Mecca of MLB
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I’ve been to Wrigley a hundred times, Kauffman Stadium a few times (before the extensive outfield remodels) and Busch Stadium a couple times. Fenway is on my bucket list. I’ve been to a couple of other stadiums which were just “meh”. About 20 years ago, there were more stadiums I really wanted to visit, but not really anymore. I guess PNC Park is one of the newer ones I’d like to see, but the others just don’t do it for me. I mean…I wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to go to a game at Yankee Stadium…I’d go in a heartbeat…but it’s just not the Yankee Stadium I really wanted to experience.
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I ******* hate the Cardinals, but I agree with you. I’ve not been to the current iteration of Busch Stadium, only Busch Memorial, but it does look awesome and the area oozes baseball vibes.
Love a good Wrigley Field thread which is all this thread could be about.
I lived about 12 blocks away for 3 years after ISU. The first two years I was just freelancing and waiting tables so I’d go over and find some guy stuck trying to sell tickets for $5 in the third inning of a day game. I was pretty broke yet went to mlb all the time for that price, now I live not far from Dodger Stadium, own a home, but can’t find time or money to ever go to a Cubs Dodgers game.
I lived about 12 blocks away for 3 years after ISU. The first two years I was just freelancing and waiting tables so I’d go over and find some guy stuck trying to sell tickets for $5 in the third inning of a day game. I was pretty broke yet went to mlb all the time for that price, now I live not far from Dodger Stadium, own a home, but can’t find time or money to ever go to a Cubs Dodgers game.
Nothing was finer for baseball than the old Metrodome. RIP. 
For new stadiums it is really great. Should almost be two categories although the “classic stadiums” is pretty small if only includes mlb.
Nothing was finer for baseball than the old Metrodome. RIP.
Considering the main purpose was bathroom sex shows, it was surprisingly good multipurpose for baseball.
Only when iowa came to town...
I went to a Twins game or two in there. There is just something wrong with going to a day game on a beautiful summer day and sitting in a stale indoor stadium while the sun shines outside.
I’ll say!
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This 1000 percent. Fenway or Wrigley are the two real stadiums left. Yankees new stadium is a corporate mess with no character
But man o man the tickets were dirt cheap. We moved up to Minneapolis right out of college- you know the drill: flat broke but actually got a paycheck and we were on top of the world. Catch a Twins game for $5 and could sit anywhere you wanted. Then young players like: Mientkiewicz, Hunter, Radke, Koskie & Pierzynski got older and started winning. Ticket prices raised and a new stadium (granted warranted and beautiful) was not far behind.
We lived in Roscoe Village for about 3 years a few years after college. It was a 5 minute cab ride to Wrigley. We'd scalp tix all the time and if it was a nice, sunny day the seats in the outfield bleachers were among the priciest to get. Great times.
Guthries Tavern is our go to before and after games. Wrigleyville is super overrated, I would rather hit a neighborhood bar 10 times out of 10.
If you are a fan of the Cubs or Red Sox, going to those old stadiums is great, or just a general baseball fan. But overall they are outclassed by the new ballparks. St. Louis, Atlanta and Texas are all better stadiums over Wrigley or Fenway without the 100 year history. On our only trip to Fenway, once you get passed all the great players that played there, and see the Green Monster, you quickly realize the seats are narrow, the concourse is easily jammed packed, same for Wrigley Field. Parking is very difficult at both, and once you find a spot getting out after the game is nearly impossible.
If you aren't taking the Red Line, you are doing it wrong.
Sometimes you have no choice, when we went to Fenway, we were coming down from RI, so we had to park. We did find a service lot 2 few blocks away, but there is no real parking at either stadium.
To me both stadiums are like Kinnick in IC, if you are a fan of the team, its a great stadium, but for the other team or the causal fan, its an old relic that would be better off replaced or modernized. Both the Sox and Cubs have down a decent job modernizing both stadiums, but there is only so much you can do, and they both have a small footprint to work with.
