They could build it over the tracks and the Pike. I'm sure a few balls have landed over there courtesy of Manny, Wily Mo, and other guys since the net was removed.
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When the Sox were for sale,one of the final bidders was Frank McCourt (who eventually bought the Dodgers). His proposal included building a new ballpark on the South Boston waterfront (which he owns most of). He was willing to do it at his cost,on his dime etc. His problem was that he butted heads with Tom Finneran (aka Tommy Taxes) the Speaker of the House in MA at the time. Finneran did everything he could to prevent that from happening..And did.
With the new renovations this year, it's up to 39,000
[39,195 (2008 day) • 39,605 (2008 night) via wikipedia].They redid the luxury boxes a couple years ago iirc. They've also added new bathrooms and redone the old ones in the past few years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway_Park#Changes_to_Fenway_Park
See there for some of the recent projects.
With the new renovations this year, it's up to 39,000
They redid the luxury boxes a couple years ago iirc when they replaced the .406 club. They've also added new bathrooms and redone the old ones in the past few years.
I googled it and was surprised how accurate I was. 36108 night, 35692 day (courtesy of the BoSox's webstie)
I'm guessing those extra seats are in the outfield?
I'd love to see a game from the top of the Monster. It's probably bad ass.
They will squeeze in as many seats as possible in Fenway:
They can't go "out",so they go "up"
http://wbztv.com/sports/Boston.Red.Sox.2.668653.html
They can't go "out",so they go "up"
I'm really looking forward to that and wish I had tickets. The crazy thing is the left field fence will be even closer than it was back then because the field has been lowered and the seats extended (when they tore out the running track). Every righty hitter in the game will probably try to pull every pitch!
I think Dodger Stadium is in pretty good shape, all things considered. It gets painted before every season, there are no obstructed views, the hills beyond the outfield still look beautiful. Even with the new field seats, it doesn't change the look of the place too drastically. And the new seating (new last year) is back to the color scheme as when it opened in 1962.
Chavez Ravine is a very unique location for a stadium, one that I haven't really seen duplicated anywhere else. It's nestled into the side of a hill north of downtown. (There really isn't a ravine left anymore, with all the grading they did to build parking lots.) The parking lots are terraced so that the top deck behind home plate exits to ground level and so do the outfield bleachers. There are lovely hills of Elysian Park beyond the outfield seats and the San Gabriel mountains beyond that. From your seat it doesn't really look like you're in the middle of a giant metropolis.
But this lovely location has two downsides:
1) Since it's on top of a hill, there aren't very many roads to access the stadium. And because it's L.A., everyone drives. It's not usually a big deal when you're arriving, since people arrive at different times. But when people are leaving, it just turns into several traffic jams at each exit. Even though there are freeways fairly close by, you have to wind your way down one of this hilly roads to get to them. My parents live about 25 miles from the stadium. There were times (when I still lived there) that it took two hours to get home: 100 minutes to get to the freeway and 20 more to get the rest of the way.
2) Because it's on a steep hill and isolated from the rest of the city, there is no nightlife, dining, entertainment, etc., anywhere near the stadium. This isn't a big deal to me because I usually don't need entertainment with my ballgame, but it doesn't provide the same experience as some other ballparks where people stream out to the bars after the game.
Speaking of stadiums, there's an article today on SI about the new Rays stadium.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_donovan/03/11/donovan.stpete/index.html
Photo gallery: http://www.mlb.com/tb/photogallery/year_2007/month_11/day_28/cf2312900.html
That's probably the coolest looking stadium I've ever seen.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_donovan/03/11/donovan.stpete/index.html
Photo gallery: http://www.mlb.com/tb/photogallery/year_2007/month_11/day_28/cf2312900.html
That's probably the coolest looking stadium I've ever seen.
Dodger Stadium isn't a cookie-cutter. You are thinking of the suburban multipurpose stadiums which became all the rage in the late '60s. Dodger Stadium has always been a ballpark and only a ballpark.
Probably, but with the height of it, I don't think they had the angle to make it much past Lansdowne St. The lasers I'm speaking of only went maybe 10-15 feet above the seats, but were still going up when they went out.
That's not too much of an issue in Boston. most people already walk or take the T to games, and there's usually only slightly less parking than needed. $25 gets you a spot in a gas station two blocks down Boylston St at the intersection with Park Dr and Brookline Ave.
It was like 15 bucks last year at the Pru... they have a huge garage and have the special price for sox games. Like a 10 minute walk from Fenway.
Anyone here have MLB.tv?
Do you know what Dodger Stadium looks like? It doesn't resemble the old Veterans Stadium in Philly. Or Shea. Or Three Rivers. Or Riverfront. Just about all it has in common with them is that it's symmetrical.
Wasn't it built around the same time as the others. It is known as a cookie cutter that is only used for one purpose.
More trivia, with the closure of Yankee Stadium Dodgers Stadium will be the largest capacity park in the majors at 56,000wiki said:
that is the dumbest looking thing i've ever seen. it supposed to be a ballpark not a sailing ship or a sci-fi convention.
Who considers it a "cookie cutter"? That term was applied to stadiums that all look alike, as if they were replicated over and over from the same mold, and were enclosed for use in baseball and football. I fail to see which other stadium it looks like.
One might go so far as to say that Yankee Stadium after it's 1970s rebuild looks a lot more like Dodger Stadium than it did before.
It depends. What do you mean by "circular?" It's symmetrical, but it doesn't have upper-deck seating all the way around, like the stadiums which were built during the '60s and '70s for both baseball and football. It's really nothing like the terrible stadiums built in Cincinnati, Montreal and Pittsburgh, for example. It may not be deliberately quirky like the neoclassical parks being built today, but it's still a very nice place to watch a ballgame. The biggest problem with Dodger Stadium is parking and access.
apparently, the yankees and rays can't get along, as they had a fight today.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp...d=2421390&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp...d=2421390&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
riverfront(reds) and three rivers(pirates) were defintely cookie cutter stadiums. i think philly was too...
I would put RFK Stadium, Atlanta-Fulton County, and Shea in that category too, although Shea isn't enclosed.
shea as well as angels stadium used to be completely enclosed while they had nfl teams in there, but opened up their outfield after they left the stadium. in angels stadium's case, it was built as a baseball only stadium at first, then built for the rams, then remodeled in the late 90's to better suit the angels.
Anaheim Stadium was enclosed in a similar way to Candlestick: to form kind of a curved trapezoid, with a set of outfield seats that would slope across the outfield to the football sidelines. In Candlestick's case, they were trying to create a shape that would help reduce the wind problems. (It didn't work.) I don't think Anaheim had that excuse. The outfield at Angels games in the 1980s and early '90s was of beige concrete. It looked pretty lame.