Every night I go to the Common hoping to just lay on the grass or perhaps even enjoy a soccer ball or a frisbee or something. Except every single night some softball league takes over the ENTIRE Common. You can’t find a place to relax; you can’t even walk through the Common. I see kids almost being hit with balls and this happens every god damn night from six to eight (the only time when people who finish work can go to a park). This is a public park and yet every night it is filled with an organized group where someone is making money. Please for the love of god turn the Common common again and ease up on the baseball. Last time i walked through I accidentally skirted the edge of a baseball game and got boo’ed. What kind of public park is this?!?!? —Park Lover
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2016.
God forbid, that people enjoy a good game of baseball. Take your self entitled millennial ass back to twitter you twat.
There are several baseball diamonds but they don’t take the entire space. Your exaggerations make you look foolish.
Halifax has public walking areas up the wazoo. Get over yourself & find another spot to take your leisurely ramble. A couple of blocks away is the Public Gardens, baseball free. Of course, the ducks may piss you off with their erratic walking patterns.
I wasn’t aware that you could lay on the grass, toss frisbees or boot soccer balls around the Public Gardens. There must be a hidden entrance to the sports section.
Your wanting to loiter around the commons essentially doing nothing probably isn’t more important than this group of people who have spent lots of time and energy to create a league MANY people can enjoy. Too bad, maybe start a slacker Frisbee league and you can book the space and stand around throwing Frisbees and aimlessly kicking soccer balls.. and laying on the grass of course, could be an interesting game!
Citadel hill isn’t far lots of grass there
Probably playing baseball with their dogs off the leash too. People like sports, OB, you’d have been better off spouting off about dogs, or dogs with bees in their mouths, and every time they bark, bees shoot out of their mouths and “scare” some delicate asses douche canoes.
The commons was created to provide pasturage for livestock. Next time, just bring the flock.
That’ll mess up their ball game…
The Commons has mostly been an active recreation area for decades. Just that the number of things happening there has waxed and waned at various times. You likely would not have been a fan of the horse races there years ago, either, let alone all the ball games that happened there in the past as well. It isn’t just a recent thing.
Also, with a lot of its area now taken up with the Oval there likely is less room to just unwind and do ‘singular’ or ‘one on one’ things there than at some times in the past. I have not lived in the area for many years so not fully sure of all the impacts that more organized sporting events have had on the nearby population.
Back in the 50s – 70s (and likely before and after) the Commons would go in cycles from being a great hang out spot to being a dangerous place at times. At times a great place to crisscross to other areas of town when walking, at others a place to avoid like the plague. Even though we in the area tended to think of it at times as an extension to our back yards it was, and is, a public space with others wanting to do different things as well.
@ Oceanchick said “I wasn’t aware that you could lay on the grass, toss frisbees or boot soccer balls around the Public Gardens. There must be a hidden entrance to the sports section.”
FYI, There is a section of the Public Gardens where you can lay on the grass, toss frisbees or boot soccer balls around (I’ve seen parents do that with little kids). It’s the large open area near the Spring Garden and Summer corner. A lot of people take a blanket to picnic on the grass.
Cheers!
Maybe because, I don’t know, there are baseball diamonds on it.
ha! i agree with the author. several baseball diamonds? exaggerating? there are 8 baseball diamonds on the commons. when softball uses all 8 there is absolutely no room for anything else. is it so unreasonable to use 6? or have it every second night? that would fix everything. its reasonable and simple. best park in halifax is dedicated to stand and do nothing ball. makes anyone who doesn’t drink budweiser shed a tear.