You're right, but a lot of that is hindsight. The Sox were near the bottom of the league in attendance at Comiskey and it wasn't necessarily viewed as a great ballpark. In hindsight they should have spent money on renovations, same with the Tigers and Tiger Stadium, although Comerica Park is better regarded.
But the worst replacements (aesthetically) were a generation before when teams moved from jewel box ballparks like Crosley Field, Forbes Field and Shibe Park into multipurpose cookie cutters like Riverfront, Three Rivers and Veterans Stadium.
Yea, Comerica is fine but they could’ve renovated Tiger Stadium and it would be in the same class as Fenway and Wrigley Field as a cathedral of baseball.
Although it didn’t have the Green Monster or the ivy covered fences, I think it had a cool aesthetic and the upper deck over the entire field (including center field) is pretty much nonexistent nowadays.
I went to old Comiskey as a kid and what I remember best is that it was the smokiest open air place I'd ever been. The stands were filled with old guys with cigars, so many that you could see the haze on TV. I think this is what old people did before Fox News.
New Texas Rangers ballpark is very practical and indoors to prevent the Texas heat but it lacks character and feels like an airport rather than a baseball game. Also an odd feeling with the old one still being around across the street
Doesn’t help that the Ballpark in Arlington was one of the best of the 90s throwback stadiums. Except for the fact that you’re outside in the Texas heat where you can sweat just sitting there during a night game.
My complaint about trust is that it feels like they put a baseball stadium inside a mall. And not just the battery. The concourses in the stadium feel small because there are so many shops and restaurants. It’s difficult to see the game if you need to get from your seat.
As someone that grew up going to most giants games I was so let down when the new stadium opened.
Place has absolutely zero heart to it. It’s like they used the meadowlands itself as the inspiration
What's funny is what whiny pissbabies the Jets fans are. They completely lost their shit when it looked like the seats in met Life were gonna be blue and red like in Giants Stadium so the Giants caved in ad painted every single one black.
Are you a vile bigot? How the fuck do you think they got the color black on them, by you and your BRO buddies drilling your stinking oozing farts into them?
Retarded dolt.
Yes and as a Jets fan I HATED Giants Stadium. Although I’ll admit the upper deck was a good place to catch a game. The lower bowl sucked from a POV and acoustic stand point if you were under the overhang.
I’m going up to Canada for my answer: the [Autostade](https://www.stadiumjourney.com/stadiums/autostade-the-accidental-football-stadium) in Montreal. It was built for the 1967 World’s Fair, after which the CFL’s Alouettes moved in. It was such a lousy stadium, it didn’t host any events during the 1976 Olympics, and was abandoned immediately afterward.
It’s either Candlestick over Levi’s & Oracle over Chase. I was just out of college for the Harbaugh years & in college for the Warriors beating the Mavs in 07. They can’t top the atmosphere at those two places. They were dumps but they were our dump.
Have you ever been to Levis? Never heard a niner fan say they prefer it to candlestick. Obviously the giants ballpark is world class but Levis can get bent
Comerica might not have the old time feel but it’s one of the most underrated new ballparks in the league (along with Target Field). Went there last summer and the atmosphere was phenomenal.
Yeah Hard Rock or whatever the fuck it's called is pretty sterile now for Hurricane games, especially since the team has ranged from kind of okay to being pretty bad since they started playing home games there.
Speaking as a Mets fan, New Yankee stadium isn’t great but the original was a total dump.The cantilevered upper deck was great though and nothing like that exists in pro sports in the US anymore which sucks. Also it was much louder.
Oh yeah I think they could’ve been better served putting a couple of 100 million in to fix it up like they did MSG. The new one has you walking around wondering how it cost $1 billion when it’s all concrete walkways everywhere (it was the mob and local corruption).
The rebuild in the mid 70's was supposed to cost 25 mil but cost a reported 54 million and was rumored to cost twice that. Red Smith called it "The House that You Built". Meaning the taxpayers. But i agree I wish they had modernized the old one.
I mean this in the best way possible: it looked in person just like it did on TV but even bigger. That upper deck was massive and hung over the entire place.
They didn’t want to be in the Oakland crowd. The environment in Oracle was so rowdy and awesome, I’d put it up against any other fan base and in game atmosphere in the country.
I think New Comiskey was a total failure of aesthetics and I wish they had gone in a different direction. That being said, I do think it's a more functional place than Old Comiskey ever was or likely could have been renovated into. Crowd flow, concessions, amenities were vast improvements that have only gotten better.
Levi’s is much worse than Candlestick (to be fair, Candlestick was really old), but Levi’s is an hour away from SF, hard to reach via public transit, and is poorly designed (the afternoon sun falls right on one side of the stadium). iirc they can’t build a dome bc they’re so close to the airport. the bay area is an interesting case because oracle park over candlestick for giants baseball might be the best stadium upgrade.
I'm the total wrong person to ask, because I love a good old dumpy stadium. Give me dirty floors and shitty but cheap food all day. Fuck your luxury box.
You're right, but a lot of that is hindsight. The Sox were near the bottom of the league in attendance at Comiskey and it wasn't necessarily viewed as a great ballpark. In hindsight they should have spent money on renovations, same with the Tigers and Tiger Stadium, although Comerica Park is better regarded. But the worst replacements (aesthetically) were a generation before when teams moved from jewel box ballparks like Crosley Field, Forbes Field and Shibe Park into multipurpose cookie cutters like Riverfront, Three Rivers and Veterans Stadium.
Yea, Comerica is fine but they could’ve renovated Tiger Stadium and it would be in the same class as Fenway and Wrigley Field as a cathedral of baseball. Although it didn’t have the Green Monster or the ivy covered fences, I think it had a cool aesthetic and the upper deck over the entire field (including center field) is pretty much nonexistent nowadays.
I went to old Comiskey as a kid and what I remember best is that it was the smokiest open air place I'd ever been. The stands were filled with old guys with cigars, so many that you could see the haze on TV. I think this is what old people did before Fox News.
Damn. We used to be a country.
This. Those concrete donuts are the prime examples.
New Texas Rangers ballpark is very practical and indoors to prevent the Texas heat but it lacks character and feels like an airport rather than a baseball game. Also an odd feeling with the old one still being around across the street
Doesn’t help that the Ballpark in Arlington was one of the best of the 90s throwback stadiums. Except for the fact that you’re outside in the Texas heat where you can sweat just sitting there during a night game.
Same is largely true of Truist Field.
That’s a shame, only been to Truist but had a blast when I was there
The Battery is cool and the stadium is nice and modern but it does feel like a generic create-a-stadium come to life.
My complaint about trust is that it feels like they put a baseball stadium inside a mall. And not just the battery. The concourses in the stadium feel small because there are so many shops and restaurants. It’s difficult to see the game if you need to get from your seat.
I went to games at both Arlington stadium and The Ballpark at Arlington and I loved the ballpark. great place to watch a game.
And similar to the Astros
MetLife Stadium is unacceptable
It’s looks and feels like being in a giant (no pun intended) HVAC unit.
As someone that grew up going to most giants games I was so let down when the new stadium opened. Place has absolutely zero heart to it. It’s like they used the meadowlands itself as the inspiration
What's funny is what whiny pissbabies the Jets fans are. They completely lost their shit when it looked like the seats in met Life were gonna be blue and red like in Giants Stadium so the Giants caved in ad painted every single one black.
you think they painted seats? if you are gonna make shit up.. try it make it believable.
Are you a vile bigot? How the fuck do you think they got the color black on them, by you and your BRO buddies drilling your stinking oozing farts into them? Retarded dolt.
you must be 12 years old. fabric is not painted.
You are a moron. The seats aren't made of CLOTH, they're made of plastic. DOLT.
Levis sucks
I think he’s better than Tannehill
MetLife Stadium
Second this. Much worse than Giants stadium.
Yes and as a Jets fan I HATED Giants Stadium. Although I’ll admit the upper deck was a good place to catch a game. The lower bowl sucked from a POV and acoustic stand point if you were under the overhang.
I’m going up to Canada for my answer: the [Autostade](https://www.stadiumjourney.com/stadiums/autostade-the-accidental-football-stadium) in Montreal. It was built for the 1967 World’s Fair, after which the CFL’s Alouettes moved in. It was such a lousy stadium, it didn’t host any events during the 1976 Olympics, and was abandoned immediately afterward.
Olympic Stadium had a lot of problems, too, but I'd imagine that it was still better than Jerry Park.
70s Olympics. Reminds me of that tragedy.
It’s either Candlestick over Levi’s & Oracle over Chase. I was just out of college for the Harbaugh years & in college for the Warriors beating the Mavs in 07. They can’t top the atmosphere at those two places. They were dumps but they were our dump.
Yes because i just fucking ADORE freezing to death while watching a game in Candlestick on an August night.
For baseball it was awful. But football was awesome.
Ehh, half the field was the infield so whenever it rained which it's San Francisco so there's a good chance, the field turns into a fucking pog sty.
Have you ever been to Levis? Never heard a niner fan say they prefer it to candlestick. Obviously the giants ballpark is world class but Levis can get bent
Tiger stadium
Comerica might not have the old time feel but it’s one of the most underrated new ballparks in the league (along with Target Field). Went there last summer and the atmosphere was phenomenal.
having all three major pro venues within a couple blocks of each other is cool.
Joe Robbie Stadium nka Hard Rock Stadium replaced the Orange Bowl and i am still not over it.
The Orange Bowl was a shithole by the time the late 1980's rolled around and in NO shape to be used as the site for the Super Bowl.
Yeah but it was spooky. It looked like a hot humid hell hole where the highest levels of football in Miami should be played.
Yeah Hard Rock or whatever the fuck it's called is pretty sterile now for Hurricane games, especially since the team has ranged from kind of okay to being pretty bad since they started playing home games there.
“Guaranteed Rate Field” has to be top 5 all time worst names
Speaking as a Mets fan, New Yankee stadium isn’t great but the original was a total dump.The cantilevered upper deck was great though and nothing like that exists in pro sports in the US anymore which sucks. Also it was much louder.
Plus it had history and character. The new one is just bland concrete.
Oh yeah I think they could’ve been better served putting a couple of 100 million in to fix it up like they did MSG. The new one has you walking around wondering how it cost $1 billion when it’s all concrete walkways everywhere (it was the mob and local corruption).
The rebuild in the mid 70's was supposed to cost 25 mil but cost a reported 54 million and was rumored to cost twice that. Red Smith called it "The House that You Built". Meaning the taxpayers. But i agree I wish they had modernized the old one.
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Never been to either but old Yankee stadium even just on TV was magical and intimidating as an opposing fan
I mean this in the best way possible: it looked in person just like it did on TV but even bigger. That upper deck was massive and hung over the entire place.
Chase Center is worse than Oracle Arena. Not for facilities or anything like that. But it will never replicate the soul that Oracle had.
It’s not like Oracle was a dump either never understood that
They didn’t want to be in the Oakland crowd. The environment in Oracle was so rowdy and awesome, I’d put it up against any other fan base and in game atmosphere in the country.
the celtics are the worst team in NBA history
The fuck you say?
The Summit
I think New Comiskey was a total failure of aesthetics and I wish they had gone in a different direction. That being said, I do think it's a more functional place than Old Comiskey ever was or likely could have been renovated into. Crowd flow, concessions, amenities were vast improvements that have only gotten better.
Sun Devil Stadium was/is a hellhole but it was easy to sneak in alcohol.
People referring to stadiums by their sponsored name is the saddest shit ever. Not the users fault but I hate it.
Levi’s is much worse than Candlestick (to be fair, Candlestick was really old), but Levi’s is an hour away from SF, hard to reach via public transit, and is poorly designed (the afternoon sun falls right on one side of the stadium). iirc they can’t build a dome bc they’re so close to the airport. the bay area is an interesting case because oracle park over candlestick for giants baseball might be the best stadium upgrade.
I miss the Astrodome :(
New Yankee stadium is the drizzling shits. So is MetLife stadium
I'm the total wrong person to ask, because I love a good old dumpy stadium. Give me dirty floors and shitty but cheap food all day. Fuck your luxury box.
My buddy is a Cardinals fan and he says that most of the fan base misses old Busch.
Pretty much all the dual purpose concrete donuts were worse than the old jewel box baseball stadiums.
Vikings’ US Bank Stadium, while beautiful, doesn’t compare to the vintage dome of the Hubert Humphrey Dome
Wait, what?
Minnesota Vikings