MLB stadiums
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Ever since Oriole Park at Camden Yards, there has been a mad flurry of new ballparks being built over the past few years. Dozens of teams are doing it. Mostly because their existing places were old, obsolete pieces of crap (especially those generic, multipurpose 'cookie cutter' stadiums built in the 60's and 70's).
Actually there's newer ballparks than Busch III.
The Nationals ballpark, for one. I'm going to see it this summer.
The Nationals ballpark, for one. I'm going to see it this summer.
Yep, that's right. I didn't know what the actual name of the new Nationals park is.
As for RFK: Bleah. What a fucking eyesore. They have only one tenant left - the DC United - and even that's doubtful. (I know they're at least in negotiations to build a new place to play, I don't know how far they've got with it.) RFK is the perfect example of "stadium of all trades is master of none" that's the problem with the cookie cutters.
It's supposedly in the works.
I can't wait for the new Twins stadium. I had planned on going to the groundbreaking ceremony on my birthday last August, but it was cancelled due to 35W bridge collapse. Anyway, from the looks of it, the new stadium will be awesome. Parking will still be a problem, but at least the Twins will be out of the dreaded Metrodome. I still miss the old Met Stadium, though: If it were up to me, they'd tear down that crappy mall and put the new stadium back where it used to be.
Not only did the Dome suck for baseball, the Vikings have never been the same since, either.
I'm not at all against this. Many baseball stadiums are awful. RFK is totally crap, the COllisium is a ngihtmare...
If it was up to me, I wouldn't build new stadiums for the Mets and the Yankees, but thats more sentimental reasons than anythign else, and i guess they couldn't do a full renovation in the offseason...
What I don't like is that some stadiums are cutting seats just to charge a higher price on tickets... Boo!
If it was up to me, I wouldn't build new stadiums for the Mets and the Yankees, but thats more sentimental reasons than anythign else, and i guess they couldn't do a full renovation in the offseason...
What I don't like is that some stadiums are cutting seats just to charge a higher price on tickets... Boo!
Yankee Stadium has been renovated too many times already. There comes a point beyond which it's simply more efficient to build a new ballpark.
(We're having this problem in Omaha right now, with all these Luddites who want to keep that old, crappy, obsolete Rosenblatt Stadium rather than build a new ballpark that we desperately need, for many reasons, not the least of which is keeping the College World Series)
As for Shea? It's a cookie cutter, so it has to go.
^Agreed about Dodger Stadium. I visited that place (And I'm a giants fan) a few years ago, and it's a fun place to watch a game. From my perspective it was great because we were sitting in a section full of Cubs fans and there were even some Giants (In Giants shirts mind you) fans right behind us. The Rivalry is alive and kicking indeed. 
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