The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

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I've never been to Comiskey (I was supposed to change that last summer and don't have high hopes for getting to do so this year), but I feel like some criticism of the original design is too harsh. In the years since it opened, with neo-retro ballparks designing goofy outfields that have no real constraints to make them the way they are (Arlington, twice since then, comes to mind), I can appreciate the honest symmetry of a park that didn't need to accommodate anything around it but parking. I just wish the fences were a little deeper, maybe something like 340-385-400-385-340, maybe some higher walls along the lines. Yeah, the upper deck was too big and too far from the field, but I like that it's basically a grittier Kauffman Stadium.

I think getting rid of the blue seats was the right move for obvious reasons, but dark grey would have been unique to the Sox. Everyone does forest green. I don't like the ivy on the batter's eye, which, like all the blue was, is too North Side at this point. They should have done something a little different, but that's admittedly a small detail. Repainting the outfield girders from white to black was a good aesthetic decision.

Anyway, back to staying out of White Sox business.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Dave Grohl is an overrated and overhyped disturbance to the music industry.

It's a good ballpark and and the premium seat experiences are nice to indulge in from time to time. I have sat everywhere from the Scout Seats to the furthest corner of the 500 level and always have good sightlines for whatever is happening in the game.

The food is top notch and something I have yet to seen surpassed at another park. Sure it isn't the prettiest place architecturally, but it's a very functional ballpark with a very underrated fan experience.

Patio parties are a great way to spend batting practice while you enjoy a buffet of food before heading to your seats.

Dave Grohl is an overrated and overhyped disturbance to the music industry.

Just wish they had taken advantage of the skyline.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

The concourse is a great, understated feature. I think it has become underutilized in the OF since they started closing off the lower deck to upper deck ticket holders. The site lines are excellent. The food has always been top notch.

It is a pretty sterile ballpark. It's fine. Nothing you would embrace.

The lower deck has always been pretty good and the upper deck has always sucked. That is pure Reinsdorf, as he wanted to maximize the number of luxury suites, which, obviously, have had almost no season ticket holder market. I read somewhere that even after the world series there were some of those suites that never were built out due to lack of interest. I think those have now become clubs.

I do love the accessibility of the stadium to public transportation and expressways. Easy in and out even on big days.

I know the Sox lack of popularity hurts the team down the line but I really enjoy deciding to go at a moments notice, packing everyone up, parking in the neighborhood somewhere and walking up to buy a ticket.

I don't really understand what that means. Obviously, I've heard the park described that way many times. Does it mean clean? I'm sure it doesn't.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I don't really understand what that means. Obviously, I've heard the park described that way many times. Does it mean clean? I'm sure it doesn't. It's a genuine ballpark. It's not a faux throwback trying to be a Disneyesque version of Wrigley or Fenway like so many of the parks that came soon after it.

The fetishization of ballparks is something that didn't happen until all the old parks were gone and only Wrigley and Fenway- arguably the two shittiest ones- remained. Up until I was in my twenties I never gave any thought to the ballpark. It was just the place where your team played. Cub fans go to Wrigley. Sox fans go to Comiskey. Yankee fans go to Yankee Stadium.

I think some of it is driven, like so many other things, by Boomers. As they moved into middle age and many of them accumulated great wealth, going to a ballgame and having a hot dog and a beer and sitting on bleachers just wasn't good enough. They wanted a "ballpark experience." It's like people that go to an alleged rock show and want special seating and a buffet dinner. And of course there's always a P.T. Barnum to take 'em- he may be named Jerry Reinsdorf or Arny Granat.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I don't really need warmth in a ball park. Warmth is for people who aren't really interested in baseball or are just visiting the place as a tourist attraction. Any place at which you've had a good time, multiple times a year, for 30 years is going to have familiarity, which is more than enough. I want a place that's convenient and comfortable, Comiskey checks both of those boxes.

I still maintain that the Sox/City work together to have a Metra SWS stop on at the tracks on the west side of the park.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I don't really need warmth in a ball park. Warmth is for people who aren't really interested in baseball or are just visiting the place as a tourist attraction. Any place at which you've had a good time, multiple times a year, for 30 years is going to have familiarity, which is more than enough. I want a place that's convenient and comfortable, Comiskey checks both of those boxes.

Dave Grohl is an overrated and overhyped disturbance to the music industry.

they still should have went w/ that polo grounds type ballpark back then. that would have rivaled wrigley.

Yeah, a 520' center field wall would've drawn millions more.

But if you're watching polo, then it was great.

Dave Grohl is an overrated and overhyped disturbance to the music industry.

That would be a good idea for gameday stops. Is there enough development around the neighborhood for full-time service? The Southwest Line doesn't have any stops till like Ashburn or something, couldn't hurt.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Yeah, a 520' center field wall would've drawn millions more.

I find it pretty "warm," as it were. The statues, the murals, the pleasant walk around the concourse, the cast-iron entrances to the outfield seats, the parking lot during tailgating....plus, they have a small team welcoming you when you get there....I really like it.

Great sightlines, too.

Kauffman Stadium used to get a lot more positive attention, but people seem to have turned on it. It was great when I was there. Have not been there since the renovation.

The lower deck at Guaranteed Rate Field is one of the best places in the world to watch a baseball game. The upper deck at Guaranteed Rate Field is one of the worst places in the world to watch a baseball game.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.