Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:38 am Posts: 5575 Location: Sydney, NSW
"Minute Maid Park" is pretty cruddy... especially when you consider they could have called it "The Astrodome".
Arsenal are moving into "The Emirates Stadium" in 2 years. Why can't they just stick to a location-based name, like "Ashburton Grove", just like the current stadium is called "Highbury", which I quite like.
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Jammer91 wrote:
If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
whats the big deal. its not like were living in an era where classic ballparks and stadiums are being built.
No one is renaming yankee stadium, wrigley, dodger stadium, fenway....and really only baseball lends itself to that classic yester-year nostalgia where ballpark names were important to people.
I do wish the new baseball parks would harken back to those days and not go for corporate naming, but these days the public wants nothign to do with paying for any park of these stadiums, so owners are forced to put up their own money and look for corporate name selling in order to get these places built. Look at the Marlins. They are desperate for a new park, but the public doesnt want to be taxed for it. So they need some corporations millions to hepl finance a new stadium. And they wont be building the next Yankee Stadium so the name isnt going to matter.
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Fatal Frog wrote:
whats the big deal. its not like were living in an era where classic ballparks and stadiums are being built.
No one is renaming yankee stadium, wrigley, dodger stadium, fenway....and really only baseball lends itself to that classic yester-year nostalgia where ballpark names were important to people.
I do wish the new baseball parks would harken back to those days and not go for corporate naming, but these days the public wants nothign to do with paying for any park of these stadiums, so owners are forced to put up their own money and look for corporate name selling in order to get these places built. Look at the Marlins. They are desperate for a new park, but the public doesnt want to be taxed for it. So they need some corporations millions to hepl finance a new stadium. And they wont be building the next Yankee Stadium so the name isnt going to matter.
I think Pac Bell park is about the closest we've gotten to classic.
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whats the big deal. its not like were living in an era where classic ballparks and stadiums are being built.
No one is renaming yankee stadium, wrigley, dodger stadium, fenway....and really only baseball lends itself to that classic yester-year nostalgia where ballpark names were important to people.
I do wish the new baseball parks would harken back to those days and not go for corporate naming, but these days the public wants nothign to do with paying for any park of these stadiums, so owners are forced to put up their own money and look for corporate name selling in order to get these places built. Look at the Marlins. They are desperate for a new park, but the public doesnt want to be taxed for it. So they need some corporations millions to hepl finance a new stadium. And they wont be building the next Yankee Stadium so the name isnt going to matter.
I think Pac Bell park is about the closest we've gotten to classic.
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PhilPritchard wrote:
The Ballpark In Arlington
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is pretty good for a relatively new ballpark...
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Joined: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:29 pm Posts: 287 Location: College Park, MD
PJterp wrote:
drewboo wrote:
PhilPritchard wrote:
The Ballpark In Arlington
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is pretty good for a relatively new ballpark...
Yeah but we have the Comcast Center in our own backyard, don't forget... and that nearly makes me sick.
yea, you're spot on. I suppose I don't mind as much when pro sports teams have a corporate sponsor for their stadium, but it just pisses the hell out of me when colleges and universities do it.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:59 am Posts: 18643 Location: Raleigh, NC Gender: Male
drewboo wrote:
PJterp wrote:
drewboo wrote:
PhilPritchard wrote:
The Ballpark In Arlington
Oriole Park at Camden Yards is pretty good for a relatively new ballpark...
Yeah but we have the Comcast Center in our own backyard, don't forget... and that nearly makes me sick.
yea, you're spot on. I suppose I don't mind as much when pro sports teams have a corporate sponsor for their stadium, but it just pisses the hell out of me when colleges and universities do it.
U of Washington has the Hec Edmondson Pavilion at Bank of America Arena. There's a mouthful of lunacy.
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Fatal Frog wrote:
No one is renaming yankee stadium, wrigley, dodger stadium, fenway....and really only baseball lends itself to that classic yester-year nostalgia where ballpark names were important to people.
I do wish the new baseball parks would harken back to those days and not go for corporate naming.
Well, you do know that the "Wrigley" in Wrigley Field is the same "Wrigley" as in "Wrigley chewing gum," right? -- the same Wrigley that owns both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs. Wrigley Field is probably one of the oldest corporately-named stadia in the country.
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