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Went to the sox/tribe game at fenway tonight. Some dude was wearing a tee that read...
Manny
being
Banned
After the game somebody was hawking the same shirts. Amazing how fast these guys can bring shit to market.
BTW, first time I have been to fenway in 20 years. That old shack is looking pretty damn good and it's one of the best places in the world to watch a ball game, so long as you're not behind a pole.
Our seats were slightly affected by the poles. They were under the upper deck right near the green monstah.
After the crowd exodus following the 6th inning massacre (the sox hung twelve runs on the injuns before making an out) we decided to upgrade our seats over to the other side about 15 rows behind the sox dugout.
The 12 runs without an out tied a MLB record. Woulda been 13 if lowell had waited another millisecond on a pitch he hit straight over our heads onto lansdowne street.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
smackaholic wrote:That old shack is looking pretty damn good and it's one of the best places in the world to watch a ball game, so long as you're not behind a pole.
It was built like a football field. All seats face "straight across" as opposed towards the infield. For example, if you're sitting between 1st base and Pesky's Pole, you're looking at left center field. You have to turn your neck a good 45 degrees to watch the fucking game. Any and all grandstand rows have zero leg room for anyone taller than a midget. Too many teenage whores wearing pink hats talking on their cellies all fucking game... occasionally yelling out, "I love you, Johnny Damon!!" Fucking dumb cunts... he left town years ago.
The place is a shithole. It's a dreadful place to watch a game.
Have you been to any of MLB's new places? I have. The Ballpark in Arlington. Camden. Citizen's Bank Park. Heck... even Shea and The Old Stadium were much better than Fenway.
smackaholic wrote:That old shack is looking pretty damn good and it's one of the best places in the world to watch a ball game, so long as you're not behind a pole.
It was built like a football field. All seats face "straight across" as opposed towards the infield. For example, if you're sitting between 1st base and Pesky's Pole, you're looking at left center field. You have to turn your neck a good 45 degrees to watch the fucking game. Any and all grandstand rows have zero leg room for anyone taller than a midget. Too many teenage whores wearing pink hats talking on their cellies all fucking game... occasionally yelling out, "I love you, Johnny Damon!!" Fucking dumb cunts... he left town years ago.
The place is a shithole. It's a dreadful place to watch a game.
Have you been to any of MLB's new places? I have. The Ballpark in Arlington. Camden. Citizen's Bank Park. Heck... even Shea and The Old Stadium were much better than Fenway.
FENWAY = DUMP.
Never been there..but take your word for it. I watched too many Mariners games in the fucking Kinghole to crack on any other stadium.
The field itself, the grass, skinned areas and the way it is kept, however, is one of the better ones in MLB.
Been to Arlington, Camden Yards, Safeco Field, Petco, Bank One,Oakland Coliseum and Dodger Stadium. For a newer stadium Bank One is pretty nice, but over all and for an older facility the best fan experience was Dodger Stadium.
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Derron wrote:Never been there..but take your word for it. I watched too many Mariners games in the fucking Kinghole to crack on any other stadium.
The field itself, the grass, skinned areas and the way it is kept, however, is one of the better ones in MLB.
Been to Arlington, Camden Yards, Safeco Field, Petco, Bank One,Oakland Coliseum and Dodger Stadium. For a newer stadium Bank One is pretty nice, but over all and for an older facility the best fan experience was Dodger Stadium.
No way either of those two yards were worse than Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Horrible lighting, horrible field, a roof that shed concrete like Blondiebabe shed crabs and the football style seating that Ucant hates so much. The only redeeming qualities were the ability to buy seats right behind home plate for 25 bucks US an hour before gametime and the intensity of the few fans who did bother to show up.
Of the other yards I have visited (Bank One, The Astrodome and PNC Park), the best would have to be PNC Park. Too bad the Pirates are unable put a team as good as their ballpark on the field.
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smackaholic wrote:That old shack is looking pretty damn good and it's one of the best places in the world to watch a ball game, so long as you're not behind a pole.
It was built like a football field. All seats face "straight across" as opposed towards the infield. For example, if you're sitting between 1st base and Pesky's Pole, you're looking at left center field. You have to turn your neck a good 45 degrees to watch the fucking game. Any and all grandstand rows have zero leg room for anyone taller than a midget. Too many teenage whores wearing pink hats talking on their cellies all fucking game... occasionally yelling out, "I love you, Johnny Damon!!" Fucking dumb cunts... he left town years ago.
The place is a shithole. It's a dreadful place to watch a game.
Have you been to any of MLB's new places? I have. The Ballpark in Arlington. Camden. Citizen's Bank Park. Heck... even Shea and The Old Stadium were much better than Fenway.
FENWAY = DUMP.
Maybe it's just the charm of the old dump. Maybe it's the fact that my comparison is 1 game in a shitty seat at the old Stadium, 1 game at shea (what an ugly shithole) and one game bleacher seat at skydome. That place was pretty neat, but, it just doesn't look as cool as fenway. I like the closeness to the field at fenway. As for having to turn your neck, well, if you are as decrepit as RtS and all that head turning bothers you so much, you ought to just stay home and watch it on the tube.
I wonder if there is anyway structurally to loose all those fukking thick ass beams holding the dump up? Maybe go to more thinner ones. Nobody likes looking through even a skinny pole, but, those big old iron I beams that are nearly as old as mikey, really suck. More thin ones would be preferable.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
smackaholic wrote: As for having to turn your neck, well, if you are as decrepit as RtS and all that head turning bothers you so much, you ought to just stay home and watch it on the tube.
That's your answer?
Face it... the place was not made for baseball. It was not made for people taller than 5' 7". Blow it the fuck up. Fuck you and your miniature Obs View seat, cunt.
smackaholic wrote: As for having to turn your neck, well, if you are as decrepit as RtS and all that head turning bothers you so much, you ought to just stay home and watch it on the tube.
That's your answer?
Face it... the place was not made for baseball. It was not made for people taller than 5' 7". Blow it the fuck up. Fuck you and your miniature Obs View seat, cunt.
It definitely was made for shorter thinner folk than we have waddling around now, that's for sure.
So, how's this. If you are TiVO sized and reasonably limber and you're not sitting behind a fukking pole.....it's a great place to watch a ballgame.
Not saying the new parks which mock many of the features of the old dumps aren't technically better. They are. But, the soulless multipurpose concrete bowls from the 60-70s like shea, suck arse. I don't give a fukk if they have better sight lines or more comfy seats. I hate those fukking places. Fortunately, many of them are being put down. I would not want to see the same happen to fenway. Keep updating it and figuring out how to stick more seats in, but, don't scrap it.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
Been to one game at Fenway about 15 years ago. Must have sat in section 24 or maybe 139 because I wasn't very high up and I was looking almost straight down the first base line. Maybe more like section 22 or 23 because I could see daylight between the RF bleachers and the grandstand. Pretty good seats, and they were facing in the right direction.
smackaholic wrote:So, how's this. If you are TiVO sized and reasonably limber and you're not sitting behind a fukking pole.....it's a great place to watch a ballgame.
Sure, the Dennis Drinkwater seats are nice. Beyond that, uhm, blow it the fuck up.
Mikey wrote:Been to one game at Fenway about 15 years ago. Must have sat in section 24 or maybe 139 because I wasn't very high up and I was looking almost straight down the first base line. Maybe more like section 22 or 23 because I could see daylight between the RF bleachers and the grandstand. Pretty good seats, and they were facing in the right direction.
If you had leg room, you were in the Loge Boxes (139)
If you had no leg room and were peering around a pole (22-24), you were in the Grandstand.
Seats between 1b and 3b (sounds like you were overlooking the visitor's on deck circle) are deece.
Yeah, now that I think about it I was looking almost down the third base line and could still see between the RF beachers and the grandstand. Don't recall having any obstructions - I think I was near the bottom of section 20 or 21.
mikey, those are pretty decent seats. I was right behind that, sect. 32. My seat was pretty good. My buddy a few seats overhad to lean one way or the other to see the picher which sort of sucked.
Rather than blow it the fukk up, it would be nice to see them blow the grand stand the fukk up and redo it with a cantilever structure that has no poles. Maybe they could brace up the existing grandstand and remove the poles, but, I kinda doubt it as there is a shitload of heavy steel and concrete up there. It's be like bracing up KC paul with a swizzle stick.
My buddy who goes to a fair number of games says that intellectually challenged folk pay upwards of 5 bills for monstah seat. WTF is up with that? Is it just dumbasses who wanna be seen in the ever so monstah seats or what? I mean, basically, they're like bleacher seats.....with a really shitty view of most of right and center field. Give me a regular bleacher seat and a pair of binoculars any day.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
PNC Park and Oriole Park (get it right or pay the price, fukkos) are the two best parks I have been to. Oriole Park is the oldest of the renaissance stadiums, but is easily the best. Totally lives up to the hype. Best $20 seats I've had at a game.
Fenway is nice, but is a novelty at best. I'd hate to have that sordid clambake be my home park, with the cutthroat competition for tickets and the shitty setup, as Ucunt mentioned.
I'm still partial to New Comiskey (especially after renovation) and Nats Park, as I'm there almost every homestand, but the latter still leaves a lot to offer, especially a competitive team.
Miller Park is arguably the most underrated park around, too bad it's located in the heart of the fattest state in the Union. The park in Philly is good as well.
Next on my list is Skydome, I need to get up to Toronto before they tear that bitch down. Hopefully I can get up to Citi Field as well this summer.
Screw_Michigan wrote:Oriole Park (get it right or pay the price, fukkos).
It was Camden when I went, fucker. Additionally, I am not sure if The Ballpark is called The Ballpark anymore. The sites change their sponsorship as often as AP changes his panties, so who can keep track? Both of those visits happened when I used to work for Aetna (in the 90s) and was traveling. On "business." Damn that was a long time ago.
Screw_Michigan wrote:PNC Park and Oriole Park (get it right or pay the price, fukkos) are the two best parks I have been to. Oriole Park is the oldest of the renaissance stadiums, but is easily the best. Totally lives up to the hype. Best $20 seats I've had at a game.
Everything I've read says PNC Park in Pittsburgh is the absolute best park in baseball. That may be, but I can definitely say PacBell Park (or AT&T Park, as it's now called) in San Francisco would be damn tough to beat.
Ain't a damn thing wrong with Dodger Stadium, either, 'cept for the fact that rather than having a view of San Francisco Bay and a beautiful skyline you get nothing more than a view of seventh inning taillights, glowing red across the various parking lots.
smackaholic wrote: Amazing how fast these guys can bring shit to market.
After the AFC Champ game in '03 I saw shirts with the right score being sold in the parking lot an hr or so after the game. They must print them right in the parking lot.
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Of the 15 or so MBL parks I've been to I'll give Fenway a thumbs up for old world charm and not much else. Progressive was really nice. Kingdome sucked. Angles stadium sucks. The BOB was ok. Safeco is nice. Dodger stadium is overrated (3 tenors sounded pretty good though.) The Met sucks. The house that Ruth built was old but still worth seeing. Petco is a C- as is Coors. AT&T is really nice, but Camden was the best.
ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:It was Camden when I went, fucker. Additionally, I am not sure if The Ballpark is called The Ballpark anymore. The sites change their sponsorship as often as AP changes his panties, so who can keep track? Both of those visits happened when I used to work for Aetna (in the 90s) and was traveling. On "business." Damn that was a long time ago.
It's always been Oriole Park, you fucking idiot. Sure, it's always been (lazily) referred to, by dumb slits like yourself (and myself at one point), as Camden Yards, but the official name has always been "Oriole Park at Camden Yards." Camden Yards is the immediate vicinity surrounding the ballpark, NOT the name of the ballpark.
The Rangers stadium is back to "Rangers Ballpark in Arlington" after a stint being called AIG-affiliate "Ameriquest Field."
Moving Sale wrote:
Of the 15 or so MBL parks I've been to I'll give Fenway a thumbs up for old world charm and not much else. Progressive was really nice. Kingdome sucked. Angles stadium sucks. The BOB was ok. Safeco is nice. Dodger stadium is overrated (3 tenors sounded pretty good though.) The Met sucks. The house that Ruth built was old but still worth seeing. Petco is a C- as is Coors. AT&T is really nice, but Camden was the best.
The Met was an arena in metro Minneapolis, you fucking ham-handed, mealy-mouthed douche. How about not posting trev-style or just thinking out your fucking take. Is it really that fucking hard to remember (and type out) Shea Stadium. Christ, it was named after a lawyer. Thought you'd remember that.
The Truman sports complex opened in 1973 comprising both Arrowhead and Kauffman (aka The 'K' ) stadiums and just renovated for $600 mil on the Jackson county sales tax dime... are pretty decent places to take in a game.
KC was definitely ahead of the times went they built side by side sports specific stadiums.
LMAO at suckaholic thinking you can just remove and replace structural steel support beams like they were bleacher seats.
If you'd go back and read what I said, douche, you'd notice that I was quite doubtful that that could be done. I said it would be nice, but, not likely possible.
I will rack KC for being ahead of the curve, for once in it's miserable existence, when it realized that 1 size fits all facilities were the suck.
Now, if you could just field a team worth a shit to fill said complexes.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
Screw_Michigan wrote:The Met was an arena in metro Minneapolis...
I know. It's called the Metrodome and it is the park I was talking about. I've never been to Shea or I would have just typed "Shea." I'd call you names at this point and disparage your job or your wife or your mother, but I have no clue as to who the fuck you are.
Screw_Michigan wrote:The Met was an arena in metro Minneapolis...
I know. It's called the Metrodome and it is the park I was talking about. I've never been to Shea or I would have just typed "Shea." I'd call you names at this point and disparage your job or your wife or your mother, but I have no clue as to who the fuck you are.
since when has being clueless stopped you from running your maw?
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
Screw_Michigan wrote:It's always been Oriole Park, you fucking idiot. Sure, it's always been (lazily) referred to, by dumb slits like yourself (and myself at one point), as Camden Yards, but the official name has always been "Oriole Park at Camden Yards."
Do the locals refer to it as Camden or Oriole Park? Out of towners? TV and radio personnel?
No one I know refers to the TD Banknorth Garden as anything other than The Garden.
