Tigers Season Reduced to Spoiler

If you’re of the same opinion as us, the preseason sheen on the Detroit Tigers wore off exactly seven games into the 2008 season, and it’s been all downhill from there. But today’s makeup game against the Chicago White Sox gives Tigers fans the chance to watch at least one meaningful game played before [...]

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Changes are Afoot

When our trip ended last year, we posted our rankings and promptly went away, resurfacing sporadically to announce the next trip, or update our readers with scintillating acounts of our attempts to score tickets to Yankee Stadium.
Hardly the way a proper blog should be run.
So this year, I’m happy to say that there are plans [...]

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Steve V. Re-ranks the Rust Belt Leg

[Editor's Note: Steve V. adjusted his scores to coincide with the new scoring system. His original review can be found here. He refrained from adding comments this time around, so I've taken the liberty of adding them where I see fit.]
PNC Park
Food and Beverage – 5
Stadium Condition – 4.5
In-Game Experience – 2.5
Proximity – 3
Word [...]

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Brad Re-ranks the Rust Belt Leg

[Editor's Note: Brad adjusted his scores to coincide with the new scoring system. His original review can be found here.]
PNC Park
Food and Beverage – 5
I was in bad shape that day, but the BBQ beef sandwich I grabbed was delicious. And you can’t go wrong serving Yuengling.
Stadium Condition – 5
Easily one of the most [...]

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Steve B. Re-ranks the Rust Belt Leg

[Editor's Note: Steve B. adjusted his scores to coincide with the new scoring system. His original review can be found here.]
PNC Park
Food and Beverage – 5 Plenty of choices and real good food. I just wish I wasn’t so hungover.
Stadium Condition – 4
Pretty new stadium so it was in good shape. I didnt like [...]

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Airline Pilots Say Goodbye to Shea Stadium

For all the discussion around how fans and players will miss Shea Stadium, there’s one perspective that hasn’t been broached, until now: the pilots who fly into and out of La Guardia Airport on a regular basis.
They’ve been using Shea as their landing landmark for 44 years and it will be weird not seeing the [...]

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Reason #72 Why They’re Tearing Down Shea Stadium

As the UniWatch Blog reports, apparently there are seats directly behind each foul pole at Shea Stadium. While some might think this adds to the charm of a stadium, most others agree this is why stadiums are torn down.
But this is exactly the kind of stuff we need to know about before [...]

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Jeff Re-ranks the Rust Belt Leg

[Editor's Note: Jeff adjusted his scores to coincide with the new scoring system. His original review can be found here.]
PNC Park
Food and Beverage – 4.5
Yuengling at the ballgame, great food selections.
Stadium Condition – 5
Prettiest I’ve ever been to.
In-Game Experience – 3.5 Above average, lots of info on the scoreboards.
Proximity – 4
We [...]

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A Pictorial Arrangement of the New York Leg

Click here to view the rest of the pictures.

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The final votes are in!

I’ve tallied up everyone’s votes and multiplied by four to come up with Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium’s respective scores. (Scores are out of 100.)
Yankee Stadium: 66
Shea Stadium: 40
In case you’re wondering, you can find our scoring system in this post.
Over the next few days, we’re going to re-rank Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh to give [...]

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