"It was shocking to read that a few neighbors are opposed to having a cricket field in the proposed Palm Avenue Community Park in Fremont. The main fear is that flying cricket balls could injure a child or elderly person or damage homes or cars. Do baseballs ever fly out of the field and cause personal injury? Balls flying over to the street or neighborhood will be rare and can easily be prevented in the design and construction of the stadium."
"It is more likely the fear of the unknown. People here are not familiar with cricket. Both baseball and cricket trace their origins back to medieval European bat-and-ball games and are more like "cousins." Cricket fields all over the world are in the middle of cities and residential neighborhoods, and they are safe. It is fun to play and or watch cricket, so let us go for it."
"The New York Times article about Phil Tagami's proposed Oakland coal terminal is very misleading. The article says, "a state judge ruled in 2023 that the city had to uphold its deal with Tagami." However, that ruling only provided Tagami with $320,000 in damages. The disappointed coal developers found a judge in Kentucky whose suggestion of hundreds of millions in damages was rejected by Kentucky's district court on November 21."
A few neighbors oppose a proposed cricket field in Palm Avenue Community Park in Fremont, citing fears that flying cricket balls could injure children or elderly people or damage homes and cars. Balls leaving the field are characterized as rare and preventable through careful stadium design and construction. Lack of familiarity with cricket contributes to the worry, despite shared origins with baseball and widespread safe urban cricket fields. Opponents of a proposed Oakland coal terminal warn that frequent mile-long coal trains would produce unhealthy coal dust and that burning the coal would cause substantial climate and health damages, while legal claims so far have yielded limited damages awards.
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