While a shithole, Wrigley is at least significantly more comfortable than Fenway.
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While a shithole, Wrigley is at least significantly more comfortable than Fenway.
Other than the beams that obstruct vision, which just means you should avoid buying seats in infield reserve. Anyways, I love how tight Wrigley Field is compared to most fields in baseball, and I hope it stays for ever. In spite of the shitfest down Clark 81 days a year in Wrigleyville.
I'm two blocks west of Camden Yards...but the Orioles aren't in town. Just my luck.
yankeehater
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I loved going to Fenway it is such an awesome experience. Th only thing that really sucked was the bathrooms.
How many times did you go?
It's not bad at all in the 300 section of (I refuse to call it the cell) Comiskey Park. Don't know about 100 or 500 sections anymore as I haven't been to those in years but the 300 section is clean, barely has any lines, and in general a positive experience lol. Of course the 300 section also has vendors who allow you to order off a menu from your seat and deliver food to you so the whole section is a bit above average
.yankeehater
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To Fenway, just once. To the bathroom multiple times. My buddies and I took the train from NH to Boston, and then the subway to the stadium and drank the whole way. I dont know if it was just our section but the mens room just had a trough and some stalls and it was so dirty and smelly, it made me sick every time I went in there. Easily the worst public bathroom I have ever used.
Edit: fuck I want funnel cake now. Disney World had pumpkin funnel cake in epcot and it was amazing. Man I wish I could get that stuff all the time.
My advice, keep it that way. It's an awesome museum, but it's a fuck-awful ballpark.
Just stick with the chick-fil-a stands and everything's ok.
Prices are for the most part the same as the other venders in Comiskey with some exclusive items on the seat menu. I Normally just get a Bacon Cheeseburger which was like $5.95 the last time I was there. Throw in a free drink from the DD program and it's not that bad at all for baseball food.
The_Inquisitor
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Makes me giggle.
Why is the last gif a routine double play? AM I SUPPOSED TO BE IMPRESSED?
I watched the full highlight. Did he say, "The fuck was that?" to his catcher after the error?
yankeehater
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Yeah I dont see myself going back. I have my list of stadium I want to visit and Camden Yards is next and then Wrigley. Every summer my wife and I talk about going to Chicago to catch a game and see some sites but it hasnt happened yet.
There are two teams in Chicago, if you go you should hit both.
What about those shitty wooden seats ?
There's a couple of new things at Turner Field that I may try out this weekend:
http://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/whats-new-at-turner-1415082.html
Those prices are ridic, but expected.
New LED board looks nice:
The_Inquisitor
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I'm still fixated on the backwards K.
yankeehater
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I have never really anything about the Whitesox stadium, is it really worth seeing?
I sat in the outfield and I didnt mind the bench. Obviously not as comfortable as a regular stadium seat but I was up walking around and checking stuff out a lot.
The_Inquisitor
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I've been to Rathbun's before, so that's why I'm not surprised. I'll be getting the steak sandwich this weekend.
This is also pretty nice:
http://www.talkingchop.com/2012/4/1...tlanta-braves-new-things-at-the-ted-this-year
The_Inquisitor
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I personally think it is. When it was first built it was very sterile/unwelcoming and overall not that good of a park, over the last 5-7 years though they have spent a lot of money to make it more friendly/welcoming to the point where I find it to be a fairly nice park. I haven't been to a ton of parks though Just Wrigley a few times (poor park with a funny smell which if you get seats on the ground more than 8 rows back in the infield you will likely be watching the game on a TV on the back of a pillar, though the skyboxes aren't bad.), the metrodome once (decent park but nothing special, the fans... wind blowing ones not baseball ones, can get distracting though) and Miller Park once (I liked this park, it was interesting walking in from the parking lot and being in the upperdeck without having to go up, and in general looked nice... if you are looking to have a burger though... good luck they seem to only have one stand for those and they weren't that good.)
Also I am a white sox fan so I might be a little biased, but in general my views are if you are in a town to hit a park you might as well hit both as who knows when you will be back and get another chance.
yankeehater
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That is a good point. Is Chicago rally big? I am wondering if we stay at a hotel near Wrigley would it be a far trip to the other? If think you have sold me though. It would be nice to one day have visited all the non-NY parks.
The two parks are on opposite sides of the city - go figure. I'd say it's probably a 35~ minute ride on the red line straight from Addison (Wrigley) to Sox-35th (US Cellular).
googlemaps agrees with that assessment.
with it being a .1 mile walk from wrigley to the train and a .2 mile walk from the train to comiskey.
if you rent a car it says it's a 21 min drive, but in chicago it's usually best to at least double the google maps estimate if it's between the hours of 7am and 6pm lol
You could trip out of the Addison station and fall right into Wrigley Field. I actually miss living above Lakeview. Nothing like riding through and seeing a packed Wrigley Field right in the neighborhood.
And then the shitshow around it.
Stupid ass Atlanta drivers + one exit = chaos.
Take the exit off Congress, you clowns!
I lived near Joliet growing up so for the most part it was just one or the other when we came into town. it was always nice to be riding with my dad and the ballpark come into view as both of them stand out in the sea of tall buildings that is chicago.
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Y'all are stealin' vids.
old people /sigh
when does it not suck?
no blackouts!
Well true, but it depends on where you are going tbh.
285, I am glad I don't have to touch it
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