The Mets will move in the fences at Citi Field next season, their second change since the end of the 2011 season.

But is it the right choice? The Mets' offense is certainly in need of a boost and a smaller ballpark can help prop up the numbers for its hitters. Lucas Duda, Curtis Granderson, and David Wright -- who has power to right-center field -- could all benefit.

"I think it'll be good for the game, good for the fans, and I'm sure that one or two of our players will benefit as well," GM Sandy Alderson said of the decision last month before it had been finalized.

Yet, it could also have a harmful effect too on the pitching staff.

"Since we play here more than anybody, it will help us," manager Terry Collins said last month.

What do you think of the move? Vote in the poll to the right and comment below to give your opinion.

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Magic Bronson - Fences (Official Music Video)
Magic Bronson - Fences (Official Music Video) A War Cry Records Production Shot and Edited by: Elias Talbot Directed by: Elias Talbot and Ixel Madrigal Concept by: Matthew Lieberman and Ixel...

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Unchain Guilford formed after county commissioners passed an ordinance last year banning unattended backyard dog tethering.

Sunday, about a dozen volunteers with the organization built a fence for Vanessa Ratlife's dog, Patches.

"I love that he's going to be free, and he can run and he can be happy, Ratlife said. He won't have to be chained up anymore and have other dogs fight with him."

This is the third fence Unchain Guilford has built, and its goal is to build two per month. Its helping families who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it.

"We used a welded wire fence, said Ellen Metzger with Unchain Guilford. It comes in big rolls at the home improvement store. It's very cost effective. We don't use chain link because it's more expensive. We use 2'x4's and it's really a quick and affordable way to get a fence up. It's also very secure, and dogs can't dig or jump over it."

Volunteers say one thing they've learned along the way through this process is that everything doesn't have to be exactly right.

Its giving dogs the happier lives their families want for them.

It's so wonderful because I know I wouldn't have been able to pay for a fence. It's not on my income, Ratliffe said. When they told me they could do it, I thought I was going to sing! It was just a wonderful feeling."

For the organization to build the fence, a family must meet certain financial qualifications and have the dog spayed or neutered, along with a rabies shot.

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The seven-year-old won a handicap hurdle at the same meeting last year before adding another Cheltenham success the following month and eventually finished second to Don Poli in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at the Festival itself.

Thomas Crapper is now due to switch to the bigger obstacles with trainer Robin Dickin looking forward to a return to the gelding's favourite track.

He said: ``Thomas Crapper has done fabulously over the summer and the time has come to go over fences with him. He was actually ready to go chasing last year and we thought that the icing on the cake would be to give him a run over hurdles first.

``He had already schooled around Towcester this time last year and we thought that we would have a nice day out at Cheltenham at the start of last season but he won, so we decided to stick to hurdles.

``It was a shame that we came up against Don Poli at The Festival but there's only one thing you can say about coming second - it is better than finishing third!

``He needs plenty of pace in his races and I am looking forward to going chasing with him because he can be ridden a lot handier. He was always a bit free over hurdles, which meant we had to drop him out early, but he won't be ridden the same over fences.

``We have always regarded him as a chaser - he is a big, fine horse and a very good jumper.''

Thomas Crapper is one of 11 entries for the 20,000 heat with Evan Williams' talented hurdler Court Minstrel, who made a winning start to his chasing career at Newton Abbot at the end of September, and Solar Impulse from Paul Nicholls' yard also in the mix.

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Allen Russell never trained as an artists but the murals he's created on the fences around his yard are true works of art.

If someone showed these colorful, detailed exterior murals to Allen Russell and told him that the artist is a novice who never tried to do art before, "I'd think they were lying," he said.

But Russell is the artist, and he insists he first picked up the paint on June 28 of this year.

"I'm 47 years old, and this is totally new to me," Russell said. "I have no art training. I suck at using a brush. I can't even draw well. But I know how to use a spray can!"

He added that his wife, Kimberly, who teaches English as a second language courses at Clark College, and his daughter Dramma, a ninth-grader at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics, "can both attest" to his lack of background as an artist.

"It's like discovering you can play the piano, and you'd just never tried," he said.

Why did he? Because of life and death.

Russell is a multi-instrumentalist who hasn't been able to make a living at music, he said, and he's a newly trained piano tuner who's trying to drum up some business. Meanwhile, a friend from California has made a killing as a muralist, he said. He's also a Gulf War-era military veteran who didn't see combat but emerged with post-traumatic stress disorder nonetheless, he said.

"Painting calms restlessness brought on by military service," he wrote in an email.

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Pastor Sabra Johnson| Teaching About "Fences"
Pastor Sabra Johnson teaching the debates of the Jesus and the Pharisees concerning the Sabbath. Pastor Sabra teaches about the extra laws ("fences") man set in place and sought to enforce...

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