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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
looks great! build it! two waterfront stadiums in the bay area, how cool!
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No way man, this is terrible. They’ve arranged it so you get the behind-home-plate view of a couple of container gantry cranes, with the Alameda “skyline” in the background and in the far distance you will see planes taking off from the airport. Yuck. They are going to maximize late afternoon sun for those nationally televised games that start at 5:30pm-ish, so that’s good. But the whole place will have a pervasive smell of burning diesel and bunker oil thanks to being immediately downwind of an actual operating port. The neighborhood is a bunch of warehouses and crap stores, and will never integrate with downtown unless they tear down the horrible 880 freeway. Screw that.
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in any event, the A's really do deserve a new stadium. they're still playing in one of the last multi-use stadiums left in MLB, made all the worse by the horrible proportions of "mt. davis".
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Tear down that abomination in the outfield now that it is a baseball-only stadium. Return it to the original configuration and you get the beautiful view of the hills off in the distance, with the esthetic of the absolute best time in California’s optimistic history (1960s). And then redevelop the parking lot.
Finally, it preserves the proper baseball field configuration, in which the left field line points north (to within a degree or two). Fenway, Wrigley, Camden Yard, Candlestick, the original Comiskey, Dodger Stadium, Seattle, Anaheim, Kansas City, etc
old and new Yankee stadium were pretty close