FROM THE FIELD : HERE'S TO BRADY STADIUM DLIM.Byline: KEVIN ACEE ACEE Agence Canadienne d'Évaluation Environnementale (Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency) ACEE AmeriCorps for Community Engagement and Education ACEE Area Centers for Educational Enhancement (Florida) Sitting in Wrigley Field For the former ballpark in Los Angeles, see . • • [ . Missing Dodger Stadium • • [ . Hoping Dodger Stadium doesn't change. The Dodgers have in recent weeks been to some of the nicest ballparks, old and new, in all of baseball. There was Coors Field • • [ , a brilliant, if not misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es 1. a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence. b. , recent work. There was brand new Turner Field, overrated Overrated was a Horde World of Warcraft guild, based on the US Black Dragonflight Realm. On November 2 2006, the majority of the guild members were indefinitely banned from the game for use of (or directly benefiting from) a third-party "wall-hack", used to bypass content but still a nice place to be unless you're an infielder. And the Dodgers are currently playing the Cubs in the best ballpark ever built. Wrigley Field is where God watches baseball - with its ivy and brick, its old scoreboard and the houses across the street, where fans sit on rooftops and home runs occasionally land. But even here, at the oldest park in the National League, home runs are sponsored by an airline and attendance quizzes are made possible by a long-distance carrier. They play rock music, of all things. The organist is no Nancy B. At Dodger Stadium, the only time you'll hear public address announcer Mike Carlucci say the name of a sponsor is when it is associated with a charity. Only the Coke bottle signs remind us this is a business. Even Wrigley Field, which opened in 1914, changed. They added lights in 1988. Dodger Stadium is the same as it was on Opening Day 1962. Dodger Stadium is like those ``Brady Bunch'' movies. It's out-of-style, and it doesn't know it. In fact, the place is so ugly, with its blue and orange and yellow seats, it's about to come back in style. There is much speculation that when Rupert Murdoch, or whoever, buys the Dodgers, they will make changes. Skyboxes? Billboards? Canned music? Cheerleaders Notable cheerleaders
Noooooo. Please, Mr. Murdoch, don't ever replace the baseball lamps. Don't ever update the fiberglass-looking pavilion roof. Don't eliminate foul space by putting in more field-level seats. Don't you dare take out any of those blue and orange and yellow seats. But could you make the press elevator go faster? CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Dodger Stadium, despite its oddly colored seats, is still one of the best diamonds in professional baseball. Daily News File Photo |
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