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Post by kaybli on Dec 28, 2018 22:30:37 GMT -5
Here are chuck's:
1. Wrigley 2. Safeco 3. Camden Yards 4. YS 5. Busch 6. At+t 7. Progressive field 8. Marlins Park (I know, homer, but love the ambiance) 9. Fenway (worse toilets in baseball) 10. Minute Made 11. Coors (it’s fun hanging with fans who know zip about baseball, but love to party) 12. PNC 13. Citi 14. Chase 15. Arlington (not a cool place to sit in the whole park. Fat Texans going shirtless and crappy food is quite the combo) 16. Trop ( baseball should never be played in such a pit unless you want your kids to hate the game) |
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Post by kaybli on Dec 28, 2018 22:31:27 GMT -5
Here are chuck's:
1. Wrigley 2. Safeco 3. Camden Yards 4. YS 5. Busch 6. At+t 7. Progressive field 8. Marlins Park (I know, homer, but love the ambiance) 9. Fenway (worse toilets in baseball) 10. Minute Made 11. Coors (it’s fun hanging with fans who know zip about baseball, but love to party) 12. PNC 13. Citi 14. Chase 15. Arlington (not a cool place to sit in the whole park. Fat Texans going shirtless and crappy food is quite the combo) 16. Trop ( baseball should never be played in such a pit unless you want your kids to hate the game) Thanks for the rankings, chuck.  A little surprised you don't have AT&T higher. I'm not a ballpark connoisseur like you but I thought AT&T was beautiful. Wrigley, Camden, and Busch are always ranked high in these kind of lists. LOL at the Trop. Depressing ass dark misshapen dome. I think only Oakland Colosseum with its open sewage pipe problems can even come close to the horror that is the Trop. |
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 28, 2018 22:55:40 GMT -5
1. AT&T
2. Petco
3. YS
4. Kaufman
5. Target Field
5. Citi
6. Oakland
7. Anaheim
8. Candlestick
9. Arlington
10. Hump Dome
11. Dodger Stadium
12. Astro Dome
13. Qualcomm/Jack Murphy
Never had problems at Oakland. Though it is a football stadium, I always enjoyed the A's fans teasing me in my Yankee garb and the laid back atmosphere. Easy to get in and out of on my motorcycle, too! Always was able to get great seats, usually front row, right even with third base.
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Post by kaybli on Dec 28, 2018 23:10:39 GMT -5
1. AT&T 2. Petco 3. YS 4. Kaufman 5. Target Field 5. Citi 6. Oakland 7. Anaheim 8. Candlestick 9. Arlington 10. Hump Dome 11. Dodger Stadium 12. Astro Dome 13. Qualcomm/Jack Murphy Never had problems at Oakland. Though it is a football stadium, I always enjoyed the A's fans teasing me in my Yankee garb and the laid back atmosphere. Easy to get in and out of on my motorcycle, too! Always was able to get great seats, usually front row, right even with third base. 3 stadiums worse than the "Hump Dome?" I thought Dodger Stadium was supposed to be nice? Astro Dome (partially demolished) and Qualcomm (know known as SDCCU stadium) no longer host MLB games so you know they were bad! I guess neither does Candlestick anymore (demolished) but it must have been not as bad as those other two according to Rizzuto. |
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Post by kaybli on Dec 28, 2018 23:13:39 GMT -5
Oh, and Rizzuto you ride a motorcycle?!?! Badass! Pictures please!
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Post by inger on Dec 28, 2018 23:27:34 GMT -5
Once again, I’m proven to be less traveled then the rest of you.
Camden Yards- Baltimore (almost new park. Nice. Boog BBQ. RF BP experience)
Memorial Stadium- Baltimore (been a while. Bland, but mostly with the Yanks in town).
Veterans Stadium -Philadelphia (nose bleed seats, strange experience).
Also MiLB
Ripken Stadium (Staten Island Yanks and Patrick Teale. Fun times).
Iron Pigs Stadium (drunken company bash. I may have been the only one watching the game)
Is it strange that three of them were built by the same builder and somewhat modeled after each other?
Also, the only NFL game I ever attended was in Denver.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2018 23:30:34 GMT -5
I’ve also been to the Colessium and Candlestick with my grandad when I was very young, but just remember they were really big. Candlestick had uncomfortable seats where I was sitting. Rizz, can you remember if they had concrete seats? I seem to remember that, but I could be wrong.
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Post by kaybli on Dec 28, 2018 23:57:12 GMT -5
Once again, I’m proven to be less traveled then the rest of you. Camden Yards- Baltimore (almost new park. Nice. Boog BBQ. RF BP experience) Memorial Stadium- Baltimore (been a while. Bland, but mostly with the Yanks in town). Veterans Stadium -Philadelphia (nose bleed seats, strange experience). Also MiLB Ripken Stadium (Staten Island Yanks and Patrick Teale. Fun times). Iron Pigs Stadium (drunken company bash. I may have been the only one watching the game) Is it strange that three of them were built by the same builder and somewhat modeled after each other? Also, the only NFL game I ever attended was in Denver. You've never been to Yankee Stadium (the new or old) inger? |
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Post by inger on Dec 28, 2018 23:57:32 GMT -5
Best memories from each park?
Camden Yards. Not many Yankee games. I was being treated to the games by a supplier, so couldn’t be picky. I enjoyed Boog’s BBQ, the BP in RF. Also went to stand in RF for one of the late innings. A HR landed on the bricks uncaught not far from where I was.
Memorial Stadium- A triple play started by of all people Wayne Gross. Around the horn. Ron Blomberg’s batting practice. First time I saw the Yankees bat, Mickey Rivers and Willie Randolph standing there, so athletic looking waiting to bat and take the on deck circle.
Attended the 1978 game in which the Yankees came back to take a 5-3 lead, only to lose the rally due to Earl Weaver protesting they’re-start of the game. Yanks score reverted back to 0-3. The rule was changed the next off season to suspend such games.
Veteran’s Stadium- A juiced Dykstra was over .400 that night in June. I think he went 4 for 4. It looked like I was 500 straight in the air up above the players.
Ripken Stadium- Met Matt Snyder’s family in the stands, his dad a former MLB pitcher. Patrick came out and sat with us for a half inning or so and also helped me get some conversation tome in at the dugout with the players pre-game. Snyder broke out of a zero strikeout 0 for 30 slump. Butler clubbed a long HR that Snyder’s dad proclaimed to be 450’. It was long, but I don’t think quite that long. I can’t quite recall Butler’s first name. Seems it was one I’ve never heard anywhere else. Did it start with a “ S”? Yeah. I’m pretty sure it did.
I forgot the kid’s name... his career more or less was ruined by an ankle injury the next year. He looked very lean and strong but was smaller than I expected. Poop. He was gonna be a big star. Got to see him, but he spoke no English, just nodded his head politely. Just remembered Ravel. Was it Santana? Yes. Ravel Santana. Patrick seemed to think a lot of him. He took a bad route on a fly ball that night and turned an out into a triple.
Iron Pig Stadium- Mostly veteran players in the empty Phillies minor league system surprised me. More filler on that roster than in a package of scrapple. Remembering almost having to scrape my buddy, Johnny C. out of our private box. Dang, that boy can drink. I was separated from my first wife at the time. There was a good looking lady there from Montana that... well never mind that... nothing happened... At least not with me. She missed the meeting the next day. She was definitely on the prowl and very tempting...Guess she found some one... (: Not all of the memories have to be of baseball, right?...
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Post by inger on Dec 29, 2018 0:04:13 GMT -5
Once again, I’m proven to be less traveled then the rest of you. Camden Yards- Baltimore (almost new park. Nice. Boog BBQ. RF BP experience) Memorial Stadium- Baltimore (been a while. Bland, but mostly with the Yanks in town). Veterans Stadium -Philadelphia (nose bleed seats, strange experience). Also MiLB Ripken Stadium (Staten Island Yanks and Patrick Teale. Fun times). Iron Pigs Stadium (drunken company bash. I may have been the only one watching the game) Is it strange that three of them were built by the same builder and somewhat modeled after each other? Also, the only NFL game I ever attended was in Denver. You've never been to Yankee Stadium (the new or old) inger? Nope. Never made the trip. Was going to go with MrG, but...I would venture that trip would have blown the HOF away for great memories... Also was going to solo to NY once for the HOF, the golf course behind it in Cooperstown, and a Yankee game many years ago, but I was under a ton of stress and found the idea of traveling stressful, so I decided not to go. It was just bad timing. Also, not really liking cities (as I’ve already noted, I wasn’t anxious for that aspect of it all)... probably around 1990 or so... |
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Post by inger on Dec 29, 2018 0:10:14 GMT -5
SAXON! Saxon Butler. That was in 2012. He was out of baseball by the end of 2015. Another kid with power but no hope of ever making it to the show. Patrick knew it then. He told me the minors were full of big strong kids like him that would never make it...
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Post by kaybli on Dec 29, 2018 0:46:21 GMT -5
SAXON! Saxon Butler. That was in 2012. He was out of baseball by the end of 2015. Another kid with power but no hope of ever making it to the show. Patrick knew it then. He told me the minors were full of big strong kids like him that would never make it... You met the legendary Patrick? Or should I say Patrick met the legendary inger? |
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Post by chiyankee on Dec 29, 2018 10:44:07 GMT -5
1. AT&T 2. Petco 3. YS 4. Kaufman 5. Target Field 5. Citi 6. Oakland 7. Anaheim 8. Candlestick 9. Arlington 10. Hump Dome 11. Dodger Stadium 12. Astro Dome 13. Qualcomm/Jack Murphy Never had problems at Oakland. Though it is a football stadium, I always enjoyed the A's fans teasing me in my Yankee garb and the laid back atmosphere. Easy to get in and out of on my motorcycle, too! Always was able to get great seats, usually front row, right even with third base. 3 stadiums worse than the "Hump Dome?" I thought Dodger Stadium was supposed to be nice? Astro Dome (partially demolished) and Qualcomm (know known as SDCCU stadium) no longer host MLB games so you know they were bad! I guess neither does Candlestick anymore (demolished) but it must have been not as bad as those other two according to Rizzuto. I liked Dodger Stadium, when I was actually in the ballpark. For such an old place, the stadium still had a new feel to it and of course the weather is always great. The problem is getting there! By far the worst experience I ever had driving to a stadium or arena. All kinds of crazy left turns, red lights and heavy, heavy traffic. A real horror show and I didn't even bring up getting out of the damn parking lot after the game.  |
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Post by kaybli on Dec 29, 2018 11:20:17 GMT -5
3 stadiums worse than the "Hump Dome?" I thought Dodger Stadium was supposed to be nice? Astro Dome (partially demolished) and Qualcomm (know known as SDCCU stadium) no longer host MLB games so you know they were bad! I guess neither does Candlestick anymore (demolished) but it must have been not as bad as those other two according to Rizzuto. I liked Dodger Stadium, when I was actually in the ballpark. For such an old place, the stadium still had a new feel to it and of course the weather is always great. The problem is getting there! By far the worst experience I ever had driving to a stadium or arena. All kinds of crazy left turns, red lights and heavy, heavy traffic. A real horror show and I didn't even bring up getting out of the damn parking lot after the game. [img src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/LCHMyIvHrvzkboOMCxQE.gif" alt=" " class="smile"] Damn, that sucks Chi. I hear LA traffic is the worst. |
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Post by inger on Dec 29, 2018 11:44:49 GMT -5
SAXON! Saxon Butler. That was in 2012. He was out of baseball by the end of 2015. Another kid with power but no hope of ever making it to the show. Patrick knew it then. He told me the minors were full of big strong kids like him that would never make it... You met the legendary Patrick? Or should I say Patrick met the legendary inger? It's hard to say who was shaking the most from the mere experience...LOL...Yeah, we had prearranged it on a fine hot day with the sun beating down on the stands...As I mentioned, he had me stop down by the camera well pregame. A very gracious host. Then we had a mid game talk in the stands along with the Snyder family. LOL, I told the Snyders about Patrick's site and the forum. Mrs. Snyder said "Oh. You have to watch some of those people on those forums"...It seems they weren't even aware of the Scout site at all...It was sort of embarrassing in a way because I had to confess to the dad that I no recollection of his career...But I just happened to be in the seat in front of them... |
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