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Favorite Baseball Stadium

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Miller Park is the best all encompassing environment with the tailgaiting. Not a bad view anywhere in there...and they have Uecker seats for cheap day of game.
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I wouldn't put Miller Park on any list as long as the roof still leaks. Leave it to Bud to build a stadium with a retractable roof that leaks. :lol:
 
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LoKyBuckeye said:
I wouldn't put Miller Park on any list as long as the roof still leaks. Leave it to Bud to build a stadium with a retractable roof that leaks. :lol:
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Ah yes, another of "those" people who blame Bud Selig for everything in baseball. Funny Stuff.

The stadium was built, correction, the ROOF was built by Mitsubishi and was faulty from the get go. There are I believe to date, 10 reported problems with the engineering design and implementation. I believe the case was scheduled to go to court and the day before it was settled out of court. Mitsubishi is paying a heavy price for repairs.

Can't blame Bud for something he had no control over. Regardless - go to a game there, enjoy the tailgaiting and then tell me you didn't experience a great time.
 
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BuckStocksHere said:
Ah yes, another of "those" people who blame Bud Selig for everything in baseball. Funny Stuff.

The stadium was built, correction, the ROOF was built by Mitsubishi and was faulty from the get go. There are I believe to date, 10 reported problems with the engineering design and implementation. I believe the case was scheduled to go to court and the day before it was settled out of court. Mitsubishi is paying a heavy price for repairs.

Can't blame Bud for something he had no control over. Regardless - go to a game there, enjoy the tailgaiting and then tell me you didn't experience a great time.
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I don't blame Bud for everything that is wrong in Baseball.... where was that mentioned? This is about stadiums, not baseball. The guy was a shitty owner and ran the Brewers like Little League baseball team. I've been to games there and County Stadium. I buddy of mine used to be on the grounds crew at County so we've been in and out of both stadiums (locker rooms/press boxes/suits etc) through some of his connections. The atmosphere is good when they can draw a large number of fans which is usually when the Cubs come to town. It's not a bad place to see a game just wouldn't be at the top of my list.
 
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And oldie (by today's standards, opened in 1973) but still a goodie: Kaufmann Stadium, home of the KC Royals. The two-tiered, baseball-only facility was built during the time when Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and St. Louis were building cookie-cutter multi-purpose stadiums, and the outfield fountains are unmatched by any of its peers.

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1a. PNC Park (Would clearly be #1 with a better team)

1b. Fenway Park (Great fans, team, and tradition)

3. Camden Yards (Beautiful setting, great atmosphere)

4. Wrigley Field (Great tradition and fans)

5. Jacob's Field (Very nice, one of the few things I like about Cleveland)
 
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Wrigley has one thing going for it that none of the other fields offer with equal regularity --
the opportunity to cut work and go and get a couple of brews and a ball-park frank in the middle of the day.

That said -- PNC is best of the new ones I've been to. Had part season tickets there in their second year. Used to love taking the kid for games and -- when feeling flush -- I'd treat him to steak and shakes at the Outback built into the stadium. There were two lovely old girls that regularly sat behind our seats and they were aces at keeping the score-card straight.
The sight lines at PNC were just perfect.
Great American doesn't have the same feel for me, but these days watching Reds baseball demands some kind of medication, Prozac or the like.

Like other have mentioned -- Camden Yards is hard to beat, and the surrounding restaurants and bars make for an easy and great night out.

Best (or at least most historic) ball parks that I want to get to --

Fenway, Yankee Stadium

Fields I've been to that I'm glad they replaced, one -- Comiskey
 
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Mine has to be Coors Field.

I've not been to that many parks but we sat in left center "The Rock Pile" and think a ticket was about $6-$8 and got totally loaded. That's basically where all of the rowdy drunks sit. Plus, a great view of the sun setting over the Rockies when sitting there.
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Interesting article on Coors Field:

Humidor means Coors Field is no longer a hitter's heaven or pitcher's purgatory



DENVER (AP) -- It was during a duck hunt six years ago that the idea for the Coors Field humidor was born.
An employee in the Colorado Rockies' engineering department noticed his leather boots had dried up and shrunk over the summer. He wondered whether cowhide baseballs were doing the same thing in Denver's thin, bone-dry air.
The ballpark had earned the nickname "Coors Canaveral" for all the home runs that were launched over the walls -- the fences already were deeper than most parks because of the altitude.
Maybe that's why pitchers were complaining that it felt as if they were throwing billiard balls, they were so slick. So the Rockies tested the baseballs and discovered that, sure enough, employee Tony Cowell's theory was correct.
"What we found was the balls were getting smaller and traveling farther," said Colorado manager Clint Hurdle, whose team faced the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 3 of the NLCS at Coors Field on Sunday night.
"For a long time, it was unbeknownst to us. We would go, 'Oooh! and 'Ahh!' and watch them go. And everybody that came to the plate was homer ready," Hurdle said.
The Rawlings balls had fallen below Major League Baseball's regulations, which require them to be between 5 and 5 ounces with a circumference of 9 to 9 inches. The Rockies sold MLB on the idea of a climate-controlled vault to store the baseballs in their boxes on metal racks.
The 9-foot-by-9-foot greenhouse-like room is a scaled-down version of the keg coolers that keep beer icy before it flows through Coors Field concession taps. And baseball at a mile high has never been the same.

Entire article: Humidor means Coors Field is no longer a hitter's heaven or pitcher's purgatory - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
 
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Zephyr Field, Metairie, LA. As a AAA stadium, it is small. You have great, cheap seats, really good food for a ball park (New Orleans won't put up with bad food), and I enjoy the high level of play in AAA, along with the family atmosphere and goofy contests you get in AAA.

My scout troop went to Atlanta on our way to summer camp, and I would not trade ours for the Bigs for anything.
 
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Gatorubet;959820; said:
Zephyr Field, Metairie, LA. As a AAA stadium, it is small. You have great, cheap seats, really good food for a ball park (New Orleans won't put up with bad food), and I enjoy the high level of play in AAA, along with the family atmosphere and goofy contests you get in AAA.

My scout troop went to Atlanta on our way to summer camp, and I would not trade ours for the Bigs for anything.
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You can say that again!
 
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