GO: Stadiums

Been to both the Vet and Citizens Bank in Philly
Made Great American in Cincy last summer
Old Busch, the Astrodome and old Arlington Stadium as well
Rangers Ballpark and Minute Maid more recently
Tropicana Field
The Cell and Miller Park after my visit of Wrigley
Made it a step in Safeco, so that doesn’t really count
Turner Field for the coldest game I have ever seen.
AT&T and what I last heard was McAfee Coliseum (A’s)

Favorite out of those? All the new parks are great, but they are just trying to capture the charm of Wrigley and Fenway now, the two old standards still with us. Just something about the green seats, old manual scoreboard and the ivy that makes Wrigley the tops on the list.

I have been to Petco, ATT, Chase Field and all have a bit of a Wrigley feel to them in the sense of having entertainment surround them and not a large parking lot. We had the greatest bachelor party ever for the Capn in PHX that revolved around seeing the Cubs play there last spring training games at then Bank One Ballpark. 2003 Capn? Much time was spent in surrounding watering holes before wagering the night away at the game playing moundball, the outfield game and pass the cup. I also like Cambell Field across from Philadelphia in New Jersey, a minor league park. The minor league parks are nice, small, intimate and lot’s of fun. One thing missing at a minor league park, other than big leaguers, is the roar of the crowd. The fans aren’t into the game as much so no roar of the crowd like you get a Wrigley.

Wrigley and Coors. Greeting from Montana.

Wrigley was my first, and due to obvious bias, my best,
In order from worst to best:
Great American- only half the name applies.
Old Comiskey- about 1970 as the guest of a priest- he did not touch us.
Old Busch- saw a Padre hit a grand slam about 1970, he also did not touch me.
AT&T, PAC-Bell,whatever. Grandstands too vertical, aesthetically not quite right.
Safeco- close to home, nice clean park.
Chase- Cool roof. Was in mid 70′s inside while >100 outside.
Coors- Lots of little nooks and crannies to make the park interesting.
Petco. Best on my list. Lots of charm, building built into the left field. And a sky-bridge to the Omni hotel.

I actually liked old Comiskey. My grandad used to take me and my jagoff brother there in the late 70′s on Sundays. On my 7th Birthday he gave me a $10 bill and told me to spend it on junk food. I miss the old polack. We always had crappy seats, but one Sunday an old guy took us down into the goden box area, and we thought we were the coolest. Years later, my grandad told me that old man was Bill Veeck, fed up with the corporate fat cats not showing up, leaving hundreds of seats empty, while kids and families sat in the loge.

Doc Raker is correct, for REAL fun and value, try some minor league venues. In the midwest, you have your midwest league, or head up and see the college kids play in the Northwoods league, which is getting closer in quality to the Cape Cod league every year. In California, I’ve been to Fresno’s new AAA stadium, Bakersfield, Visalia, and Lake Elsinore. I’ve actually played MSBL games at Inland Empire in San Berdoo and Lancaster. Or, Lizzie, you could try a good old college game. My favorite would be UIC, obviously. For you, maybe Notre Dame….but be careful around the football players, who I hear have license to sexually assault women without ramifications…especially if their dad works for NBC in a broadcast capacity. Allegedly. How did I get to Notre Lame rapists from Comiskey park? I haven’t even gotten my New Years drank on yet. Happy New Year to all of yous. Go Miami. Go Big 10 schools…shut the SEC rednecks up, and for god sake go Bears!

The Chiefs have a great park in the middle of downtown Peoria.

Growing up in Michigan we always went to alot of Tigers games . So old Tiger Stadium @ Michigan and Trumbull was my favorite as a child . I have been to most ballparks in the Midwest . Nothing comes close to Wrigley and the area around it . I have not been to Fenway but it is on the list . Some of the new parks have no character get in see the game and get out .

How ironic…I have no idea who you are Moondog, but much of my SEC hate stems from a ballgame I played in Starkville in 1990…as the left fielder for an opposing team that happened to have an african-american centerfielder, I was serenaded by your racist pal fat frat losers in the “left field lounge.” One would have thought it was 1950. The racial slurs and epithets I heard directed at both our centerfielder and myself will forever remind me that the country I love is still partially full of some of the worst people on the planet. Most of those folks live in SEC land. I’d bet that centerfielder has a better job and better life than any of those frat turds today. The bleachers are a place where Cub fans go to have a great time in the summer, cheering on our beloved Cubs. The left field lounge in Starkville was most certainly not that kind of place 20 years ago. The BBQ didn’t even smell that good.

I’ve only been to a relative few, of course Wrigley is and always been my favorite. My first several games were at old Cleveland Municipal, the “mistake on the lake.” After that I attended dozens of games at Wrigley, several at old Comiskey, old Yankee Stadium, more recently I’ve seen games at AT&T in San Francisco and Enron Field in Houston.

been to wrigley , kaughman (kc), and old busch . wrigley had the best feel and experience , old busch had the best food , and kc had the best comfort and convienence . what really amazed me was how nice the cards fans were at old busch to us wearing cubs jerseys .

Oh, and I agree that minor league stadiums are usually great.

I grew up in Nebraska and went to many Omaha Royals (they keep changing the name) games at Rosenblatt. They kept that stadium particularly nice because of the college world series. Too bad they’re tearing it down.

Lincoln’s new minor league team has a really nice stadium. It has nice open spaces were people can lay on blankets with their kids.

The minor league games I’ve enjoyed the most are the St. Paul Saints, however. The stadium in nothing to write your mama about, but they always have funny things going on.

Wow, my apologies to you for that truly awful experience. We’ve come a long way in the past 20 years, but you are right when you say those things about Mississippi then. I didn’t get to State until 1998, and I never heard such things. Now, my roommates did heckle one player, but he did try to start a fight the year before by shoving one of our guys to the ground. A couple of years later, he was playing for West Tenn, who was the Cubs AA franchise at the time, and I continued the “heckling” of him. Last name was O’Toole, so it made things quite easy.

I lived two blocks from Old Comiskey while in school and still didn’t go there. The new ballpark named , The Cell, is most appropriate since most of the fans there have spent time in a cell at on point in time or another. Bill Veck was a great baseball owner for reason’s of stories mentioned by the Capn. It was common place for Veck to spend time in the stands mingling with fans. I appreciate what Veck did for Old Comiskey but once Veck left Old Comiskey was just filled with Sox fans which holds no redeeming value. Usually half filled with Sox fans I might add. For more on Vecks interesting life and an era gone by of hands on owners pick up VECK AS IN WRECK, maybe CubbieDude reviewed this book for us, I highly recommend it.

Not your fault Moondog. There are racist idiots everywhere, including our beloved Wrigley Field.

Sad thing is those racist guys from the SEC… all Fox News correspondents now.

“When you have nothing else, call them a racist.” I get a tingle down my leg thinking about Obama-Chris Matthews

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