I love that I've seen multiple videos from this hack and in every one there's people in the comments defending Wrigley. It's great having a ballpark so significant to Chicago's history. Nobody expects SOFI stadium accommodations at Wrigley. Go Cubs.
Every flaw you pointed out in wrigley, fenway also has. The too big lower bowl. The roofs, the obstructed views. If one is a dump, theyre both a dump. They look exactly like soccer stadiums in england of the same era. Like craven cottage.
The Cubs spent almost $750 million with their recent renovations that were just completed a few years ago. It is what it is for the foreseeable future. Modifying the roof for an almost 110 year old ball park that is also a National Historic Landmark would be an extremely complicated and very political process. Won't be easy and won't be cheap. And the Cubs ownership only needs to look south to see what happened and the subsequent fallout when they butchered Soldier Field.
Guaranteed Rate added and entire bar seating style section in RF 5 years ago but you always use old photos. There's even luxury recliner type seats with TVs too
Taking away seats and adding a bar area completely destroys what Wrigley represents in my opinion. There are plenty of great bars outside of the stadium. If you want a giant modern faceless corporate mega stadium, just take the red line a down to the southside. The video screens where a mistake in my opinion. As late as the early-00s, there was zero visible advertising anywhere at Wrigley. It should have stayed that way.
I don’t think you realize Wrigley was completely rebuilt recently . Clubs behind stands in baselines and behind home plate . New clubhouses. It was over $600 mil
@@ConfidentBald-sx9nx Probably ignorant of the fact that the Bears played there for decades, and that the football field went north south somewhat parallel to the third base line, and that adding seats inward along the first and third base lines in the 80s made it impossible to have a football field run in that direction anymore.
I hope Raymond James Stadium in Tampa gets a similar renovation as Hard Rock Stadium did in Miami. A canopy (with a curved shape to pay homage to the old sombrero stadium) and field level bunker suites. I’d also like to see the pirate village in the north end zone get a refresh. The south end zone should get some permanent seating installed (they put up removable bleachers) and maybe some more box suites. I’d also like to see an entertainment district built on the land between the stadium and the Bucs headquarters. All of this could easily make RayJay a Super Bowl host venue for the next 20 years.
Your take on Sox Park is silly. If you removed the LF billboards, you'd be treating fans to a view of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Sox-35th CTA platform, that's about it. They've already pretty much done what you're proposing for right field, removing two entire sections of seating (106 and 107) and replacing them with bar / lounge seating, that was done from 2017-19. The state of Illinois is the principal owner of the stadium and Springfield has bigger problems to deal with than complaints about Sox Park from people who don't go to games anyway. I don't live in Chicago anymore and was never a White Sox fan, but it was one of my favorite places to see an MLB game - easy to get in and out of there on the CTA, good food, good views, tickets are cheap and available, etc.
I was going to say something similar. If you are standing on home plate, you are looking to the south east. There is no view of downtown from that vantage point and the Lake Michigan is not exactly nearby. Viewing the billboards is preferable to that of the 16 or so lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the CTA train lines running through its median. The area around ball park lacks the neighborhood charm of Wrigley.
You can probably forget any new renovations to Wrigley Field in the near future. The Cubs ownership family has invested over half a billion dollars of their own money in the ballpark since they bought the team, and only recently added the seats you were complaining about in the left and right field corners - because they usually sell them. Having gone there many times myself, and having many long time friends who still go there regularly, I can tell you that Wrigley was and is far from being a dump. It seats 41,649 fans, close to the sweet spot for newer ballparks. I'm pretty sure Chase Field will be replaced by a new ballpark that''s positioned in such a way that the stands are in the shade more of the day. Chase Field faces straight north as you look toward center field from home plate. That means that the fans in right field bake in the sun when the roof is open during day games, even if the temperatures are relatively mild for Phoenix. Most baseball parks, including Dodger Stadium, are built on an angle heading more or less northeast - and even then the fans in right field fry during day games, but not as long as they do at Chase Field because of the sun angle. I fried at Dodger Stadium during a Sunday day game around 1977, so I've experienced this first hand. I learned my lesson that day, and only sit on the third base/left field side at Chase. As for Kansas City: From what I understand (from a good friend who grew up there), the original design of the Truman Sports Complex included a Seattle-style, umbrella-like movable roof that could be positioned to cover either Kaufman or Arrowhead Stadium in the event of rain, sleet, snow, freezing rain, etc. - or be left in between them during good weather. if you look at the relative positions of the two buildings, it's pretty easy to see where the roof would have gone if the original design would have been executed.
for Baltimore orioles only thing they need do is upgrade the big tv Screen to 4k fixed the out field so it can be even maybe knock down CF green wall it just fans there too
That rendering was from the 2009 renovations. The original plan from the late 60s was a rolling roof but not feasible at the time. In 2007 they brought back the concept, but the voters turned it down because of cost.
Guaranteed Rate Field will get my seal of approval again if they just change the damn name to anything else. I'm just happy they changed the seats and blacked everything out, that alone was an upgrade.
As much as the backdrop at the White Sox is bland, their stadium is on the Southside of Chicago. It might make it worse if they took the wall down. The city view is behind the 3rd base line, not in the outfield.
Comerica Park moved in the walls as a test for what's needed. They've been talking about a major rebuild for a few years now, It's been nearly a decade since anything major has been done. Therefore the new moved in walls are just temporary for a planned major update/
CoMerica Park I would move the eyesore that is the scoreboard from left field to high above the batters-eye and I would add an upper deck that wraps from the 3rd base to the scoreboard and from 1st base to the scoreboard with overhangs to pay homage to Tiger stadium. If you’re going to a baseball park to look at theF-ng cityscape you’re there for all the wrong reasons.
Dude I love your channel,ideas. I think you need to explore stadium creator in MLB The show 23. I’m sure others have mentioned it. You can create whatever you can imagine and it looks halfway decent tbh. I’m making a new version of Wrigley and I plan to create some new versions of parks. This way you can actually record video tours of stadiums people create for you where you can fly over the entire park like a drone. Cool stuff.
As an SD County native,for me personally; I can live without the beach. If they bring it back,cool but I'd never lose sleep over it. The palm trees are a big hell no for me dawg. We had that at The Q and hated it there I hope Petco would add a brick backstop tho(to match the Western Metal Bldg)
I watch your channel regularly and am a big fan, but why are you so obsessed with getting rid of upper decks and seats in general? More seats means more fans can see the games live, and with ticket prices out of control these are also the most affordable seats. When I used to go to Shea to see my Mets, I always loved the size of the stadium and during the 80's when they were actually good having 57,000 screaming fans in the house was pretty cool IMHO. Yes, it was a dump, but it was my dump.
@@CH-tg6zq a kid sitting in the stands is paying attention to the game. Or even the people sitting around the kid. At the sand box, kids are not paying attention. Their focused on playing in the sand. Your comment holds no weight. Think next time.
I think Blue Heaven on earth is a beautiful as ever. I've been going since the early 70's. I wouldn't change a thing. I was born in General Hospital down the street. I love Dodger Stadium.
Cubs fan here. Concerning any hypothetical “major overhaul” ideas for Wrigley, I’ve long since had the idea of cutting the lower bowl seating in half from the back which would make more concourse space. Then, move the upper deck closer to the field and utilize cantilevers to eliminate the F-lines. That would even allow more seating to the upper deck or make it a split level upper deck to make up for the removed lower bowl seating. It would be a huge undertaking, but everyone wins.
KC would be great just for the BBQ. The elements are part of the experience. I can’t imagine the Steelers playing indoor. Dodger Stadium could improve by adding roads and highways to get in snd out of the darn thing.
Big swing and a miss on Wrigley Feild. It's just fine
Yes it is. It's wonderful.
Yeah, there's a modernize level. It's not a dump.
I love that I've seen multiple videos from this hack and in every one there's people in the comments defending Wrigley. It's great having a ballpark so significant to Chicago's history. Nobody expects SOFI stadium accommodations at Wrigley. Go Cubs.
Wrigley Field was recently reconstructed down to new foundations to the top of the roof, all new construction/materials.
Every flaw you pointed out in wrigley, fenway also has. The too big lower bowl. The roofs, the obstructed views.
If one is a dump, theyre both a dump. They look exactly like soccer stadiums in england of the same era. Like craven cottage.
Agree 100%
The Cubs spent almost $750 million with their recent renovations that were just completed a few years ago. It is what it is for the foreseeable future.
Modifying the roof for an almost 110 year old ball park that is also a National Historic Landmark would be an extremely complicated and very political process. Won't be easy and won't be cheap. And the Cubs ownership only needs to look south to see what happened and the subsequent fallout when they butchered Soldier Field.
Guaranteed Rate added and entire bar seating style section in RF 5 years ago but you always use old photos. There's even luxury recliner type seats with TVs too
I noticed this in a video on a different channel, but it’s got to do with pleasing that TH-cam algorithm and pumping content out.
The Cubs just redid the entire lower bowl.
Taking away seats and adding a bar area completely destroys what Wrigley represents in my opinion. There are plenty of great bars outside of the stadium. If you want a giant modern faceless corporate mega stadium, just take the red line a down to the southside. The video screens where a mistake in my opinion. As late as the early-00s, there was zero visible advertising anywhere at Wrigley. It should have stayed that way.
I don’t think you realize Wrigley was completely rebuilt recently . Clubs behind stands in baselines and behind home plate . New clubhouses. It was over $600 mil
He doesn’t know anything.
@@ConfidentBald-sx9nx Probably ignorant of the fact that the Bears played there for decades, and that the football field went north south somewhat parallel to the third base line, and that adding seats inward along the first and third base lines in the 80s made it impossible to have a football field run in that direction anymore.
I hope Raymond James Stadium in Tampa gets a similar renovation as Hard Rock Stadium did in Miami. A canopy (with a curved shape to pay homage to the old sombrero stadium) and field level bunker suites. I’d also like to see the pirate village in the north end zone get a refresh. The south end zone should get some permanent seating installed (they put up removable bleachers) and maybe some more box suites. I’d also like to see an entertainment district built on the land between the stadium and the Bucs headquarters. All of this could easily make RayJay a Super Bowl host venue for the next 20 years.
Your take on Sox Park is silly. If you removed the LF billboards, you'd be treating fans to a view of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Sox-35th CTA platform, that's about it. They've already pretty much done what you're proposing for right field, removing two entire sections of seating (106 and 107) and replacing them with bar / lounge seating, that was done from 2017-19. The state of Illinois is the principal owner of the stadium and Springfield has bigger problems to deal with than complaints about Sox Park from people who don't go to games anyway. I don't live in Chicago anymore and was never a White Sox fan, but it was one of my favorite places to see an MLB game - easy to get in and out of there on the CTA, good food, good views, tickets are cheap and available, etc.
I was going to say something similar. If you are standing on home plate, you are looking to the south east. There is no view of downtown from that vantage point and the Lake Michigan is not exactly nearby. Viewing the billboards is preferable to that of the 16 or so lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway and the CTA train lines running through its median. The area around ball park lacks the neighborhood charm of Wrigley.
You can probably forget any new renovations to Wrigley Field in the near future. The Cubs ownership family has invested over half a billion dollars of their own money in the ballpark since they bought the team, and only recently added the seats you were complaining about in the left and right field corners - because they usually sell them. Having gone there many times myself, and having many long time friends who still go there regularly, I can tell you that Wrigley was and is far from being a dump. It seats 41,649 fans, close to the sweet spot for newer ballparks.
I'm pretty sure Chase Field will be replaced by a new ballpark that''s positioned in such a way that the stands are in the shade more of the day. Chase Field faces straight north as you look toward center field from home plate. That means that the fans in right field bake in the sun when the roof is open during day games, even if the temperatures are relatively mild for Phoenix. Most baseball parks, including Dodger Stadium, are built on an angle heading more or less northeast - and even then the fans in right field fry during day games, but not as long as they do at Chase Field because of the sun angle. I fried at Dodger Stadium during a Sunday day game around 1977, so I've experienced this first hand. I learned my lesson that day, and only sit on the third base/left field side at Chase.
As for Kansas City: From what I understand (from a good friend who grew up there), the original design of the Truman Sports Complex included a Seattle-style, umbrella-like movable roof that could be positioned to cover either Kaufman or Arrowhead Stadium in the event of rain, sleet, snow, freezing rain, etc. - or be left in between them during good weather. if you look at the relative positions of the two buildings, it's pretty easy to see where the roof would have gone if the original design would have been executed.
Don’t forget the batter’s eye is for functionality, not aesthetics.
Wrigley Field looks good it’s just got redone it’s looks great and it’s not a dump
Bro, if you're gonna do videos, please Google current and up to date information about your subject(s).
As a Cardinals fane, leave Wrigley Field alone
for Baltimore orioles only thing they need do is upgrade the big tv Screen to 4k fixed the out field so it can be even maybe knock down CF green wall it just fans there too
A view from the left field side of Guaranteed Rate is the Dan Ryan Expressway. Bleech. If the Sox ever build a new place, it will be in the burbs.
the arrowhead one is ridiculous
That rendering was from the 2009 renovations. The original plan from the late 60s was a rolling roof but not feasible at the time. In 2007 they brought back the concept, but the voters turned it down because of cost.
Guaranteed Rate Field will get my seal of approval again if they just change the damn name to anything else. I'm just happy they changed the seats and blacked everything out, that alone was an upgrade.
Architects laugh at the Ginger's comments.
Stop with thinking that Dodger stadium needs a roof. That's ridiculous.
Royals are definitely moving downtown. Putting a roof over arrowhead would be absolutely crazy loud. Do it!
I actually always liked New Comiskey because I'm OCD. I like symmetry.
As much as the backdrop at the White Sox is bland, their stadium is on the Southside of Chicago. It might make it worse if they took the wall down. The city view is behind the 3rd base line, not in the outfield.
Comerica Park moved in the walls as a test for what's needed. They've been talking about a major rebuild for a few years now, It's been nearly a decade since anything major has been done. Therefore the new moved in walls are just temporary for a planned major update/
CoMerica Park I would move the eyesore that is the scoreboard from left field to high above the batters-eye and I would add an upper deck that wraps from the 3rd base to the scoreboard and from 1st base to the scoreboard with overhangs to pay homage to Tiger stadium. If you’re going to a baseball park to look at theF-ng cityscape you’re there for all the wrong reasons.
3:23 dang Super Bowl in freezing weather would be awesome though
Dude I love your channel,ideas. I think you need to explore stadium creator in MLB The show 23. I’m sure others have mentioned it. You can create whatever you can imagine and it looks halfway decent tbh. I’m making a new version of Wrigley and I plan to create some new versions of parks. This way you can actually record video tours of stadiums people create for you where you can fly over the entire park like a drone. Cool stuff.
Nothing wrong with Chase. I would just take down the ads on each side of the scoreboard to give natural light in
as someone who’s gone to dbacks games for 20 years i agree, unfortunately blank windows with natural lighting doesn’t make them money
The problem with the commanders, panthers and jags stadiums are, that they were built at the tail end era of the old bowl shaped design.
What’s the new design?
As an SD County native,for me personally; I can live without the beach. If they bring it back,cool but I'd never lose sleep over it.
The palm trees are a big hell no for me dawg. We had that at The Q and hated it there
I hope Petco would add a brick backstop tho(to match the Western Metal Bldg)
Put a modern roof on a 50 year old stadium? Highly unlikely.
I watch your channel regularly and am a big fan, but why are you so obsessed with getting rid of upper decks and seats in general? More seats means more fans can see the games live, and with ticket prices out of control these are also the most affordable seats. When I used to go to Shea to see my Mets, I always loved the size of the stadium and during the 80's when they were actually good having 57,000 screaming fans in the house was pretty cool IMHO. Yes, it was a dump, but it was my dump.
Swing and a miss on most of your suggestions.
“You cant put up a double wall.” Pretty certain they did based on your photo
Good videos but you're going to burn yourself out and run out of ideas putting these things out 3 times a day.
He needs a job
How would you renovate FedEx Field? As a Commanders fan, I say a couple tons of c4 aught to do the trick.
What happened to the out of town scoreboard at Comerica Park in right-center field?
I used to love the beach area at Petco Park. I agree with you wholeheartedly!
So a homerun can hit a kid that’s playing in the sand in the head? Cmon. It’s super unsafe
@@27jrpadre That never happened when they had sand there. Furthermore, a home run can hit a kid who is sitting in the stands. Your comment is idiotic.
@@CH-tg6zq a kid sitting in the stands is paying attention to the game. Or even the people sitting around the kid. At the sand box, kids are not paying attention. Their focused on playing in the sand. Your comment holds no weight. Think next time.
@@27jrpadre Can you cite any cases of a child being hit by a home run ball while playing in the sanded area at Petco Park?
Just put up a net
Completely rebuild XL Center in Hartford so that the Whalers can be brought back to the NHL. Try to lure the Coyotes to the Nutmeg State.
Keep pumping out content man really enjoying your videos
Wrigley is fine as is. They literally just spent 750 million to fix it.
Dated designs? These stadiums are relatively young!
Video on Dodgers stadium 🏟 renovation?
I think Blue Heaven on earth is a beautiful as ever. I've been going since the early 70's. I wouldn't change a thing. I was born in General Hospital down the street. I love Dodger Stadium.
Why don't u post more like what happened to Stephen Strasburg like not stadium vids idk id like that
Ngl been to guaranteed rate it's not terrible
Keep Arrowhead stadium
Sand needed to go
Ginger needs to tone down his voice! Great videos but I cannot stand his voice which I find really grating!
He just screams into the microphone and clearly his mom’s basement was not designed with acoustics in mind
Diamondbacks stadium is fine
Cubs fan here. Concerning any hypothetical “major overhaul” ideas for Wrigley, I’ve long since had the idea of cutting the lower bowl seating in half from the back which would make more concourse space. Then, move the upper deck closer to the field and utilize cantilevers to eliminate the F-lines. That would even allow more seating to the upper deck or make it a split level upper deck to make up for the removed lower bowl seating. It would be a huge undertaking, but everyone wins.
At the rate things are going in Chicago, the Cubs can implement your ideas in Rosemont or Arlington Heights.
@@robertlee6781 talk about hilarious and sad at the same time lol!
It’s a historical landmark . Can’t do that
KC would be great just for the BBQ. The elements are part of the experience. I can’t imagine the Steelers playing indoor.
Dodger Stadium could improve by adding roads and highways to get in snd out of the darn thing.