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#33 - Fenway to Globe Life: Ranking MLB’s Oldest to Newest Stadiums · Life According to Brian and Jason

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All right friends welcome to another episode of life according to brian and
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jason hey jason what's the topic today dude where does the rockies field course
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field rank in the oldest stadiums in the MLB.
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What are those, dude? What have we been to?
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Well, I do know this. Rockies was built what, around 95?
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95. Right? So, even though the team started in 93, the stadium officially opened
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in 95. Wow, it's that old.
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It's that old, and it's holding up good. It is.
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In fact, when I'm looking at the list of stadiums here, Rocky's on the side of the older part,
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It is Which is crazy Being brand new Well I got this feed and I was like How
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many parks have we been to And what thoughts do we have on some of these So
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I thought it would be fun to go through the list Let's do it,
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Of course first up Fenway Park 1912 Home of the Red Sox Have you been there?
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I have been there My dad was stationed in Maine 1970s and we would go down,
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Dad had a bus with a bunch of airmen and me and my brother, and we'd go down
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a couple times each year for three years and saw some great games at the park.
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Great memories of getting hot dogs, playing, nothing on them, Brian.
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That's all I wanted. I was watching the game, but also. So was that my choice?
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Oh, man. I remember one time just eating like four. Wow.
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Wow. Yeah, your dad would be broke. These days, you know, they're like,
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like 16 bucks, but never been. I've driven past the park when I was in Boston
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on a vacation. One time they were out of town.
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But, you know, great ballpark from the street, but it's on the list.
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I would love to go as an adult.
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Okay. All right. As my fifth grade.
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Well, real quick, what makes it special? What do you remember?
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Just the feel of the park, I think.
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Our next one that we're going to talk about reminded me of it very much.
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Just an intimate setting. Right.
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You know, just, I really, that was a lot of hot dogs, man. And I don't know what it was.
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Being at the park, I just remember going up on my own to get caught.
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Uh-huh. I guess responsibility, being on my own with a lot of people.
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Sure. You didn't really go around a lot of people in Maine at the time I was
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growing up. So that was my first real big experience being around tons of people.
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Ah, that's cool. That's cool. Well, we will go. Number two, Wrigley Field, 1914 Cubs.
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Yes, we've been to this one together. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we went on a trip.
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And I think we definitely had some adventures.
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But what stands out to me about, there's two things about Wrigley that stand out.
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The first thing is that ballpark is run by little old ladies. Remember, we went in.
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And I wanted to go down low and take a picture.
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And every section was run by a little old lady and they're just super nice and
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they they kept an eye on you you have
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to go down do your picture if you're hanging out too long they kind of,
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But very sweet vibe. Loved it.
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The second thing is just the party afterwards that goes around the stadium and the streets.
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Win or lose, because I think we went to two games, won one, lost one, if I remember right.
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It doesn't matter. Same party. So, yeah, pretty fun.
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We were there before the recent redo of the outside area that really – Right, right.
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Yeah, yeah. I'd like to go back and see if this is now.
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I would go back there again sure yeah i go
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back yeah you know it's iconic you know
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you gotta love the ivy good crowd you know yeah good history good history third
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dodger stadium this is where the years jumped to 1962 so finway and wrigley
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are the the two old original stadiums still cranking.
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Dodgers is really kind of a new stadium, 1962, when you look at the list.
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Never been, you know? Yeah, never been to the next one, Angels, 66.
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Never been. It's about doing a California trip where you kind of get all of them. Right, right.
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Yeah, I would love to. I'd love to see both of those, even though we are not
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Dodger fans. We will just put that on the record.
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But fifth on the list, Kauffman Stadium, 1973 Kansas City Royals.
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What's your thoughts? Chef's Kiss.
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What an unsung gem, man. Talk about focus, dialed in.
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Of course, we were there the year they went to the World Series.
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Right, yeah. So it was a good year, good fan base. Everyone's bringing merch.
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Everyone, man, woman, child, everyone is just dialed in.
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I thought it was a great park. I actually loved it for its age it showed well
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but you know the scuttlebutt is owners going to build a new stadium in a completely
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different area the locals are,
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Not happy. No, of course not. So we'll see. But, yeah, that's an old stadium,
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73. I mean, that's not a freshie.
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Being in Colorado, it's a nice straight shot. Right.
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I would go there again, too. If they said they were trashing it,
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I would actually make a sojourn out there. I wanted to.
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Yeah, I'd like to do that. Okay.
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The next one, let's go to Canada. Rogers Center, 1989.
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It was built, and that's Blue Jays. And I believe that's a dome, right?
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Yes. And, you know, Blue Jays had a good run. What was it, last year?
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A couple years. Last couple years. And I would love to go.
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Just never been to Canada to see a major league game. They've traded off a bunch of their players.
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I do know that they have a hotel in that stadium.
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Oh, yeah, yeah. And you can just sit on your little balcony and watch the game.
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I would actually love to do that.
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Save those nickels, buddy. Save those. Yeah, because I would stay,
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like, I'd see a game, and then I would...
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Have a game where i was up in my place just to
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do it you know and leave the next day it'd
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be dark just to kind of sit there and watch i'd want the stadium experience
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like i always go but my second one like a night game uh i'm like i don't want
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to deal with going anywhere or doing anything that would be yeah yeah man i'm
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wondering what those cause or how long you have to get that,
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We will do another episode.
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Ballparks that are out of our price range. That's a lot. Yeah.
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Tropicana Field, man. 1990, Tampa Bay Rays. Now, you know this park.
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Dude, I've been several times. Mom and dad lived down near Fort Myers.
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I'd make the trip up there by myself with my dad.
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You know, they had that hurricane damage, but they are, you know,
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it's tough to compete for just eyeballs there.
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So they have a nice museum in there. They treat their fans excellent with just
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good promotions and just energy.
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Surprisingly, it was a good experience for a demo.
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Like you really felt like you're in a dome. I'm not going to lie.
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But they had enough air going through, like it was a breeze and stuff.
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And, you know, we got some good seats. Yeah, did they fix that?
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Is that repaired for this season it was repaired i believe it's opening this
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season is it open i thought that is okay tannis and i have ridden past it they
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have a great bike path so when we go to florida we get on that particular bike
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path and just ride you know try to do a 20 miler 30 mile day,
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and we've uh sat outside that stadium and had a picnic it's got very nice grounds around it and,
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Yeah, I was surprised they were wanting to build another stadium somewhere else, that owner as well.
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And then this hurricane hit and kind of derailed the whole thing.
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So they just decided to rebuild.
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And I still, that's one on my list to go to.
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Yeah, they're saying it's fully open. Dude, if you, I would go there.
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So if you're going to be in that area, it is going to be fully open.
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Extensive repairs. They're saying it's officially reopened. Okay. I'd be curious to see.
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You know, really, it's just fixing that roof. Right. Right, right.
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But they probably did other things.
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Well, the next one on the list is Rate Field or White Sox Stadium, as you and I know it.
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1991, that park was built.
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That stadium did not look that new when we were there.
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No. It was part of our trip. trip
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and it was interesting that we went to that one first and
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then the cubs right what
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were your memories of that uh the one
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stadium we were escorted out for uh various
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shenanigans we're just waiting there to check
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it out they're like game's over get out go right now we
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well there's a little bit more to it than that we we snuck
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into the line to walk the bases because it was grandparent day to walk the bases
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and we tried to adopt a grandparent she was cool but the lady behind us was
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not she ratted us out so that got security moving us out of the ballpark.
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So so we tried we tried to adopt a grandma just to walk the bases at at the white socks field,
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Yes, and you couldn't really, not real good walkability. They had planters everywhere.
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Yeah, couldn't walk, though. Yeah. Sit in your seat.
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Now, I do know they have done some renovations since we've been there.
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And maybe new. Maybe it's better. I don't know. I don't know.
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Well, next on the list is Orioles Park at Camden Yards, built in 1992.
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Baltimore Orioles. I've been to the stadium, not for a game.
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I got a tour. I was there at a conference and part of our conference set up.
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Hey, we're going to go check out the stadium.
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Got to walk it through the lower levels, you know, like where players go and
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administrative staff go.
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And got to see like the room where the umpires hang out pregame.
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You got to go stand at the home plate, pretend you're swinging the bat, got to sit in the dugout.
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It's a beautiful ballpark. I would love to go.
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Yes yeah so i was
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field yeah modeled after it that's right
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yeah i had that kind of that brick vibe because they
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have the old train depot next to it that they've converted
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into like restaurants and kind of a kind of
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a place to hang out during the game get some food some
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swag yeah it's very it's just architecturally that's
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a gorgeous ballpark and so i'd love to go all
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right moving on here the guardians 1994 it's
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called progressive field i've not never been
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there never been there either love to go
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love to go to cleveland i haven't heard bad i haven't heard good so that's right
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coors field 1995 the rockies we got lots of memories there still still our favorite
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park just so our fans know i'm just a very walkable you can go anywhere very
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accessible to different viewpoints.
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I think that's the strength of their field. Right, right.
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Hey, side note, Tannis flew in, she went to the ballpark, and,
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On a Wednesday, it was raining. She went up to the tech at Windows,
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and she said, what's the cheapest ticket you got?
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The guy sold her a $1 ticket. What?
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Cost her $17 to park, but she had a rock pile, $1 ticket.
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She does what you and I do. She just walked around, enjoyed the game.
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Great ballpark. Anyway.
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Yep. Chase Field, 1998, Diamondbacks. Ah-ha! We have some experience.
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How many times have you been there? That's...
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Well, a couple more times than you, but part of it, that's a field that they use for other events.
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I've been there for Supercross, motorcycle racing, and then,
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yes, I went to another ball game there.
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But then you and I went, and I think we went in June. I'm like,
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hey, welcome to Phoenix in June.
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It was 11. Yeah, you were like, quote, this heat is oppressive.
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Hey we had a place to stay and uh and
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they had great lemonade and air
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conditioning that's what we did say yeah but that
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but no vibe no vibe outside that
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that stunk i think it was just the heat you know it's like nada nada hey let's
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go hang out outside after the game not that kind of ballpark that that was the
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dome too that and tropicana i think i'd give the better vibe to Chase. Sorry, Tropicana.
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Wow. But the new Tropicana, I don't know. Yeah, because they had just the way
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it was with the light and the way that's set up.
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But I'm curious to see in the future, we'll be going possibly with you to the Rays and see how that is.
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Yeah, the one drawback to Chase, it's down there next to where the Phoenix Suns
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basketball Ball State, whatever the name of that stadium is now.
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You know, these names change all the time.
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It's just they never got the vibe of the area around it.
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They tried to set up kind of some areas where you could walk,
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hit different restaurants. There's a little bit going on.
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But not as good as other parks, you know, where it's connected more to the downtown.
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This is on the fringe of the downtown.
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And people have complained about that ever since it's been built and that they
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just built the ballpark in the wrong place.
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You know, so anyway, for what it's worth, it's still a good place to see a game,
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not necessarily the city environment.
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Right. Yeah. But all right. Hey, Mariners, man, you know, this park 1999. Yeah.
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What do you think there's several times obviously when the when it's open it's
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better i've been there both times where it's closed and open great fireworks
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show i've been there but no just a good vibe there's transit to get there it's
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on the edge of the south part of town so i wouldn't say it's like,
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good after scene like afterwards hey
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let's go out you know it's okay but not really but what
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a great park to view treat their fans awesome and
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kind of like Kauffman Stadium next to their football stadium so you have that
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vibe which is cool right right yeah I'd love to go I'd love to go oh definitely
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it's pretty nice yeah I love I love Seattle, so got to do it.
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All right, moving on to our most favorite team. What's it, Dinkin Park?
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I can't even say the name properly. I don't even know this company.
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Built in 2000, it's the Astros Park. Yeah.
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I don't know if I'll ever go. I don't know. I don't know either.
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You know, I didn't mind them. Yeah.
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Cheaters. Time has to go. I know. So the cheating distaste is still bad.
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To be a completist, they might be the last one we do. Right.
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Just to complete it and say, or maybe not, because I don't want that.
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I will compromise with you. I might just, well, just go to the curb,
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take a picture, and walk away.
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There we go. No. Sorry, Astro fans.
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Right. Okay. All right.
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Now, I'm sure it's a sweet park. Well, at some point.
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Eventually, I will go. okay all right next
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comera park uh detroit tigers built
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in 2000 now i've been there yeah you no
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i've never been there here's what i have to say when i went the tigers were
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at a low of lows at that point and so i think there was 7 000 people in the
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park that day it's pretty bad for a nice summer day but i have tickets did you
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yeah we had a nice we had kind of um.
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Second deck up against the glass, it kind of has these glass walls,
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you know, so you don't fall off the edge of the stadium.
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It was very nice. Great seating, great ballparks, got kind of a retro vibe to it. But here's the part.
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They have a great statue kind of gallery out in the kind of outfield walking area.
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So restaurant out there. and then
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then there's just all these statues they're done very well of former players
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and it's great it's like you know it's like really well done so i would go back
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the problem is it is detroit and i didn't find it that hard to get there off
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of the freeways things like that.
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But we did walk around we went out to the i forget the name of the street it's
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very famous street by it and went to a restaurant and I thought the vibe was good.
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Go Detroit. I loved it. I loved it.
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Alright. Oracle Park. San Francisco Giants. Built in 2000.
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Yes. Beautiful.
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One of my favorite parks. Yes. Come on.
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You're looking at if you get the right seat. You're sitting there.
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Sitting there watching the water, you know, because they can hit the ball out
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of the park into the water.
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I actually got to see Barry Bonds hit a home run in that park.
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So, my life is complete right there. And he hit it into the water.
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So, it's like... Yeah, watching the barges and stuff for anyone who loves baseball. That is a must-see.
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Right. Whether he was on steroids or not, I don't care. It was a great home run. How about that?
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Let's see. Moving on. Let's see. The Athletics, they're in transition right now.
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So they're at Sutter Health Park, AAA Park.
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Before they moved to vegas so no i'm
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a i'm a teacher and i had a family who was
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big into that and you know i walked into
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the a's and went before they closed right before and
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she's trying to get me to go and i were talking me and you
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but we just could not get it to go as you know the end of the school year and
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that's a tough time but they went with the boys and just were showered with
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swag and just coolness and they just said hey we're here blah blah blah and
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they wrote to them and said we're trying to get out and they sent them swag after.
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You can say what you want but,
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The A's organization, they treated one family excellent when they didn't really have to.
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Right. So I think, way to go. I do regret not going out and seeing that.
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Yeah, it would have been sweet just to see it the last year,
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right, before they tear it down.
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But now we got to go to Vegas, apparently, when they get that part.
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All right. American Family Field, Milwaukee Brewers, built in 2001. Woo-hoo! Yes.
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We've both been there, right? yeah love that park
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yeah it's nice man i mean
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very it is like hot sweaty
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people i'm going up to the ballpark and i get in the vibe people are tailgating
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they're in long sleeves sitting under tents cooking right dogs on grills in
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the parking lot dude i'm just like dying and then it It rained,
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so they had to close the dome.
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It was so humid. I was like, but that being said, I had to sit by Euchre.
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It was awesome, and it was good.
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Brewers fans, yes. You know, when I first showed up, I'm like,
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okay, the stadium's by itself.
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It's kind of got poor parking lots, kind of like cloverleaf around it or something.
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It's nowhere near anything fun city-wise. It's by itself. but those fans make it fun.
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They just, they're there early.
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It could be 105 out there in the parking lot. They're tailgating no matter what.
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And same vibe inside brewer fans are good fans. Yeah.
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That was good. Love it. I would go, I would go again and probably will.
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Yeah. We had lunch. They have a restaurant that overlooks one of the bullpens.
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Forget the name of the restaurant, but we sat there on the edge eating and,
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watching the bullpen, watching one fan walk up, talking to the bullpen pitching
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coach. Hey, coming over for dinner on Sunday.
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They're like, yeah, I'm in town, blah, blah, blah.
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So, yeah, great fans. Love it.
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And, yeah, just love to go back. I don't know, something special about Milwaukee, right? Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. All right. PNC Park Pirates 2001.
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On the list. High on the list. I want to go. Yeah, great. Views of the sky. Yep.
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Buildings. Yeah, I've heard nothing bad. I know. Just, we have to get to Pittsburgh.
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But this ballpark, Great American Ballpark, Cincinnati Reds, 2003.
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Dude, and the way to do this, folks, is try to go to at least one or two games. Yes.
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You know, if you can, it really is nice. Man, what a great park. Very reminiscent of...
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It's like the Kansas city park in some ways
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it is but also you know with that water there it's
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kind of like oh yeah yeah yeah it's
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off the walk around the side you see the boat and stuff great great fans good
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people working there yeah yeah I we loved it because we stayed downtown and
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we went to what two games so we got the whole vibe we got to walk around the
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city and we got to walk around the river part, you know.
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Ah, yeah. Way to go, Cincinnati.
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Yeah, Bengals is right down the road, right down off the water as well.
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Yeah, great bus system. Got us out to the airport and back. Loved it. We'll do it again.
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A Citizens Bank Park, Philly's 2004.
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Not on my list. Not on my list either, but got to do it to be a completionist.
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Maybe after Harper retires. so we'll see.
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Probably by the time we get around there them the Astros we can't end on those two I know.
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Sorry folks sorry Philly fans I know,
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I think we like the Phillies we just have a little,
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little issue going the other way with some of the players but you know all teams change,
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so we'll get there hey peco park
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san diego padres 2004
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this park was built it looked newer than that
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when we were there did man very nice setup unique
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yeah yeah green space kind of had that weird aztec vibe i guess i don't know
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yeah yeah but it's like a mall yeah it was it was like ivy growing down on certain parts.
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It was just, yeah, what a ballpark.
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Man, I have to say that's got to be up there in my first top three because...
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Great vibe around the outfield on the outside and inside of the park,
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as well as the best guacamole you're ever going to eat. Oh, man.
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Yes. Yeah. No, great park. Hey, when you got Amelitas, you got those little
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grandmas up there making the guac.
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You know it's fresh. They're making it right there in front of you.
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We stood in that line multiple times. Yes.
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Yeah. Just to get the $15 guac.
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Great chips, too. But, you know. Bush Stadium, Cardinals, 2006.
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I'd love to go. I tried to go. I looked at it seriously when we were going to
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Indianapolis 500. I'm like, Googling?
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Are the Cardinals in town? Oh, they're on the road. I could have got a twofer,
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you know, could have double dipped.
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But they were on the road when we drove through.
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Darn. Otherwise, it would have been done. No. Yeah. The view, the views.
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Yeah. I would like, yeah, same here. Yeah, I see it from the interstate,
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but that's the closest I got.
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All right, next one, Nationals Park, 2008, Washington National.
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Easy to get to, different, you know, it's kind of spaces at a premium there.
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Right. What do you think of it?
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You know, I've only driven past. Oh, I thought you went in. No, no.
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You know, when we were in D.C., it was a baseball season, and we were there
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just a couple years ago, but, oh, they weren't. And so, sat there in a traffic
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jam, looked at it, looked very nice.
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Nope, never been. Love to go. Small, intimate, dark concrete, great fans.
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Right. I just like D.C. in general. It's a great town.
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Yeah, dude, hitting that, hitting that, and then going up to Baltimore.
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Yeah. Oh, there you go. Now you're talking.
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All right, buddy. Citi Field, 2009, New York Mets. What do you think?
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Love to go. Basically all these Astros, sorry, Astro people,
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you know, I'm talking smack break. I love all baseball. I would go.
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Maybe it's our, we're Rockies fans and we're like, eh.
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But I'd go to the Mets, you know. I would. I would.
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Next on the list is Yankee Stadium and a new Yankee Stadium.
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It was built the same year, 2009.
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Oh, I did not know that. I did not know that. You've been to Yankees,
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right? I went to old Yankee Stadium. Oh, that's right.
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Yeah. What was your thought on that? real quick man it
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needed to be replaced yeah i think
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they were really letting it go i think we were there maybe
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2006 seven sure because it
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was really right and we did the stadium tour you know where hey we kind of knew
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the new stadium's coming this one's coming down paid the extra showed up early
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did the tour got to see you know got the walk out there and the outfield along the dirt,
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You know, they have the famous kind of Hall of Fame section out there in the outfield.
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And I got to come around, sit in the dugout. I got to sit where Jeter sat, you know.
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It basically smelled like urine everywhere you went. That's my strongest memory. Yeah.
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You know, there's super nostalgia combined with the strong scent of unpleasantness.
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It kind of distracted you a little bit. But yeah, you could tell.
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It's like, yeah, this is rough. But...
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It's an experience. New York fans, I've never seen anything like it.
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First of all, we went to a Subway series. So that means the Mets show up against
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the Yankees in Yankee Stadium.
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And so I got Mets fans and so I got New Yorkers on New Yorkers talking smack.
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And I've never seen such smack talk in my life. It is an art form,
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I have to say. They are brilliant at it.
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We're just like deer in headlights as a family. And they were just like, oh, my God.
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I remember telling my kids, all right, on the subway, okay, you're going to hear the F word a lot.
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I mean, like a lot. They use it as an adjective, a noun, everything.
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So it's just going to be in the air.
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And then we got into a rain delay, and I thought, I'm going to see a fight. No.
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They just moved the smack talking into the walkways, covered walkways.
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And they're just in each other's face and then when it's time to play ball they
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just went back and kept the conversation going and I've never seen anything
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like this never saw a fight but man the smack talk was at level,
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11 on 10 I've never seen anything like it if you had the time it'd be good to
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do both when you're up there,
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we're from Colorado where people are chill you go to New York where people are,
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edgy and it's just a different experience Yeah, it's great.
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Target Field, 2010 for the Minnesota Twins. I have to say it's a great ballpark.
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Yeah, you've been there. What did you like about it?
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Well, this helped too. They're playing the Brewers. It's a mid-summer Brewers-Twins
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game. It felt like a playoff game.
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Those fans bring it. Not only Brewers fans come in smack talking,
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cheering, but the Twins fans are loud.
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And it's a concrete stadium. It's nothing special. It is in the heart of downtown, which is cool.
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They got the little tram and little walking vibe.
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But I have to say, just the fan experience, good fans. Average park, good fans. Yep.
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So, all right. Lone Depot Park, Florida Marlins, 2012.
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Tell me what you know. That band, it was Marlins Park when they were in Seoul.
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So it's in this neighborhood.
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Dude, they had all kinds of flair of the local, just everything.
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You know, they had this cool clock thing out there. Or like when they scored
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a home run, they would move this.
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It's like just a cool feature. It would just like move like water and things like that.
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And it just had all kinds of flair and personality. Then Jeter came.
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Sorry, Jeter. He's the face of this, but it was the new owners.
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And they changed it to make it more corporate, you know. And obviously,
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Lone Depot Park. And it was just...
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One of the best family experiences. The kids were the perfect age. We loved it.
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They had John Carl Stanton there. They had Yellich. They had all kinds of great
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incoming people. They had good pitching.
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It was an exciting team. We had good seats.
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So that was all good. Definitely worth going. When you're in Florida,
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you need to go there. It was nice.
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It's inside, but it was good. They could open it. for fireworks, and they did.
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Dude, that was a great park. I loved it. That's why I'm sad it's all corporate. Anyway. Okay.
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Let's go on to, hey, we're on the truest park. Atlanta Braves,
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2017. Ever been to Atlanta?
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Been to Atlanta in the airport, but have not been to the park. Have you? No. Uh-huh.
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No, it's just not a part of the world that I spent a lot of time in.
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Been to Atlanta a few times, but yet need to go. It looks like a very beautiful park.
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So on the list. That is definitely my future. Andy grew up in Atlanta,
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went to many braves because they would give the school kids brave tickets if
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they got good braids and stuff.
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So that was her team. I'd like to go see her old house and go see a game. There you go.
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All right. Last stadium, the newest stadium on the list is Globe Life Field,
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built in 2020, Texas Rangers.
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This is both on our list, right? Aye, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And it's the newest park.
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Luckily, my brother lives in the Dallas area, so we're going to go soon.
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But go Texas. They're my team, my underdog team of the year.
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And they're acting like an underdog team, but that's another story.
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Right, right. Yeah, I would just like to see what a modern...
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Stadium brings to the table compared to like Coors Field.
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That's one reason I want to go is there's like a 30 year difference between these two stadiums.
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What's, what's changed in that amount? Well, something you will never see.
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And that is the luxury suites, buddy.
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I'm sure they're bigger, better, and more of them.
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Basically that's the main difference. Right. Yeah.
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Well, yeah, I'm on a different budget. So yeah. From the typical fan experience,
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we will work on that. But, hey, this was fun.
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Any last comments before we wrap this long episode up?
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Once again, talking smack about a couple teams here. I love baseball. I'd go to any stadium.
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Going to the stadium is like going to see a game. It's one of my most favorite
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things to do. And what a great game.
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And I love it. It's part of the experience is the venue itself.
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And then the fans and then the game.
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You know, really, the reason if I heard us right, one of the things that we
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love is a great stadium, great fans.
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And win or lose in baseball really doesn't matter. If you've got a good stadium,
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good fans, you'd love the experience.
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Yep, true. That's what I do. All right. I think we're going to wrap this up.
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Hey, friends, thanks for joining us on this episode of Life According to Brian.
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And Jason. and let us know what
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stadiums you've been to or your favorite stadiums in baseball. See ya.