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I came here to do that and you beat me to it

Let's entertain this notion for a minute. Increasing the capacity of Sahlen's to the 45k that it was built for is a mistake. Building a multi-purpose bowl is also a mistake because the capacity of that will have to be at least 65k to accommodate football. You'll have acres of empty seats most of the time which is a bad look but they are also terrible seats for baseball. They'd be better off building a park that fits a snug 30k. PNC Park fits 38k in Pittsburgh. As a team, you want it to be a little bit of a tough ticket to get all the time and with the sports viewing habits of the public seemingly changing a smaller ballpark day to day will serve them better than having something with 15k more seats that they have to give away in April and when the team is bad. Does that mean tickets will be more expensive? Yes it does. Something that befits the architecture of the city and is very intimate and a little quirky. Cantilever the upper deck over the lower one as close as you can get it to the field. Make it feel like the stands are right on top of you. Give it that band box feel (with legitimate field dimensions) and when the team is good the atmosphere will be electric. The lack of open concourses in the current stadium is a bummer you didn't realize was a bummer until you go somewhere that has them. There of plenty of times I'll go to a game and not even sit in my seat for a couple innings. I'll got wander the concourse, have a beverage, and watch the game from different vantage points along the way.

10 rows behind the dugout is good in pretty much any baseball stadium. go up to the top level anywhere. I went to the Vet and Three Rivers lots of times. Esstenially the same. They sucked. A lot.

Those combo stadiums never work and they have basically all been replaced at this point. The dimensions of baseball and football don't work well together to build a good stadium for both. You end up with a bad stadium for two sports. The stadium is usually round which is terrible for everything, for baseball you end up with massive amounts of foul territory with seats miles from the field. For football the seats closest to the field end up being the endzones and your prime seats are the furthest away. I hope you were kidding but anyone who ever went to the Vet or Three Rivers or Riverfront or Busch Stadium or Fulton County Stadium or the Astrodome or the Metrodome or Candlestick Park or RFK Stadium or the Kingdome, or old Anaheim Stadium, or Alameda County Stadium, or Shea Stadium know I'm right. All of those places were terrible to watch a game in.

The money they are spending is on ballplayer stuff. Not on revenue generating items. The stadium USED to be the model of AAA baseball, it's not even close to that anymore and it's not even close to any of the newer MLB parks

If only they could work the vaccine into it...

Winner!

No and no No So close. Science

It's one of the oldest parks in AAA these days.

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Who dis?

Let's start with this. You'd be building a new ballpark, not enlarging the current one. No MLB team is going to permanently relocate into a 33 year old stadium.

That there brother is Macho Man Randy Savage

Yep, you got was I was aiming at.

Keep it clean there partner.

More like Bruce missing a playoff game because he didn't get a flu shot. A playoff game the Bills then lost. You want to champion players doing x y and z that's fine. Take that player, fast forward to next January and have that player be unavailable for a playoff game or God forbid the Super Bowl because they didn't do this. If you are still ok with that then fine.

Fine. I'm sure it's great. Go. Enjoy it. I honestly don't care what any of you do.

Nah, I'm good. Thx. As I've previously stated, the Mrs. Isn't going there for pleasure, ever. I'm not going on a bachelor weekend at my age. Frankly after the length of time I've been married I'm fine trusting her opinion on things and there are enough places on the planet that either one of us has been and liked or that neither of us has been to at all that I don't have a burning need to go there. You can enjoy it there. That's fine. My vacation money is going towards taking my kids to Wyoming and South Dakota this year. I've been there, none of them have. I liked it. I'm pretty sure they will to. I know them pretty well.

They pick it over and over for the same reason the trade show goes there over and over. It's an excuse for the vendors and sponsors to go there and act ridiculous without their families for a short period of time. If you're into that sort of thing you'll probably like it a lot. If you're not it's not going to be a place you like to go. When she's there for a trade show the majority of her time is spent at the convention center, the hotel, and the areas immediately around there. Also known as the places most tourists would see. She doesn't like to take her run in the morning because the streets in that area are disgusting in the morning, she doesn't like to be out after dark because it's complete amateur hour every night not to mention sketch AF in parts. That makes it not a super fun place to be for her. She looks forward to dinner and they eat at some fabulous places. Other than that, she can't wait to leave. It's totally different to live in a place as opposed to visit a place. Buffalo is a very nice place to live, it's a terrible place to go from a Tuesday to Thursday for work purposes and then go home.

These are the same people that stay when you tell them to evacuate because a hurricane is coming.

Bald Eagle nest on top of a cell tower next to my job in Delaware. Pretty neat to see there. There are many at the Conowingo Dam not far away in Maryland but I haven't seen one in that part of DE before. I'll try to get a picture tomorrow but it's wayyyyyy up there. My backyard is much more pedestrian. Catbirds, robins, finches, bluebirds, cardinals, blue jays, red winged blackbirds, the occasional oriole, Northern Flickers, Red-Bellied woodpeckers, Geese, ducks, blue herons, the occasional egret, the occasional Cooper's Hawk that will eat one of the aforementioned. Next time I see something I'll try to remember to put down my beer and take a picture.

My wife has to go there fairly regularly for trade shows. She hates it. Easily least favorite place she goes. Restaurants are awesome, everything else sucks hard apparently.

I live on the EC too. Not concerned. Annoyed by the price spike, but what are you gonna do? My parents and sister are in the OBX though and the stations there were out and that's an issue because there are only a couple.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/florida-gov-ron-desantis-declares-state-emergency-sunshine-state-doesnt-need-panic It is mostly going to impact the panhandle, but the order impacts the entire state.

Somebody's been skipping leg day.