Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:59 am Posts: 9057 Location: Camden, NJ
Ill rank the ones Ive been to:
1. Camden Yards - love the city, the people, the ballpark, Boogs...id go on forever about how great baltimore and CY is....
2: Yankee Stadium: The history, the nostalgia make it great, otherwise its rude people, long lines, and meaner than hell ushers
3: Shea Stadium: gets a bad rap, maybe ive been there too many times to see it as a dump, but I love Shea. That huge scoreboard is cool, and the Mets fans are cool to talk baseball with, friendly even to a visitors fan.
4: Fenway: Again with the history and nostalgia....cool to see the oldness of the place, fans are awesome and friendly, fenway franks are boring
5: Skydome: baseball in a shopping mall. Hard Rock was cool, to watch an inning form the bar.
the day i get to Dodger Stadium it will instantly be #1 on my list
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PJguy23 wrote:
Ill rank the ones Ive been to:
1. Camden Yards - love the city, the people, the ballpark, Boogs...id go on forever about how great baltimore and CY is....
2: Yankee Stadium: The history, the nostalgia make it great, otherwise its rude people, long lines, and meaner than hell ushers
3: Shea Stadium: gets a bad rap, maybe ive been there too many times to see it as a dump, but I love Shea. That huge scoreboard is cool, and the Mets fans are cool to talk baseball with, friendly even to a visitors fan.
4: Fenway: Again with the history and nostalgia....cool to see the oldness of the place, fans are awesome and friendly, fenway franks are boring
5: Skydome: baseball in a shopping mall. Hard Rock was cool, to watch an inning form the bar.
the day i get to Dodger Stadium it will instantly be #1 on my list
I know you're a Dodger fan, but don't get your hopes up too high for the park. It's basically Shea with palm trees.
I'm biased as a Yankee fan, but the rude people, the filthy sticky floors covered with peanut shells, and the loud sarcastic beer vendors are what going to a baseball game is all about for me. I find the nicer stadiums in the nicer towns a bit to sanitized for my taste. It is Mecca to me, and a place that all baseball fans, including Yankee haters, should make their Hajj to at some point in their lives.
Miller Park in Milwaukee is a really nice facility. There isn't a bad seat in the house, and I like these new style parks where you can see the field while you wait on line for your beer. Safeco in Seattle was the first place like that I visited, and that's a really nice place too.
The worst stadiums are all of those football/baseball utility stadiums built in the 60's. The Vet in Philly was the worst place I've ever seen a game. Shea has a little more personality that those places, but not much. Oakland-Alameda is a huge circular concrete dungeon, but the tickets are cheap in the middle of the week, so that's cool. I also saw a couple games in the Astrodome, which was surreal how small that place was.
Wrigley Field is fun, but the goddamned pillars block you view in half the seats in the place. Ugh.
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Joined: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:47 pm Posts: 9282 Location: Atlanta Gender: Male
Turner Field is a solid park with a stupid name. It should be Hank Aaron field and Turner drive instead. The only bad seats are really the inside of the skybox's because it's not like being at a ballgame at all.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:05 am Posts: 8045 Location: Arlington Heights, IL Gender: Male
Spike wrote:
I went to a game there in the summer of what was supposed to be the last season there, and it was right after the crane accident at Miller Park. We drove right past it and you could tell it was quite devastating. I got a cool Robin Yount poster at the game and the next day we went to the milwaukee zoo, good times.
Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:26 am Posts: 7994 Location: Philadelphia
parchy wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
The Vet in Philly was the worst place I've ever seen a game.
Yeah, but it had spunk! You could get beat up, scortched from the sun off that ridiculous astroturf and lost in the parking lot all in the same day!
The Vet was awesome for football but absolutely terrible for baseball. I was embarrased looking at that field. (at rooting for most of the teams the trotted out there).
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I went to a game there in the summer of what was supposed to be the last season there, and it was right after the crane accident at Miller Park. We drove right past it and you could tell it was quite devastating. I got a cool Robin Yount poster at the game and the next day we went to the milwaukee zoo, good times.
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