Minutemaid park is stupid

[Hacking Out Machine]

minute maid park is a joke. it's quirky for the sake of being quirky. the green monster is at least built to compensate for the short porch in left field because of landsdowne st. running behind it.

 

I agree, and this is the inherent problem with this absolute disgrace of a park. In an effort to manufacture nostalgia, the Astros have embarrassed themselves. What they've done is essentially copy "quirks" of old baseball stadiums. The problem is that all of these prior quirks were not anyone's intent. The hill in CF is copied after the old Polo Grounds. Nobody built that hill, it's just the result of trying to fit a baseball diamond in a huge polo field. That's just the way the ground naturally was. The flagpole in CF is there to copy the fact that the monuments and flagpole used to be in play in the "Death Valley" outfield in Yankee stadium. It was so deep out there that the pole never came into play. It wasn't meant to be an obstacle, like this one is. Like someone mentioned before, it's a short porch in LF at Fenway because of the urban layout in that area, not because someone thought it would be cool to have a short porch.

 

Nostalgia has resulted from all these unintended quirks in the old parks. You can't manufacture nostalgia, especially in a park that has had 3 names in 10 years. The freaking hill had a name before a game was even played there. The hill and the pole are a joke, and trying to be cute with the left field wall has led to only confusion, to the point where nobody can figure out where the ball even lands in more than half of the home runs hit there. Arena baseball? Lines on a wall determining a home run? It's a joke. I'm probably in the minority, but I'm actually offended by that park. Build something original, that brings nostalgia naturally. Don't plagiarize other parks to try to artificially get a feeling.

[Jehrico]

minute maid park is a joke. it's quirky for the sake of being quirky. the green monster is at least built to compensate for the short porch in left field because of landsdowne st. running behind it.

 

I agree, and this is the inherent problem with this absolute disgrace of a park. In an effort to manufacture nostalgia, the Astros have embarrassed themselves. What they've done is essentially copy "quirks" of old baseball stadiums. The problem is that all of these prior quirks were not anyone's intent. The hill in CF is copied after the old Polo Grounds. Nobody built that hill, it's just the result of trying to fit a baseball diamond in a huge polo field. That's just the way the ground naturally was. The flagpole in CF is there to copy the fact that the monuments and flagpole used to be in play in the "Death Valley" outfield in Yankee stadium. It was so deep out there that the pole never came into play. It wasn't meant to be an obstacle, like this one is. Like someone mentioned before, it's a short porch in LF at Fenway because of the urban layout in that area, not because someone thought it would be cool to have a short porch.

 

Nostalgia has resulted from all these unintended quirks in the old parks. You can't manufacture nostalgia, especially in a park that has had 3 names in 10 years. The freaking hill had a name before a game was even played there. The hill and the pole are a joke, and trying to be cute with the left field wall has led to only confusion, to the point where nobody can figure out where the ball even lands in more than half of the home runs hit there. Arena baseball? Lines on a wall determining a home run? It's a joke. I'm probably in the minority, but I'm actually offended by that park. Build something original, that brings nostalgia naturally. Don't plagiarize other parks to try to artificially get a feeling.

+1. Worst park in baseball.

[Tracer Bullet]

minute maid park is a joke. it's quirky for the sake of being quirky. the green monster is at least built to compensate for the short porch in left field because of landsdowne st. running behind it.

 

I agree, and this is the inherent problem with this absolute disgrace of a park. In an effort to manufacture nostalgia, the Astros have embarrassed themselves. What they've done is essentially copy "quirks" of old baseball stadiums. The problem is that all of these prior quirks were not anyone's intent. The hill in CF is copied after the old Polo Grounds. Nobody built that hill, it's just the result of trying to fit a baseball diamond in a huge polo field. That's just the way the ground naturally was. The flagpole in CF is there to copy the fact that the monuments and flagpole used to be in play in the "Death Valley" outfield in Yankee stadium. It was so deep out there that the pole never came into play. It wasn't meant to be an obstacle, like this one is. Like someone mentioned before, it's a short porch in LF at Fenway because of the urban layout in that area, not because someone thought it would be cool to have a short porch.

 

Nostalgia has resulted from all these unintended quirks in the old parks. You can't manufacture nostalgia, especially in a park that has had 3 names in 10 years. The freaking hill had a name before a game was even played there. The hill and the pole are a joke, and trying to be cute with the left field wall has led to only confusion, to the point where nobody can figure out where the ball even lands in more than half of the home runs hit there. Arena baseball? Lines on a wall determining a home run? It's a joke. I'm probably in the minority, but I'm actually offended by that park. Build something original, that brings nostalgia naturally. Don't plagiarize other parks to try to artificially get a feeling.

 

That there's a good post.