Royals What Ballparks Have You Been To?

GabyKeepsMeWarm · 04-20-2025, 05:59 PM

Or if you’re not a big baseball person, what other arenas have you attended for an event?

I’ll get us started with ballparks…

KC: Royals/Kauffman Stadium: first one I can sorta remember was in 1979. Still have a pennant from that year. 1979-2024

NYC/Bronx: Old/New Yankee Stadium: went to 7 games between the two ballparks and never saw the Royals win one game. 0fer 7. 2005-2016

NYC/Queens: Shea/Citifield: Shea was a toilet. Citifield is pretty good. Got to see game 5. 2005-2021

Baltimore: Camden Yards: great place. Softshell crab sandwiches. $40 seats three rows behind home plate. Good fans. Caught a bp Moustakas homer as I was inspecting the warehouse plaques. Royals won. Gordon went yard. 2013

Cincinatti: Old Riverfront: Ted Power got our family tix. He gave up a leadoff first pitch home run to Barry Bonds, but the Reds came back to win. 1987

Texas: Old Arlington Stadium: Don’t remember much except the park was horrible and we cooked for six innings before getting the hell outta there. 1984

Los Angeles: Dodgers Stadium: went to a few games there. Nothing exceptional about the park. Dodger dogs are overrated. Takes FOREVER getting in or out of that joint. 2000-2004.

Minneapolis: Metrodome: went to a few games there. Hamelin hit a moon shot to right. 1994-2006

Anaheim: Angel Stadium: only went once. Royals lost. Nothing stands out about the joint. It was hot. 2001.

St. Louis: Old Busch Stadium: went to a few games. Cool seeing Ozzie flip to start the game. And Donovan Osborne hit a grand slam at another game I attended. Place went ****ing bananas as he was the starting pitcher. 1982-2006

Pittsburgh: PNC Park: this place is a gem. Royals won both games I attended. Fireworks on the river after the Friday night game. Good fans. Good food options. 2024

Houston: Enron/Tropicana? Can’t remember if Enron was still in business…. My band was on tour and we had an extra night in Houston to hang so we went to a game. It was a blur due to being on tour, but we had a good time. I do remember the hot dogs being really effing good. Opened the roof in the 7th after the stretch. 2003

Detroit: Comerica: Greinke was pitching and he had a bad game. My only real weekend while working on a movie in Michigan. Nice ballpark. Good fans. 2010

Atlanta: Turner Field: on vacation with my then gf. Her brother drove us. Took forever getting into that place. Nothing very memorable. Though if you walked to a part of the parking lot, they had a piece of Fulton County stadium where Aaron hit his 755th. 2006

Denver: Mile High Stadium: tix were $3. I think there was something like 60,000 at the game. Few older buddies got me drunk. It was fun. 1993

I think that’s it for ballparks? Gonna visit Seattle in a couple months, so I’ll get that one crossed off my list soon.

comochiefsfan · 04-20-2025, 06:09 PM

T Mobile Park (Seattle): Awesome park with an amazing view of the downtown skyline and the Olympic Mountains

Kauffman Stadium: Don’t have to explain that one to anyone here.

Wrigley Field: Really cool. Felt like going back in time.

Busch Stadium (old and new): Loved old Busch for nostalgia reasons. New Busch was very well done.

Yankee Stadium: Big and corporate. Maybe my least favorite. Still good though.

Coors Field: Really solid park. Nothing spectacular but just a good ballpark experience.

RedinTexas · 04-20-2025, 06:18 PM

KC - Old Municipal Stadium, then Kaufman.

DFW - Arlington Stadium. It really was a rathole, but had a good time there most times I went. Never went to the newer stadium, nor the current one.

Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium, then Turner Field.

Baltimore - Camden Yards. Really nice stadium in the early days.

NY - Old Yankee Stadium. Sat in the upper deck. The upper deck was really steep and kind of scary for a drunk guy who's scared of heights to descend.

Boston - Fenway Park. We had seats in center field and were there early. We walked all the way around the park before going in, then as far as we could inside the stadium. There was an interior gate that was guarded and they weren't supposed to let us through. My buddy was from the Boston area and told the guard I was from KC and he needed to show me the glory of Fenway, so the guard said ok and let us go through. I'm still really surprised by that.

LA - Dodger Stadium. Pretty cool place. It's built into the side of a hill so you just walk up the hill to the level of your seats and walk straight into the stadium level.

LA - Old Anaheim stadium. This was pretty fun. The crowd is really into having a good time no matter the game. I really enjoyed this.

Oakland - Oakland/Alameda stadium. What a shithole. The Oakland fans were assholes too. I was there in 1984 the night the Royals clenched the AL West.

Houston - Astrodome was another shithole. I was incredibly let down by how awful a place for baseball that was. The new stadium is pretty nice. Parking is terrible, but the stadium is great.

Milwaukee - American Family Field. It was still pretty new when I was there. Great fans, nice people. It's a good place to see a game.

Seattle - I didn't actually get to the game at the Kingdome. We were at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska and were unable to get out of there early enough. This was at the end of the Cold War and the Russians were flying some military aircraft to Canada for an airshow. They couldn't make it without refueling and had negotiated with the US govt to land for refueling at Elmendorf in Anchorage. So, we got to see a short airshow the Russians put on for everyone over the base before they landed. So, we missed my one and only chance to see a game at the Kingdome, but given how much I heard about the Kingdome being another shithole, I'm glad we got to see the Russians come in and land at a US AFB.

Bonus - Omaha - Went to the College World Series at the old stadium. College atmosphere. Lots of fun. We had coolers of beer in the trunk of the car and some frisbees, so we started horsing around as we waited for the traffic to clear. Ended up staying there having fun until about 3:30 in the morning. A security guard drove up around 2:00 and asked what the hell we were doing. We told him we were waiting for the traffic to clear up. He looked around at the empty lots, thought about it for a moment, said "OK," and drove off. Fun night.

Cheater5 · 04-20-2025, 06:42 PM

Royals Stadium

Seattle Kingdome

Los Angeles Angels Stadium

Giants Stadium / Oracle Park

**Buck** · 04-20-2025, 06:43 PM

Jack Murphy Stadium - San Diego

Petco Park - San Diego

Pac Bell Park - San Francisco

Angels Stadium - Anaheim

Coors Field - Colorado

Kaufmann Stadium - Kansas City

Braves Current Stadium (not sure what its called) - Atlanta

Bonus: Fresno AAA team stadium in Frenso, CA

GabyKeepsMeWarm · 04-20-2025, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by comochiefsfan

T Mobile Park (Seattle): Awesome park with an amazing view of the downtown skyline and the Olympic Mountains
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Kauffman Stadium: Don’t have to explain that one to anyone here.

Wrigley Field: Really cool. Felt like going back in time.

Busch Stadium (old and new): Loved old Busch for nostalgia reasons. New Busch was very well done.

Yankee Stadium: Big and corporate. Maybe my least favorite. Still good though.

Coors Field: Really solid park. Nothing spectacular but just a good ballpark experience.

Tell me all about the Seattle park before I visit please.

Was in Chicago on a road trip with my ex, and neither the White Sox or Cubs were in town, but we did spend part of a day in wrigleyville.

New Yankee Stadium is weird. It’s like aliens made a ballpark based on Yankee fans preferences and it sucks. It’s kinda like a strange high priced mausoleum.

Old Yankee stadium had some character, but again, **** the Jankees.

GabyKeepsMeWarm · 04-20-2025, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RedinTexas

KC - Old Municipal Stadium, then Kaufman.

DFW - Arlington Stadium. It really was a rathole, but had a good time there most times I went. Never went to the newer stadium, nor the current one.

Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium, then Turner Field.

Baltimore - Camden Yards. Really nice stadium in the early days.

NY - Old Yankee Stadium. Sat in the upper deck. The upper deck was really steep and kind of scary for a drunk guy who's scared of heights to descend.

Boston - Fenway Park. We had seats in center field and were there early. We walked all the way around the park before going in, then as far as we could inside the stadium. There was an interior gate that was guarded and they weren't supposed to let us through. My buddy was from the Boston area and told the guard I was from KC and he needed to show me the glory of Fenway, so the guard said ok and let us go through. I'm still really surprised by that.

LA - Dodger Stadium. Pretty cool place. It's built into the side of a hill so you just walk up the hill to the level of your seats and walk straight into the stadium level.

LA - Old Anaheim stadium. This was pretty fun. The crowd is really into having a good time no matter the game. I really enjoyed this.

Oakland - Oakland/Alameda stadium. What a shithole. The Oakland fans were assholes too. I was there in 1984 the night the Royals clenched the AL West.

Houston - Astrodome was another shithole. I was incredibly let down by how awful a place for baseball that was. The new stadium is pretty nice. Parking is terrible, but the stadium is great.

Milwaukee - American Family Field. It was still pretty new when I was there. Great fans, nice people. It's a good place to see a game.

Seattle - I didn't actually get to the game at the Kingdome. We were at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska and were unable to get out of there early enough. This was at the end of the Cold War and the Russians were flying some military aircraft to Canada for an airshow. They couldn't make it without refueling and had negotiated with the US govt to land for refueling at Elmendorf in Anchorage. So, we got to see a short airshow the Russians put on for everyone over the base before they landed. So, we missed my one and only chance to see a game at the Kingdome, but given how much I heard about the Kingdome being another shithole, I'm glad we got to see the Russians come in and land at a US AFB.

Bonus - Omaha - Went to the College World Series at the old stadium. College atmosphere. Lots of fun. We had coolers of beer in the trunk of the car and some frisbees, so we started horsing around as we waited for the traffic to clear. Ended up staying there having fun until about 3:30 in the morning. A security guard drove up around 2:00 and asked what the hell we were doing. We told him we were waiting for the traffic to clear up. He looked around at the empty lots, thought about it for a moment, said "OK," and drove off. Fun night.

Lived in NYC for 15 years and I’m ashamed that I never made the Chinese $10 bus ride to Boston for a game. Had a couple trips planned, but for several reasons they fell through. I’m an idiot!

Can’t believe you could have a good time at old Arlington. Open stadium with almost nothing but bleacher seats and no shade. That place was AWFUL.

Yeah, Dodger Stadium, when you finally get into the place, the setting is okay. As you said, it’s built into the hills and a bowl stadium at that. But didn’t think anything about the place was great. This is also 20 years ago. Maybe it’s better now?

You mentioned Angel Stadium and yeah, I do remember the fans were very into it, sorta…. Mostly just hot and Panda Express was the hot spot.

I wanna get to Milwaukee at some point.

Deberg_1990 · 04-20-2025, 07:38 PM

The K of course

Tropicana. Feels like a minor league stadium

Coors Field. Decent. Had really good seats.

Camden. Good times, bit shitty Neighborhood.

The Ballpark in Arlington. Hot as hell. And the site views not that great.

Globe Life Field. I liked it a lot. And it’s indoors for Texas summers.

New Busch stadium. Other than hosting the Red Birds, it’s a fine stadium.

RedinTexas · 04-20-2025, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

Lived in NYC for 15 years and I’m ashamed that I never made the Chinese $10 bus ride to Boston for a game. Had a couple trips planned, but for several reasons they fell through. I’m an idiot!

Can’t believe you could have a good time at old Arlington. Open stadium with almost nothing but bleacher seats and no shade. That place was AWFUL.

Yeah, Dodger Stadium, when you finally get into the place, the setting is okay. As you said, it’s built into the hills and a bowl stadium at that. But didn’t think anything about the place was great. This is also 20 years ago. Maybe it’s better now?

You mentioned Angel Stadium and yeah, I do remember the fans were very into it, sorta…. Mostly just hot and Panda Express was the hot spot.

I wanna get to Milwaukee at some point.

Arlington was very hot, but night games were a little better. I guess after living in Texas for many years I was a lot more accustomed to the heat. Lots of eye candy too.

Dodger stadium is nice. The fans are kind of pathetic as they arrive late and leave early. I was there about 30 years ago.

Chieftain · 04-20-2025, 07:54 PM

My first baseball game was at the old Kingdome in Seattle (1995). Crazy enough, it was a game between the Mariners vs the Royals which the home team won 4-3.
Two years later, I became a fan of KC's football team and its fanbase now is called Chiefs kingdom. Twilight zone.

DJay23 · 04-20-2025, 08:01 PM

Royals/Kaufmann - A bunch when I was a kid. Used to go over 4th of July weekend and the last homestand of the year close to my birthday. The last time I went was when I drove out in 2015. Went to a double header vs the Rays that we swept.

Mile High - For the first ever Rockies home game in 1993. Rockies beat the Expos.

Camden Yards - First time in about 98 or 99. Royals beat Mussina and the O's. I've been there a lot over the years including to see Moose drive in like 8 runs and when Ventura threw at Machado which almost got ME in a fight.

Fenway - Took my dad to a random Red Sox/Angels game for Fathers Day in 2002 just so we could say we've been. It was a real dump back then. Sox won but the loudest cheer was after the Yankees game had gone final with them losing. Crowd chanted "Yankees suck!" Pretty lame.

PNC/Pirates - Been there a lot over the years starting around 2002. While the ballpark is nice, I generally don't like Pittsburgh.

Old Yankee Stadium - Went to Yankees/Red Sox with a buddy on a whim around 2003. Sat in the centerfield bleachers. Police escorted someone out about once per inning. Got scammed by a guy who parked my friends car so nut to butt we had to nudge the cars in front and behind to get out. The guy took all of our cash.

Citizen's Bank/Phillies - Started going to games there in the early 2000s. For me it's an easy drive. Easy parking access/situation. Not bad if the Phillies suck, the dickhead fans don't bother much with you. Have taken my nephew there a lot as he's a Phillies fan.

Nationals Park - Took my nephew there a few times. Charmless ballpark without much going for it except you could take the DC Metro pretty much right to the outfield gate.

Progressive Field/Indians - My dad and I went there in 2016 to watch the Royals lose on a super hot day.

Wrigley - One of the best days of my life. "Friendly Confines" is not an exaggeration. It really is just plopped into the middle of a neighborhood. Game was the day before the Air and Water show and the Blue Angels/F-14s were buzzing the stadium and doing maneuvers over downtown Chicago which we could watch from our seats.

Bowman Field/Little League Classic - A day after getting home from Wrigley, my dad got passes for my GF and I to see the Pirates beat the Cardinals in Williamsport for the first Little League Classic. This one is special because I live about a 15 minute walk from Bowman. I can see the stadium lights from my front porch. Bowman is an old minor league park built in the 20's. They've had a minor league team in there for most of the 32 years I've lived here. They did major renovations to the playing surface and added proper bullpens and nicer seats/concourses when they started to do the Little League Classic. MLB put a lot of money into it which the Williamsport Crosscutters
(Draft League formerly NY/Penn League, Low A Summer League) and various local high school teams benefit from. Though for the MLB games they have to put up more light towers, a larger batter's eye, towers for cameras, and they build a bigger temporary video board. They also add bigger "clubhouses" in the form of those white tents you see at outdoor events like weddings. Anyway, it's a cool thing they do.

DCTwister · 04-20-2025, 08:04 PM

Overall for baseball parks, I’m fond of the downtown city parks where there are things to do around the ballpark. I hate Royals location although I love the stadium itself.

Royals - grew up going to games in the 70s

Nationals - I’ve been here in DC for 30 years and I am a Nats fan too. The area around the park is getting built up nicer and nicer every year. Capitalism at its finest. Used to be a really generic experience but pretty nice now.

Baltimore - Camden Yards still one of the nicer ballparks in a cool location. Easy to get in and out of downtown even by car.

Philly - Generic but nice enough.

San Francisco - probably my favorite non-KC or DC park to visit. Views are fantastic.

Oakland - Visted 3 years ago and man what a shithole. The area around it is what I imagine Syria or some bombed out third world dystopia.

Anaheim - “just fine”. Generic park if I’ve ever seen one in the suburbs. Nothing special about it at all.

Boston - Fenway is super overrated. What people won’t admit is that it’s an absolutely terrible, old shitty park with terrible views. Just because it’s old doesn’t make it good. Sucks. Location is good.

Cubs was kinda cool as I remember. Never been to Yankees but would like to.

Zhawk · 04-20-2025, 08:09 PM

Target in MSP. Great venue. Great location. Wherever you are in the stadium (bar etc) you can see the action. Before and after the game you can have a beer and a bite near by. Makes you think about a downtown location for the Royals.

myselff77 · 04-20-2025, 08:24 PM

1. Kansas City
2. Miami (back when they first played at Joe Robbie)
3. Baltimore
4. Milwaukee (Both County Stadium & Miller Park)
5. Chicago Cubs
6. Chicago White Sox
7. Detroit
8. NY Yankees (Went by myself to see a Royals game because Fontier had a crazy $20 fare. Alex Gordon saw me wearing my Royals jersey amongst all the yankee fans and tossed me a ball. Thanks Alex!)
9. Pittsburgh
10. Minnesota
11. St Louis
12. Colorado
13. San Francisco
14. LA Dodgers
15. Seattle
16. Washington
17. Philadelphia
18. Cleveland

Favorites: KC, Pittsburgh, San Fran
Really need to figure out a way to see Fenway. Though the Astros & Rangers would be the easiest two for me to knock out.

Katipan · 04-20-2025, 08:25 PM

I grew up in Dodger Stadium.
My 20s at Chase.
Currently spend a lot of time at Coors.

I have affection for all of them.

04-20-2025, 05:59 PM
GabyKeepsMeWarm I'll **** anything that moves! Join Date: Jan 2022 Casino cash: $-2060000	What Ballparks Have You Been To? Or if you’re not a big baseball person, what other arenas have you attended for an event? I’ll get us started with ballparks… KC: Royals/Kauffman Stadium: first one I can sorta remember was in 1979. Still have a pennant from that year. 1979-2024 NYC/Bronx: Old/New Yankee Stadium: went to 7 games between the two ballparks and never saw the Royals win one game. 0fer 7. 2005-2016 NYC/Queens: Shea/Citifield: Shea was a toilet. Citifield is pretty good. Got to see game 5. 2005-2021 Baltimore: Camden Yards: great place. Softshell crab sandwiches. $40 seats three rows behind home plate. Good fans. Caught a bp Moustakas homer as I was inspecting the warehouse plaques. Royals won. Gordon went yard. 2013 Cincinatti: Old Riverfront: Ted Power got our family tix. He gave up a leadoff first pitch home run to Barry Bonds, but the Reds came back to win. 1987 Texas: Old Arlington Stadium: Don’t remember much except the park was horrible and we cooked for six innings before getting the hell outta there. 1984 Los Angeles: Dodgers Stadium: went to a few games there. Nothing exceptional about the park. Dodger dogs are overrated. Takes FOREVER getting in or out of that joint. 2000-2004. Minneapolis: Metrodome: went to a few games there. Hamelin hit a moon shot to right. 1994-2006 Anaheim: Angel Stadium: only went once. Royals lost. Nothing stands out about the joint. It was hot. 2001. St. Louis: Old Busch Stadium: went to a few games. Cool seeing Ozzie flip to start the game. And Donovan Osborne hit a grand slam at another game I attended. Place went ****ing bananas as he was the starting pitcher. 1982-2006 Pittsburgh: PNC Park: this place is a gem. Royals won both games I attended. Fireworks on the river after the Friday night game. Good fans. Good food options. 2024 Houston: Enron/Tropicana? Can’t remember if Enron was still in business…. My band was on tour and we had an extra night in Houston to hang so we went to a game. It was a blur due to being on tour, but we had a good time. I do remember the hot dogs being really effing good. Opened the roof in the 7th after the stretch. 2003 Detroit: Comerica: Greinke was pitching and he had a bad game. My only real weekend while working on a movie in Michigan. Nice ballpark. Good fans. 2010 Atlanta: Turner Field: on vacation with my then gf. Her brother drove us. Took forever getting into that place. Nothing very memorable. Though if you walked to a part of the parking lot, they had a piece of Fulton County stadium where Aaron hit his 755th. 2006 Denver: Mile High Stadium: tix were $3. I think there was something like 60,000 at the game. Few older buddies got me drunk. It was fun. 1993 I think that’s it for ballparks? Gonna visit Seattle in a couple months, so I’ll get that one crossed off my list soon.
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comochiefsfan MVP Join Date: Dec 2018 Casino cash: $-959600	T Mobile Park (Seattle): Awesome park with an amazing view of the downtown skyline and the Olympic Mountains Kauffman Stadium: Don’t have to explain that one to anyone here. Wrigley Field: Really cool. Felt like going back in time. Busch Stadium (old and new): Loved old Busch for nostalgia reasons. New Busch was very well done. Yankee Stadium: Big and corporate. Maybe my least favorite. Still good though. Coors Field: Really solid park. Nothing spectacular but just a good ballpark experience.
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RedinTexas Veteran Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: Texas Casino cash: $-230000	KC - Old Municipal Stadium, then Kaufman. DFW - Arlington Stadium. It really was a rathole, but had a good time there most times I went. Never went to the newer stadium, nor the current one. Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium, then Turner Field. Baltimore - Camden Yards. Really nice stadium in the early days. NY - Old Yankee Stadium. Sat in the upper deck. The upper deck was really steep and kind of scary for a drunk guy who's scared of heights to descend. Boston - Fenway Park. We had seats in center field and were there early. We walked all the way around the park before going in, then as far as we could inside the stadium. There was an interior gate that was guarded and they weren't supposed to let us through. My buddy was from the Boston area and told the guard I was from KC and he needed to show me the glory of Fenway, so the guard said ok and let us go through. I'm still really surprised by that. LA - Dodger Stadium. Pretty cool place. It's built into the side of a hill so you just walk up the hill to the level of your seats and walk straight into the stadium level. LA - Old Anaheim stadium. This was pretty fun. The crowd is really into having a good time no matter the game. I really enjoyed this. Oakland - Oakland/Alameda stadium. What a shithole. The Oakland fans were assholes too. I was there in 1984 the night the Royals clenched the AL West. Houston - Astrodome was another shithole. I was incredibly let down by how awful a place for baseball that was. The new stadium is pretty nice. Parking is terrible, but the stadium is great. Milwaukee - American Family Field. It was still pretty new when I was there. Great fans, nice people. It's a good place to see a game. Seattle - I didn't actually get to the game at the Kingdome. We were at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska and were unable to get out of there early enough. This was at the end of the Cold War and the Russians were flying some military aircraft to Canada for an airshow. They couldn't make it without refueling and had negotiated with the US govt to land for refueling at Elmendorf in Anchorage. So, we got to see a short airshow the Russians put on for everyone over the base before they landed. So, we missed my one and only chance to see a game at the Kingdome, but given how much I heard about the Kingdome being another shithole, I'm glad we got to see the Russians come in and land at a US AFB. Bonus - Omaha - Went to the College World Series at the old stadium. College atmosphere. Lots of fun. We had coolers of beer in the trunk of the car and some frisbees, so we started horsing around as we waited for the traffic to clear. Ended up staying there having fun until about 3:30 in the morning. A security guard drove up around 2:00 and asked what the hell we were doing. We told him we were waiting for the traffic to clear up. He looked around at the empty lots, thought about it for a moment, said "OK," and drove off. Fun night. Last edited by RedinTexas; 04-20-2025 at 06:24 PM..
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04-20-2025, 08:01 PM	#11
DJay23 Rock Chalk Jayhawk Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: PA Casino cash: $-296683	Royals/Kaufmann - A bunch when I was a kid. Used to go over 4th of July weekend and the last homestand of the year close to my birthday. The last time I went was when I drove out in 2015. Went to a double header vs the Rays that we swept. Mile High - For the first ever Rockies home game in 1993. Rockies beat the Expos. Camden Yards - First time in about 98 or 99. Royals beat Mussina and the O's. I've been there a lot over the years including to see Moose drive in like 8 runs and when Ventura threw at Machado which almost got ME in a fight. Fenway - Took my dad to a random Red Sox/Angels game for Fathers Day in 2002 just so we could say we've been. It was a real dump back then. Sox won but the loudest cheer was after the Yankees game had gone final with them losing. Crowd chanted "Yankees suck!" Pretty lame. PNC/Pirates - Been there a lot over the years starting around 2002. While the ballpark is nice, I generally don't like Pittsburgh. Old Yankee Stadium - Went to Yankees/Red Sox with a buddy on a whim around 2003. Sat in the centerfield bleachers. Police escorted someone out about once per inning. Got scammed by a guy who parked my friends car so nut to butt we had to nudge the cars in front and behind to get out. The guy took all of our cash. Citizen's Bank/Phillies - Started going to games there in the early 2000s. For me it's an easy drive. Easy parking access/situation. Not bad if the Phillies suck, the dickhead fans don't bother much with you. Have taken my nephew there a lot as he's a Phillies fan. Nationals Park - Took my nephew there a few times. Charmless ballpark without much going for it except you could take the DC Metro pretty much right to the outfield gate. Progressive Field/Indians - My dad and I went there in 2016 to watch the Royals lose on a super hot day. Wrigley - One of the best days of my life. "Friendly Confines" is not an exaggeration. It really is just plopped into the middle of a neighborhood. Game was the day before the Air and Water show and the Blue Angels/F-14s were buzzing the stadium and doing maneuvers over downtown Chicago which we could watch from our seats. Bowman Field/Little League Classic - A day after getting home from Wrigley, my dad got passes for my GF and I to see the Pirates beat the Cardinals in Williamsport for the first Little League Classic. This one is special because I live about a 15 minute walk from Bowman. I can see the stadium lights from my front porch. Bowman is an old minor league park built in the 20's. They've had a minor league team in there for most of the 32 years I've lived here. They did major renovations to the playing surface and added proper bullpens and nicer seats/concourses when they started to do the Little League Classic. MLB put a lot of money into it which the Williamsport Crosscutters (Draft League formerly NY/Penn League, Low A Summer League) and various local high school teams benefit from. Though for the MLB games they have to put up more light towers, a larger batter's eye, towers for cameras, and they build a bigger temporary video board. They also add bigger "clubhouses" in the form of those white tents you see at outdoor events like weddings. Anyway, it's a cool thing they do. __________________ "True bliss is not something you search for, true bliss is already living inside us all, and sometimes it takes a roomfull of others to lead us to the mirror of your soul." - CosmicPal (10-3-03) Last edited by DJay23; 04-20-2025 at 08:21 PM..
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04-20-2025, 08:04 PM	#12
DCTwister Starter Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Marooned in the DC swamp Casino cash: $4440400	Overall for baseball parks, I’m fond of the downtown city parks where there are things to do around the ballpark. I hate Royals location although I love the stadium itself. Royals - grew up going to games in the 70s Nationals - I’ve been here in DC for 30 years and I am a Nats fan too. The area around the park is getting built up nicer and nicer every year. Capitalism at its finest. Used to be a really generic experience but pretty nice now. Baltimore - Camden Yards still one of the nicer ballparks in a cool location. Easy to get in and out of downtown even by car. Philly - Generic but nice enough. San Francisco - probably my favorite non-KC or DC park to visit. Views are fantastic. Oakland - Visted 3 years ago and man what a shithole. The area around it is what I imagine Syria or some bombed out third world dystopia. Anaheim - “just fine”. Generic park if I’ve ever seen one in the suburbs. Nothing special about it at all. Boston - Fenway is super overrated. What people won’t admit is that it’s an absolutely terrible, old shitty park with terrible views. Just because it’s old doesn’t make it good. Sucks. Location is good. Cubs was kinda cool as I remember. Never been to Yankees but would like to.
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04-20-2025, 08:09 PM	#13
Zhawk Starter Join Date: Sep 2019 Casino cash: $5580400	Target in MSP. Great venue. Great location. Wherever you are in the stadium (bar etc) you can see the action. Before and after the game you can have a beer and a bite near by. Makes you think about a downtown location for the Royals.
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04-20-2025, 08:24 PM	#14
myselff77 Starter Join Date: Aug 2019 Casino cash: $890000	1. Kansas City 2. Miami (back when they first played at Joe Robbie) 3. Baltimore 4. Milwaukee (Both County Stadium & Miller Park) 5. Chicago Cubs 6. Chicago White Sox 7. Detroit 8. NY Yankees (Went by myself to see a Royals game because Fontier had a crazy $20 fare. Alex Gordon saw me wearing my Royals jersey amongst all the yankee fans and tossed me a ball. Thanks Alex!) 9. Pittsburgh 10. Minnesota 11. St Louis 12. Colorado 13. San Francisco 14. LA Dodgers 15. Seattle 16. Washington 17. Philadelphia 18. Cleveland Favorites: KC, Pittsburgh, San Fran Really need to figure out a way to see Fenway. Though the Astros & Rangers would be the easiest two for me to knock out.
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04-20-2025, 08:25 PM	#15
Katipan MER Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Colorado Casino cash: $-689649	I grew up in Dodger Stadium. My 20s at Chase. Currently spend a lot of time at Coors. I have affection for all of them. __________________ "Loving him is red."
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