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Number of MLB stadium you've seen

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by RonClements, Apr 12, 2018.

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  1. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    My most vivid memory of the Vet was going to wash my hands and finding several turds in the sink. I was about six.
     
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  2. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Good lord, no.
     
  3. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    I should add that was the last time I went to the bathroom at any stadium until I was in high school. Heck, I don’t think I used any public bathroom, even at school, for several years.
     
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  4. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Philly!

    I remember as a child going to Cleveland's Municipal Stadium and being somewhat intimidated by the circular urinals, around which every dude seemed to be a biker. I now believe they were meant to be hand-washing stations.
     
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  5. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Moises Alou nods his head.
     
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  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Apparently there is more discussion about a baseball team in Portland - now that its the 22nd biggest market in the country. I don't see it. The weather is brutal in April, and generally not "baseball weather until July" and the way traffic is, I don't see people attending on the weeknights.
     
  7. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Portland's April weather is generally far better than this year, and it's always better than Seattle's. A roof on the stadium, like Safeco, solves that problem. The rain is generally over by May, and it never rains at all from late June until mid-September. OSU, Oregon and Portland play a large number of February-March-April home games with little or no problem.

    Portland's traffic is less than Seattle, and Portland's rapid transit system runs rings around Seattle's. More than 18,000 people regularly attend weeknight Blazer games, and the Rose Garden is located in the most traffic-choked part of PDX, with minimal parking. MAX is a great system.

    Portland's biggest drawback is there is no place to play until a stadium is built. There's no Jarry Park, Exhibition Stadium, Seals Stadium, Wrigley Field (LA), Polo Grounds or Sicks Stadium to serve as a 2-3 year transitional home. And given the ineptitude of Portland city government, building a new stadium might not ever happen. Portlandia isn't very far removed from the truth.
     
  8. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    Roughly in order:

    Busch II (1977)
    Kaufman
    Riverfront
    Joe Robbie (1997)
    Ballpark at Arlington (2000-2002)
    Tropicana
    Comerica
    PNC (my favorite among the yards I've visited)
    Whatever they're calling New Comiskey these days (2012)
    Target

    When I travel to minor-league cities, I visit the local yard when I can, and I live in Florida, so I've been to most of the Grapefruit League facilities.
     
  9. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    I was at a game at Rich Stadium some years back which features those circular hand-washing stations along with signs asking people to not urinate in the sink. Guys were trying to aim their piss at the sign.
     
  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Agree with a few previous posters -- PNC is fantastic and very possibly the best, Fenway is iconic of course but you gotta have good seats. My brother and I took a tour of Fenway the morning before the game, was fun to go up to the Monster seats and a few other areas.

    Haven't been to SunTrust Park for a game but toured while visiting ATL last month, looks like they did just about everything right in that park. A nice little touch were mesh-fabric seats in some field-level sections that catch a lot of sun. When I was a kid growing up Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium, you'd cook in the hard plastic seats. Strangest thing was seeing Hank Aaron's record-setting bat and ball in a club area in left field. The bat and ball aren't in Cooperstown because Aaron wanted them to be a gift to the people of Atlanta, but in that case maybe the state capital would be more appropriate than an out-of-the way corner of a ballpark.
     
  11. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    I won't argue that the Trop isn't a dump, but a lot of judgment is cast by people that haven't spent August days in Florida. Gotta throw ballpark snobbery out the window and take it for what it is, a $20 pass to avoid the searing sun for a few hours that just happens to also have a baseball game.
     
  12. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Of those I've been to, my vote for most underrated is Miller Park. Not a bad seat in the house and a fun atmosphere, both inside (Bernie Brewer's slide, the Beer Barrel Polka at the 7th inning stretch and the Sausage Race, which has been copied to death) and out (the fans tailgate like it's college football, and there's a Klement's Sausage Haus concession stand in the parking lot).
     
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