Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Thoughts on seeing all the Parks in Major League Baseball
A friend asked me if I would like to go to all the parks in baseball over the next 5 years.
Some thoughts on it:
1) The idea is crazy.
2) I love that idea.
3) I would love to write about seeing all the parks.
4) I am not saying we would or wouldn't try to put a story about going to all the parks in Chinmusic Magazine but I think the editor would probably respond very favorably to such a project. Writing about it here would be easy. Then we need funding and press pases and an expense account. And we should be able to meet the players and visit the dugouts and clubhouses, at least we could ask. Maybe it would turn out like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Where I have been:
1) Pac Bell (PLAYED there, managed in that dugout) #1 new park.
2) Oakland Coliseum. May not be the A's home much longer, but it has its charms.
3) Dodger stadium. I love dodger stadium. I love the chavez ravine location, I love the dodger dogs. I just cant tell anyone from the bay area.
4) Bank One Ballpark. Cool "heavenly" music when the top opens.
5) Safeco Field in Seattle. no cool music when the top opens, but they have Ichiro there and ichiroll sushi.
6) Metrodome. See A's ballpark.
7) Fenway. You probably know everything I know about fenway, I'd love to get seats on the monster. Those buns that look like a piece of bread for the hotdogs are funny.
8) Shea. Not that great. Nice overhang we were under so we didn't get wet when it was raining. There was a loud jewish family that couldn't sit still in front of us, I think they were jewish, the boys had yamikas on.
9) Wrigley. Not as great as Fenway, but not bad. I hope the stuff quits falling from the ceilings.
10) Turner Field. Some guy GAVE us two great seats for a game. Maddox lost 2-1, Urbina was blowing guys away in the 9th for the Expos. Nice new field, feels smaller than the other new fields.
11) New Comiskey. Fog. That's all I remember.
12) Miller park. Top opens like a clam shell sideways. I was there but not during a game, it was like in December but you could walk around and the merch store was open.
Stadiums I have been to that are now done hosting mlb games:
Old Comiskey
Met Stadium
Astodome
Jack Murphy Stadium
Kingdome
Candlestick Park
As a guy who claims to be extremely interested in baseball I find my number of stadiums been to to be embarassingly small. Only 12 current parks? I am a disgrace.
So I would say to hit the "low hanging fruit" I need to go to where Anaheim plays and Petco. Denver seems relatively easy to hit too. I'd like to go anywhere if my schedule and money permit. It seems like I need to hit Texas and Houston, and I hear Baltimore is nice. Pittsburgh looks cool on TV. Poeple say KC is nice.
Some thoughts on it:
1) The idea is crazy.
2) I love that idea.
3) I would love to write about seeing all the parks.
4) I am not saying we would or wouldn't try to put a story about going to all the parks in Chinmusic Magazine but I think the editor would probably respond very favorably to such a project. Writing about it here would be easy. Then we need funding and press pases and an expense account. And we should be able to meet the players and visit the dugouts and clubhouses, at least we could ask. Maybe it would turn out like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Where I have been:
1) Pac Bell (PLAYED there, managed in that dugout) #1 new park.
2) Oakland Coliseum. May not be the A's home much longer, but it has its charms.
3) Dodger stadium. I love dodger stadium. I love the chavez ravine location, I love the dodger dogs. I just cant tell anyone from the bay area.
4) Bank One Ballpark. Cool "heavenly" music when the top opens.
5) Safeco Field in Seattle. no cool music when the top opens, but they have Ichiro there and ichiroll sushi.
6) Metrodome. See A's ballpark.
7) Fenway. You probably know everything I know about fenway, I'd love to get seats on the monster. Those buns that look like a piece of bread for the hotdogs are funny.
8) Shea. Not that great. Nice overhang we were under so we didn't get wet when it was raining. There was a loud jewish family that couldn't sit still in front of us, I think they were jewish, the boys had yamikas on.
9) Wrigley. Not as great as Fenway, but not bad. I hope the stuff quits falling from the ceilings.
10) Turner Field. Some guy GAVE us two great seats for a game. Maddox lost 2-1, Urbina was blowing guys away in the 9th for the Expos. Nice new field, feels smaller than the other new fields.
11) New Comiskey. Fog. That's all I remember.
12) Miller park. Top opens like a clam shell sideways. I was there but not during a game, it was like in December but you could walk around and the merch store was open.
Stadiums I have been to that are now done hosting mlb games:
Old Comiskey
Met Stadium
Astodome
Jack Murphy Stadium
Kingdome
Candlestick Park
As a guy who claims to be extremely interested in baseball I find my number of stadiums been to to be embarassingly small. Only 12 current parks? I am a disgrace.
So I would say to hit the "low hanging fruit" I need to go to where Anaheim plays and Petco. Denver seems relatively easy to hit too. I'd like to go anywhere if my schedule and money permit. It seems like I need to hit Texas and Houston, and I hear Baltimore is nice. Pittsburgh looks cool on TV. Poeple say KC is nice.
# posted by Mike @ 2:48 PM 
