4 on Friday (his first game since being sent down in which he failed to reach base), and in nine games since his recall, he's hitting .179/.273/.359, dropping his season totals to .277/.372/.500. His OBP is at its lowest point since April 27.
— Xander Bogaerts went 1-for-3 with a walk and a strikeout to extend his streak of consecutive games on base to 23. He has nearly as many walks (22) as strikeouts (27) in 38 Triple-A games.
— Outfielder Alex Hassan continued his torrid stretch, going 3-for-4 with a double and a homer. Since he started his season in Pawtucket on June 14, Hassan is tied for eighth in the International League in average (.333), second in OBP (.441), eighth in slugging (.542) and fourth in OPS (.982).
— With a single, walk and RBI, Garin Cecchini extended his hit streak to eight games, marking his longest streak since being promoted and his second-longest of the season (his longest was 11 games). During the life of the streak, the third baseman is batting .364/.382/.424 with one walk, two doubles and five RBI. Cecchini's walk on Friday was actually his first in eight games, an unusually long stretch for the 22-year-old, who despite striking out 25 times and drawing 18 walks in 32 games with Portland, still has drawn two more walks than he has strikeouts on the season between Portland and High-A Salem. Cecchini is batting .336 with a .421 OBP for Portland, and while he doesn't have enough at-bats in Double-A to count as a qualifier, his OBP is lower than just two qualifiers in the Eastern League.
— Second baseman Derrik Gibson had the only multi-hit effort of the day for Portland, going 2-for-4 with three runs scored. Prior to Friday, the 23-year-old had hit only .136 in his last nine games, though he had drawn six walks and one of his three hits in that span was a home run. Gibson has compiled a .243/.337/.343 line through 60 games for Portland this season.
— Shortstop Heiker Meneses went 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, coming around to score two of Portland's five runs on the day. In his last seven contests, Meneses is batting .348/.400/.436 with two doubles and two RBI. The 22-year-old has collected 13 doubles, four triples, and three home runs on the season, and is batting .270/.329/.375 through 81 games for Portland.
— Mike Augliera started what became the longest game in the Carolina League this season, throwing seven innings of shutout, two-hit ball, walking one and striking out one. For the right-hander, it was his third scoreless outing of the season, and longest start since his last shutout, in which he went eight innings back on July 4. Augliera has been solid all season for Salem, posting a 4.33 ERA and 6-6 record in 20 starts, striking out 59 and walking 29 in 106 innings.
— Henry Ramos finished the day without a hit, going 0-for-6 with a walk. The outfielder is batting only .125 over his last nine games, but three of his four hits went for extra bases, and he's drawn seven walks in that span. Over his last six games, Ramos has only one hit in 22 at-bats, drawing four walks (two intentional) and getting hit by a pitch while striking out six times. Ramos, who was hitting .278/354/.454 before the slump, has fallen to .264/.347/.438 through 98 games on the season.
— Right-hander Nate Striz gave Salem three innings of scoreless, hitless relief, allowing only one baserunner on a hit by pitch from the 11th to 14th innings. The 24-year-old has gone 8 1/3 scoreless innings in his last five appearances for Salem (there's a brief trip up to Portland in the middle, in which he allowed two runs in three innings), giving up only one hit and one walk in those five games. Striz has finished out 21 games for Salem, recording six saves and posting a 3.14 ERA in 29 appearances. He's walked 16 batters while striking out 42, and hasn't allowed a single home run. In fact, keeping the ball in the ballpark is one of Striz's strong suits; he's given up only seven home runs in 174 1/3 innings in four professional seasons.
— Outfielder Kendrick Perkins had his second straight multi-hit game, going 3-for-4 with a double and a steal. The 21-year-old went 2-for-5 on Thursday to snap an 0-for-15 stretch since returning to Greenville from Lowell.
— Shortstop Jose Vinicio went 2-for-4 with a pair of stolen bases. The 20-year-old switch-hitter has now stolen 13 straight bases without getting caught since the beginning of June. Between his speed and defense, he has the secondary skills to be an interesting player, but it remains to be seen whether the undersized middle shortstop will hit enough to propel himself to the big leagues. He's hitting .222/.260/.288 with 12 walks and 80 strikeouts in 83 games.
— Francellis Montas had a better-than-the-line-score outing in which he gave up five runs on five hits (three singles, two doubles) while getting five strikeouts and five groundball outs. The power pitcher's control was flawed (four walks), but the groundballs and the fact that he didn't give up any homers (an area of concern earlier in the year) for the fourth straight outing suggest that the 20-year-old was able to use his pitch mix to avoid hard contact.
— Right-hander Jamie Callahan, a second-round pick in 2012, had a dazzling outing, allowing just one hit, walking none and striking out eight in six shutout innings. Callahan showed an 89-95 mph fastball and elicited 11 swings and misses in his outing. The innings and strikeouts both represented a season- and career-high for the 18-year-old, who had once previously made a start this year in which he gave up one hit (in his first start of the year, he worked five shutout innings).
As an 18-year-old — the youngest pitcher in the New York-Penn League — Callahan is holding his own. Despite a 4.55 ERA, he has a solid 23-to-9 strikeout-to-walk rate in 27 2/3 innings, showing a willingness and ability to attack the strike zone.
— Shortstop Tzu-Wei Lin went 2-for-4 in the first game but then went 0-for-4 with three punchouts in the nightcap. Given his advanced feel for the strike zone and bat-to-ball skills, he's amidst a somewhat surprising rough patch, having struck out 15 times (against three walks) in his last 10 games. Prior to that, he had 14 walks and 16 strikeouts in the first 22 games of the season. The 19-year-old is hitting .250/.338/.339.
— Outfielder Forrestt Allday went 3-for-8 with a walk and two steals in the doubleheader. He's reached base in all 10 of his professional games since joining the Sox as an eighth-round selection in this year's draft, amassing a .313/.488/.406 line that has offered early validation to the Sox' impression of him as a player with considerable on-base abilities.
— Left-hander Daniel McGrath yielded two runs on five hits (four singles and a double) in 3 2/3 innings, though he struck out five and walked one. In two starts with Lowell since his promotion from the GCL, he has nine punchouts and one walk in 9 2/3 innings.
— Sean Coyle, playing for the first time since May 29 (he's been on the DL for High-A Salem with a knee injury), went 1-for-3.
— Outfielder Bryan Hudson snapped a four-game, 13 plate appearance stretch in which he hadn't reached base by going 3-for-4 with a walk. Despite his recent slump, he's hitting .277/.400/.354 in his pro debut.
— Wendell Rijo, 17, went 1-for-3 with a single and has now reached base in 15 straight games, a stretch during which he's hitting .404/.500/.577.
— Left-hander Luis Ramos pitched a season-high six innings, allowing one run on three hits while striking out four and walking none. Ramos has a 27-to-2 strikeout-to-walk rate in 43 innings spanning nine starts. He has a 1.88 ERA and has yet to give up a homer. Opposing lefties are just 2-for-23 against him.
|Red Sox minor league roundup: Is Xander Bogaerts big league ready?; Matt Barnes striking out everyone; Will Middlebrooks hitting; does Alex Hassan make Bryce Brentz a trade chip?
|07.26.13 at 1:39 pm ET
Is Xander Bogaerts big league ready?
The proposition seems absurd. He hasn't even been in Triple-A Pawtucket for two months. Yet in terms of his consistency in the batter's box, he's already offering strong hints that he's more than capable of holding his own against that level of competition, and perhaps that he's ready to take the next one if needed.
On Thursday, Bogaerts went 3-for-3 with a walk and two doubles. It was his first three-hit game in Pawtucket (his second of the year) and his first Pawtucket contest with multiple extra-base hits. It was an excellent performance that represented the continuation of an eyebrow-raising trend.
Given how quickly he moved to Triple-A, one would have expected inconsistencies from Bogaerts, fallow stretches of games where he took an 0-for-10 with a bunch of strikeouts. Instead, the opposite is happening.
In 37 games with the PawSox, Bogaerts is hitting .273 with a .377 OBP and .492 slugging mark, all well above-average numbers for the Triple-A International league despite the fact that, at 20, he is seven years younger than the league average position player. Yet that only tells part of the story. Bogaerts now has a streak of 22 straight games in which he's reached base, hitting .324/.444/.554 with four homers, 15 walks and 12 strikeouts. He's managing the strike zone and controlling his at-bats with uncommon maturity for a Triple-A prospect, let alone one who is 20.
Despite the outstanding stretch, he's at a less-than-ideal point for a promotion. Because he's spent just a month and change in Triple-A, he's had more of an opportunity to adjust to the league than the league has had to adjust to him through the circulation of word-of-mouth scouting reports about potential weaknesses to exploit. If promoted to the big leagues, Bogaerts faces the prospect of a similar challenge to the one faced by Jackie Bradley Jr. when he opened the year in the big leagues, only to be quickly swallowed up when unable to handle the league's exploitation of his vulnerability to fastballs on the hands.
Nonetheless, Bogaerts has more experience in Triple-A than did Bradley when he was opened the year in the big leagues without a day at that level. He has more Triple-A experience than did Manny Machado when the Orioles promoted him straight from Double-A shortly after his 20th birthday last year.
Machado was hitting .266/.352/.438 with 11 homers and 26 doubles in 109 games for Bowie prior to his callup in early August. He ended up hitting .262/.294/.445 with seven homers and 26 RBI over 51 games in the big leagues.
Bogaerts, roughly nine months younger than Machado, has performed at a higher level in a higher level. And right now, if a need opened up on the left side of the Red Sox infield (whether due to injury or offensive struggles from Jose Iglesias or Stephen Drew), Bogaerts is making a compelling case that, with his offensive approach, he's more likely to be a consistent offensive contributor than Will Middlebrooks.
According to team officials, there are no imminent plans to call up Bogaerts. And in a perfect world, the Sox are able to give Bogaerts more time in Pawtucket. They'll allow opponents to test his weaknesses and see if they can force him to adjust.
But while that is the ideal scenario, the temptation presented by the infielder's considerable talent will be considerable. Increasingly, it should not be a surprise if by sometime in August — if he can sustain the consistently impressive approach he's shown to date — Bogaerts is in the big leagues.
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|Red Sox minor league roundup: Alex Hassan raking; Keury De La Cruz drives in everyone; Daniel McGrath strikes out everyone; Manuel Margot, Tzu-Wei Lin ahead of the curve
|07.14.13 at 2:10 pm ET
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox system on Saturday:
— Alex Hassan continued his excellent performance in Triple-A, going 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles and a walk. In 25 games, the 25-year-old now is hitting .337/.439/.542. His pitch selection/recognition and ability to hit line drives has allowed him to hit for outstanding average and OBP, traits that have been consistent throughout a minor league career that has seen him hit .291/.399/.443. Those abilities were sufficient to land him a spot on the Red Sox 40-man roster this offseason, and Hassan represents a meaningful depth option capable of giving the Sox competitive at-bats to maintain right-handed lineup depth should injury warrant it.
— Catcher Christian Vazquez went 2-for-3 with a double to extend his hitting streak to seven games in the first game, but followed that with an 0-for-3 performance while behind the plate in the second game. Vazquez continued a season in which he's had a relatively consistent approach but streaky results. He's currently amidst a 10-game hot streak that has seen him hit .357/.386/.452.
— Corner infielder Michael Almanzar went 0-for-5 with a walk in the doublehader, and the 22-year-old is just 3-for-32 in his last eight games. After a promising power surge (11 homers through 52 games to start the year), Almanzar has now gone 35 games without going deep, a stretch during which he's hitting just .232/.300/.320. His line on the year has dropped to .268/.331/.446.
— Outfielder Keury De La Cruz had an excellent plus/minus rating on a day when he went 2-for-3, drove in three runs and cut down another with an outfield assist at the plate. De La Cruz pulled a two-run RBI single to right and later delivered another run with a single to left. Though he's struggled in July (.205/.286/.295), the 21-year-old still ranks second in the Carolina League with 66 RBI, a reflection of his season-long excellence with runners in scoring position (.368/.413/.560). With the bases empty, De La Cruz is hitting just .219/.256/.325. Read the rest of this entry »
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When animal rights activists resort to phony letter-writing campaigns to promote meatless eating, they don't deserve to be taken seriously.Ronald Hemmit's Dec. letter, "Help save the planet," was a great example.
The exact same letter Hemmit submitted, word for word, also ran in at least 30 other U.S. newspapers this month. In each case, a different activist "signed" it. This is part of an organized campaign by the Farm Animal Reform Movement, a radical animal rights group that sends thousands of fake anti-meat letters to newspapers every year.
If you want to express a point of view in public, the least you can do is use your own words. But hundreds of animal-rights letters appearing on opinion pages this year were just carbon copies of each other. If animal rights groups want widespread exposure for their twisted message, they should buy advertisements like everyone else.


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Sway Bars for xi
I was originally gonna get some Hotchkis sway bars front and rear, but I read a bit on here and it sounds like those won't fit on xi's, nor will many other sway bars. So could someone please give me a list of sway bars available for xi's, because it doesn't seem to say on the sites of sellers, and it's not very clear when searching around.
i think there was a thread about this but i can't seem to find it again. maybe with a bit more digging you might be able to come across it. anyhow, i bookmarked a set of swaybars that were linked in the thread: http://www.racingdynamics.com/Locali...tm#Stabilizers.
expensive, but i guess the options are thin. subscribed.
Ok so Racing Dynamics seems to be the only company that makes a front sway bar for xi's, and they make a rear sway bar specifically for xi's. Is there any benefit in buying the racing dynamics rear sway bar, because the Hotchkis rear sway bar is thicker and I was under the impression that for the most part thicker = better.
And if I did decide to get a Hotchkis rear sway would it be bad if I then got a Racing Dynamics front sway bar, or is a sway bar a sway bar and it doesn't matter if I mix and match brands?
Remember that OEM sway bars on xi are already thicker than on i/Ci models...
H&R makes sway bars for the xi, I believe.
I think most people only upgrade the rear sway on an xi, though.
Xi sway bars: Front 23.5mm and rear are 20mm
H&R springs doesn't have a application for us Xi guys.
Someone here on the forum has put UUC sways bars on his Xi successfully. I'm trying to find how he manage to do this.
^^From what i heard UUC bars are no good. They clunk. I guarantee H&R bars will fit our cars. You may have to drill some extra holes though.
Let's bring up this topic once more: I don't think you want a stiffer bar up front on an xi?!!
I'm wondering Xi sways bars and regular RWD sways bars are shaped the same.
I'm guessing that's why Dinan only offer a rear sway bar upgrade.
dinan, h&r and eibach is 21mm
hotchkis is 25.4mm
uuc 23.8mm
racing dynamic is 24mm
supposedly Racing Dynamic makes a front n rear sway bar kit for xi's
So here the update, I called and spoke to the company (RD Sport) on the link that was provided on the second post.
The good news, they have a sway bar kit for the Xi's, front is 27mm and the rear is 24mm. It seems like the rear bar has three holes for adjustments not two.
Bad news, they are completely sold out and won't have any until October. The list price is around 425.
So is this thread dead? Or can we work on a group buy that is a month away?
I'm down for a group buy on a rear sway bar.
We need to figure out definitively if this fits an xi or not:
Someone should call Turner . . . but I'm pretty sure xi's and i's use the same rear bar.
Last we tried for a groupbuy, it did not work out at all, but we can try for a rear bar or maybe the full kit. I'm willing for the full kit.
One more time: i don't think we want thicker front swaybars on an xi!
What would be the downfall of a thicker front sway bar? Too much understeer? :dunno:
Either way, with the group buy we should definitely start a new thread, I think that would draw more attention. Good stuff guys, this was a much needed thread.
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Sep 27, 2012 at 5:13 pm #1294511
I came to a bit of an epiphany today. I've been enamored with the MLD cuben supermid for several months, but never put together all the required pieces together in my head to make a package satisfying for my lightweight desires and my wife's displeasure in bugs and wet ground, and our limited funds. We also demand to be able to sit upright in the tent, and have robust weather protection.
The table below contains most reasonable permutations of supermid material, netting solution, and bathtub solution.
BP netting = perimeter netting and netting door installed on a supermid via BearPaw
BP bathtub = a standalone bathtub fit to the supermid via BearPaw
BP pyranet3 = BearPaw's pyranet, an all in one solution
ZP bathtub = ZPacks bathtub (8ft x 8ft)
After seeing the initial results, I then put on the other tents I've found that satisfy all of the same requirements…
Downsizing from a 91 oz tent, the last column in the table represents the percentage difference in weight (easier to help me understand the perceived weight changes)
Conclusion: I am still enamored with a full supermid setup, with BP netting and ZPacks bathtub. However, the total cost for that setup is more than three times as expensive as SMD cuben Haven, which ends up about the same weight. The Nemo Meta 2P is in the same ballpark, but I like the Haven design better. The ZPacks hexamid is easily the lightest out of the whole bunch, with the cuben Haven not far behind.
Are there any other tents I should add to these calculations? (UL, sit-uppable, bug protection, bathtub, trekking pole framed)
EDIT Just added the ZPacks hexamid twin with bathtubSep 27, 2012 at 5:37 pm #1916261
Dan DurstonBPL Member
@dandydanLocale: Cascadia
TarpTent SS2? $325, 40oz. Quite spacious.
It's similar to the Haven, but the offset interior + pitch lock corner struts deliver good headroom over a larger portion of the interior. I think it's also a bit bigger in terms of useable space (mostly because of the corner struts) but I haven't delved into the specs too much.Sep 27, 2012 at 5:48 pm #1916264Sep 27, 2012 at 5:52 pm #1916265
Jeff NBPL Member
@newtroutLocale: Pacific NW
The Rainshadow is palatial with great headroom. 42 oz and $279Sep 27, 2012 at 5:59 pm #1916267
I'll add that one tomorrow. Are there any other tents that can break that 40oz barrier? Neither of those options are to me as convincing as seeing the sub 2-lb realm of the Haven, Meta, and Hexamid…Sep 27, 2012 at 6:27 pm #1916273
ManfredBPL Member
I'm not so sure the price per oz as shown in the table is meaningful for what you are trying to achieve. Let's assume two tents cost the same, but one weighs less. In your table the lighter tent that costs the same will look more expenseive per oz because it weighs less.
I think what you are really looking for is the $ amount you have to spend for every oz you save over your old tent. In that case the lighter tent would save you more oz for the same price and thus would be the better choice.
I extended your table with this information.
ManfredSep 27, 2012 at 6:47 pm #1916276
Jason GBPL Member
@jasongLocale: iceberg lake
you should note that the SMD set up is actually 26oz. the net tents are listed 14 but actually 16..Sep 27, 2012 at 7:32 pm #1916286
Colton AkersBPL Member
@akers07Locale: Indiana
What about the lightheart gear tents?Sep 27, 2012 at 7:35 pm #1916287
Manfred is right. As far as the money goes $/oz is useless, you don't want more weight! It's not cheese!
Two money factors matter: Total dollar (can you afford this) and price/weight savings(is this a good place to spend money to save weight).
Also you listed the Supermid, which is more of a 3 person tent and then some 2p tents. Naturally the smaller ones will be lighter. If you are looking at mids from MLD why not a Speedmid or Duomid?
Are you considering any winter trips? If so, consider snowshedding of the outer and a completely separate inner, so you can leave it behind in winter to save some weight. The netting lfoor of the Zpacks doesn't seem like a great option to select for winter use.Sep 27, 2012 at 7:39 pm #1916288
M BMember
You need to narrow down what you WANT. Price will not determine this for you, the tents you list are very varied in features, size, and weight.Sep 27, 2012 at 7:41 pm #1916289
The Bearpaw bathtub you list, is that cuben?
The Bearpaw tent you list with the Silnylon floor, whcih weight? What about the Cuben floor?
I assume the Zpacks bathtub is cuben?Sep 27, 2012 at 7:42 pm #1916290
By weight or $/oz saved, or something else, but sort it.Sep 27, 2012 at 7:47 pm #1916292
Herbert SitzBPL Member
@hesLocale: Pacific NW
" Are there any other tents that can break that 40oz barrier? Neither of those options are to me as convincing as seeing the sub 2-lb realm of the Haven, Meta, and Hexamid…"
As long as your gram-counting you should note that the listed weights for all Tarptents include stuff sacks and stakes. I'm pretty sure the listed weights for SMD and MLD both exclude the stakes, which amounts to a couple of ounces that need to be added on if you haven't already accounted for it.
As far as bang for the buck I'd say the Tarptents are pretty "convincing", although the SMD entries look pretty good that way too.Sep 27, 2012 at 8:03 pm #1916295
So adjust for that.Sep 27, 2012 at 9:07 pm #1916304
M BMember
Hell you can complicate it even more, you will probably want a couple ounces of elastic tensioners on silnylon tents to keep them taught, esp when wet. And dont forget a couple ounces for seam sealing as well.
2 big reasons for cuben regardless of price. No stretch/no sag, taped seams/no sealing.Sep 27, 2012 at 9:39 pm #1916307
Erik BasilBPL Member
@ebasilLocale: Atzlan
Two of those tents cost more than one thousand dollars, each. Does a tent that light offset the weight of the ti Rolex?
A thousand dollars? A thousand dollars?Sep 27, 2012 at 9:50 pm #1916310
Herbert SitzBPL Member
@hesLocale: Pacific NW
The weight in your charts for Nemo Meta 2P is way off. The "packed weight" is 57 ounces and the "minimum weight" is 47 ounces:
Nemo Meta 2P
I suspect the packed weight is the one that's relevant for comparison here, which means it probably doesn't make sense to have the tent in this comparison.Sep 27, 2012 at 9:58 pm #1916311
Ozzy McKinneySpectator
@porcupinephobiaLocale: PNW
Something I don't like (math), and something I don't have (money). I don't know about all this…
You should add a MYOG setup, cheapest way to go lighter :)Sep 27, 2012 at 10:01 pm #1916312
drowning in spamMember
@leaftyeLocale: SoCal
What makes a tent luxurious? Of course the floor, netting and ability to sit up as you said. That doesn't cut it for me. I expect a tall ceiling and vertical walls. Some domes can provide that, so can tunnels.Sep 27, 2012 at 10:40 pm #1916316
Corbin McFarlaneBPL Member
Zpacks or SMD Haven (Non-Cuben) based strictly on your table without knowledge of each particular tent set-up. Per Manfred the SMD Haven is the most cost effective way to lose weight, while the Zpacks is the lightest overall by almost half a pound, and almost a full pound over the SMD Haven. The Zpacks is also still fairly cost effective, though not cheap. $200=$200.
I recently did a similar comparison and ended up with the Zpacks because it was comparatively less expensive than many while easily being lightest. I figured I already had a 5-pound tent I got for free, so I might as well just get the lightest tent if I was actually going to spend money, no need to compromise on an almost-as-expensive moderately light tent (or even worse, a tent made by myself that costs hundreds of dollars and has such shoddy workmanship that it would fall apart in one season). So far no regrets, though I won't claim it is best for your uses too.
I would not necessarily describe the Z-packs tent as luxurious, but it does everything I ask of it, like keep out water and bugs and allow room to sit up and even keep some gear inside. With a bathtub floor I can't see why it would be worse than the others in snow (haven't tried), though in my opinion mine is a little drafty, but that may be common for most of these.Sep 28, 2012 at 12:08 am #1916321
Jeffs ElevenBPL Member
@woodenwizardLocale: NePo
I have a scarp 2 and I consider it luxurious. But it is on the heavier side.
Knowing what I know about Tarptent, but not having seen one, I would put money on the SS2 being a winner.
52" wide floor
fatty bathtub
vertical sidewalls
big vestibules
big one now that I own the scarp- two main staking points. (east to do by yourself)
If I had a gripe about the Scarp it would be that it is weird to get started pitching it- you pretty much WILL be redoing a couple of stakes. of course I only have 5 nights in mine so I'll get better…
I almost got the solid inner but went with the mesh… I'm glad I did because with the Scarp shell 'zipped up' the is almost NO draft even with a ok breeze. We would hear the wind knock pine needles on the tent but not feel the wind. Anyway the SS2 the same specs to the ground and bathtub height so I bet its equally draft-less.
headroom for "luxury" – its the spaciousness that makes it feel luxurious when you're in it.Sep 28, 2012 at 4:52 am #1916336
Kevin BabioneBPL Member
@kbabioneLocale: Pennsylvania
Another option you have as you agonize over the choices would be to save some $$$ now (and carry a little more weight) and then revisit your options in a couple of years.
I have a Lunar Duo and love it. Buy one of the cheaper/heavier tents now, use it for a year or two, and then sell it. As more and more people offer a Cuben option the prices will probably drop. As long as you are willing to sell your beloved gear when it's time to upgrade (unfortunately I tend to be a "hoarder" and have kept everything I've ever purchased to use as a loaner) then you won't be out much.Sep 28, 2012 at 5:28 am #1916343
Tom LyonsMember
@towalyLocale: Smoky Mtns.
If I wanted a big luxurious roomy tent for two, I'd buy the 4-person Tarptent Hogback and split the weight up for carry. Thirty-two ounces for me carrying the outer, and thirty-two ounces for the wife carrying the inner.
It might not be light like the others, but it's got the room, and it can be split for carry weight.
And OOH! There is some big, bug-free, fully-floored, room in there!
7 feet square, and full 49"(4+ FEET!) sit-up room
If you want a palace, THAT's a palace. And it's 4-season capable.
You could play cards in there, and change your clothes easily, etc.
And it's still about 2 pounds lighter than what you had before.
Granted, it's not "ultralight" and it's overkill for 2 people trying to ultralight.
But it IS luxurious and roomy and nice quality, and still fairly light for a tent that roomy.
Okay, you can chop my head off now for not gram counting, and taking the "luxurious" desire to be important and still shave some significant weight off the previous tent.Sep 28, 2012 at 7:36 am #1916368
Richard LyonBPL Member
@richardglyonLocale: Bridger Mountains
The Hogback will work for two adults plus an eight-year old for sleeping, and it's a palace for two, and not much more than four pounds. If the budget allows at some point you might also consider a Warmlite 3R or Hilleberg Kaitum 2GT. This last one weighs in much heavier, but it's considerably more versatile and rock-solid in winter. I agree with Ted, don't count every ounce when you are talking about your shelter. Get what you want and can afford.
RichardSep 28, 2012 at 8:26 am #1916380
Thanks for all of your thoughts. This is extremely helpful (especially the saved $/oz idea)
This could be a lot easier:
First of all, it seems to me Backpackinglight could inject some major value into their paid membership by setting up a simple comparison website; keep an internal form of all tents interesting to the site, solicit prices, weights, volumes and features from the manufacturers (or community), and setup an interface for members to compare tents side-by-side, or search by features. This isn't anything Web 2.0… just basic check boxes and drop-down menus. That would have saved me hours of time combing websites. (This could be expanded to other products as well, one at a time)
The upkeep could be mitigated by allowing paid members to adjust values, wiki-style.
Various weights:
Yes, Zpacks is the cuben bathtub, for BearPaw tubs I only accounted for the silnylon versions primarily because I knew it was already looking expensive, and I didn't want to add more cuben to the price. I could go through and put those in, but that will just make it busier.
Bagged vs unbagged tents:
I wish manufacturers would make it clear which weight they're reporting.
Supermid interest over Duomid:
I read enough comments that the Duomid is slightly small for 2 people (especially once I put some sort of bathtub or inner), plus the $1100 cuben supermid would have given enough space for more people / dogs / kids as needed, and it's winter adaptable, for a still really low weight–very attractive. But that is a LOT of money that I don't have. Hence, agreement with the comments to buy what I can actually afford.
Updated table:
The Haven still looks pretty nice to me, but yes, the extra luxury described with the very affordable Rainshadow 2 is worth considering. Time to take it to the wife's aesthetics.
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