It is time for women to stop playing softball

[jmowreader]

10. You can run F1 and NASCAR on the same track

You can't play baseball on a softball field or vice versa - the baselines are 30 feet shorter on a softball diamond, there's no pitcher's mound and the fences are (usually) a bit closer in.

Easy example: the college right across the street from my house. (Literally. I get to watch all the games for free by looking out my window.) They used to own a baseball diamond and a softball diamond. The college needed the land one of the two diamonds was using for their medical-sciences building, so they got rid of the baseball diamond...which also means the North Idaho College baseball program died, and they had a good one.

The school has men's and women's basketball on the same court, men's and women's golf on the same courses and men's and women's soccer on the same field, so you can use one field for both men's and women's sports IF the two sports use the same field design. If women played baseball - and they would do well in it - it would do two things: return baseball to NIC, and allow schools who have both sports to turn the softball field into something else - an academic building, maybe?