CHICAGO - Wrigley Field (41,019)

[fenway58]

to me the park has the same feel as fenway park to me. various watering holes for post game the same as fenway. place is great. nice to see a redsox/cubs series.

[Nikom]

Wonderful Stadium

[Kuvvaci]

actually, not stadium but athmospehre is wonderful...

[dfrench8456]

Originally Posted by Bubbybu

the dimensions of a baseball playing field are not standardized so it allows for more variations in design

Its also because older ballparks are built around the surronding nieghborhood.

[www.sercan.de]

wow
those roof seats are amazing
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...c806d648_b.jpg

[skobabe8]

Good to see a game here at least once. That said, I would absolutely HATE IT if my team played here 81 times a year.

[th0m]

Some pics of when I visited Wrigley two years ago:


Fisheye overview


Vendor


Cubs were taking a beating by the Mets


The famous neonsign outside (yes I left early, but only to get this shot, honest!)


From the aforementioned Addison El-station.

[NavyBlue]

Originally Posted by dfrench8456

Its also because older ballparks are built around the surronding nieghborhood.

The same applies to cricket grounds around the world...

Nice old stadium . . . hope this one sticks around for a while yet.


Anyway, is this the stadium that featured on The Blues Brothers?

[nomarandlee]

yep. Elwood Blues list it as his address on his ID (the same adress is under my avatar). It is also the stadium in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

[NavyBlue]

Originally Posted by nomarandlee

yep. Elwood Blues list it as his address on his ID (the same adress is under my avatar). It is also the stadium in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Nice

[BobDaBuilder]

So if you live in the flats over the street from the stadium you can sit and watched games for 'free'?

It reminds me of the Oval in London. You get people sitting on the roof of the buildings across the street watching.

I think the old ground in St. John's Antigua is built next to a prison, so you get the convicts watching from the prison.

I seem to remember there was a sitcom back in the 1980s with 'Balky' and the opening credits had them watching a baseball match from the roof of one of those apartment buildings.

[Bobby3]

Originally Posted by BobDaBuilder

So if you live in the flats over the street from the stadium you can sit and watched games for 'free'?

It reminds me of the Oval in London. You get people sitting on the roof of the buildings across the street watching.

I think the old ground in St. John's Antigua is built next to a prison, so you get the convicts watching from the prison.

I seem to remember there was a sitcom back in the 1980s with 'Balky' and the opening credits had them watching a baseball match from the roof of one of those apartment buildings.

In Jamaica, there's a soccer stadium within the prison's land, heh.

[en1044]

From the NHL Winter Classic...Chicago Blackhawks vs. Detroit Red Wings

[nomarandlee]

Pretty f'n awesome I am pissed I missed the intros. For some dumb reason I thought it started at 230pm.

I wonder if the NHL would ever consider multiple outdoor games like the NFL does with Thanksgiving day. Have Wrigley and the Hawks be one of the stand in games (like the NLF does with the Lions) with another later or ealier game rotated among new venues.

Hopefully it will come back around to Wrigley or Soldier in ten to fifteen years.

[nomarandlee]

The Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune have some great photos of the Winter classic game....


http://www.suntimes.com/sports/-1,01...llery?index=23

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...3.photogallery

photos from the Tribune (please click on Tribune link)

[go_leafs_go02]

Absolutely Amazing..wish I had been able to watch this game live.

[canarywondergod]

looks like a fantastic atmosphere! I am always amazed how these stadiums can be converted. Was it possible to see the puck though from the back of the stands? If not did it ruin the game at all?

[weava]

they said on TV it was the first time the stadium had a video replay board, I wonder if they will start to use one for baseball since they have got to be the most behind the times team in the MLB.

[nomarandlee]

The team is getting new owners in a few months and I think and hope that the new owner would be foolish enough to shatter the ambiance. I have been to stadiums with large jumbotrons and I don't find them particularly useful other then for teams giving ad time and to use as a promotional tool.

I fear it will eventually come but I think it would be an EXTREMELY unpopular move by the majority of fans. Part of Wrigley' charm is the vista it gives of the neighborhood and looking out northeast on its Lakeview neighborhood. Perhaps the team and one of the rooftops will think about installing one of the most portable ones but even then I hope they strongly reconsider.

[nomarandlee]

Originally Posted by canarywondergod

looks like a fantastic atmosphere! I am always amazed how these stadiums can be converted. Was it possible to see the puck though from the back of the stands? If not did it ruin the game at all?

I haven't talked to anyone who went but I don't think that would be an issue. A baseball and a puck are roughly the same size and a baseball is often moving at as fast of speeds as a puck. I would think the best seats would be those a bit back and up and or even on the 2nd deck. The near seats may be good but I imagine that in some angles the rink boards would have obscured the view.