Style and being unique is one thing to prevent you from becoming a cookie cutter battle ship grey stadium but what baseball stadium goes too far with implanting quirks where it affects outcomes of games and possible injuries to players?Fan interference,the grade in deep center field in Houston etc.
The trouble is,I think all the engineers and architects these days are gay.Just kidding.hehe!The real problem is that big cities with political clout get alot of urban renewal government money and they put ball parks in cracker box size lots.Smaller lots means less room for fan-player buffer zones,high walls to compensate for short field dimensions etc.God forbid the county one over from the big urban city without political clout has the stadium built there in a vacant 1000 acre cornfield alongside the interstate.
The new ball park to open in Minneapolis a year from now is going to look like Jackie Mason's character from Caddy Shack two built it.The Metrodome is the joke of all baseball with the white deflating jiffy pop bag ceiling and hefty bag outfield wall.As with anything built with state money in Minnesota,the project funding goes to the social welfare benefits of the construction people and the engineering,architecture and quality of building materials take a back seat.
The trouble is,I think all the engineers and architects these days are gay.Just kidding.hehe!The real problem is that big cities with political clout get alot of urban renewal government money and they put ball parks in cracker box size lots.Smaller lots means less room for fan-player buffer zones,high walls to compensate for short field dimensions etc.God forbid the county one over from the big urban city without political clout has the stadium built there in a vacant 1000 acre cornfield alongside the interstate.
The new ball park to open in Minneapolis a year from now is going to look like Jackie Mason's character from Caddy Shack two built it.The Metrodome is the joke of all baseball with the white deflating jiffy pop bag ceiling and hefty bag outfield wall.As with anything built with state money in Minnesota,the project funding goes to the social welfare benefits of the construction people and the engineering,architecture and quality of building materials take a back seat.