It’s that hour, though, when things really get decided. In cities in the Midwest and Northeast, such as Green Bay, Chicago, and Buffalo, there is also the lake effect wind to contend with. That hour when no one but specialists are on the field is when each guy has to measure the shelves, as Martin explained, to figure out exactly how that stadium plays.
For Jansen, that shelf exists only near ground level.
“I’m not dealing with the same shelves of wind that these guys are dealing with,” the snapper explained. “So like, for instance, I’m very generically judging the wind at ground level, only the wind below, let’s call it 10 feet, matters to me.
“So these guys would certainly have little notebooks, mental notebooks of maybe how certain elements perform in each stadium. I tend to be far more aware of field conditions, things of that sort, just because that’s kind of the environment that I’m dealing with.”