@@christopherdeguilio6375 yeah wrigley does it a little better with that I think. Never got even back in the day why the grandstands are point away from the action lol. Never quite understood it
@@christopherdeguilio6375guaranteed, 90%+ of anyone who's ever been to Fenway would say the right field corner. Surprisingly good sightlines for football, surprisingly bad sightlines for baseball. Saying the batters eye ia worse is wild.
Lol the entire MLB might as well use their minor league stadiums. I get that this is your opinion only, but this whole “wall of seats” complaining is a bit much. I’ll agree with you that the Jays should remove the seats behind the lighting, but other then that it’s all fine. Stadiums come in different sizes.
The dead zones in the Angel Stadium outfield are the old bullpens that discontinued use during the remodel. It’s not because it used to be a multi use Stadium.
I think these were also the tunnels used for NFL games to get to the football locker rooms, but please confirm if anyone remembers. This is one of the few multi-use stadiums that was built as baseball only and then remodeled to accommodate football (so I think those "dead zones" were built as bullpens with no other use in mind originally). Then converted back to baseball only. I think that's why it works well for baseball and has survived so many other stadiums of that era.
Target Field no longer has a blank black wall, this has not been true since 2019, they currently have a green wall of living plants in the batter's eye. We have told you this repeatedly stop bringing this up since its no longer true. Also the picture you used was from 2012, with the new scoreboard, the advertisers in the upper deck all follow the same guide ( essentially black background with the logo of the company in color.)
According to live games in 2023, it’s a living wall which is full of green plants, and not black. However I have not been to a game live so I cannot confirm
I mentioned this on one of his other videos, but didn't really mind, he looks at like a million stadiums from different sports, so he won't know every change. But now he's straight up fabricating the idea that they had the green wall and then removed it, which is really strange. Don't know where he got that idea from.
Dodger Stadium did remodel the center field section. It’s now a children’s play area and you can watch BP from ground level when they open the wall before the game.
Just based on visuals without ever being at the ballpark, I think PNC Park in Pittsburgh looks the best overall. Looks the most like an old time ballpark but modernized for the 21st century. and boy, what an absolutely beautiful outfield view.
I was just there over the weekend I think the gap is cool because of the Great American building that lines up with it perfectly and it’s unique what I hate is the concourse it’s just cement everywhere and it’s pretty bland.
How about the fact that the seats at Fenway are sized for someone about 80% the size of a modern person, or that like half of them face the wrong way? I get that Fenway (and Wrigley) are beloved, and I understand why, but let's not pretend like they are perfect. There are sacrifices you make to keep your old stadium, and the Red Sox have been making those sacrifices for generations.
I wish you had mentioned whe home team in each stadium. Due to corporate name changes and recent renovations there were about 5 I didn't know. Slightly embarrassed but I am 61😁
2:07 lol I was in downtown Cleveland looking at this mid construction thinking wtf are they doing with that upper deck. Then I saw the finished product… Horrible
Camden Yards, if you move the fence back, the seats move up. If you move the fence up and don't move it back then you are covering up the front rows of seating. The reason the fence went up was as they moved it back and removed seats the remaining seats are higher than the seats you removed.
As a Cardinals fan, I love Busch stadium. But the one thing the has always bothered me is how the southern side of the stadium is smushed right against an elevated highway. I know there was no practical way around it considering the way it had to be built next to the old stadium. But still, it bothers me. The highway just overpowers it from some angles.
I hate Guaranteed Rate Field, but the enclosed feature is needed because there’s a major highway that runs right behind the stadium so you can’t have hrs landing in heavy traffic.
Sox Park is fine. Most of the people who say that they hate it have never even been there. Yes, the Dan Ryan Expressway is beyond the outfield but what most people don't understand is the huge housing projects that were on the other side of the expressway at the time. So unless you want to see the projects every time a homer is hit...also, while it was being built, they used to fire shots across the expressway to shoot out seats in the upper deck for fun. So, yeah, I think there were pretty good reasons to enclose it.
Safeco/T-Mobile , when the stadium opened for the first 5ish seasons the batters eye was green , but the paint reflected the Sun and players would complain .. also the reason why it had the worst hitting stats in the league , so they ended up going with that black paint that absorbs all light with no reflection at all. I have family as a groundscrew there . There’s your answer as why it’s like that
What they did in Detroit in center field in 2023 in center field is really similar to what they did in left to center field in 2003, just not as far in this year as back then (25 feet closer in left center field and 10 feet closer in center field). This is really similar to the original Yankee Stadium when they brought the fence in left center field in 1985 and in a few more feet in 1988, where you have an inner fence that looks tacky from above. Another thing about Comerica Park, when they moved the fence in across left field in 2003, it took another two years before the bullpens were moved into the empty wasted space from right field, thereby freing up that area for a couple of large sections of seats next to the right field access tunnel. Worst feature in about fifteen major league parks also, far too many commercials between innings and no live organ music, which needs to return everywhere and eliminate all of the commercials for those of us who pay quite a sum of money for the live game experience. The commercials are unnecessary because there is more than enough advertising in all MLB parks ever since it made a major comeback in 1992.
They get paid big money by the companies that are advertising their products with commercials. So I wouldn't count on them throwing away that opportunity for us true baseball fans that like the in game experience/having an organ play but I agree with you. Been a Tiger fan since Old Tiger Stadium and I absolutely despise the new center field wall. Looks super cheap. Idgaf what they thought about how deep it was to Center because what makes a ballpark feel "deep" is the gaps anyway. To me, they should knock that peice of cardboard they're calling a Centerfield fence down and keep the old one unless they plan on replicating it with the vines, and everything on the old wall, which I don't think is possible. Truth is, the reason they moved it in is because they can't land free agent hitters on short contracts with fences so deep. Same as the reason they had them so deep to begin with was to get FA pitchers to sign there which didn't work anyway. To get talent in Detroit it has to be through the draft or trades because no matter how much you tinker with the Stadium there are more desired destinations for free agents to go. I really miss the old center field wall and the right center field scoreboard wall too. At least throw some extra seats in that big ass gap between the center field fences. And wtf is with all the orange little Ceasars colors ugh. BRING BACK COMERICA PARK!
LA used to have the gap between the wall and the seats so when someone hit a HR it would go into no mans land and you'd see people running down he steps to get the ball. SD I don't like that old building in LF. It looks out of place.
The worst thing about Camden Yards imo (where I have been to many time) is the skyline. They used to have a bell tower that was visible, but now it is obstructed by a massive motel.
We just went to games in Cleveland and Detroit this past weekend. Progressive Field had narrow seats in the 400 sections. Very uncomfortable. Comerica Park has the narrowest seats in the lower bowl that I have ever seen in the 20 MLB parks that I have been to. We had great seats, but we absolutely could not get into the seats.
As a Cardinals fan my biggest issue is more so the fault of the city where the Arch keeps getting covered up. It once towered proudly above the stadium but now it's peaking past buildings. I guess I'm glad there's developments but it does take away from the parks greatness
Worst thing about Globe Life is there are giant windows facing the mound, and when the roof is up, sunlight blasts down on the infield and limits visibility for the players.
Since Citi Field has open concourses, the stairs are visible, which would be concealed behind tunnels in most stadiums. When you enter the upper deck from the concourse, you go down for the 400 level and up for the 500 level. The outfield seating is asymmetrical with there being more seats in left field than right field, because of how they placed two large standing room areas in right and center field. One of them is on the 100 level and the other is on the 300 level. I agree that it feels like it should have more seats than it actually does, because it feels cavernous inside.
In defense of Kaufman Stadium there isnt really a bad seat in the house and that wall of seats looks amazing when the Royals are good but unfortunately thats only been a hand full of years since the K opened.
Rogers centre is the most underrated stadium in sports. You’re so hard on it every time you bring it up. The exterior is the ONLY down side to this ball park.
What exactly do you mean when you say “wall of seats?” You keeping making up these preposterous terms that make no sense. There’s no consistency when you use it lmao
Wall of seats means that the seating sections run vertically and horizontally without the section having the same rows of seats or too many seats within that section, making the seating configurations and sections unbalance. For instance, the 2nd or 3rd upper decks having way more seats and sections than the lower bowls or sections extending to the roof or for no reasons, when you don't need all them seats! The old cookie cutter stadiums were 100% guilty of this flaw and many of the new stadiums have that same exact problem. You don't need new stadiums designed in that way and newer stadiums don't need to have more than 40,000 seats, in general, because most MLB teams will not consistenly have over 40,000 at their home games, through out the season. 45,000 seats would be the max for today's ball parks. So, you don't need massive upper decks around the stadiums, anymore!
This is irrelevant to the video itself, but I've only recently stumbled upon your channel and I'm always distracted by your regional accent. It's a weird fascination I picked up after working in tourism since 1993. I wanna say . . . Philly? Northern New Jersey? Maybe Upstate New York? My gut's telling me Philly, but my gut also tells me to eat Arby's, so clearly it is not to be trusted.
If I could change one thing about Truist Park, I’d remove the lower level box suites. I’m sure they’re awesome if you get one. But, they make the lower level concourse feel crammed.
Weird, I always believed that the Cubs played at Wrigley Field but according to this video they play at Wrigley Filed so I was wrong. It’s a good thing you were not around back in the 20’s to the 60’s, if you would have seen some of those stadiums you would have had a heart attack if you feel the way you do about certain features of these modern stadiums
Great video! As a Sox fan, I have to say that the worst part of my beloved Fenway is the seating in the right field grandstand that does not face home plate... I've left too many games with a wicked crick in the neck!
The White Sox originally wanted the outfield to be open until construction workers kept finding upper deck seats with bullet holes in them. There were several ways this could have been easily avoided that were fairly obvious beforehand but this was how they chose to deal with that minor issue.
Top 5 Ballparks….no specific order 1. Petco Park (San Diego) 2. PNC Park (Pittsburgh) 3. Oracle Park (San Francisco) 4. Wrigley Field (Chicago) 5. Fenway Park (Boston) Honorable Mention…Camden Yards (Baltimore). But, the new dimensions suck
Yeah, you should have mentioned the team playing in each stadium. I don't pay attention to which corporation pays ad money to get their name on the stadium. Except Wrigley, which has been hammered into my head for decades.
This is off topic, but if the A's move to Vegas, resort fees and expensive parking during game days are going to be an issue. When the Bears visited Las Vegas to play the Raiders, Chicago fans felt nickeled and dimed in Las Vegas. A stay on the strip is already $300/night on a weekend, it goes up during big events.
@@pool__boy Amazing how the leagues all of them hated gambling with a devoted passion, And then they lost to New Jersey in the SCOTUS and it seems like it took them all no more than a week to have "Official Betting Partners". Like say "Draft Kings, Official betting partner of Major League Baseball". The smell of money might be the only thing that moves faster than a scifi ship in hyperspace.
Comerica Park went the cheap route. Everyone I know hate the new lowered padded wall in right-center field. The organization could've at least add a row or two of seating where the space is between the new and old wall, and to top it off they removed the out of town scoreboard that looked really nice out there, the Illitch family always go the cheap way out.
The centerfield wall at Comerica isn't staying that way. They did what they could, considering they only made the design change 3 weeks before the season started. It'll get a face-lift either during the All-star break, or next off season.
If they do anything with the fence in center field it won't be til after the season. Teams aren't allowed to change their outfield fences during the year. Blame Charlie Finley's Kansas City A's and the "Half Pennant Porch" for that one.
As a Tigers fan I can definitely agree with you on Comerica Park’s double fence. We’ve had guys on our local sports talk radio station talking about how it looks like a Little League World Series setup. They also waited until like 2 weeks before opening day to actually set up the new fence so that doesn’t help either
It was actually the Angels (home team) bullpen. The visitors was in the left field “dead zone”. That said though, the right field lower seating next to the dead zone sucks because anything hit to right center and center can’t be seen. The views are obstructed. You’re left to wonder what the hell is happening.
bro always complain about the batters eye and unfortunately there’s just not many ways to make a batters eye look nice and flow into the stadium it doesn’t work like that
I know you hate the LF upper deck in Citi Field but that does get quite filled for big games and opening day i get it’s just the design of it but it’s used more often than Cleveland & Seattle
The catwalk at the Trop reminds me of the time Darryl Strawberry hit the roof / lighting at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. It was ruled a home run, so I assume it hit the roof / lighting beyond the outfield wall. I don't think anyone else had ever did that anywhere in the field of play in the 27 years the Expos played in that ballpark.
5:53 the reason the 500 level in Right Field/the 1st base side goes so high is because the track for the southernmost portion of the roof to swivel actually goes along the left field side. Having sat on both sides of the nosebleeds though I would say the 540 section is better than the opposite side, even if it is smaller, as you would have the sun more behind you with the roof open.
I'm disappointed with the Rogers Centre batters eye, its better than before, but it could have used some ivy or something to give it character. maybe one day.
Angel Stadium was and is a straight baseball stadium, that for a period of time had a football field shoehorned into it. But it was not built as a multi-purpose stadium like Qualcomm and others, where seats could be rearranged depending if football or baseball was being played there. Angel Stadium with football, was like when the NY Giants (football) played at Yankee Stadium.
The Gap and Great American is great. It's an intentional design choice. It's so downtown can watch the game. Also, it's some of the best standing room available at any park.
I love the Budweiser Pavilion in right field at Busch, but that's because I have a Ballpark Pass, which gets me a SRO ticket for every game, and that's a great place to find a seat to watch the game.
One of the worst features of The Dome (Rogers Centre) is the fact that all the seating faces straight forward. The seats are not angled towards Home Plate like they are in baseball only venues. Having said that, the renovations are phenomenal and now make the park better than at least 5 other parks in the league
@@jayp.6166 I'm not sure they could, short of tearing down and rebuilding the entire RF seating area. (And note, I recall the clubhouse is underneath.)
@@Johnny96ri That's correct. The club house is underneith. I'm not an engineer but it seems like it would be a lot more work then simply turning each seat 35-45°. So, you're probably right
Seats at Dodger stadium are no farther away than any other stadium, there’s just more seats. The recently completely redid centerfield and batters eye. If you want to complain it’s the dark narrow concourses.
The batter's eye and scoreboard situation in Milwuakee, I agree it doesn't look great. But ask any player from the Brewers or the away team, and that's their favorite batter's eye in all of baseball because it's the easiest to pick up the ball out of the pitcher's hand. They even repainted it years back from a dark green to the black that it is today. Again, it doesn't look as pretty as other ballparks but it serves it's purpose better than any other ballpark in MLB.
Question for people who go to Tigers games. Didn't the architects / engineers who designed Comerica realize the outfield wall distances were going to be too far away from home plate, or did Tigers' management at the time want to make it a very pitcher-friendly park....?
The white Sox stadium they kinda had to do the wall but they did it poorly with the ads. Pretty sure it’s I80 or I90 that runs right behind the stadium
I sat in the upper deck at Rogers Centre at a game last year and god those seats were awful. So old and cramped. Not even a cup holder. Otherwise, the game was great, the stadium has a great atmosphere, the Blue Jays won, and I had a great time. I would love to hopefully go to a game at the newly renovated Rogers Centre next time I make it up to Canada.
Worst part of fenway and wrigley is the obstructed views for certain seats
The seats in the right field grandstand that face right field instead of home plate are the worst...and many of them are also restricted view
@@christopherdeguilio6375 yeah wrigley does it a little better with that I think. Never got even back in the day why the grandstands are point away from the action lol. Never quite understood it
ya really surprised that that wasnt listed for Fenway we sat not too far from them and its just bad
I'm a 59 year old Red Sox fan who loathes Fenway- I've never had a good seat there, because I'm not a season ticket owner nor am I rich.
@@christopherdeguilio6375guaranteed, 90%+ of anyone who's ever been to Fenway would say the right field corner. Surprisingly good sightlines for football, surprisingly bad sightlines for baseball. Saying the batters eye ia worse is wild.
Lol the entire MLB might as well use their minor league stadiums. I get that this is your opinion only, but this whole “wall of seats” complaining is a bit much. I’ll agree with you that the Jays should remove the seats behind the lighting, but other then that it’s all fine. Stadiums come in different sizes.
The dead zones in the Angel Stadium outfield are the old bullpens that discontinued use during the remodel. It’s not because it used to be a multi use Stadium.
I think these were also the tunnels used for NFL games to get to the football locker rooms, but please confirm if anyone remembers. This is one of the few multi-use stadiums that was built as baseball only and then remodeled to accommodate football (so I think those "dead zones" were built as bullpens with no other use in mind originally). Then converted back to baseball only. I think that's why it works well for baseball and has survived so many other stadiums of that era.
@@OriginalJoecorrect, those used to be bullpens and there are tunnels as well. Don’t know that it’s related to football.
Target Field no longer has a blank black wall, this has not been true since 2019, they currently have a green wall of living plants in the batter's eye. We have told you this repeatedly stop bringing this up since its no longer true. Also the picture you used was from 2012, with the new scoreboard, the advertisers in the upper deck all follow the same guide ( essentially black background with the logo of the company in color.)
Yes they do. Quit lying
According to live games in 2023, it’s a living wall which is full of green plants, and not black. However I have not been to a game live so I cannot confirm
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went to opening day, definitely a plant wall
I mentioned this on one of his other videos, but didn't really mind, he looks at like a million stadiums from different sports, so he won't know every change. But now he's straight up fabricating the idea that they had the green wall and then removed it, which is really strange. Don't know where he got that idea from.
In the 1970s, the statement about Dodger Stadium was that so many seats were so far from the field, fans couldn't see Steve Garvey's smile.
The worst feature of Yankee Stadium are Yankee fans.
I’m convinced the hole in GABP is for the view of/for(?) Great America building downtown.
Dodger Stadium did remodel the center field section. It’s now a children’s play area and you can watch BP from ground level when they open the wall before the game.
The dead zone at Angel Stadium used to be the old bullpen.
Just based on visuals without ever being at the ballpark, I think PNC Park in Pittsburgh looks the best overall. Looks the most like an old time ballpark but modernized for the 21st century. and boy, what an absolutely beautiful outfield view.
I think the Cardinals were contractually obligated to add drinking rails. It's Busch Stadium after all. The Busch family pretty much run St. Louis
The Great American ballpark gap is good. I used to work downtown in the Cincinnati bell building and could watch daygames through the gap.
and it lines up with sycamore street, on purpose i believe
I was just there over the weekend I think the gap is cool because of the Great American building that lines up with it perfectly and it’s unique what I hate is the concourse it’s just cement everywhere and it’s pretty bland.
How about the fact that the seats at Fenway are sized for someone about 80% the size of a modern person, or that like half of them face the wrong way?
I get that Fenway (and Wrigley) are beloved, and I understand why, but let's not pretend like they are perfect. There are sacrifices you make to keep your old stadium, and the Red Sox have been making those sacrifices for generations.
I wish you had mentioned whe home team in each stadium. Due to corporate name changes and recent renovations there were about 5 I didn't know. Slightly embarrassed but I am 61😁
Me too.
100% agreed. The only ball park in the MLB today where you are sure of the home team is Yankee Stadium.
@@tim12chang Dodger Stadium? Oriole Park?
2:07 lol I was in downtown Cleveland looking at this mid construction thinking wtf are they doing with that upper deck. Then I saw the finished product… Horrible
Camden Yards, if you move the fence back, the seats move up. If you move the fence up and don't move it back then you are covering up the front rows of seating. The reason the fence went up was as they moved it back and removed seats the remaining seats are higher than the seats you removed.
Also, people liked OPACY because it was a hitters' park? Huh?
As a Cardinals fan, I love Busch stadium. But the one thing the has always bothered me is how the southern side of the stadium is smushed right against an elevated highway. I know there was no practical way around it considering the way it had to be built next to the old stadium. But still, it bothers me. The highway just overpowers it from some angles.
They removed trees from center in Target feild because Mauer and Morneu complained about how it looked.
I hate Guaranteed Rate Field, but the enclosed feature is needed because there’s a major highway that runs right behind the stadium so you can’t have hrs landing in heavy traffic.
Sox Park is fine. Most of the people who say that they hate it have never even been there. Yes, the Dan Ryan Expressway is beyond the outfield but what most people don't understand is the huge housing projects that were on the other side of the expressway at the time. So unless you want to see the projects every time a homer is hit...also, while it was being built, they used to fire shots across the expressway to shoot out seats in the upper deck for fun. So, yeah, I think there were pretty good reasons to enclose it.
Safeco/T-Mobile , when the stadium opened for the first 5ish seasons the batters eye was green , but the paint reflected the Sun and players would complain .. also the reason why it had the worst hitting stats in the league , so they ended up going with that black paint that absorbs all light with no reflection at all. I have family as a groundscrew there . There’s your answer as why it’s like that
What they did in Detroit in center field in 2023 in center field is really similar to what they did in left to center field in 2003, just not as far in this year as back then (25 feet closer in left center field and 10 feet closer in center field). This is really similar to the original Yankee Stadium when they brought the fence in left center field in 1985 and in a few more feet in 1988, where you have an inner fence that looks tacky from above. Another thing about Comerica Park, when they moved the fence in across left field in 2003, it took another two years before the bullpens were moved into the empty wasted space from right field, thereby freing up that area for a couple of large sections of seats next to the right field access tunnel. Worst feature in about fifteen major league parks also, far too many commercials between innings and no live organ music, which needs to return everywhere and eliminate all of the commercials for those of us who pay quite a sum of money for the live game experience. The commercials are unnecessary because there is more than enough advertising in all MLB parks ever since it made a major comeback in 1992.
They get paid big money by the companies that are advertising their products with commercials. So I wouldn't count on them throwing away that opportunity for us true baseball fans that like the in game experience/having an organ play but I agree with you. Been a Tiger fan since Old Tiger Stadium and I absolutely despise the new center field wall. Looks super cheap. Idgaf what they thought about how deep it was to Center because what makes a ballpark feel "deep" is the gaps anyway. To me, they should knock that peice of cardboard they're calling a Centerfield fence down and keep the old one unless they plan on replicating it with the vines, and everything on the old wall, which I don't think is possible.
Truth is, the reason they moved it in is because they can't land free agent hitters on short contracts with fences so deep. Same as the reason they had them so deep to begin with was to get FA pitchers to sign there which didn't work anyway. To get talent in Detroit it has to be through the draft or trades because no matter how much you tinker with the Stadium there are more desired destinations for free agents to go. I really miss the old center field wall and the right center field scoreboard wall too. At least throw some extra seats in that big ass gap between the center field fences. And wtf is with all the orange little Ceasars colors ugh.
BRING BACK COMERICA PARK!
The sand pit at Petco Park is still there, they just moved it back to a more “safer” distance
And shrank to 1/5th the size
LA used to have the gap between the wall and the seats so when someone hit a HR it would go into no mans land and you'd see people running down he steps to get the ball. SD I don't like that old building in LF. It looks out of place.
I'm noticing a trend that most ballparks just can't get the batters eye right.
Truist Park's worst feature is the outfield seats and the scoreboard. It's really hard to see the scoreboard from most of the outfield seats.
"I don't like seats. They're rough and corse and irritating, and they get everywhere."
Fenway..I hate they way the seats face the outfield and not home plate....my neck and shoulder hurt for weeks..
The worst thing about Camden Yards imo (where I have been to many time) is the skyline. They used to have a bell tower that was visible, but now it is obstructed by a massive motel.
We just went to games in Cleveland and Detroit this past weekend. Progressive Field had narrow seats in the 400 sections. Very uncomfortable. Comerica Park has the narrowest seats in the lower bowl that I have ever seen in the 20 MLB parks that I have been to. We had great seats, but we absolutely could not get into the seats.
Target field removed the trees because Justin Morneau and other batters complained the trees were too distracting for them.
Target Field definitely has to be the Black Lives Matter banner on their outfield wall. We get it. You’re virtue signaling.
No business putting that on their wall. MLB needs to focus on the sport, not social or political agenda.
As a Cardinals fan my biggest issue is more so the fault of the city where the Arch keeps getting covered up. It once towered proudly above the stadium but now it's peaking past buildings. I guess I'm glad there's developments but it does take away from the parks greatness
Worst thing about Globe Life is there are giant windows facing the mound, and when the roof is up, sunlight blasts down on the infield and limits visibility for the players.
Since Citi Field has open concourses, the stairs are visible, which would be concealed behind tunnels in most stadiums. When you enter the upper deck from the concourse, you go down for the 400 level and up for the 500 level. The outfield seating is asymmetrical with there being more seats in left field than right field, because of how they placed two large standing room areas in right and center field. One of them is on the 100 level and the other is on the 300 level. I agree that it feels like it should have more seats than it actually does, because it feels cavernous inside.
In defense of Kaufman Stadium there isnt really a bad seat in the house and that wall of seats looks amazing when the Royals are good but unfortunately thats only been a hand full of years since the K opened.
The worst part of guaranteed rate field is the name of the stadium
Rogers centre is the most underrated stadium in sports. You’re so hard on it every time you bring it up. The exterior is the ONLY down side to this ball park.
What exactly do you mean when you say “wall of seats?” You keeping making up these preposterous terms that make no sense. There’s no consistency when you use it lmao
Hey you take the good with the bad with the DG…..sometimes I’m 🤦🏻♂️ but others I’m 😂
@@pool__boy that’s what i did. Sometimes like ehhhh bad take but other times in like 😂
@@bracarbone yes I was trying to agree but my tone may have been off. You aren’t wrong
Wall of seats means that the seating sections run vertically and horizontally without the section having the same rows of seats or too many seats within that section, making the seating configurations and sections unbalance. For instance, the 2nd or 3rd upper decks having way more seats and sections than the lower bowls or sections extending to the roof or for no reasons, when you don't need all them seats! The old cookie cutter stadiums were 100% guilty of this flaw and many of the new stadiums have that same exact problem. You don't need new stadiums designed in that way and newer stadiums don't need to have more than 40,000 seats, in general, because most MLB teams will not consistenly have over 40,000 at their home games, through out the season. 45,000 seats would be the max for today's ball parks. So, you don't need massive upper decks around the stadiums, anymore!
All this guy does is pick on Guaranteed Rate Field
The Trop was designed by a drunk and coked-out Floridian Architect back in the late 1980s, Ginger!! True story!! 😀😉
This is irrelevant to the video itself, but I've only recently stumbled upon your channel and I'm always distracted by your regional accent. It's a weird fascination I picked up after working in tourism since 1993.
I wanna say . . . Philly? Northern New Jersey? Maybe Upstate New York? My gut's telling me Philly, but my gut also tells me to eat Arby's, so clearly it is not to be trusted.
If I could change one thing about Truist Park, I’d remove the lower level box suites. I’m sure they’re awesome if you get one. But, they make the lower level concourse feel crammed.
Weird, I always believed that the Cubs played at Wrigley Field but according to this video they play at Wrigley Filed so I was wrong.
It’s a good thing you were not around back in the 20’s to the 60’s, if you would have seen some of those stadiums you would have had a heart attack if you feel the way you do about certain features of these modern stadiums
The Padres batters eye is different now. It is completely green and people love it. That picture was from a couple years ago.
Great video!
As a Sox fan, I have to say that the worst part of my beloved Fenway is the seating in the right field grandstand that does not face home plate... I've left too many games with a wicked crick in the neck!
The White Sox originally wanted the outfield to be open until construction workers kept finding upper deck seats with bullet holes in them. There were several ways this could have been easily avoided that were fairly obvious beforehand but this was how they chose to deal with that minor issue.
Bulletproof seats!
Again with the batter’s eye? Dude you may want to seek professional help.
I laughed so hard at this
I wonder if it ever occurred to the architects that a vertical scoreboard above the batter's eye could be a "complete design flaw"...
Haha
Top 5 Ballparks….no specific order
1. Petco Park (San Diego)
2. PNC Park (Pittsburgh)
3. Oracle Park (San Francisco)
4. Wrigley Field (Chicago)
5. Fenway Park (Boston)
Honorable Mention…Camden Yards (Baltimore). But, the new dimensions suck
"Install drinking rails!" "Drinking rails are ugly!" - The same person
Chris Illitch deserves to go to jail for just putting a fence in front of the old one
The worst thing about Seattle's home park is they changed the name to "T-Moblie Park".
PNC Park doesn't have a bad view from any seat.
“It’s higher than the burj khalifa up there” ha
Yeah, you should have mentioned the team playing in each stadium. I don't pay attention to which corporation pays ad money to get their name on the stadium. Except Wrigley, which has been hammered into my head for decades.
Truist Park has little to no shade spots you should have mentioned that
This is off topic, but if the A's move to Vegas, resort fees and expensive parking during game days are going to be an issue. When the Bears visited Las Vegas to play the Raiders, Chicago fans felt nickeled and dimed in Las Vegas. A stay on the strip is already $300/night on a weekend, it goes up during big events.
This is exactly why they are gaining teams left and right now after being “off limits” until recently. Well, that and the little gambling bit
@@pool__boy Amazing how the leagues all of them hated gambling with a devoted passion, And then they lost to New Jersey in the SCOTUS and it seems like it took them all no more than a week to have "Official Betting Partners". Like say "Draft Kings, Official betting partner of Major League Baseball". The smell of money might be the only thing that moves faster than a scifi ship in hyperspace.
Comerica Park went the cheap route. Everyone I know hate the new lowered padded wall in right-center field. The organization could've at least add a row or two of seating where the space is between the new and old wall, and to top it off they removed the out of town scoreboard that looked really nice out there, the Illitch family always go the cheap way out.
Ilitch family needs sell the team.
@@mrg8581 It may be in the works, rumor.
@@7mileDem hope so
The centerfield wall at Comerica isn't staying that way. They did what they could, considering they only made the design change 3 weeks before the season started. It'll get a face-lift either during the All-star break, or next off season.
If they do anything with the fence in center field it won't be til after the season. Teams aren't allowed to change their outfield fences during the year.
Blame Charlie Finley's Kansas City A's and the "Half Pennant Porch" for that one.
As a Tigers fan I can definitely agree with you on Comerica Park’s double fence. We’ve had guys on our local sports talk radio station talking about how it looks like a Little League World Series setup. They also waited until like 2 weeks before opening day to actually set up the new fence so that doesn’t help either
Before hitting play, what's the over/under on number of times he says 'upper deck'?
So for Fenway It’s not the obstructed seats?
The worst part of Wrigley is the horse-troth urinals in the men's restrooms
The "dead zone" at Angel Stadium is actually where the visitor bullpen used to be. The Stadium was renovation in the 2000s after the Rams left
It was actually the Angels (home team) bullpen. The visitors was in the left field “dead zone”. That said though, the right field lower seating next to the dead zone sucks because anything hit to right center and center can’t be seen. The views are obstructed. You’re left to wonder what the hell is happening.
Lol I just got home from a brewers game where a mike trout homer to center bounced back on the field.
bro always complain about the batters eye and unfortunately there’s just not many ways to make a batters eye look nice and flow into the stadium it doesn’t work like that
Weirdly as a lifelong baseball and stadium fan I didn’t learn what’s batters eye was until last fall. Yes I feel stupid now.
that used to be the Bullpen at Angel Stadium
Ok man I just gotta say it, your videos are all great, it seems like you get an idea for a video and it’s always a good one thanks for all you do 💪🏽
The split in great american ball park is so that you can see the great american tower from the field
I know you hate the LF upper deck in Citi Field but that does get quite filled for big games and opening day i get it’s just the design of it but it’s used more often than Cleveland & Seattle
i miss the marlins hr sculpture... that was mint XD
One thing I learn about this man in this video is he does not like big upper decks
Yupe!! 2, 3 or 4 level decks piss Ginger off and he hates them!! 😅
The catwalk at the Trop reminds me of the time Darryl Strawberry hit the roof / lighting at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. It was ruled a home run, so I assume it hit the roof / lighting beyond the outfield wall. I don't think anyone else had ever did that anywhere in the field of play in the 27 years the Expos played in that ballpark.
Boy Atlanta really blew it. Why would they put all those seats out there? At least he spared the batter’s eye.
The food at Chase field is basically eating garbage for $1000. I’ve been to minor league stadiums with better concessions.
theres alot going on in centerfield at dodger stadium now
That is not the batters eye anymore now there is grass with the Padres logo
5:53 the reason the 500 level in Right Field/the 1st base side goes so high is because the track for the southernmost portion of the roof to swivel actually goes along the left field side. Having sat on both sides of the nosebleeds though I would say the 540 section is better than the opposite side, even if it is smaller, as you would have the sun more behind you with the roof open.
You did NOT hold back on Chase Field 😂
This is easily turning into my fav channel on CZcams !! Talking about all my fav niches
I'm disappointed with the Rogers Centre batters eye, its better than before, but it could have used some ivy or something to give it character. maybe one day.
Agree with you 100 percent about Comerica Park. Looks cheap. They did same crap when they moved in the left field walls.
Angel Stadium was and is a straight baseball stadium, that for a period of time had a football field shoehorned into it. But it was not built as a multi-purpose stadium like Qualcomm and others, where seats could be rearranged depending if football or baseball was being played there. Angel Stadium with football, was like when the NY Giants (football) played at Yankee Stadium.
Drinking game: drink every time he meantions the seating/upper deck of the stadium
Double shot every time he mentions the batters eye.
He has a love/hate thing with the drinking rails at MLB stadium, though?
The Gap and Great American is great. It's an intentional design choice. It's so downtown can watch the game.
Also, it's some of the best standing room available at any park.
I love the Budweiser Pavilion in right field at Busch, but that's because I have a Ballpark Pass, which gets me a SRO ticket for every game, and that's a great place to find a seat to watch the game.
Pnc park does this too and it's such a great time
Damn Target Field opened in 2010 and it's not good enough anymore?
worst part about dodger stadium is easily the parking lot lmao
One of the worst features of The Dome (Rogers Centre) is the fact that all the seating faces straight forward.
The seats are not angled towards Home Plate like they are in baseball only venues.
Having said that, the renovations are phenomenal and now make the park better than at least 5 other parks in the league
Well...some baseball venues. A bunch of seats at Fenway face...right field.
@@Johnny96ri lol..Yeah. The Fenway quirks
I feel like the park's age has a lot to do with that.
I'm surprised they havent fixed that yet.
@@jayp.6166 I'm not sure they could, short of tearing down and rebuilding the entire RF seating area. (And note, I recall the clubhouse is underneath.)
@@Johnny96ri That's correct. The club house is underneith.
I'm not an engineer but it seems like it would be a lot more work then simply turning each seat 35-45°.
So, you're probably right
@@jayp.6166 also, the concrete seat tiers would have to be torn out and replaced.
Seats at Dodger stadium are no farther away than any other stadium, there’s just more seats. The recently completely redid centerfield and batters eye. If you want to complain it’s the dark narrow concourses.
The batter's eye and scoreboard situation in Milwuakee, I agree it doesn't look great. But ask any player from the Brewers or the away team, and that's their favorite batter's eye in all of baseball because it's the easiest to pick up the ball out of the pitcher's hand. They even repainted it years back from a dark green to the black that it is today. Again, it doesn't look as pretty as other ballparks but it serves it's purpose better than any other ballpark in MLB.
Question for people who go to Tigers games. Didn't the architects / engineers who designed Comerica realize the outfield wall distances were going to be too far away from home plate, or did Tigers' management at the time want to make it a very pitcher-friendly park....?
Tiger Stadium was 440 in center and the flagpole was in play. I think they wanted to copy that somewhat at Comerica originally.
Giants didn’t take away triples alley… it’s still 415 feet to right center
They moved in the fences in that park of the ball park. Wasn't it 424 or 434 feet in triples alley back in the 2000s?
The white Sox stadium they kinda had to do the wall but they did it poorly with the ads. Pretty sure it’s I80 or I90 that runs right behind the stadium
I90/94 is indeed next to it.
Why does he hate on center field scoreboards so much
Rogers Centre lower bowl is completely getting redone.
I sat in the upper deck at Rogers Centre at a game last year and god those seats were awful. So old and cramped. Not even a cup holder. Otherwise, the game was great, the stadium has a great atmosphere, the Blue Jays won, and I had a great time. I would love to hopefully go to a game at the newly renovated Rogers Centre next time I make it up to Canada.
Astros never have the roof open, 😂.
This guy picks on all MLB parks they might as well all be Oakland and Tampa Bay
It's so funny that this guy is very obsessed with upper decks above anything else.
@@jonstefanik9400 yeah can you explain that one to me?
Watch some more of his videos. If you still don't get it I don't know what to tell you
Main complains: I don’t like seats. I don’t like batters eye, which are supposed to be ugly.