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[wsox8]

MapleLeafs, on Sunday, July 9th, 2006, 9:59 PM, said:

I've been to 3 major league stadiums.Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. It sucks, but surprisingly I liked it the best of the 3.Rogers Centre/Skydome in Toronto. It sucks.Olympic Stadium in Montreal. I remember it sucking. It was almost 20 years ago, and the Expos beat the Braves 9-2 (guessing) and Rex Hudler stole home.

I'm going to name the teams of the stadiums I've been not seen games at though.. to because it's easier to remember that way.White Sox, Cubs, Brewers, Cardinals (old one), Royals, Rockies, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies (finally), Tigers, Indians, Reds, Rockies, Dodgers, Athletics, Diamondbacks, also I saw a football game at Qualcomm (old San Diego park) but I'm not sure if that counts in my book..So I counted 16

[TMoneyBags]

Growing up in Minnesota I have been forced to watch baseball in the Dome. Luckily I was able to make a trip and see a game at the Cell and Comerica in Detroit. I enjoyed Comerica much more than US Cellular, but both were a great experience over the Dome.Only 3 more years until we get our own outdoor stadium.

[ol'number7]

TMoneyBags, on Tuesday, July 11th, 2006, 8:56 AM, said:

Growing up in Minnesota I have been forced to watch baseball in the Dome. Luckily I was able to make a trip and see a game at the Cell and Comerica in Detroit. I enjoyed Comerica much more than US Cellular, but both were a great experience over the Dome.Only 3 more years until we get our own outdoor stadium.

yeah I'm soooo looking forward to that, I'd rather go to a Saints game outdoors than the dome, it totally sucks for baseball. I've been to Comiskey, and tried to put together a road trip to the Brewers this year but it fell through at the last minute

[TMoneyBags]

I had a 5 park trip all planned out for the summer. Kauffman, New Busch, GAB, Comerica, and Miller. Yeah, that fell through, but I am hoping to make at least Kauffman and New Busch.

[dEv~]

fryer98, on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006, 6:25 PM, said:

PNC Park.I'm from just outside Pittsburgh, so I've been there plenty of times. The best time being for Pearl Jam/The Rolling Stones though. Great park, great food selection....always hot girls there too.I'm sure all baseball fans will see your share of it for the All-Star game.

It's the best place I've been to, but since the only other place I've been is Cleveland that doesn't carry much weight. Either way I can't imagine any of the newer ballparks beating it. If there ever is a winning team there Pittsburgh will fill that place up and the atmosphere will be just as good as anywhere.

[king_tanner]

I go to the Oakland Coliseum all the time. It is surely nothing great. It is like a huge concrete building right off the freeway. They also now closed off the upper deck because of low fan turnout. They should expect that since almost all the home games start at 7:05 PM except on weekends. The upper deck used to be the best place to sit when they sold out against the yankees, red sox, and division opponents. Everybody in the upper deck is drunk and rowdy, and it was definitely worth the cheap ticket. But now since the upper deck is closed off the best place to sit is in the left-field bleachers where all the true fans are. If you sit there and are not rooting for the A's you are definitely going to get harrased, and that is really funny to watch. But overall the stadium isnt that great, and is good to go to only if your a fan of the A's or a fan of the team they are playing. Raiders games on the other hand are one of the craziest things you will ever see lol. I'll put that in a football post though.P.S. Everyone asks me where to find the garlic fries in the coliseum. They are in the Heineken booth. That is the only place they have them in the whole park.

[wsox8]

king_tanner, on Sunday, July 23rd, 2006, 12:57 AM, said:

I go to the Oakland Coliseum all the time. It is surely nothing great. It is like a huge concrete building right off the freeway. They also now closed off the upper deck because of low fan turnout. They should expect that since almost all the home games start at 7:05 PM except on weekends. The upper deck used to be the best place to sit when they sold out against the yankees, red sox, and division opponents. Everybody in the upper deck is drunk and rowdy, and it was definitely worth the cheap ticket. But now since the upper deck is closed off the best place to sit is in the left-field bleachers where all the true fans are. If you sit there and are not rooting for the A's you are definitely going to get harrased, and that is really funny to watch. But overall the stadium isnt that great, and is good to go to only if your a fan of the A's or a fan of the team they are playing. Raiders games on the other hand are one of the craziest things you will ever see lol. I'll put that in a football post though.P.S. Everyone asks me where to find the garlic fries in the coliseum. They are in the Heineken booth. That is the only place they have them in the whole park.

hmm garlic fries sound good.. Thanks for the post. I visited the stadium "McAfee Coliseum" during the offseason and we snuck in and got some pics. It is huge, of course, but looks like an okay place to see a game. I'm not sure how it is with the foul territory being large but I'll have to see a game there to find out. Besides that I don't approve of them closing the upper deck. It really makes no sense to me at all. They are just trying to make the tickets become more rare and some people don't take them for granted. I really think they should open it up and screw it. Oh well.

[Orion071]

Well, since there isn't a major league stadium within 4 hours of here, I had to settle for the best available option: the Durham Bulls and their semi-famous Durham Athletic Park. The old park that was in the movie Bull Durham still exists, but the team moved to a new 10,000 seat stadium in 1995. The bull that used to be on the wall of the old stadium was moved to the new one. They used to be a Class A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, but now they're a AAA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

[TMoneyBags]

Next Thursday I'm making a trip to see the AAA Royals in Omaha, followed by seeing the Royals other AAA team in Kansas City on Friday and Saturday (Koops gonna love that comment), going up to Des Moines to see the Cubs AAA team, and then on to Dyersville to the field of dreams.

[aadams_22]

TMoneyBags, on Tuesday, July 25th, 2006, 10:45 AM, said:

Next Thursday I'm making a trip to see the AAA Royals in Omaha, followed by seeing the Royals other AAA team in Kansas City on Friday and Saturday (Koops gonna love that comment), going up to Des Moines to see the Cubs AAA team, and then on to Dyersville to the field of dreams.

[SBriand]

Picking up tickets for Aug 7th Tigs vs Twinkies. Will take some pics for this thread.I love going to Comerica Park. I miss the old Tiger Stadium where I used to go as a kid but the Copa is a great park.

[cuddlemonkey]

I'm on the way to Turner Field today for the afternoon game tomorrow. Pretty sweet seats, behind the visitor's dugout. Not quite close enough to hit Pedro in the head, but still good seats.

[ncperrotta069]

bump.......went to the Pirates-Giants game on July 28th and PNC Park looked better than ever (maybe they did something different to make it look better for the All Star Game) anyways was a pretty good game even though Bonds went 0-4 and Jason Schdmit (sp.) went from retiring 17 in a row to not being able to find the strike zone during crunch time

[SBriand]

Went to the Tigers game last night and took some shots. Turned out my battery was dying so had no zoom function. Bah! Enjoy.

[wsox8]

Nice pics. I've been there once to see my sox play and lose. It was one of my favorite stadiums and I've been to a lot..

[Gooser]

get yourself to yankee stadium in the next couple of years before i closes down (if you havent been yet - or even if you havE)

[MapleLeafs]

I'm going to the Rogers Centre tomorrow to watch the Jays and the Orioles. I'll bring my camera and take some pictures of the P.O.S. if ya'll want to see them.

[wsox8]

Gooser, on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006, 2:21 PM, said:

get yourself to yankee stadium in the next couple of years before i closes down (if you havent been yet - or even if you havE)

If I remember Yankee I think we sat in the outfield and you couldn't get to any other part of the ballpark. We were able to because my sister was sick but am I remembering this correctly? Besides that it was a nice and historic place to see. We saw the Yanks and Red Sox play which was definitely nice.

[sdnuol]

SBriand, on Tuesday, August 8th, 2006, 1:59 PM, said:

Went to the Tigers game last night and took some shots. Turned out my battery was dying so had no zoom function. Bah! Enjoy.

its amazing how great detroit looks from those pictures compared to how it actually is. i like to think its going uphill though

[TMoneyBags]

Well this seems like an appropriate place to write about this.As stated, I am currently on a 7 day, 6 ballpark trip. Thursday I was at Cleveland, Fri Pitt, Sat Balt, Sun Philly, Mon Boston, and Tues/Wed New York. Pure bliss. But I wanted to post was how disappointed I was in Fenway Park. It's almost spoken of so highly, and is pretty much sacred grounds, but I was left with bad impressions. First off, it appears that even though it is the smallest park in the league, it has a very high percentage of poor seats. The seats I sat in were right down the line in Sec 4, Box 90. When we first sat down, it looked like we would have pretty good seats, and then the game started. People were walking up and down the aisles practically the entire game, and in our seats, this meant we were left with $45 seats to look at people clueless as to where they were supposed to be and as little of the ballgame as possible. They were without a doubt the worst seats I have ever sat in for a sporting event, and I have seen 100 games at the metrodome. It was so bad in fact, after the 3rd inning, my father and I decided to leave our seats and walk around the concourses. Turns out we ended up watching the remainder of the game from the upper level standing room behind and to the right of the rooftop seating, when your looking from homeplate, between the Budweiser and Pepsi signs. Another thing that really disappointed me about the park was the fans. They were the exact opposite of the kind of fans that I have heard about. It appeared to us, and to our buddies in a different section, that the fans weren't even there to watch the baseball game. They were more interested in getting their alcohol and starting the wave. Only once we moved up to the standing room, we finally found some fans that were actually interested in watching the game, and were knowledgeable about the game. And the third thing that really disappointed me, was the overall atmosphere of the park. probably in large part of the fans, I didn't feel any aura, any sense of history at all. It just seemed like an old, odd shaped park. Looking out to the green monster didn't send any chills down my spine.In all reality, this was the least enjoyable of the stadiums we went to, but we still have to go to Yankee Stadium.I'll post about the others once I get back to my place of residence and have more than an hour online.