Good story that I had no idea about. Good baseball story, good Illinois story, good city of Chicago Story.

If this has been posted before, my apologies.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the- ... d-history/

There were some compelling ideas behind Armour Field, but from a gameplay standpoint, 280 down the lines and 420 to the alleys is positively nanners. You can't play modern baseball that way, no one would stand for it. It's best as a dress rehearsal for Camden Yards.

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Camden Yards is the main reason people were/are so upset with The Cell. They said oh look we have a great new park then the next year or whatever saw the park the same architects put in Baltimore.

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Elections have consequences.

There was really only one good choice, the area between 12th and 22nd street, east of the L, and a retractable dome like in Toronto

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Just before Camden Yards, there was a neo-retro stadium built for Buffalo's AAA team with provisions for expanding it to major-league standards. Unfortunately, this was about the time that Western New York started hemorrhaging residents and would never be a viable major-league market beyond the Bills and Sabres (and even both of those were semi-recently in question), so AAA it stayed.

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Simply turning The Cell/Rate around so that the back drop was views of the skyline and the Lake would have done wonders for the aesthetics of the place.

I think it was America that had the suggestion of covering one of half of the parking lots with grass, and have it be a park and picnic area. Fans could still show up there and tailgate, but then it would also be a park year round. The Sox could easily schedule off season or off day activities to actively get kids involved in being a Sox fan. It would be pretty cool to get off the Metra, walk for 5 minutes, then sprawl out on a blanket to have a few beers and a ready-made sandwich before heading into the park.

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Hopefully the new owners revive the spirit of this for the new stadium in 2030.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Northwest corner of 35th/Wentworth would seem like the place to do it. That would be a good idea. Just about anything's a better idea than surface parking.

Wonder if they could figure out a way to do a gameday-only stop between 33rd-39th on the Southwest Line, sort of a Sox version of the Ravinia stop.

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This is like trying to polish a turd.

This just makes too much sense. Build a staircase and a ramp with railings. It doesn't have to be as "nice" as the Lou Jones stop a quarter mile east. The trains already run during the week for day games, just put an extra
train on the schedule for night games. Then you run 1-2 trains at most on the weekend before the game and one 8-car train after the game on weekends. I know the SWS operates on freight lines, but you can't tell me that there is no way to accommodate a grand total of about 3 minutes worth of Metra trains on the 13-15 weekends a year the Sox have home games.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Thank you.

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Trane Advise.

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Not where the legendary Meystel's used to be located?

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Isn't that your mult?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

It is considered poor form to quote your own mult's post from a few months ago and then use laughing emojis.

Thank you.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I like how it would have been like the polo grounds.

You really reached for that one

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The park's fine. It's the women who aren't.

You're not supposed to go shorter than 325 feet down the lines. You'd need really high walls to compensate for the inevitable cheap home runs, like when the Dodgers had to play at the L.A. Coliseum. I like quirks, but that's too much.

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I was having a conversation with my friend the other day about Comiskey.

How long until they build a new park? 15yrs? 20yrs?

Well, the article in the original post explains that Comiskey was designed to be similar to Kauffman Stadium, which in turn borrowed from Dodger Stadium, and both of those are still alive and kicking with significant renovations and year-to-year care. I suspect Comiskey has better bones than Turner Field or the Ballpark in Arlington, and infrastructurally speaking, the location can't be beat. They should be committing to staying at least another twenty years, but really should be there indefinitely.

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A negative white sox article by Dayn with a y Perry? Shocked!

The stadium is fine. It's not great. I really like the wide concourses and short rows of the lower deck. The sight lines are excellent. Access to the park is convenient on multiple forms of public transportation and private. The food is great. The place is clean and looks new for a 27 year old facility.

It will never be some place for which they sell t shirts bought up by people who love nostalgic, Disney world preservation. However, it is certainly not an impediment to me going to a game.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This dead horse has been beaten enough already.

There's more to the success of Wrigley than it being "neighborhood" driven. It benefitted from other tailwinds of fortune that would not have existed with Armour Park.

There are aspects of Armour Park that would have been nice
CH is correct....the foul lines need to be at a reasonable distance
RR is correct...closer to Loop would have been a much better location.
FRANK is correct....rotating the field so the backdrop is the loop would have been an easy win.

It's one of Jerry's blemishes....but they did make it a ton better and it is a nice ballpark. I won't apologize for appreciating the fact that it has parking lots. I hate taking the red line to Wrigley.

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