Braves ditching The Ted for suburbs

Diehard Braves fan on the West Coast. Bucket list item is to attend a Braves game. But man, this new park location seems like it would be a pain. Like I'd need to dedicate an entire day to beat the traffic to stadium, watch the game, and then let the traffic die down, to return to wherever I am staying in Atlanta. Sounds like I should've made this item more of priority when the Braves were at Fulton County or the TED.

 

Maybe I'm being the semantics nazi here, but doesn't something have to be around awhile to become "iconic."

A Citgo oil company logo wasn't really iconic in 1965 when it replaced the old Cities Services sign next to Fenway Park.

But 52 years later, it has preliminary landmark status as a possible prelude to it receiving Historic Preservation protection.

An oil company sign, for crying out loud.

 

The Giants' ballpark was iconic the day it opened.

I've heard similar things about Pittsburgh's.

 

I see your point, but the Citgo sign isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking about Fenway. It's the Big Green Monster. Obviously none of us were alive back when it first opened, but I imagine that made the stadium stand out from the rest from Day 1. And I don't think new stadiums need to be immediately "iconic," but I think it is cool when they have some kind of character or something unique.

As horrifying as it is, Marlins Park at least stands out.

I went to a game at Coors Field last year for the first time and it definitely had a different feel than other stadiums I've been to, with the right field stands opening up into a view of the mountains. I can still picture that stadium very well in my mind. Conversely, I went to a Nationals game in D.C. and can't tell you one memorable thing about the stadium, minus all that obnoxious Natitude. I imagine SunTrust Park is going to feel the same way.

 

Sounds like one of the saddest bucket lists ever.

 

Camden Yards seemed pretty iconic not too long after it opened.

 

The first item on yours is seeing your third-grade teacher naked.

 

You really do follow him around, don't you?

It's better than the other bits you've tried to throw against the wall lately, but it still needs work.

 

Well, just to this thread. It needs life. Thirty-plus pages of complaining about traffic and parking? I'd say a few others need to work on their game.

 

You're right. I was just thinking, "This thread could really use a petty, unnecessary and uneventful pissing match between two people who don't know each other beyond their anonymous online pseudoymns."

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Somehow the mods have decided cookie monster is OK and Whitman can't be here. Maybe this character is one of them, in the range of Lt. Hauk of Good Morning Vietnam. "Sir, in my heart I know I'm funny."

 

I did have a bit in mind. It would consist of following another poster around to self-police some sort of gender posting code while defending a raging pervert. It would require the proper blend of hypocrisy bordering on slight assholery while constantly exhibiting a profound lack of self-awareness.

But that one was taken.