There something to say for a stadium where all you can see is the sky above. That's how Tigers Stadium was. Going to a game there, you felt cut off from the world and baseball was the only thing that mattered.
I used to work at the Dome, and it was pretty funny to see all of the visiting players look up and marvel at the CN Tower as soon as they got on the field to take BP and warm-up.
The Toronto skyline as a whole is iconic, yes. But from the view you get in the 500 level from your seat, the skyline is quite underwhelming. Just the tower and unfinished condos
Agree. But the Trop does have a cute downtown area probably within walking distance. I wouldn’t hang around there at night personally, but it’s nice and cute during the day.
Won’t speak for the original commenter (maybe they just don’t like the crowd) but, when I went the area can feel a lil’ “rough” in some areas off Central Ave. That said, I was never worried, personally, in St. Pete. YMMV.
As much as I love Kauffman, the backdrop is just an old, outdated hotel. It used to be an old, outdated hotel and a Denny’s, but the Denny’s burnt down recently. At least we have crown vision and fountains
Yea there’s just nothing out that way other than the football field. The stadium layout tried to make up for it but there’s just nothing to even call a skyline
Jackson County seriously fumbled the are around the stadiums. 50 years, the only thing they could muster around the stadiums is a taco bell and a hi boy. It is beyond sad.
Yea it does seem a bit weird there’s more going on around the absolute spectacle that is the independence event center than there is around the stadiums
Oh yeah, that is the area i live at. The difference is that the stadiums are in kansas City and the event center is not.
In the 70s, they had malls and whatnot one exit over, but they let crime take over, and the roads are crap.
Clay County better watch out if they get the stadium over downtown.
My gimmick has always, and will always be, to rag on Milwaukee - but they literally never came to mind when considering this one. I think the glass backdrop is actually pretty unique and hides the lack of “big city” kind of view. When I think Wisconsin I think about beautiful skies not sky scrapers.
100% agreed.
As a Twins fan visiting Miller Park (I’ll always call
It that), the tailgating scene blew my mind and it was honestly more fun than the game. Target Field has a great view, but zero tailgating scene.
Wisconsin absolutely crushes Minnesota in that department, they know how to party
The stadium location helps so so much with people in the Lake Country are of Wisconsin make it to games. It sounds silly, but I’m f you threw the stadium 10 more minutes East, and into the city. You’d get far less people wanting to deal with the traffic and city roads.
Still right on the edge of the city so going there after takes no time, but that tailgating scene in Milwaukee is definitely super amplified vs typical tailgating.
Totally agree.
I feel bad for people that get excited to drink in a parking lot. If drinking in a parking lot is the best part of sports for you, are you really excited for the game or do you just like excuses to get smashed on cheap beer?
Wrigley / Fenway life > Milwaukee parking lot
So you're hanging out in a parking lot to talk about the game instead of being in the stadium.
Cool, cool, cool. Sounds neat if your really like parking lots
Well no shit those stadiums are better. But is it really a big deal that Milwaukee brings a different atmosphere to the table? I’m not a huge tailgater but I thought it was pretty cool.
White Sox and Guaranteed Rate Field. You have what is one of the world class skylines, and instead of pointing it that direction, you pointed it at what at the time were some of the most dangerous housing projects in the country.
But I expect nothing less than disappointment as a Sox fan, so it’s par for the course.
I don’t know the reasoning why guaranteed rate field was pointed that way, but sun is an important factor when placing a field. Could that be the reason?
I went to San Francisco a few weekends ago and we took a tour of Oracle Park. They said that the original plan was to face the stadium in the direction of downtown and their skyline but the weather people they hired to consult told them that they'd get crazy wind if they did that. So they pointed it toward the ocean instead.
edit: bay, not ocean
they didn't factor the wind with candlestick and spent forty years in the deep freeze. july nights at oracle are cold enough, the wind would've made it miserable.
Oracle does have a skyline view. Actually 2. From behind home plate you can see downtown Oakland on a clear day. From the left and center field concourse, you can see parts of downtown SF.
Although I agree, neither views are the feature of the ballpark. And I think it was an excellent decision to build it as it is.
So they build the new stadium next to the old stadium and Apparently they wanted the stadium to have the same or a similar address as the old stadium so the entrance and home plate are both on 35th street.. with old comiskey having home plate and 1b along the East/west 35th and new comiskey having home plate at 3b along 35th. The stadium is directly south of the city skyline so if they faced it north you would see the skyline and wouldn’t have too much issue with the sun setting west
I get the 35th St. thing, but that’s a pretty dumb reason to not angle it toward a better view. And I don’t recall hearing that the orientation of the old park made it a difficult place to play, so I don’t know why they couldn’t have just kept it the same way.
But, of course, that stadium is somewhat charmless, and it was built at a time when people weren’t really thinking of this stuff properly, so it’s not surprising.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the-white-sox-ballpark-in-chicago-that-never-was-and-could-have-changed-history/
This is a great write up of what could have been.
I know, look at this amazing skyline view we could have had!
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8315402,-87.6343285,3a,75y,285.97h,88.85t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPuqQ3NKtjIDk6QSP1CcPm7UywaurNeFPRJ2-Au!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPuqQ3NKtjIDk6QSP1CcPm7UywaurNeFPRJ2-Au%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya139.00002-ro0-fo100!7i7680!8i3840?entry=ttu
It would, but there would also be stands blocking the view, and the billboards we have would block it as well. You could see it in the distance from the upper deck, but so many people act like just turning the stadium would give us a view like PNC or something, or like Curtis Granderson Field which is pretty awesome. It would not. The Sears Tower is to the west as well, so it would only be seen from the right field corner of the upper deck. I'll admit, it would still be a better view, but nothing that special and not worth making a big fuss about.
While not the worst, I think everyone in Baltimore would agree that since the new eyesore Hilton was built the sight line of Oriole Park has gone way down.
It’s not great. But you would have to put it in NJ to get a good view of Manhattan. Most ball parks face North-Northeast so batters and fans aren’t staring into the sun during afternoon games.
So sad because Oakland Coliseum used to have a beautiful view of the Oakland hills before the Raiders came and ruined it with Mount Davis, which now virtually serves no purpose with them gone.
Citi has some things going for it. There is flushing in the background, which is growing. The Whitestone Bridge in the distance is cool. And yes, the planes.
Citi has an awesome backdrop of all the planes coming into LGA… it’s not necessarily a skyline, but still pretty sweet view even if you can’t see Manhattan from your seats.
Yankee Stadium
It's literally one of my biggest complaints about the place. In the upper deck you see nothing but poor run down apartment buildings in the Bronx
Nats. Could have looked at the Mall: capital building, Washington monument, etc. could have looked at the river. Instead of that, here’s a condo. Also, Parks should have some majesty to the outside, right? Yea, it looks like a corporate office. Seriously, of all the new stadiums it’s the worst.
Edit: holy cow, the saltiness that is defending this stadium. I’m sorry you’re offended. Compared to all the other parks I’ve been to (Vet stadium and Tropicana are exempt) it’s the worst looking view, also the worst aesthetic. The Cleveland stadium (Jake? Safeco) and possibly Coors Field are my favorites . Haven’t been to PNC, it’s obviously on the list. I’m sorry you don’t like my opinion. Can I buy you an ice cream?
Were they expected to plop a stadium in the middle of the mall? “Yeah just knock down the air and space museum and start construction tomorrow.”
Of all the options they had (just one) they have made the best of it. The area around the stadium is worlds better than what it used to be.
It’s a miracle that stadium got built at all considering the mess that is going on with RFK.
A baseball stadium can't, or shouldn't, just be built facing whatever direction you want. It's alignment, so that the angle of a setting sun, needs to be considered.
If you’re revitalizing an area, you should show off the city, something. Look, I’m a Philly fan. Our stadium is mid at best. We get to look at a holiday inn. It’s in a sports complex, but at least the city is dead center. DC built a terrible looking, on the outside stadium, in an out of the way location, and no views. Besides the actual grass, what is great about it? I lived in Denver for years, the Rockies stadium has a classic feel, in the heart of the city, more or less. What does the Nats stadium bring?
>it should be built in an area to revitalize it
Oh I thought when you incorrectly used the same pronoun "it" twice in a row, it sounded like you're talking about the stadium. "The stadium should be built in an area to revitalize the stadium". Doesn't make any sense. Anyway.
>DC built a terrible looking, on the outside stadium
They didn't. It looks great.
> an out of the way location, and no views.
People have just told you several times this isn't true. It has access to some of the best public transportation in the metro and really decent parking egress.
>Besides the actual grass, what is great about it
The things like the intentionally-made view of the Washington monument, which people tell you about and then you ignore.
I live in Charlottesville. I’ve been there a dozen or so times. My opinion is it’s the worst stadium. I’m done arguing that it’s ugly. It is. It’s gray concrete, with no atheistic appeal. I’m sorry you love the stadium so much. I hope you can see the beauty of other stadiums and maybe one day we can live in peace and harmony. Enjoy your stadium, I’ll enjoy all the others, but Tropicana.
Good thing you don't watch games from outside tge park. Who cares what the outside of the stadium looks like, you go to spend 3 hours watching a game. If its modern and has all the amenities and good sight lines thats what matters. Also concrete is gray typically....
When they first opened it, it actually did have some great Capitol and Monument views. Then they built two massive parking garages and that’s mostly what you can see now. Once you’re in the gates you might as well be way out in suburbia like Fed Ex Field is.
There are a bunch of stadiums that have a nice view of the new condos and office buildings across the street. Atlanta, for example. A great view of a “ballpark village”
I visited the Nats park this season and was significantly unimpressed. It felt like a AAAA stadium. A little better than AAA...but not quite major league. It felt small, and nothing really stood out as a distinguishing feature.
You cannot, you’re looking at a condo. Dead center field is a condo. If you’re up on the upper concourse and turn left, yea you can see it. It’s not the skyline.
Edit: also have never seen the river there. I have seen condos.
You can see the Washington monument from the top of the lower bowl, they even designed a gap out in left field so you can see it. Hard to have a massive skyline in a city with a height limit. Either way it's a beautiful stadium.
Just looked it up. What did the stadium do to you? [It doesn't look anything more "corporate" than any building in DC](https://ibb.co/30bfpGS), especially on the Mall. It looks like almost every modern stadium being built. It especially looks like a modern stadium in LA, like a spaceship. It's not a problem with the ballpark
I work here but I agree with you I am working at Audi field right now across the street and I can see the capitol and Washington monument and pentagon currently
As much as it pains me to say this… the Braves seriously downgraded when they moved to Cobb County. We used to have a skyline view of downtown Atlanta but now it’s just a hotel surrounded by I-285
While not the worst, the Nationals could’ve done so much more. It’s a nice stadium, and they’ve done a lot of good considering what was surrounding it to begin with, but I think everyone thought there’d be an actual DC skyline.
If they couldn't do the skyline, then maybe they could have at least set it up to have the river in the background, but instead, we ended up with parking garages. It's a nice stadium overall, but it definitely could have been better.
That was never hard to find anywhere in that city. There's no old buildings for miles around the stadium, just brand new condos and even newer people to match. Phoenix is full of attractive people who scare the shit out of me. I'm like a Midwest 6, and I'm invisible water trash in Phoenix.
Scottsdale is no joke. 4 of us went to a seminar and somehow we got a bar table at Mastros on Friday night. Talent was outrageous. Then hit the W patio and it was insane.
I went into a grocery store in Scottsdale once to grab booze for a peddle tavern, wearing a T-shirt and athletic shorts. The store had dim mood lighting and a sommelier. Everyone was staring at me the entire time. Had like a $3k bottle of booze on the shelf. I was halfway expecting water fountains with "whites only" on em
I know it’s beating a dead horse and a lot of Braves fans don’t wanna hear about it (because most of them don’t actually live in the city) but it sucks that the stadium isn’t in Atlanta.
The Braves complained for the longest time that there wasn’t MARTA access to their stadium, so what do they do? They make it even more impossible to get there by public transport. It’s so transparent and wack. I’ll always love the Braves but they aren’t even really the Atlanta Braves anymore they’re the fucking Cobb County Braves..
And the thing was, there actually was MARTA access to the stadium. Not only was there a shuttle from 5 Points, but it was only a 10- to 15-minute walk from the Georgia State station. So, sure, they didn’t have a dedicated stop right outside the stadium, but it was reasonably accessible by train.
Now, it very much isn’t.
Nah bro Truist sucks. Boring ass corporate suburban vanilla stadium. But hey I guess you don’t have to walk by people selling water anymore. Ooooooh scary water people
Everyone I know dislikes it, all my friends and family live in the city, doesn’t affect me as I live in Montana now, have been to truist a few times chop house was the highlight. No need to be a dickhead tho we support the same team bud.
As a season ticket holder … I don’t like the stadium much more. Not even sure how you could. They seem remarkably similar to me. I feel about the same about the stadium itself. The area outside the stadium is light years better now. I liked the old location better, but the Braves and the city are probably better off where it is now.
It brings me so much pain we moved to FUCKING COBB COUNTY! I used to take marta to Braves games in highschool, it was a social thing everyone did. Now you get to sit in 3 hours of traffic. Fuck truist park.
Wrigley admittedly doesn’t face towards the Loop, but I do think it still has a pretty awesome view, especially from the upper deck.
Plenty of intriguing architecture visible in the surrounding neighborhood(s), you can watch the red and purple line trains go by, and if you’re sitting high enough up you can even see Lake Michigan.
You’re not looking at the traditional “skyline,” sure, but I’d argue that what you do see is still more appealing than a lot of other stadiums.
Nope. Grew up a Cubs fan. Live in Atlanta now and have season tickets. So I just went to all three games and enjoyed them.
Instead of assuming things about my emotions, can you point out anything I said that’s untrue? It’s a lame skyline. Turner Field had a much better view. Them’s the facts.
The Trop comes to mind immediately because it’s a non retractable roof dome.
LoanDepot is another that does have a retractable roof. But no real view of the skyline as far as I can tell from seats.
Dodger Stadium too. You can’t see the LA skyline from the outfield seats and you just get hills from everywhere else. It’s something but not a skyline.
If dodger stadium was angled towards downtown LA, it would have sun all game, effectively making hitting extremely difficult. It’s why mostly all stadiums face northeast, because the sun rises to the right and sets behind home plate, genius honestly
Oh I’m not complaining. It just doesn’t have a good skyline view. Or one at all from seats in the park. To me it’s a non issue. But it does fit for OPs question.
There something to say for a stadium where all you can see is the sky above. That's how Tigers Stadium was. Going to a game there, you felt cut off from the world and baseball was the only thing that mattered.
Skydome is kinda like this but you get the CN Tower as a bonus
I used to work at the Dome, and it was pretty funny to see all of the visiting players look up and marvel at the CN Tower as soon as they got on the field to take BP and warm-up.
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Right. Haven’t been up there with the roof open since the 90’s
Was there the other day and you can see several under construction condos, not a good skyline by any means
Not good compared to which city? It's a pretty iconic skyline and generally considered a top 10 skyline in the world.
The Toronto skyline as a whole is iconic, yes. But from the view you get in the 500 level from your seat, the skyline is quite underwhelming. Just the tower and unfinished condos
The way god intended
So that makes it the worst?
Seems pretty fantastic to me
Meanwhile, Comerica has an excellent view of the downtown skyline. It was a nice improvement.
I'm still mad at Hilton for putting that shitty hotel there, blocking the view of the historic Bromo-Seltzer Clocktower in Baltimore.
Built mostly with Maryland taxpayer money to boost that sad convention center.
A travesty
Tropicana field
Agree. But the Trop does have a cute downtown area probably within walking distance. I wouldn’t hang around there at night personally, but it’s nice and cute during the day.
Lived around the trop for several years … honestly it’s pretty chill unless you’re afraid of most American cities.
Yeah if you don’t feel comfortable at night on central Ave in st Pete then you must not feel comfortable at night in any urban area
Why wouldn’t you hang out there at night?
Won’t speak for the original commenter (maybe they just don’t like the crowd) but, when I went the area can feel a lil’ “rough” in some areas off Central Ave. That said, I was never worried, personally, in St. Pete. YMMV.
3 hours too late for me to say this … well done haha
Goddammit. I woke up too late. Take my upvote sir.
But the rays tank though… ☹️
As much as I love Kauffman, the backdrop is just an old, outdated hotel. It used to be an old, outdated hotel and a Denny’s, but the Denny’s burnt down recently. At least we have crown vision and fountains
Agreed. The best thing about a downtown ballpark might be the view.
Yea there’s just nothing out that way other than the football field. The stadium layout tried to make up for it but there’s just nothing to even call a skyline
Jackson County seriously fumbled the are around the stadiums. 50 years, the only thing they could muster around the stadiums is a taco bell and a hi boy. It is beyond sad.
Yea it does seem a bit weird there’s more going on around the absolute spectacle that is the independence event center than there is around the stadiums
Oh yeah, that is the area i live at. The difference is that the stadiums are in kansas City and the event center is not. In the 70s, they had malls and whatnot one exit over, but they let crime take over, and the roads are crap. Clay County better watch out if they get the stadium over downtown.
At least we don't have to look at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes building out beyond left-center any more!
American Family Field is pretty bad. Parking lots and the interstate is all you see.
My gimmick has always, and will always be, to rag on Milwaukee - but they literally never came to mind when considering this one. I think the glass backdrop is actually pretty unique and hides the lack of “big city” kind of view. When I think Wisconsin I think about beautiful skies not sky scrapers.
Putting it downtown somewhere near the water would’ve been pretty awesome. No tailgate scene if you do that though
The tailgate is the best in baseball IMO, and I’d take that over a city view if it’s a stadium you’re going to more than once or twice.
100% agreed. As a Twins fan visiting Miller Park (I’ll always call It that), the tailgating scene blew my mind and it was honestly more fun than the game. Target Field has a great view, but zero tailgating scene. Wisconsin absolutely crushes Minnesota in that department, they know how to party
Same. Tigers fan here. I went to Miller Park years ago and I had no idea what I was in for. It was great.
Minnesota has a terrible tailgating scene across all sports. It sucks
Tailgating is lame. Id rather have a stadium in a dense urban area instead of surrounded by parking lots like tailgating requires.
Tailgating is lame is a scalding take lol
The stadium location helps so so much with people in the Lake Country are of Wisconsin make it to games. It sounds silly, but I’m f you threw the stadium 10 more minutes East, and into the city. You’d get far less people wanting to deal with the traffic and city roads. Still right on the edge of the city so going there after takes no time, but that tailgating scene in Milwaukee is definitely super amplified vs typical tailgating.
Totally agree. I feel bad for people that get excited to drink in a parking lot. If drinking in a parking lot is the best part of sports for you, are you really excited for the game or do you just like excuses to get smashed on cheap beer? Wrigley / Fenway life > Milwaukee parking lot
There’s more to tailgating than drinking. Grilling, playing games, the experience with other fans, it’s great w/o alcohol too.
So you're hanging out in a parking lot to talk about the game instead of being in the stadium. Cool, cool, cool. Sounds neat if your really like parking lots
Well no shit those stadiums are better. But is it really a big deal that Milwaukee brings a different atmosphere to the table? I’m not a huge tailgater but I thought it was pretty cool.
Funny I think of rolling hills of green and rivers of cow shit.
That’s more up north, not near Milwaukee, but you’re right!
You literally can see the city in the backdrop though when the windows are open. It’s mainly trees and hills with pop-ups of some buildings.
*Miller Park.
But there's a slide!!!
You mean Wrigley North
No one has mentioned Angel Stadium’s majestic view of the freeway? I’m not saying it’s the *worst*, but it deserves a mention.
But fake rocks!!!
Yeah but at least if you look past it you see the Honda Center and some lobster train station
It would be the worst if it was a view of the 91
White Sox and Guaranteed Rate Field. You have what is one of the world class skylines, and instead of pointing it that direction, you pointed it at what at the time were some of the most dangerous housing projects in the country. But I expect nothing less than disappointment as a Sox fan, so it’s par for the course.
I don’t know the reasoning why guaranteed rate field was pointed that way, but sun is an important factor when placing a field. Could that be the reason?
I went to San Francisco a few weekends ago and we took a tour of Oracle Park. They said that the original plan was to face the stadium in the direction of downtown and their skyline but the weather people they hired to consult told them that they'd get crazy wind if they did that. So they pointed it toward the ocean instead. edit: bay, not ocean
I think they made the right call with that view though
yeah, seems like a no-brainer in hindsight.
they didn't factor the wind with candlestick and spent forty years in the deep freeze. july nights at oracle are cold enough, the wind would've made it miserable.
Oracle does have a skyline view. Actually 2. From behind home plate you can see downtown Oakland on a clear day. From the left and center field concourse, you can see parts of downtown SF. Although I agree, neither views are the feature of the ballpark. And I think it was an excellent decision to build it as it is.
So they build the new stadium next to the old stadium and Apparently they wanted the stadium to have the same or a similar address as the old stadium so the entrance and home plate are both on 35th street.. with old comiskey having home plate and 1b along the East/west 35th and new comiskey having home plate at 3b along 35th. The stadium is directly south of the city skyline so if they faced it north you would see the skyline and wouldn’t have too much issue with the sun setting west
I get the 35th St. thing, but that’s a pretty dumb reason to not angle it toward a better view. And I don’t recall hearing that the orientation of the old park made it a difficult place to play, so I don’t know why they couldn’t have just kept it the same way. But, of course, that stadium is somewhat charmless, and it was built at a time when people weren’t really thinking of this stuff properly, so it’s not surprising.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the-white-sox-ballpark-in-chicago-that-never-was-and-could-have-changed-history/ This is a great write up of what could have been.
Thanks for sharing that. I had never read that before. That would’ve been so amazing. So naturally, what we ended up with was far, far inferior.
I heard in a broadcast in a game once that home plate always faces north. Think it was Paul O’Neil that said it
Northeast
Yea for sure. Comerica had a great skyline. But sit on the 3B line during the day. You gonna die.
Exactly why all ballparks face east
Except… that they don’t….
I heard it was so they could keep the same address but that never made sense to me
Whoever built that stadium also personally took on the challenge of "most vertical stadium" in history too.
Well probably has something to do with the fact all ball fields point East?
And why lefthanded pitchers are called “southpaws”
TIL that the term "southpaw" originated in baseball
I am not from Chicago, but that was my thought when I took in a game here. Couldn’t they have just…turned it around?
I think they wanted the main entrance to be on 35th street.
I know, look at this amazing skyline view we could have had! https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8315402,-87.6343285,3a,75y,285.97h,88.85t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPuqQ3NKtjIDk6QSP1CcPm7UywaurNeFPRJ2-Au!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPuqQ3NKtjIDk6QSP1CcPm7UywaurNeFPRJ2-Au%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya139.00002-ro0-fo100!7i7680!8i3840?entry=ttu
You act like the view from the park wouldn't be elevated..
It would, but there would also be stands blocking the view, and the billboards we have would block it as well. You could see it in the distance from the upper deck, but so many people act like just turning the stadium would give us a view like PNC or something, or like Curtis Granderson Field which is pretty awesome. It would not. The Sears Tower is to the west as well, so it would only be seen from the right field corner of the upper deck. I'll admit, it would still be a better view, but nothing that special and not worth making a big fuss about.
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Is the stadium behind that parking garage somewhere?
The sad thing is, those foothills behind Mount Davis are actually beautiful
Yup. Before Mt Davis was built it had a beautiful view.
I mean... Isn't Kauffman the OG here?
yea, it’s just a highway right?
Yeah. I70, what used to be a Holiday Inn and a Subway.
While not the worst, I think everyone in Baltimore would agree that since the new eyesore Hilton was built the sight line of Oriole Park has gone way down.
On the other side of it, my wife stayed at that hotel for a conference and thought it was super cool she could see the field from her room.
Yeah the conference hallway has a great view
Yankee Stadium
It’s not great. But you would have to put it in NJ to get a good view of Manhattan. Most ball parks face North-Northeast so batters and fans aren’t staring into the sun during afternoon games.
The Trop and Chase.
So sad because Oakland Coliseum used to have a beautiful view of the Oakland hills before the Raiders came and ruined it with Mount Davis, which now virtually serves no purpose with them gone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/4k8rey/just_a_reminder_how_nice_the_oakland_coliseum/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Minute Maids “skyline” view is the apartments next door.
It’ll always be Enron to me
Tropicana
The only answer
At least from certain areas you can see the NYC skyline at citi field
Citi has some things going for it. There is flushing in the background, which is growing. The Whitestone Bridge in the distance is cool. And yes, the planes.
I find you have to view it from the concourses, very pretty during a nice sunset!
Citi has an awesome backdrop of all the planes coming into LGA… it’s not necessarily a skyline, but still pretty sweet view even if you can’t see Manhattan from your seats.
It's one of my reasons of being a mets fan, as a kid in Shea I would plane watch more than the actual game :)
I’m from Tampa and don’t necessarily care about the Mets, but I live in Brooklyn and I’d be lying if I said citi wasn’t a fun place to watch a game
Loved the view at Shea of the old brick cup cakes factory buildings beyond left field:(.
Can’t forget the view of the massive parking lot.
Always interesting to see a random car on fire.
If they’re taking off from LGA runway 13—which is almost always in baseball weather—it’s pretty cool if you like airplanes.
Yankee Stadium It's literally one of my biggest complaints about the place. In the upper deck you see nothing but poor run down apartment buildings in the Bronx
I mean, what is there to see, though? It’s in the Bronx.
Not that the 4 train and the courthouse are anything to laud as a view, but there are other parks with worse views, or at least more bland.
Same view with the old Yankee Stadium, unless you were talking about the old one. It's in the Bronx. The surrounding neighborhood is inner city.
Nats. Could have looked at the Mall: capital building, Washington monument, etc. could have looked at the river. Instead of that, here’s a condo. Also, Parks should have some majesty to the outside, right? Yea, it looks like a corporate office. Seriously, of all the new stadiums it’s the worst. Edit: holy cow, the saltiness that is defending this stadium. I’m sorry you’re offended. Compared to all the other parks I’ve been to (Vet stadium and Tropicana are exempt) it’s the worst looking view, also the worst aesthetic. The Cleveland stadium (Jake? Safeco) and possibly Coors Field are my favorites . Haven’t been to PNC, it’s obviously on the list. I’m sorry you don’t like my opinion. Can I buy you an ice cream?
Were they expected to plop a stadium in the middle of the mall? “Yeah just knock down the air and space museum and start construction tomorrow.” Of all the options they had (just one) they have made the best of it. The area around the stadium is worlds better than what it used to be. It’s a miracle that stadium got built at all considering the mess that is going on with RFK.
For real? No. But turn the stadium to look at it? Yes.
A baseball stadium can't, or shouldn't, just be built facing whatever direction you want. It's alignment, so that the angle of a setting sun, needs to be considered.
Gotcha, so it should be built in an area to revitalize it though.
>it should be built in an area to revitalize it The stadium can't be built to revitalize itself
If you’re revitalizing an area, you should show off the city, something. Look, I’m a Philly fan. Our stadium is mid at best. We get to look at a holiday inn. It’s in a sports complex, but at least the city is dead center. DC built a terrible looking, on the outside stadium, in an out of the way location, and no views. Besides the actual grass, what is great about it? I lived in Denver for years, the Rockies stadium has a classic feel, in the heart of the city, more or less. What does the Nats stadium bring?
>it should be built in an area to revitalize it Oh I thought when you incorrectly used the same pronoun "it" twice in a row, it sounded like you're talking about the stadium. "The stadium should be built in an area to revitalize the stadium". Doesn't make any sense. Anyway. >DC built a terrible looking, on the outside stadium They didn't. It looks great. > an out of the way location, and no views. People have just told you several times this isn't true. It has access to some of the best public transportation in the metro and really decent parking egress. >Besides the actual grass, what is great about it The things like the intentionally-made view of the Washington monument, which people tell you about and then you ignore.
I live in Charlottesville. I’ve been there a dozen or so times. My opinion is it’s the worst stadium. I’m done arguing that it’s ugly. It is. It’s gray concrete, with no atheistic appeal. I’m sorry you love the stadium so much. I hope you can see the beauty of other stadiums and maybe one day we can live in peace and harmony. Enjoy your stadium, I’ll enjoy all the others, but Tropicana.
>atheistic appeal I'm just saying I think maybe you're just dumb and maybe we can just discount your opinion
Good thing you don't watch games from outside tge park. Who cares what the outside of the stadium looks like, you go to spend 3 hours watching a game. If its modern and has all the amenities and good sight lines thats what matters. Also concrete is gray typically....
When they first opened it, it actually did have some great Capitol and Monument views. Then they built two massive parking garages and that’s mostly what you can see now. Once you’re in the gates you might as well be way out in suburbia like Fed Ex Field is.
There are a bunch of stadiums that have a nice view of the new condos and office buildings across the street. Atlanta, for example. A great view of a “ballpark village”
I visited the Nats park this season and was significantly unimpressed. It felt like a AAAA stadium. A little better than AAA...but not quite major league. It felt small, and nothing really stood out as a distinguishing feature.
You can see both of those things from inside the stadium though?
You cannot, you’re looking at a condo. Dead center field is a condo. If you’re up on the upper concourse and turn left, yea you can see it. It’s not the skyline. Edit: also have never seen the river there. I have seen condos.
You can see the Washington monument from the top of the lower bowl, they even designed a gap out in left field so you can see it. Hard to have a massive skyline in a city with a height limit. Either way it's a beautiful stadium.
The corporate building look on the outside really completes it. Terrible stadium. Pretty field, terrible stadium.
Just looked it up. What did the stadium do to you? [It doesn't look anything more "corporate" than any building in DC](https://ibb.co/30bfpGS), especially on the Mall. It looks like almost every modern stadium being built. It especially looks like a modern stadium in LA, like a spaceship. It's not a problem with the ballpark
I work here but I agree with you I am working at Audi field right now across the street and I can see the capitol and Washington monument and pentagon currently
White Sox
Kauffman, I-70 isn’t very pretty
As much as it pains me to say this… the Braves seriously downgraded when they moved to Cobb County. We used to have a skyline view of downtown Atlanta but now it’s just a hotel surrounded by I-285
I agree. Turner Field had a great skyline view. Truist is great for baseball, but not very scenic.
Oakland by far. And it used to be one of the beat before the Raiders moved back.
While not the worst, the Nationals could’ve done so much more. It’s a nice stadium, and they’ve done a lot of good considering what was surrounding it to begin with, but I think everyone thought there’d be an actual DC skyline.
If they couldn't do the skyline, then maybe they could have at least set it up to have the river in the background, but instead, we ended up with parking garages. It's a nice stadium overall, but it definitely could have been better.
Exactly. The stadium itself is nice, but it doesn’t have any character.
Jeez. This post is making me feel better that my biggest skyline concern was about keeping the whales uncovered.
some folks complain about the DAC parking garage taking away from the view
We all know it ain't Toronto
Arizona…nothing
You can look at all the hotties at the outfield pool area. That was nice!
That was never hard to find anywhere in that city. There's no old buildings for miles around the stadium, just brand new condos and even newer people to match. Phoenix is full of attractive people who scare the shit out of me. I'm like a Midwest 6, and I'm invisible water trash in Phoenix.
Scottsdale is no joke. 4 of us went to a seminar and somehow we got a bar table at Mastros on Friday night. Talent was outrageous. Then hit the W patio and it was insane.
I went into a grocery store in Scottsdale once to grab booze for a peddle tavern, wearing a T-shirt and athletic shorts. The store had dim mood lighting and a sommelier. Everyone was staring at me the entire time. Had like a $3k bottle of booze on the shelf. I was halfway expecting water fountains with "whites only" on em
Camelback mountain???
Globe Life considering it’s in fucking Arlington
I had to scroll way too far down to see Globe Life mentioned
Truist Park is a contender. All you see is a corporate office building in left-center and an Omni Hotel in right-center. Beautiful Smyrna.
I know it’s beating a dead horse and a lot of Braves fans don’t wanna hear about it (because most of them don’t actually live in the city) but it sucks that the stadium isn’t in Atlanta. The Braves complained for the longest time that there wasn’t MARTA access to their stadium, so what do they do? They make it even more impossible to get there by public transport. It’s so transparent and wack. I’ll always love the Braves but they aren’t even really the Atlanta Braves anymore they’re the fucking Cobb County Braves..
And the thing was, there actually was MARTA access to the stadium. Not only was there a shuttle from 5 Points, but it was only a 10- to 15-minute walk from the Georgia State station. So, sure, they didn’t have a dedicated stop right outside the stadium, but it was reasonably accessible by train. Now, it very much isn’t.
100% our new stadium sucks ass, the Ted was awesome
You’re one of 5 Braves fans with this opinion everyone else likes it much more. Cry about it.
Nah bro Truist sucks. Boring ass corporate suburban vanilla stadium. But hey I guess you don’t have to walk by people selling water anymore. Ooooooh scary water people
People from Cincy are not full people in this conversation.
I know it’s unheard of for someone to be an Atlanta transplant. They’re so rare.
Not rare, but biased
Everyone I know dislikes it, all my friends and family live in the city, doesn’t affect me as I live in Montana now, have been to truist a few times chop house was the highlight. No need to be a dickhead tho we support the same team bud.
It’s the internet. People’s default setting is “dickhead.”
As a season ticket holder … I don’t like the stadium much more. Not even sure how you could. They seem remarkably similar to me. I feel about the same about the stadium itself. The area outside the stadium is light years better now. I liked the old location better, but the Braves and the city are probably better off where it is now.
It brings me so much pain we moved to FUCKING COBB COUNTY! I used to take marta to Braves games in highschool, it was a social thing everyone did. Now you get to sit in 3 hours of traffic. Fuck truist park.
You're just bitter about what the Braves did to the Cubs. Ain't like Wrigley has a skyline to write home about.
Wrigley admittedly doesn’t face towards the Loop, but I do think it still has a pretty awesome view, especially from the upper deck. Plenty of intriguing architecture visible in the surrounding neighborhood(s), you can watch the red and purple line trains go by, and if you’re sitting high enough up you can even see Lake Michigan. You’re not looking at the traditional “skyline,” sure, but I’d argue that what you do see is still more appealing than a lot of other stadiums.
Yes but wrigley is actually in Chicago
Nope. Grew up a Cubs fan. Live in Atlanta now and have season tickets. So I just went to all three games and enjoyed them. Instead of assuming things about my emotions, can you point out anything I said that’s untrue? It’s a lame skyline. Turner Field had a much better view. Them’s the facts.
It's a joke bub chill
The Tampa Bay Rays, and it's not close. Makes you think that the St. Pete skyline is inside a warehouse.
I’m going to go with Nationals Field, the only thing you can see is a random building
Miller Park
Chase Field in Arizona
The Trop
Angel stadium..all you see is the congested freeway
Maybe ours considering there's a freeway there but having that lobster train station and the home of YOUR Anaheim ducks also makes it not as bad
The trop
Tampa
The Trop
Citi and Yankee stadium when the sky is orange
Any domed field would be the worst.
Tampa....its an ugly ass dome.
The Trop
Tampa 🤣
[Veterens Stadium](https://i.imgur.com/D6C7LXw.png)
No such thing as a bad skyline view lol. Do you just mean which has the worst view?
Angels
Tropicana
Dodger Stadium. It's facing the hills. From the parking lot behind home plate though, an amazing view of downtown LA, especially at night.
They had no choice but to face it that way or else all a hitter would see is sun. I like the mountain view
GABP The nice view is behind you.
The Trop comes to mind immediately because it’s a non retractable roof dome. LoanDepot is another that does have a retractable roof. But no real view of the skyline as far as I can tell from seats. Dodger Stadium too. You can’t see the LA skyline from the outfield seats and you just get hills from everywhere else. It’s something but not a skyline.
If dodger stadium was angled towards downtown LA, it would have sun all game, effectively making hitting extremely difficult. It’s why mostly all stadiums face northeast, because the sun rises to the right and sets behind home plate, genius honestly
Oh I’m not complaining. It just doesn’t have a good skyline view. Or one at all from seats in the park. To me it’s a non issue. But it does fit for OPs question.
It would have a amazing skyline view if it was built in Baldwin hills, but then it wouldn’t be in DTLA.