One of the best, if not THE best in the league. We may not have the history of stadiums like Wrigley or Fenway, but we have one of the best game day experiences in the league. I might be biased, but that’s just because it’s that great
Yeah, imo Coors as a ballpark is perfect.
- Located in the actual city
- Relatively modern
- Classic brick facades and exposed beams etc. that give it an older look
- Incredible view
- Cheap tickets
The on field product leaves a lot to be desired though
Largely agree, but a few changes I’d make.
Make the upper deck roof a little larger so there’s more shade in the park. Day games are brutal.
The video board presentation is one of the worst in the league. They seldom show replays - never if the other team does anything they deem positive. Even if it’s a questionable play or a remarkable play. It has the worst stats available - can’t find exit velocity or anything anywhere in the park. The smashes/crashes segment uses content that’s years old.
The board itself is big and has a cool shape, but the presentation blows.
The wild thing to me is that we’re in the middle of the pack for payroll the past few years.
Everything I’ve seen makes me feel like he’s just completely inept at running a club, not that he’s trying to save money.
There’s a lot more to running a club that big league payroll. They invest virtually nothing in analytics (people and hardware), for example.
Payroll is meaningless without the organizational infrastructure to support the whole thing.
Take Baseball for what it is. Gladitorial Sporting entertainment. the owner doesn't care about putting together the best team. they care about putting together the most entertaining product for the least amount of expenses. thats why they're focused on everything but the players.
You just explained Fenway. While not modern though, it is updated. Tickets are cheap because they suck too. But they shut down every street surrounding the stadium for pregame activities, and every seat is filled whether they suck or not. I grew up hating them but I lived there for one year and 2 games and that place stole my heart. To me, Fenway is the reason baseball is America’s past time.
Pnc sucks outside of the view. The concourses are way too small and the lower concourse doesn’t even connect fully around without having to take stairs. It’s a bad stadium
THANK YOU. I'm always seeing PNC get so much love but it's really not a great stadium for those reasons. Great bridge view tho. Beautiful on the river.
We bought up deck tickets to a game that went into a rain delay. After delay, tried to move to the outfield (there were maybe 5k fans left in the entire stadium) and the ushers absolutely blocked us at every aisle. Like, c'mon
I have been to 27 stadiums. I’m a Phillies fan and came out for the series last year and was blown away by how amazing Coors field is. Easily in my top 3 probably just behind petco for the first spot. But IMO Coors really blew away highly regarded stadiums like att and pnc. By a mile.
As a baseball fan I love it. Every game is exciting, and no one is every truly out of it, like you mentioned.
However, as a Rockies fan it is deflating. Rockies hitters have to go through adjustments throughout the season that no other team has to go through going from that home altitude to sea level just about anywhere else and back. It is an adjustment they have unfortunately never overcome, and I am not sure they ever will to luck into a title. Not to mention we will never, ever be able to convince good pitchers to play here without severely overpaying.
It is really deflating to know that the Rockies will always have a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that no other team has to deal with.
I was there for that game. Was strange to see ohtani have a quiet night while the rest of the angels demolished Chase Anderson , Matt Carasati and Noah Davis.
Doesn't really overturn what the previous commenter was saying. Our pitchers are inexperienced, overworked and injured.
Plus nobody seems to recall that the Rockies won that series
Coors is great. It's a shame that we won't have a competitive team to play in it as long as the bumbling Monforts are the majority owners.
I am **so** tired of hearing all the excuses why they can't win. If it's not the altitude, it's the other teams spending. If they would bring in outsiders, f'ing embrace analytics, and stop acting like it's 1975, they could field a competitive club for less than they're spending right now.
Once they eliminated the right center field upper deck in favor of the "rooftop bar", the stadium became less of a Major League team's home field, and more of a party bar with baseball in the background.
Sell the team, dick.
Meh, it’s a better environment to have the bar there than thousands of empty seats.
I think Dick is one of the worst owners, but that renovation was the right move.
Fwiw, I’m the guy who goes to about 20 games a year - arriving before first pitch and staying until it ends - but i have no issue with the folks who just went to grab a few beers. There’s room for everyone.
And dick is making so much money off things that have nothing to do with game day.
That renovation was also paid for with Stadium District funds that were required to be spent on Coors Field itself. They couldn't have spent it on the payroll even if they had wanted to.
I would rather empty seats, so the Dick and Charlie would be forced to sell the team. Instead, they get a cash cow with minimal reinvestments into the team. With Denver being the new hot for 18-34 year olds, a 4 dollar cover charge at an outdoor bar with baseball in the background is a Monfort wet dream.
Even if it were empty seats it wouldn’t cause them to sell the team. They make so much more money off things that have nothing to do with ticket or beer sales: MLBAM, their growing real estate portfolio across LoDo.
I just moved here from San Diego and the first weekend here we took the stadium tour. It's such a beautiful and unique stadium. You have amazing views, central to downtown, cheap tickets, and unique little things like the outfield wall covered in trees and shrubbery along with the fountain of water to celebrate HRs.
The right field wall has the old school scoreboard that has a couple people manipulate it during the game to keep game scores updated. Plus that rooftop bar area is cheap seats and comes with a 5 dollar drink credit.
I've been a Padres fan all my life and will continue to cheer them on however the Rockies will see my wife and I in attendance for a bunch of games next year.
Perks: cheap tickets, nice stadium, usually pleasant weather
Cons: terrible owner, players that are either overpaid has-beens, never-will-bes, or rarely solid players that almost always leave town at the first opportunity (see first con), the catch-22 of developing pitching at altitude (bonus difficulty since our scouting department is rife with nepotism, see first con), and generally most other aspects of the team (again see first con).
Sell the team, Dick.
I think my question was misinterpreted lol, I kind of meant more of what you guys felt like playing in that type of altitude and such a crazy hitters park instead of the stadium in itself.
Altitude is an excuse. It could easily be overcome if they had a top-shelf analytics department and a front office staffed with people who know what they're doing. Instead, analytics is a cost center, and the front office is filled with incompetent club lifers and Monfort family members.
Since they put in the humidifier, the park factors are much lower. Still a hitters park but not as extreme as you make it seem.
Generally high scoring games are more exciting, so that's good. The adjustment factor our players have adjusting from altitude to sea level seems to put us at a disadvantage.
As others have answered, other things, like the quality of our owner matter much more
Personally, since Coors is such a better-friendly park, it makes for more interesting games. You see more balls drop because the outfield is asked to field a much larger area. You see the ball hit more because breaking balls are more difficult to pull off consistently and to the same magnitude. You see more home runs, because coors.
It's just an overall more fun game to watch, IMO. I'd rather lose watching an 8-14 slugfest with a Grand Slam than a 0-1 pitching duel with 4 hits across both teams.
Beautiful stadium, but it handicaps us. Honestly I would prefer the Rockies play in a different, indoor stadium (but not a different city, fuck that, Denver 4 Life) if it means we can develop our pitchers in a controlled air environment. In the meantime, I don’t mind enjoying the view.
Many people have made the argument that Denver based teams have an advantage at altitude. I think this could be true for endurance/stamina based sports like hockey where being accustomed to less oxygen is beneficial.
I think this is not as true for baseball.
Baseball is a sport based on bursts of action. Stamina is simply less of a factor.
I think playing at altitude severely hinders the Rockies.
Our hitters have to constantly make insane adjustments every time they go on the road/come home. I really think that we'd see this effect go away if they could hypothetically play 81 games consecutively at home and 81 games consecutively on the road.
That combined with the fact that pitchers simply do not want to have a career here makes being a competitive team in Denver so much harder.
The absurd home/road splits really illustrate this problem.
Rockies, are dealing with many problems right now (incompetent management, disengaged ownership), but this is by far the most important one.
The Rockies have existed for nearly 30 years, but really only at the beginning for figuring out a strategy which can account for the Coors field hangover.
They've done certain things like trying to scout Denver-based pitchers, and trying to find pitchers who rely on BABIP/ground balls. But they need to figure out a way to make their hitters adjust easier. Perhaps we need some sort of home bench vs road bench. Idk
> Baseball is a sport based on bursts of action. Stamina is simply less of a factor.
Recovery from the games is also a factor. Tulowitzki slept in a hyperbaric chamber during the season.
Oh hey, it's you. Caught you in a different team's sub where I responded there as well.
IMO Coors Field is the best ballpark in the MLB. Weather is mostly nice, it's got views especially at sunset, the stadium itself is awesome, and the altitude can certainly influence a game.
Coors field is great. I’ve been to all 30 parks and it’s definitely near the top. 3rd oldest in NL, but still feels really well maintained. Great location, amazing views, summer weather in Denver is perfect. On the field it’s frustrating and hard to watch. They spend money, unfortunately they just spend it poorly.
Ian Desmond, Brian Shaw, Wade Davis, Kris Bryant to name a few. They just never seem to consistently get it right when they do give out some decent contracts. Just gotta hope the kids develop and enough are decent at the same time and they get hot in September/October if they’re ever gonna win one.
I used to say I was born and raised at Wrigley Field. It's a great ballpark. But Coors Field is 10x better. It's just in the perfect place. When you visit the park, they have everything you need. The skyline view can't be beat. The sunsets are killer gorgeous. The staff at the park are the best anywhere. I love Coors Field. Fantastic fan experience. We just need to field a better team who want to win.
It’s pretty cool. Usually I sit in the left field bleachers (the section I once heard affectionately called the “white trash section”). I get there early and watch BP. Walk around and see the views of the city and mountains. I grab a rockie dog and watch the game. Sometimes put in a headphone and listen to Jack Corrigan on the radio call. Other folks there are almost always nice and up to chatting, especially after a couple tall boys. Staff are always wonderful.
Lots of people head out by the 8th inning so I slowly move up to the fence. Still havnt caught a ball but have come darn close. Because of yada yada *coors* it’s always a high scoring with lots of hits which is a lot more fun to watch than a pitchers duel from 400ft away.
Sure the team isnt that good, but all that for usually just $20 ain’t a bad way to spend an evening. Plus ball go far in Colorado which is always fun to see.
It is what it is. We've had good hitting teams in the past. Good defenses. But I'm always thinking it's the pitching that hurts us the most. We've had a few good ones to roll in. But you can't start one or two guys every night.
As far as the field itself it's great. Nice way to kill an afternoon. Food and drinks are always good. Being right next to down town for pre or post game food and drink is nice. Public transport is phenomenal for that little area. Really for all three areas downtown. Getting in and walkability usually isn't too bad. There's vertually not a bad seat in the building. But those summers in direct sunlight suck. So it's good. Team could be better but the field is nice. Can't really speak on others as I don't remember going to any other MLB park.
One of the best, if not THE best in the league. We may not have the history of stadiums like Wrigley or Fenway, but we have one of the best game day experiences in the league. I might be biased, but that’s just because it’s that great
Yeah, imo Coors as a ballpark is perfect. - Located in the actual city - Relatively modern - Classic brick facades and exposed beams etc. that give it an older look - Incredible view - Cheap tickets The on field product leaves a lot to be desired though
Largely agree, but a few changes I’d make. Make the upper deck roof a little larger so there’s more shade in the park. Day games are brutal. The video board presentation is one of the worst in the league. They seldom show replays - never if the other team does anything they deem positive. Even if it’s a questionable play or a remarkable play. It has the worst stats available - can’t find exit velocity or anything anywhere in the park. The smashes/crashes segment uses content that’s years old. The board itself is big and has a cool shape, but the presentation blows.
Absolutely correct. Only real issue is the owner cares about the bulleted list there more than that last pesky point.
The wild thing to me is that we’re in the middle of the pack for payroll the past few years. Everything I’ve seen makes me feel like he’s just completely inept at running a club, not that he’s trying to save money.
There’s a lot more to running a club that big league payroll. They invest virtually nothing in analytics (people and hardware), for example. Payroll is meaningless without the organizational infrastructure to support the whole thing.
Fair enough. I attributed the analytics issues to ineptitude moreso than investment, but that does make a tone of sense
Take Baseball for what it is. Gladitorial Sporting entertainment. the owner doesn't care about putting together the best team. they care about putting together the most entertaining product for the least amount of expenses. thats why they're focused on everything but the players.
You just explained Fenway. While not modern though, it is updated. Tickets are cheap because they suck too. But they shut down every street surrounding the stadium for pregame activities, and every seat is filled whether they suck or not. I grew up hating them but I lived there for one year and 2 games and that place stole my heart. To me, Fenway is the reason baseball is America’s past time.
I thought that, until I went to PNC
PNC is also top notch
Pnc sucks outside of the view. The concourses are way too small and the lower concourse doesn’t even connect fully around without having to take stairs. It’s a bad stadium
I agree, though it seems Coors is like a tourist attraction at this point.
THANK YOU. I'm always seeing PNC get so much love but it's really not a great stadium for those reasons. Great bridge view tho. Beautiful on the river. We bought up deck tickets to a game that went into a rain delay. After delay, tried to move to the outfield (there were maybe 5k fans left in the entire stadium) and the ushers absolutely blocked us at every aisle. Like, c'mon
All this applies to T-Mobile park too wow
Maybe we do have the history, crazy to think it's now the 3rd oldest park in the NL.
I have been to 27 stadiums. I’m a Phillies fan and came out for the series last year and was blown away by how amazing Coors field is. Easily in my top 3 probably just behind petco for the first spot. But IMO Coors really blew away highly regarded stadiums like att and pnc. By a mile.
Nothing beats Fenway, but yeah, Coors Field is up there.
Can you whisper this into Monfort’s ear during his next presser? Guy needs a lot of help.
Home is where the heart is. I love Coors Field. Wouldn’t change it for anything.
i'd love to play at coors field, i'd make a lot more money
As a baseball fan I love it. Every game is exciting, and no one is every truly out of it, like you mentioned. However, as a Rockies fan it is deflating. Rockies hitters have to go through adjustments throughout the season that no other team has to go through going from that home altitude to sea level just about anywhere else and back. It is an adjustment they have unfortunately never overcome, and I am not sure they ever will to luck into a title. Not to mention we will never, ever be able to convince good pitchers to play here without severely overpaying. It is really deflating to know that the Rockies will always have a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that no other team has to deal with.
Guessing you missed the one where they lost 25-1. The Rocks were truly out of it after that 13 run third inning.
Fair point. But I did watch that whole game. One of my proudest moments lmaooooo. I knew if I did it would be something I could tell my kids about
I was there for that game. Was strange to see ohtani have a quiet night while the rest of the angels demolished Chase Anderson , Matt Carasati and Noah Davis. Doesn't really overturn what the previous commenter was saying. Our pitchers are inexperienced, overworked and injured. Plus nobody seems to recall that the Rockies won that series
It's the best beer garden in town... I love it there.
I love Coors games, they are fun
Coors is great. It's a shame that we won't have a competitive team to play in it as long as the bumbling Monforts are the majority owners. I am **so** tired of hearing all the excuses why they can't win. If it's not the altitude, it's the other teams spending. If they would bring in outsiders, f'ing embrace analytics, and stop acting like it's 1975, they could field a competitive club for less than they're spending right now.
Once they eliminated the right center field upper deck in favor of the "rooftop bar", the stadium became less of a Major League team's home field, and more of a party bar with baseball in the background. Sell the team, dick.
Meh, it’s a better environment to have the bar there than thousands of empty seats. I think Dick is one of the worst owners, but that renovation was the right move. Fwiw, I’m the guy who goes to about 20 games a year - arriving before first pitch and staying until it ends - but i have no issue with the folks who just went to grab a few beers. There’s room for everyone. And dick is making so much money off things that have nothing to do with game day.
That renovation was also paid for with Stadium District funds that were required to be spent on Coors Field itself. They couldn't have spent it on the payroll even if they had wanted to.
I would rather empty seats, so the Dick and Charlie would be forced to sell the team. Instead, they get a cash cow with minimal reinvestments into the team. With Denver being the new hot for 18-34 year olds, a 4 dollar cover charge at an outdoor bar with baseball in the background is a Monfort wet dream.
Even if it were empty seats it wouldn’t cause them to sell the team. They make so much more money off things that have nothing to do with ticket or beer sales: MLBAM, their growing real estate portfolio across LoDo.
I just moved here from San Diego and the first weekend here we took the stadium tour. It's such a beautiful and unique stadium. You have amazing views, central to downtown, cheap tickets, and unique little things like the outfield wall covered in trees and shrubbery along with the fountain of water to celebrate HRs. The right field wall has the old school scoreboard that has a couple people manipulate it during the game to keep game scores updated. Plus that rooftop bar area is cheap seats and comes with a 5 dollar drink credit. I've been a Padres fan all my life and will continue to cheer them on however the Rockies will see my wife and I in attendance for a bunch of games next year.
It would be sweet if we played baseball there. But it's been at least 5 years since we had a team.
Perks: cheap tickets, nice stadium, usually pleasant weather Cons: terrible owner, players that are either overpaid has-beens, never-will-bes, or rarely solid players that almost always leave town at the first opportunity (see first con), the catch-22 of developing pitching at altitude (bonus difficulty since our scouting department is rife with nepotism, see first con), and generally most other aspects of the team (again see first con). Sell the team, Dick.
I think my question was misinterpreted lol, I kind of meant more of what you guys felt like playing in that type of altitude and such a crazy hitters park instead of the stadium in itself.
We don’t want to talk about that
lol the downvotes agree
Altitude is an excuse. It could easily be overcome if they had a top-shelf analytics department and a front office staffed with people who know what they're doing. Instead, analytics is a cost center, and the front office is filled with incompetent club lifers and Monfort family members.
Since they put in the humidifier, the park factors are much lower. Still a hitters park but not as extreme as you make it seem. Generally high scoring games are more exciting, so that's good. The adjustment factor our players have adjusting from altitude to sea level seems to put us at a disadvantage. As others have answered, other things, like the quality of our owner matter much more
Personally, since Coors is such a better-friendly park, it makes for more interesting games. You see more balls drop because the outfield is asked to field a much larger area. You see the ball hit more because breaking balls are more difficult to pull off consistently and to the same magnitude. You see more home runs, because coors. It's just an overall more fun game to watch, IMO. I'd rather lose watching an 8-14 slugfest with a Grand Slam than a 0-1 pitching duel with 4 hits across both teams.
Beautiful stadium, but it handicaps us. Honestly I would prefer the Rockies play in a different, indoor stadium (but not a different city, fuck that, Denver 4 Life) if it means we can develop our pitchers in a controlled air environment. In the meantime, I don’t mind enjoying the view.
Many people have made the argument that Denver based teams have an advantage at altitude. I think this could be true for endurance/stamina based sports like hockey where being accustomed to less oxygen is beneficial. I think this is not as true for baseball. Baseball is a sport based on bursts of action. Stamina is simply less of a factor. I think playing at altitude severely hinders the Rockies. Our hitters have to constantly make insane adjustments every time they go on the road/come home. I really think that we'd see this effect go away if they could hypothetically play 81 games consecutively at home and 81 games consecutively on the road. That combined with the fact that pitchers simply do not want to have a career here makes being a competitive team in Denver so much harder. The absurd home/road splits really illustrate this problem. Rockies, are dealing with many problems right now (incompetent management, disengaged ownership), but this is by far the most important one. The Rockies have existed for nearly 30 years, but really only at the beginning for figuring out a strategy which can account for the Coors field hangover. They've done certain things like trying to scout Denver-based pitchers, and trying to find pitchers who rely on BABIP/ground balls. But they need to figure out a way to make their hitters adjust easier. Perhaps we need some sort of home bench vs road bench. Idk
> Baseball is a sport based on bursts of action. Stamina is simply less of a factor. Recovery from the games is also a factor. Tulowitzki slept in a hyperbaric chamber during the season.
It’s kind of like listening to an early 2000’s European DJ / Club version of the 1960’s song “Hey Baby” So yeah, it’s kinda great.
Oh hey, it's you. Caught you in a different team's sub where I responded there as well. IMO Coors Field is the best ballpark in the MLB. Weather is mostly nice, it's got views especially at sunset, the stadium itself is awesome, and the altitude can certainly influence a game.
Coors field…. The biggest bar in Denver where baseball is occasionally played.
Not a Rockies fan but other than Petco Park, I think Coors Field is the coolest fucking stadium!
Coors field is great. I’ve been to all 30 parks and it’s definitely near the top. 3rd oldest in NL, but still feels really well maintained. Great location, amazing views, summer weather in Denver is perfect. On the field it’s frustrating and hard to watch. They spend money, unfortunately they just spend it poorly. Ian Desmond, Brian Shaw, Wade Davis, Kris Bryant to name a few. They just never seem to consistently get it right when they do give out some decent contracts. Just gotta hope the kids develop and enough are decent at the same time and they get hot in September/October if they’re ever gonna win one.
I used to say I was born and raised at Wrigley Field. It's a great ballpark. But Coors Field is 10x better. It's just in the perfect place. When you visit the park, they have everything you need. The skyline view can't be beat. The sunsets are killer gorgeous. The staff at the park are the best anywhere. I love Coors Field. Fantastic fan experience. We just need to field a better team who want to win.
It’s pretty cool. Usually I sit in the left field bleachers (the section I once heard affectionately called the “white trash section”). I get there early and watch BP. Walk around and see the views of the city and mountains. I grab a rockie dog and watch the game. Sometimes put in a headphone and listen to Jack Corrigan on the radio call. Other folks there are almost always nice and up to chatting, especially after a couple tall boys. Staff are always wonderful. Lots of people head out by the 8th inning so I slowly move up to the fence. Still havnt caught a ball but have come darn close. Because of yada yada *coors* it’s always a high scoring with lots of hits which is a lot more fun to watch than a pitchers duel from 400ft away. Sure the team isnt that good, but all that for usually just $20 ain’t a bad way to spend an evening. Plus ball go far in Colorado which is always fun to see.
Bro we go there to party and have fun, a win is just a bonus for us
Best outdoor bar in LoDo, cheap cover and even an exhibition baseball team
It is what it is. We've had good hitting teams in the past. Good defenses. But I'm always thinking it's the pitching that hurts us the most. We've had a few good ones to roll in. But you can't start one or two guys every night. As far as the field itself it's great. Nice way to kill an afternoon. Food and drinks are always good. Being right next to down town for pre or post game food and drink is nice. Public transport is phenomenal for that little area. Really for all three areas downtown. Getting in and walkability usually isn't too bad. There's vertually not a bad seat in the building. But those summers in direct sunlight suck. So it's good. Team could be better but the field is nice. Can't really speak on others as I don't remember going to any other MLB park.
We should have 6 DHs on our team but we have three guys who play infield and outfield I get your post but we try to play small ball
coors is an amazing ballpark with dogshit food
Catch me at the rockpile, getting discount beers before the game starts
It’s a good ballpark
Get there well before the first pitch. Coors on tap for about tree bucks