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The broken bones posted:he plays the gently caress out of that sax. And then between songs he'll make jokes. he's amazing. He was pretty drat good, but we have those in st. Louis too
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Combo posted:He was pretty drat good, but we have those in st. Louis too I figure every ball park has a few musicians hanging outside the park. I told him he's famous on an internet message board. He was somewhat puzzled but he appreciated the compliment.
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Joe Don Baker posted:I figure every ball park has a few musicians hanging outside the park. I told him he's famous on an internet message board. He was somewhat puzzled but he appreciated the compliment. Surprisingly, not that many do--at least not the kind of entertainers like Sax Man. Cubs have a brass band; you'll see a few guitarists or something like that outside Chase and I think the Cell, but nobody belting out the hits like Sax Man.
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Man you guys are great, thanks! I'll give their ticket exchange a shot (I bought Yankees tickets from their similar system a month ago and if it's anything like that prices should be much cheaper than Stubhub) and we'll check out the Orange circle for food. e: and Joes Italian Ice. I can't say no to ice cream. Bobby Cox fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jul 30, 2013 |
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Has anyone seen the CMU bagpiper this season?
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The only people playing music of any sort around Target Field are hobos who bought an instrument just to collect change with. They're loving terrible.
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JediGandalf posted:The Metrolink will take you right to Angel Stadium. I did that last year for a Rangers-Angels game. Took it from Oceanside all the way up and back. If all possible, do this since you circumvent the Orange County Crush. Yes, this. There should still be a special train for weeknight games, it's $7 round trip, and the station is literally in the Angel Stadium parking lot. You can take it from anywhere on the Orange county line (LA Union Station to Oceanside). Way easier than driving.
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I've always driven because i work like two exits away but there is a train station relatively close to Angel Stadium and I think they have a special train that runs after games (though maybe only within OC. I've never used it). And I agree with everyone else. It's not a bad place to see a game but there's nothing special about it an the area around the stadium is boring as hell. Petco is a lot more fun. And gently caress that stupid monkey. E: both beaten and wrong woooo
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Seconded. A lot of places around Petco have drink and appetizer specials after games, and there are more bars than you can go to in any one trip. The gaslamp is pretty fantastic.
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thoraxfetish.com posted:Cool trip! Eat all the fish tacos. Eat nothing but fish tacos.
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Edit: Removed half the post, as I was late.thoraxfetish.com posted:(those AYCE seats at Dodger Stadium sound awesome). 1) Dodger Stadium doesn't have a normal sound system like modern ballparks but instead has a ten gazillion megawatt outdoor concert amphitheater thing over centerfield, that makes itself heard across the park by deafening anyone near the outfield. 2) If things get rowdy they will also get messy, as people have food and drink and believe that there's a free replacement waiting for them where they got it. 3) The food is of really low quality anyways. I've seen some pictures on Yelp and elsewhere that suggest a health inspector's nightmare, but even if everything's clean it's not the premium stuff. You want a whole bunch of boiled Dodger Dogs, or sit elsewhere and buy the grilled one? There's a reason the grilled one is this stadium's Food That Every Fan Insists You Must Try Out. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jul 31, 2013 |
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Craptacular! posted:Edit: Removed half the post, as I was late. Seconded on a lot of this. You have to eat 7 hot dogs to justify ayce,. I always love the top deck seats because they're so cheap and right on top of home plate.
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The broken bones posted:I always love the top deck seats because they're so cheap and right on top of home plate. If you're a local regular and an LA fan, that's great. I live far enough out that splurging $30 or even $50 on a ticket isn't unreasonable given effort required just to get there, and additionally get away from the bleacher bum mentality up there. I tend to prefer loge on the first base side, sometimes I can find a lower box seat for around the same price. Similar to your visit to AT&T being more pleasant than you expected (though you'd see plenty of the fans your mother warned you about in it's bleachers), the Dodger fans in the more expensive seats closer to the game are more focused on baseball or being with their family, and seem less likely to troll or do something ejection-worthy than the cheap seats in the pavilions or top deck. I am a fan of the cheap far-back row ticket on StubHub, but I'm somewhat unique though in that I don't like the sun, and prefer chairs shaded by the overhang of the next level.
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The broken bones posted:Surprisingly, not that many do--at least not the kind of entertainers like Sax Man. Cubs have a brass band; you'll see a few guitarists or something like that outside Chase and I think the Cell, but nobody belting out the hits like Sax Man. I've seen a guy dressed in a full Spider-Man costume playing the sax outside Citi Field. Found the pic I took: 
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It may have been since that post was written, but a Flying Saucer opened up about two blocks from Busch. Beer bar with about 100 options, mix of local and international (not a ton of national crafts.) the foods decent, too. The place gets a little crowded around game times, but you can't beat the location - start at the Musial statue then walk about two blocks west, straight away from the Stadium. It'll be the only place with people in it. The staff can be a bit dense, though. At trivia night, the emcee had literally no idea how to pronounce Mujica. Which is normally fine, even in STL not everyone's a fan. But come on, you can throw a rock and hit the ballpark. PS look at my first post in this thread, it has a link to where you can find non-AB beer in the stadium. Boxman fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Aug 2, 2013 |
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Got back from my road trip at like 3 am this morning, it was awesome. US Cellular - got there really early as it was the first destination on our trip. Nice ball park, the atmosphere was kind of quiet and bad which was understandable I guess because there wasn't much to cheer about other than Chris Sale owning the Indians and still losing. Parked literally across the street from the stadium for $20 then walked around the neighborhood and found some place to eat lunch. Seemed like a really good amount of tailgating. Comerica - after a late night (it is surprisingly hard to get a hotel in the middle of Michigan, loving casinos), we drove to Detroit and got there about 45 minutes before game time. Parked maybe 5 blocks away from the stadium for $5. The park itself rocked, the entrances were all covered in tiger statues. There was a craft beer stand behind where we sat, which was really good. Nice big crowd. Left directly after the game so I can't really comment on the city, but what we did see looked pretty crappy. Progressive - drove to Cleveland right after Detroit and stayed at the Hilton across from the ballpark for two nights. Went and ate at some place near the park the first night (City Tap?) which had awesome beer and food, got to meet Carlos Baerga briefly as he apparently hangs out there. Picked up bleacher tickets from the ballpark for like $15. Stadium was cool, kind of weird that there's a graveyard across the street. We got in pretty early for batting practice and found Heritage Park, which was really nice. Crowd was only slightly larger than the one at the White Sox game, but way louder and more active. People in the bleachers and in the city in general were very friendly. PNC Park - the god drat crown jewel of our trip. Got there early and decided to explore the city, stumbled across Market Square which was a bunch of restaurants with some outdoor seating in the middle of it all. Had a really drat good burger and a few beers at Winghart's, then walked to Doubledays for a couple more drinks before getting to the stadium (passed Sax Man on the Clemente bridge). Got free tickets from someone one of my friends works with, and we were 4 rows behind the vistors dugout...for a single admission double header against the Cardinals. I really can't express how god drat awesome the park and the city are. We've already decided next year we're going to make another trip out there to see a whole series against the Cardinals as a mini road trip. I was already a Pirates fan (as in, if the Cardinals aren't in, I want it to be Pittsburgh), but seriously it was amazing. Wrigley - Well...it sure is a park. It was nice to finally see a game there, but the place is a dump. Got bleacher tickets and sat second row in left field. I've never seen so many shambling horrors of humanity all in one place. Dudes eating giant bags of peanuts, letting the shells land on their guts, and then walking around with them still on there when they went to get beer. One guy wasn't only throwing his peanut shells on to the field, but making a show of it, like throwing each shell with a flourish, while he wheezed from the effort. I wish I had something positive to say but I seriously can't think of one thing. It smelled like urine everywhere we were in the park. The constant, relentless heckling of Caleb Gindl was funny I guess. The next day we were supposed to drive to Target Field but decided gently caress that. We didn't have tickets and didn't feel like spending all that time in the car, so we stayed about halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago. We decided bowling was a better use of our time, and found some place north of Chicago called Pinstripes. This was one of the coolest places we went on the whole trip. On one side was a banquet hall sized room with 6 bocce ball courts, then a bar in the middle, and the other side was bowling, with some sweet leather chairs. We honestly hung out here bowling and playing bocce for a long time, until we were drunk enough that a strip club sounded like a good idea. We hit one of those up and didn't get back to our hotel room until almost 5 am, and had to check out by 11, so we were basically zombies by the time we got to... Miller Park - got here extremely early and had to kill time. On about 3 and a half hours of sleep, we decided to go find a park and nap for a few hours, which helped. The tailgating here looked really cool, but since we weren't at all prepared for it we just kind of roamed the area of the stadium. I'd bet if you know the places to go, the pregame is probably amazing. The park was cool, we went and ate at Friday's during batting practice, and got to sit right next to the window and watch that. Happened to stumble in on the night they were honoring Robin Yount, which was neat, and then all of a sudden out walks Rollie Fingers and Hank Aaron, with the opening address by Bob Uecker  . Some guy had to be literally carried out because he was passed out drunk in his seat and couldn't walk, and the rest of his group of friends (about 20 of them) got kicked out for smuggling booze in, so that was pretty funny. Even funnier because the guy that carried him out was another fan that had just walked over to help him get down the stairs, while two cops and like 4 ushers did literally nothing to help. He just picked him up and slung the guy over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. The park was pretty nice. Also got to see a Bryce Harper dinger.Great American Ballpark - got here early again, so went across the street to Crave and had some beef and kimchee tacos that I want more of in my mouth right now. Area around the ballpark was really nice, and the parking underneath was convenient as hell. Had free tickets and parking from the same friend's work. This was last night, and we were pretty tired, so we barely explored at all. There didn't seem to be anything super notable about the stadium, but again, we didn't explore much. We left after the 7th inning because by that point we just wanted to get on the road and get back home to sleep in our own beds. I'll get some pictures up at some point, I want to just throw them all into an album on imgur.
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Combo posted:Got back from my road trip at like 3 am this morning, it was awesome. You ran basically the same trip I ran about 6 years ago, except I went from Minnesota to St. Louis and skipped GAB and PNC (I'd seen PNC many times before). If you want a really good road trip that knocks out a lot of parks at once, this is it. All of these parks are pretty close in driving distance to one another. And if you're willing to drive from Philly to Pittsburgh, which is only about 6 hours, you can even get in all of the NYC and Baltimore/DC stadiums easily.
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Yeah, we were definitely tired of being in the car, but overall it was a super easy trip. Only 2400 miles over 8 days which is super manageable with 3 people. It would have been like 3k had we gone to Minnesota. Would have been more comfortable with an SUV or van or something instead of my Elantra, but we got pretty good gas mileage so it balanced out. Made it from Indy to Cincinnati, and then all the way back home to St. Louis on one tank of gas.
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This thread is simultaneously depressing and inspiring. Depressing: Total parks visited: Petco, Dodger, Busch III, Angel, and Chase Inspiring: 25 to go! Although mid September, [deity] willing, I'm going to Atlanta for Padres-Braves so I will add Turner to the list. Friends were planning a trip to Coors but looks like that fell through. I think I might just up and go to SF the final three games of the season. Won't be like 2010 though as both teams are fighting for "who is not in the cellar!"
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Combo posted:Yeah, we were definitely tired of being in the car, but overall it was a super easy trip. Only 2400 miles over 8 days which is super manageable with 3 people. It would have been like 3k had we gone to Minnesota. Would have been more comfortable with an SUV or van or something instead of my Elantra, but we got pretty good gas mileage so it balanced out. Made it from Indy to Cincinnati, and then all the way back home to St. Louis on one tank of gas. lol look at this noob For reference, I drove LA-Phoenix-Denver-Seattle-SF-LA and that was about 5,000 miles with a few extra stops in 18 total days, driving about 12 of those days total. The last 1,500 was by myself. It was an incredible trip, but I'm freaking exhausted and I wish I had a shorter trip.  Here's some additional road trip info: 1. Plan everything in advance, sometimes even meals. I spent about two weeks planning the first two weeks of my trip and it made everything way easier. I had tickets, hotel rooms, places to stop for lunch, etc. I knew how to stay within my budget. The second half of the trip I planned much worse and so had to spend about an hour every morning planning where I was driving to, how I was getting there, etc. If you have some spots where you have to stay on the road in the middle of nowhere, AAA will help you find a hotel and give you a 15% discount. If you're short on cash, use credit card points if you have them. Also, be ready for some plans to go to poo poo. Despite planning every inch of Rocky Mountain National Park and Denver, the only thing that got accomplished was staying in the correct hotel. 1.5. Budgeting gas To plan for gas, expect gas to be about 4.50. Take whatever mileage you get on the highway for your car, then take the total mileage of the trip. x = miles on the trip planned y = mpg in car z = number of gallons your tank holds 4.5 = cost of gas z * 4.5 = how much each fill up will be y * z = how many miles per tank x / (y * z) = how many times you'll have to fill up on the trip (which we'll use as (n) in the next problem) [(x / (y * z)] * (z * 4.5) = how much you'll be paying for gas. For example: 5000 miles on the trip 27 miles per gallon in the car 14 gallons in the tank 4.50 for gas everywhere 14 * 4.5 = 63 bucks, which is how much each fill up will be. 27 * 14 = 378 miles, which is about how many miles I'll be driving per tank. 5000 / 378 = 13.2 total fill ups. 13.2 * 63 = 833, the total amount of money it'll cost to pay for gas on the trip. I found out on the road I could get better MPG during some of the trip, and often got up to 28 or 30 even with my coupe. That and gas was at times 3.75 on the trip, which saved us an immense amount of money on the road. In actuality, I probably paid somewhere around 700, but it felt much less because I had planned gas to be more expensive. 2. Make sure the second half of your trip is lighter than your first half This is pretty self-explanatory. 3. Use Waze, Kayak and Yelp throughout the trip Waze is an app that helps identify the shortest possible routes with traffic and road blocks considered. It's immensely helpful. It also works in low-reception areas. Kayak is the same as the Kayak website, only a mobile app. Pretty helpful for finding hotels on the road. Yelp got me some decent food places within walking distance in particular cities. Waze also helps you find the cheapest gas in your location. Use it wisely. 4. Don't try to fit in too much. One day per city at least Additionally, don't fit Seattle into a road trip; please fly into the city and see the park/city and be done with it. 5. If you're traveling with anyone, agree beforehand what you're going to pay for. If they aren't willing to talk about it beforehand, do not travel with them I traveled with someone who was extremely passive and passive aggressive about this and it pissed me off horribly. I ended up paying about 2/3rds and losing a friend because of it. 6. Keep a pallet of water bottles and a bag of clif bars in your car Some other smaller tips: Plan to have a hotel that can do laundry on the road. If not, find a laundromat in one of the cities you stay in. -Clean out the car every day. -I also really appreciated a nice hotel by the end of it. Sleeping on couches is exhausting. Grand total, my trip cost about $1,400. I traveled quite a bit of that alone. It also includes a few perks I gave myself, including a few nice meals and some tickets to a few ballparks that were a bit more expensive. This was well within my budget. The broken bones fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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I went to O.Co a couple months ago, here's my thoughts on how it compares to Angels Stadium: 1. Parking: Its terrible in Oakland. I think it was $17, and I entered from some shady rear end back alleyway. Then after paying, I was told there was no more space in that area so I had to find my way to another area. Did I just get scammed? After finding another entrance blocked because it was also full, I found a final entrance that said VIP parking only or something, but the girls let me in anyways and said nobody would check. Angels stadium is  and very easy to find space.2. Ambience?: So I bought my ticket a couple months in advance, fully expecting the stadium to be near empty. I strategically picked a seat that I was sure would have a several empty seat buffer around it so I could just lay out and chill. Instead, many people decided to show up, in part due to the A's not sucking and them giving away Bernie Lean bobbleheads, of which they ran out before I could get one. It was in the middle of a heat wave too. So I'm crammed in between strangers with no breeze and its like 93 degrees. Basically there's extremely little shade at O.Co during day games, its a big rear end concrete bowl. At Angels Stadium, you can pick the rear sections of the bottom tier and have shade from the overhanging terrace sections. After thoroughly soaking myself in sweat for 3 innings, I decide to walk around O.Co. You can't see the game from anywhere when you walk around the concourses of O.Co. You're basically in a tunnel that wraps around the stadium, and you can get little peeks. Angels Stadium is the opposite along the lower level. You can walk all around the stadium, and except for the press rooms behind home and a bar and stuff behind CF, you can always see the field. Angels Stadium has an open area behind LF where you can stand and hang out and watch the game with your $16 tall boy of Corona but STAY BEHIND THE LINE (Standing tables would be cool, like in Seattle). O.Co kind of has this open area in RF with some craft beer tents, but the view is obstructed by flag poles and railings. The best thing out there for O.Co was a jetstream coming up the entrance ramps that dried me off in about 3 minutes. Besides that, they're the same place. Oh, O.Co has got some realllly old screens and sound system. drat that sound system is busted, lol.
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I can pretty much guarantee the air temperature wasn't 93 in Oakland. That said, like anywhere else in California, don't go to a day game unless you have guaranteed shade.
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Combo posted:Got back from my road trip at like 3 am this morning, it was awesome. Good job you missed easily the second best park in your original plans. 
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IcePhoenix posted:Good job you missed easily the second best park in your original plans. We played bocce ball and went to a strip club instead, I'm calling it a wash Seriously look at this place, it rocked: http://imgur.com/3pRhVZv http://imgur.com/1GVbRFX edit: The broken bones posted:lol look at this noob Yeah, I know it could have been way worse, and going to Minnesota wouldn't have been the end of the world, we just only had an outline of plans and a ticket to maybe 3 games when we left, and that was about it. We wanted it to be really open ended. Of course trying to find a hotel room along the road you're on at midnight isn't the best way to go, its just the way we happened to do it. If we really wanted to be strict and stick to a plan we probably wouldn't have drank a tenth of the amount we did everywhere we went. Combo fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Bumming Your Scene posted:1. Parking: Its terrible in Oakland. I think it was $17, and I entered from some shady rear end back alleyway. Then after paying, I was told there was no more space in that area so I had to find my way to another area. Did I just get scammed? After finding another entrance blocked because it was also full, I found a final entrance that said VIP parking only or something, but the girls let me in anyways and said nobody would check. Angels stadium is Did you park at the Coliseum? If "yes", then You Got Scammed. The Coliseum is ridiculously easy to get to by public transit, it has its own eponymous stop on BART (the local lite-rail system) and a footbridge from that station to the stadium gates. Don't park at the Coliseum. I haven't gone to the Coliseum in a couple years and I haven't gone to A's games regularly in even longer so I'm still waiting to let Senf eventually do his full recap of the Coliseum as it is today but I can still weigh in on the transit side of things since that's not changed much over the years. Though they did start doing their version of the big head race this past weekend, apparently:  Too brand new to have a truly established pattern yet, but I'm holding out hope that it's a mockery of the other big head races around the Major Leagues since A] There's only 3 of them instead of the "traditional" 4 B] Thus far, Rickey Always Wins
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Mister Perky posted:Did you park at the Coliseum? That's just perfect. I actually would want to go to O-ACC instead of AT&T because it's the last of the old dual-purpose parks that I grew up watching baseball in and the atmosphere there with the flags/drummers/horns is something I wish more parks (Busch included) had.
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The other two guys there are Rollie and Eck, right? That's hilarious. e: More importantly, I feel like that picture of Rickey would be great for an avatar. Something like: "Rickey took a dose of Junior's brain and nerve tonic. Rickey don't like this." mentholmoose fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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I like that they even got the period-correct uniforms on them.
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On first glance, I thought Rickey was Hammer, Oakland's favorite son. I really want Hammer in this race.
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They need to rig it so Rickey wins every single race forever.
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MourningView posted:They need to rig it so Rickey wins every single race forever. Rickey wins every single race until the end of the season. Last race of the season, Rollie or Catfish wins. ...then takes the head off, and it's Rickey who was doing the running.
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Mister Perky posted:...I'm still waiting to let Senf eventually do his full recap of the Coliseum as it is today... I can't believe I The O.Co Coliseum of The Wonderful City of Oakland  Roughly ten minutes before first pitch. --- Getting There BART. Seriously, just take BART. Parking is something like $85 and getting back out of the main parking lot and onto the freeway is an absolute mess. Plus, do you really want to accidentally make a wrong turn and end up lost in East Oakland after 11:00 PM? The answer is no. So take BART. Getting In While you used to be able to walk up to any game about 5 minutes before first pitch and buy any ticket you wanted to, the times have changed. Now and thanks to Josh Reddick’s love for the walk-off pie, the Coliseum actually experiences a sell-out about 8-10 times a year. So if you’re thinking about going to a Fireworks game or popular promotion (see: bobblehead), buy your tickets at least a week in advance. Otherwise, make your way to the gates and experience some of the cheapest tickets in baseball! The A’s finally decided to take part in that dynamic pricing ticket program that nobody really likes, but the average ticket is going to cost you no more than $20 with the best value coming either from the bleachers (at $13 a pop) or the Value Deck (at $12). The latter option is a solid one because not only do you get to experience an A’s game from what feels like the top of Everest, you also get $6 worth of concessions credit that can be used at the majority of the stands throughout the stadium – and yes, that includes beer. And because you’re taking BART to the game – you wouldn’t dare think of driving, would you? – I also recommend that you enter through either one of the two gates at the very end of the BART Bridge you will have to cross. The lines here are always shorter than the ones on the opposite side of the Coliseum and they put you much closer to the bleachers (and to the BART Bridge, which makes leaving the game a simpler process, too). If you do end up sitting in the Value Deck, be sure to ask an A’s employee for directions because it can be a little confusing (hint: you can take an elevator!). And oh yeah, don’t be afraid to tip the awesome drummer duo (or trio, depending on the crowd) on the Bridge. They’re cool dudes who just want to jam. And avoid the bacon hot dogs. Also the cold churros. Seating I’ll also recommend that you sit in the bleachers and if you want the full Coliseum experience, go straight to sections out in right field. Home of the Balfour Rage and Bacon Tuesdays, the guys and gals out there understand how to have a good time at such a lovely ballpark. If you get there about an hour before first pitch, you can probably score a seat somewhere in the first few rows, too, which really helps out with the sightlines. If you would like to see any part of the outfield, avoid choosing the Plaza Reserved seats and probably stay away from the Plaza Outfield sections, which are the last five sections on each side of the second deck; the sightlines here are not very good and you’re very, very far away from the action (and fun fans). And if you want to go “big” and sit close to the action – which thanks to its foul territory isn’t really possible at the Coliseum, sorry – the most expensive tickets in the house often max out at around $65 (but are more commonly about $50). The Value Deck seats are great (especially because you get a $7 ticket and $6 worth of whatever else you want to buy), but if you’re only out there for one game, go to the RF bleachers. And if you’re looking for shade: don’t. Just bring a hat and some sunblock. Food Hahaha. Yeah. Just bring your own food. Seriously. Jump on Yelp, find a local eatery, and grab something to go. There’s not really much right by the Coliseum that you could bring inside, but there is on occasion a kick rear end taco truck parked over the BART station. They’re (obviously) cash only, though, so be prepared if that’s the route you decide to take. If you must eat inside the ballpark, there are a few tolerable options. Find the Saag’s sausage stand over by home plate and pick up any of their offerings for about $7 be reasonably satisfied or pick up an $8 cheesesteak at the stand directly next to (which the Heineken awnings, I believe). Otherwise, everything is Aramark, so expect Aramark-quality offerings. Beer The Coliseum actually has a really, really solid selection of microbrews. Stands are set up just about everywhere (and many of them are Cash Only), so you shouldn’t have a hard time finding something you like. If you do want to see one of the few “nice” areas of the Coliseum, either check out The Field by Section 119 or the Westside Club pretty much directly above it. And if you planned on sneaking in your own alcohol, I recommend two things: 1) don’t and 2) down it quickly while pissing into the troughs in the restrooms because the Coliseum’s security is actually really good at what they do. During The Game Go laugh at the terrible field level bathrooms, marvel at how absolutely horrible Mt. Davis is, and watch yourself some baseball. Also join in on some of the awesome chants and rage arm action out in Right Field. The new big head race featuring Eckersley, Catfish, and Rickey is pretty neat, but it’s still in its early stages (first “race” was last Friday against the Rangers). Watch Rickey run and watch Rickey win. But seriously, this is probably one of the worst venues in all of professional sports. Go there for the ball game and chat with all Conclusion The Coliseum is a loving dump but as corny as it may sound, it’s my dump and I've come to understand how to make due with what I have --- This wasn't exactly the most thorough review of the place, so if anyone has any questions, I'll do what I can. Senf fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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For all that the Coliseum hates you and wants you to be miserable, I've never gone there and not had a good time.
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Aug 6, 2013 19:42
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Also the box seats on the far side of the outfield are a hilariously bad place to watch baseball.
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Aug 6, 2013 19:45
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Mornacale posted:For all that the Coliseum hates you and wants you to be miserable, I've never gone there and not had a good time. This, this, and this. The A's have a very good marketing department and they've figured out quite a few ways to make the best of the situation that they've been handed and the new Big Heads are just another thing to add to that list (like free parking on select Tuesdays, which I forgot to mention because just take BART, trust me). Also if you're going to a ballpark for something other than the baseball, I don't even know what to say.
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Aug 6, 2013 19:47
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I was sitting in the RF bleachers (like 3 rows behind the Balfour Rage crew) when the big head race started on Friday, nobody had a clue what was going on but it was pretty funny.
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Aug 6, 2013 20:10
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Senf posted:Also if you're going to a ballpark for something other than the baseball, I don't even know what to say. I have been there for a Chargers/Raiders game and jesus christ that place is almost worse than Qualcomm is. gently caress the Raiders
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zakharov posted:Yankee Stadium III I know this was on the front page but I feel the need to correct this. I drive to the stadium every time I go to a Yankee game. (I live 2 hours away) If you are parking at one of the garages that charge $40 you are an idiot. Just drive literally 4 or 5 blocks from the stadium and there is ALWAYS street parking available for free.
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