Diamondbacks president changes tune on possible Dodgers celebration in Chase Field pool

The Diamondbacks and the Dodgers will start their National League Division Series on Saturday with Game 1 in Los Angeles. This being a best-of-five set, there is a distinct chance that the collection concludes with Game 3 or 4, either one of which will likely be performed in Arizona at Chase Field. In flip, it stands to explanation why that there is additionally a definite chance that the victors of the collection have a good time via taking a restorative dip in the pool past the right-field wall.

That pool has turn out to be a sore topic over the last decade because it relates to family members between the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks. Yet, over the weekend, Diamondbacks workforce president Derrick Hall stated his workforce is not going to forbid the Dodgers from leaping in will have to they succeed. 

“They have the right to celebrate wherever they want, however they want,” Hall told reporters, including Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.

That’s a wonderfully cheap stance for Hall to take, and person who vastly differs from the place he discovered himself a decade in the past,  when the Dodgers hopped in the Chase Field pool after clinching the NL West name. For those that do not recall — and gosh, why would you? —  Hall wrote this in an email to MLB.com: “I could call it disrespectful and classless, but they don’t have a beautiful pool at their old ballpark and probably wanted to see what one was like.”

The Diamondbacks have been so irked via the Dodgers splashing round in their pool that a number of years later, after the deciding sport of the 2017 NLDS between the squads, that they had police on horseback stationed in entrance of the pool to forestall the Dodgers from enticing in any water-related shenanigans. That appears like a funny story, so here is visible proof, courtesy of SB Nation’s Eric Stephens:

Who is aware of if the Dodgers will win this collection, let on my own in fewer than 5 video games. Should they pull it off, there is not any ensure that any individual gets their cleats rainy. Back in 2017, supervisor Dave Roberts gave his phrase that the Dodgers have been bored to death in taking a swim at Chase Field. “Our guys clearly understand what this team is about, and we have no interest in jumping in a pool in right field,” Roberts said. 

We’ll to find out quickly sufficient if the similar applies to this yr’s Dodgers squad — supplied, this is, the Diamondbacks even give them the danger.