Worst MLB Stadiums?

I havent been to either of these stadiums, but I think both Tampa Bay and Houston teams have HORRIBLE stadiums. You'd think, with them both being fairly new, they'd be good stadiums, but the designers and the teams screwed up when building them.

Why, in Florida and in Houston, do you need a dome??!?!??

Minute Maid Park in Houston is awesome! You can see the game from anywhere in the park, even when you are walking around. Houston has a tropical climate, with lots of rain, so the roof is a good idea. It also comes in handy when it is hot and humid. It started hitting the 90s in April this year.

Astrodome would be in the running for "Worst". Ken Caminitti used to say it was like playing in a dungeon.

Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Players play like they are as old as the park.

Go White Sox!

Minute Maid might be good if you are a spectator watching from the stands, but other than that i think it is trash. Dolphin stadium is the worst, When will the marlins get out of south florida. Move them to San Antonio. The Nationals have a bad stadium, (Theirs is JFK, am i correct)?

Rock,
Are you saying MM is trash from a player's perspective or what? What is wrong with it?

I don't know about Houston, but in the Tampa Bay area you need a dome or every other game, if not every game, would be rained out through the Summer. Very hot and Very wet!!!

In shea (where the Mets play) the you can see from very high, but once u go down low, and sit deep into the lower sections, the floor beneath you is actually covering the field. Also, the stadium does not look spectacular, or anything of that sort.

I wouldn't want to play at Minute Maid. The flag pole in center field (that's still there, isn't it?), the short left field (shorter than our high school left field line), and worst of all that STUPID artificial noise. It's too bad a team like the Houston Astros (as much as I hate them, I hate the Snubs worse) has to rely on artificial noise and a screwed up ballpark to win.

Hey guess what, it's already been in the 90's up here in Illinois too!! The dome's a joke.

Do the high school and college teams play in domes too down there? Floridafan, how many games can your high schools and colleges get in if "every game would get rained out" without the dome?

"Baseball Like it Oughta Be"

nybbplayer,

For many years - we use to refer to the lower sections of Shea as the "belly of the beast". LOL

Shea has my vote for the worst stadium that is still in existence.

Safco Field is the best new stadium no doubt and the best old stadium is wrigley field.

I just wish the Mariners were as good as there Stadium.

What artificial noise?

Actually Bulldog HS and college games get rained out all the time. Games get started late, games get canceled,if not important for District Standings. Multi day tournaments get royally screwed up with very late games and tons of turfis applied. It is a very real issue in Sub-tropical and Tropical Florida, whether you care to believe it or not!

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I wouldn't want to play at Minute Maid.

Bulldog,
Are you sure about that statement?

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Originally posted by sluggo:
What artificial noise?

The buzzing bees, the buzz from the crowd and how it bounces off the glass to create even more noise. That crazy noise bouncing around like that is for football, not baseball.

PG, you got me on that one But I'd PREFER not to play there

Florida, high school baseball and MLB baseball is totally different when you start talking about field conditions after it rains. I don't know of many high school teams with full 20-man Ground Crews to get a field in shape nor the money to afford all equipment the Pro teams use to keep their fields in excellent shape.

Shea, hands down...at least as a spectator...although a few players have told me it's the worst infield in the NL.

Sluggo, The hill is a joke, they should get rid of it and put some bleaher seats or something.

Bulldog, i agree i hate the bee sounds, but their is nothing anyone can do about it. Astros fans like their bees!

Major League Baseball did a good job last year when they made the Astros open the roof in th NLCS.

I lived in Florida many moons ago. The summers are hot, humid, and prone to absolute downpours. I tell my kids actual stories of chasing my Volkswagen as it floated down the street.. or going to a Led Zeppelin concert when a monsoon hits and seeing sparks flying out of Jimmy Page's guitar. I'm back in the Northwest where the summers are dry and sunny everyday.

Purely from a comfort standpoint, Fenway Park is by far the worst. The Cell in Chicago is awful by standards of newer ball parks, although the renovations made last year allegedly made it better.

Tropicana Field has all the charm of a parking garage circa 1954. Fenway is no picnic regarding comfort. The seats are original equipment and made for 19th century "little people", with maybe 4,500 to 7,000 seats blocked by steel columns. Someone told me they had to climb a rope to get to the monster seats.

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or going to a Led Zeppelin concert when a monsoon hits and seeing sparks flying out of Jimmy Page's guitar.

I was there!

Florida Marlins absolutely need a dome it rains every day here.

MM is a great park in my opinion. Great for the fans. I loved watching there. I love Wrigley Field as well. The atmosphere around the stadium is awesome.

OK, I admit I do not like the hill and pole in center in Houston either. I have nightmares about some very valuable centerfielder getting injured out there.

BUT, I don't see how you can say you hate a place when you have never been there.

Crawford Boxes in left are cool. I have front row tickets.

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Originally posted by Rock 44:

Major League Baseball did a good job last year when they made the Astros open the roof in th NLCS.

Check that. It wasn't the NLCS they made the Astros open it. In fact, the MLB stated that it was the Astros decision due to it being their ballpark, however it should be open. It was the World Series where MLB reversed its decision and required it be open.

A little different, add in what you guys think is the best park as well. I have season tickets at Camden Yards (orioles) even though I like the yanks the O's are the local team. I have been the fenway, the seats are so close together, I was there before the monster seats so i wouldnt know about any rope. Also, I have been to Jacobs Field (that was a great park in my view) and Yankee Stadium is really good, It is sorta raged down but the energy going through that place throughout the whole game is insane, I sat in section 39 (refered to as the bleacher creatures) and it was crazy. And a good family park would be Pac Bell in San Fransico, its so nice and cozy.

Shea Stadium is at the bottom of my list-- I love the quaintness of Fenway

Cant wait for the new Shea which they say will be much like old Ebbetts Field in Brooklyn--- now there was a fan frendly stadium

RFK is defintly run down.