Out of Town Ballparks

[Senatorswin]

i looked into going to a White Sox game on my last trip to Chicago. I called the box office and asked "what time does the game start?", the rep replied "what time can you be here?"

 

I'll be here all night, try the veal

 

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

 

[English Natsie]

I'd have thought they'd have asked 'how much payment do you want, to attend?...'   

[Copecwby20]

The Red Sox, Cubs, Nats and others have a nice game day experience but I can't imagine anything being close to the Braves Battery. I got to the game 3.5 hours before the game Saturday and it was an all-out party in the Battery. People walk around with beers in their hands. They have some stands where you can just walk up and purchase a beer or mixed drink and walk around. After the game Friday night was crazy too as people were party on dude. There are stores you can buy Brave gear, ice cream stores, tons of restaurants and bars. There's an area where a band plays and a large area where kids can play. No, you can't walk between the battery and the stadium. The stadium connects to the Battery but once you're in the stadium you're in.


- They have the southern hospitality thing going on so everybody is super nice.

- The Nats faithful definitely don't represent. Friday I saw 1 guy with a Soto Jersey. Saturday I saw 1 Strasburg jersey and 1 Nats T-shirt besides me both nights.

- The traffic around Atlanta has to be the worse in the country. The battery is away from downtown but it's still terrible. The parking is garages so harder to get out. I stayed at the Renaissance  Hotel which is across the street from the stadium. Once you leave the hotel you just have to walk across a walk bridge and you're at the stadium. If you go definitely stay within walking distance of the stadium.

- The Braves do a great job of entertaining. It was Braves alumni weekend. Before the Friday game they had a parade with former Braves then they announced them on the field with fireworks and such. Before every game they put a flag in center field and they get three guys to chip a golf ball from foul territory along the right field line. The closest to the flag gets a prize. Before Saturday's game they put barriers around mid point in the outfield. Then they had 6 former Braves do a home run contest using what looked like softballs. They had 2 teams with three guys on each team. Team Uggla won. It was a lot of fun.

This was the 17th MLB park I've been to a by far the most impressive.

That's not necessarily true as I remember. Terrapin Taphouse has a restaurant that exits directly into the ball park on one side and the battery on the other. You can go in and out through that portal if I remember correctly.

[Copecwby20]

I take it MARTA doesn't serve the Battery. Any talk of extending MARTA? It's seem like it may help with congestion as the area expands.

I know at one time there may have been a desire to keep "them" away from the folks who moved out there when designing the system, but I'd take a smooth ride on public transit to / from over dealing with traffic both for work and to go to a game.

MARTA will never service the Braves ballpark for the same reason that the Braves moved to Cobb County. The heat map index of season ticket holders was affluent Caucasians that have lobbied for years to keep MARTA out of West Cobb. The common saying amongst those circles was that MARTA stood for "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta". They will never get the votes to get MARTA expanded. 

[Natsinpwc]

MARTA will never service the Braves ballpark for the same reason that the Braves moved to Cobb County. The heat map index of season ticket holders was affluent Caucasians that have lobbied for years to keep MARTA out of West Cobb. The common saying amongst those circles was that MARTA stood for "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta". They will never get the votes to get MARTA expanded.

Telling it like it is.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

MARTA will never service the Braves ballpark for the same reason that the Braves moved to Cobb County. The heat map index of season ticket holders was affluent Caucasians that have lobbied for years to keep MARTA out of West Cobb. The common saying amongst those circles was that MARTA stood for "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta". They will never get the votes to get MARTA expanded. 

I heard that name for MARTA maybe 40+ years ago. Is it that old?

[Elvir Ovcina]

MARTA will never service the Braves ballpark for the same reason that the Braves moved to Cobb County. The heat map index of season ticket holders was affluent Caucasians that have lobbied for years to keep MARTA out of West Cobb. The common saying amongst those circles was that MARTA stood for "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta". They will never get the votes to get MARTA expanded.

And there's not really space.  The I-75 right of way is completely full with traffic lanes now, and the freight lines aren't close enough to really be feasible either.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Bless their hearts

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I heard that name for MARTA maybe 40+ years ago. Is it that old?

The first line opened in 1979, so I probably heard what the MARTA nickname in college.

[Natsinpwc]

This would have been something.

https://www.mlb.com/news/baseball-floating-stadium-san-diego?partnerID=mlbapp-iOS_article-share

[imref]

I saw that the Orioles are FINALLY upgrading the video board and sound system at Camden Yards. They are also bringing the left wall back in to it's pre-2022 location.

[Count Walewski]

I'm seeing the Nationals play in Pittsburgh in April. Given that it is Pittsburgh in April I am intrigued by the "Pittsburgh Baseball Club" seats on the 200 level that claim to include access to a climate controlled interior. Anyone have experience with these?