The Dodger Stadium Winter Moto X Games, Tractor Pull and Cow-Chip Tossin' Championships?

The Dodgers explicity ask that those who participate in the now regular "Under The Lights" promotion -- where you pay $500 to take BP, shag fly balls and throw in the bullpen -- to refrain from wearing metal spikes. Because, you know, clods like you will tear up the grass just by walking on it. It's OK if the players take divots out of it. You're not supposed to cut a rug with your lack of experienced moves.

But when the team had the "UTL" night nearly two weeks ago, which we participated (linked here), a team rep said they'd be installing new grass soon. The green stuff we played on the other day wasn't in bad shape. Still it was getting to be more shades of yellow.

So when this picture arrived, taken from the angle of the team offices above the third-base line, it really didn't surprise us that they've started the process of laying the new sod. Before the real heavy (.001-inch) rains.

Still, the horror of a grass-less "Lasorda Heaven On Earth."

No fake stuff here. That would be blasphemous. Enjoy (or weep over) the view of the park while it looks like a construction site. Again.

Kind of makes you wonder what a football field would look like in that area. Or a rodeo.