CDR Sports Field Review

CDR Sports/July 27, 2008/

Overview
CDR Sports is located off of I-5 exit #218, south of Mt. Vernon. Today I played walk-on woods ball. The weather was rainy with humidity so high that most people at the field had some level of goggle fogging. They day started with some 3 on 4 but the games got bigger around noon when the rain let up and a birthday group arrived.

Prices
Field fee was $16 which included all day air/CO2
Paint was $45 a case

Staff
I want to preface this section by saying that I have extremely high expectation for how refs should perform. The ref’s at CDR did a good job, they were helpful and easy to find when you needed them. They kept the game safe which is their primary responsibility. They even went on a pizza run which they usually don’t do for so few players (when it was still 3 vs. 4). However, the following are a few improvements that can be made to bring the CDR refs up to the highest standard of what a referee can be.
1st. Don’t wait for someone to call for a paint check to get into the action, a great ref is always doing something, not waiting for someone to call him over. This may be minor
2nd. Start the next game sooner. As a paying customer, I want to play as many games as I can, I didn’t pay to stand around. If I am not ready and miss a game, then it’s on me and I can live with that.
3rd. No matter how much they want it, don’t let the birthday party, who have never played before, all be on the same team vs. the experienced players. I said before the game that it would be over in 2 minutes, it took 3. We do want new players to have a good experience and come back don’t we?
4th. This may not be a valid complaint depending on what how the staff at CDR is compensated, but I get confused when a ref is reffing one game, than playing the next game, then back to being a ref. If they are being paid to ref, then they should ref. Again, maybe they are only being paid to ref half the games, but if not, then they need to be reffing and not playing.
Again, I want to stress that I have high standards for refs and you can and will find worse refs then those at CDR.


Fields
CDR has 2.75 fields to play on. I say 2.75 because aside from the 1 air-ball field, there is one large field that was cut in half for most of the day to equal 1.75 fields. Anyway, 1 half of this field is the mounds field which as it sounds, has some dirt hills, one of which is quite large. There is also wooden structures added to the topography it provide extra cover. The other side is made of woods with nice stumps and thick trees and not much in terms of man made structure, just natural woods. There was a variety of starting locations which kept the fields fresh.

Amenities
The field has some chairs, tables and covered areas. There was 1 porta-potty. There is also a clean-up station with running water. Snacks and soda availible and Pizza was availible but apprently it isn't availible every day.