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When does it get to a point when these "non-clone" ballparks all just essentially become the same park? Granted it may not have the indistinct shapes and dimensions of the fields of the 70s, but all these "retro modern" parks looks the same to me. Show me a park like Griffith's Stadium that had a 400 foot foul pole and a tree hanging over the fense in right field, and I'll show you something that isn't so utterly contrived.

This stadium (much like many new parks of today) tries to hard. Ebbets Field's facade was great, but mainly because it WAS the corner of a city block. That's WHY it was shaped like that, and why it felt so cozy. It was a part of the landscape. I was never there myself, but I've heard the stories. This new park is giving a nod to it, but there's no purpose behind it, other than a simple nod. It's detached from its surrounding areas, and just looks like a generic park.

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When does it get to a point when these "non-clone" ballparks all just essentially become the same park? Granted it may not have the indistinct shapes and dimensions of the fields of the 70s, but all these "retro modern" parks looks the same to me. Show me a park like Griffith's Stadium that had a 400 foot foul pole and a tree hanging over the fense in right field, and I'll show you something that isn't so utterly contrived.

This stadium (much like many new parks of today) tries to hard. Ebbets Field's facade was great, but mainly because it WAS the corner of a city block. That's WHY it was shaped like that, and why it felt so cozy. It was a part of the landscape. I was never there myself, but I've heard the stories. This new park is giving a nod to it, but there's no purpose behind it, other than a simple nod. It's detached from its surrounding areas, and just looks like a generic park.

Amen. This looks like Safeco and Coors and all the other new parks. I've been to Shea a hundred times and the area is nothing but an enormous park. This stadium is boring.

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If they really built this in the same location as the current Shea (i.e. in jumbo jet land near LaGuardia) then it's going to suck almost as hard as Shea does now.

It's going to be right next to it, in the outfield parking lot.

The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium, just with different colors and a different facade. Compare:

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

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When does it get to a point when these "non-clone" ballparks all just essentially become the same park? Granted it may not have the indistinct shapes and dimensions of the fields of the 70s, but all these "retro modern" parks looks the same to me. Show me a park like Griffith's Stadium that had a 400 foot foul pole and a tree hanging over the fense in right field, and I'll show you something that isn't so utterly contrived.

This stadium (much like many new parks of today) tries to hard. Ebbets Field's facade was great, but mainly because it WAS the corner of a city block. That's WHY it was shaped like that, and why it felt so cozy. It was a part of the landscape. I was never there myself, but I've heard the stories. This new park is giving a nod to it, but there's no purpose behind it, other than a simple nod. It's detached from its surrounding areas, and just looks like a generic park.

Amen. This looks like Safeco and Coors and all the other new parks. I've been to Shea a hundred times and the area is nothing but an enormous park. This stadium is boring.

Makes me love PNC Park even more.

Even CBP looks totally different than the other parks you mentioned. I don't really care for the look, but it's different.

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In the vein that Petco Park and (I think) Camden Yards does, they should find a skyscraper in NYC (I mean one of the giant ass skyscrapers, not you're piddly 20 story ones.) and the build the park around it, using it as an outfield wall. (And hell, you could use a floor of said skyscraper for team offices and indoor training facilities.) Then they'd have a cool outfield. (And they'd probably have to make the windows bulletproof to prevent the ball from crashing through, but I'd leave the cracks in them that may result...give it a homely charm.

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In the vein that Petco Park and (I think) Camden Yards does, they should find a skyscraper in NYC (I mean one of the giant ass skyscrapers, not you're piddly 20 story ones.) and the build the park around it, using it as an outfield wall. (And hell, you could use a floor of said skyscraper for team offices and indoor training facilities.) Then they'd have a cool outfield. (And they'd probably have to make the windows bulletproof to prevent the ball from crashing through, but I'd leave the cracks in them that may result...give it a homely charm.

--Roger "Time?" Clemente.

As truely rediculous as that sounds, good lord would that be an awesome ballpark.

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

Lame. I'm talking about the architectural design and footprint and you're talking about ad placement.

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

Lame. I'm talking about the architectural design and footprint and you're talking about ad placement.

It's not about the ad placement. The two parks are completely different. The only thing they share is arches somewhere in the facade and an entrance behind home plate.

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

Lame. I'm talking about the architectural design and footprint and you're talking about ad placement.

It's not about the ad placement. The two parks are completely different. The only thing they share is arches somewhere in the facade and an entrance behind home plate.

Sorry Bernd, but Gothamite and WSU151 are right - the entrance behind home plate's the only thing that's simelar. And I stress simelar, because they aren't the same... Shea II has no "grand entrance", while Yankee II has one...

Other than that, just from the pics you posted, Yankee has four decks in right field, while Shea has one large bleacher; Yankee appears to have a large glass enclosed suite in center field, while Shea has none; Yankee is clad in limestone, while Shea is clad in red brick; Yankee got a covered upper deck, while Shea doesn't...

And that's just from looking at two artist renderings...

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

Lame. I'm talking about the architectural design and footprint and you're talking about ad placement.

It's not about the ad placement. The two parks are completely different. The only thing they share is arches somewhere in the facade and an entrance behind home plate.

Sorry Bernd, but Gothamite and WSU151 are right - the entrance behind home plate's the only thing that's simelar. And I stress simelar, because they aren't the same... Shea II has no "grand entrance", while Yankee II has one...

Other than that, just from the pics you posted, Yankee has four decks in right field, while Shea has one large bleacher; Yankee appears to have a large glass enclosed suite in center field, while Shea has none; Yankee is clad in limestone, while Shea is clad in red brick; Yankee got a covered upper deck, while Shea doesn't...

And that's just from looking at two artist renderings...

Moose

Actually, the glass in the outfield is probably an enclosed monument park. I can't see the yankees not putting the graveyard in left center field.

And both parks are spectular. They took the feel of both parks and made them better. Both parks still reflect the originals while updating. Both get thumbs up. Now if only they moved Shea out of Flushing and into Brooklyn.

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

Lame. I'm talking about the architectural design and footprint and you're talking about ad placement.

Okay, fella. I guess the rest of my list is just there for s & g. You want to talk architecture?

Notice how the Yankees have their arched windows in groups of three while the Mets don't.

Notice how the footprint of the new Yankee stadium appears to be far more angular than the new Mets' park.

Notice how the Yankees' arches change into regular panes of glass as you head to the outfield, from the outside, but the Mets' stadium shows little, to no, change in its' arches.

Like Moose said, the buildings will be made of entirely different material, which is a part of architecture, believe it or not.

Notice how the Mets plan uses far more exposed wrought iron steel than the new stadium in the Bronx, and have designed steel arches above the upper deck, something that isn't included in the new Yankee Stadium.

These differences, plus the ones Moose, Gothamite, and I listed before, make the stadiums completely different from each other.

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The new Shea looks just like the new Yankee Stadium

No, they really don't look anything alike. The scoreboards are different, the outfield seating is different, the lighting mounts are different, the ad placements are different, etc., etc., etc. Other than all that, though, they're exactly the same :rolleyes:

Lame. I'm talking about the architectural design and footprint and you're talking about ad placement.

It's not about the ad placement. The two parks are completely different. The only thing they share is arches somewhere in the facade and an entrance behind home plate.

Sorry Bernd, but Gothamite and WSU151 are right - the entrance behind home plate's the only thing that's simelar. And I stress simelar, because they aren't the same... Shea II has no "grand entrance", while Yankee II has one...

Other than that, just from the pics you posted, Yankee has four decks in right field, while Shea has one large bleacher; Yankee appears to have a large glass enclosed suite in center field, while Shea has none; Yankee is clad in limestone, while Shea is clad in red brick; Yankee got a covered upper deck, while Shea doesn't...

And that's just from looking at two artist renderings...

Moose

Actually, the glass in the outfield is probably an enclosed monument park. I can't see the yankees not putting the graveyard in left center field.

And both parks are spectular. They took the feel of both parks and made them better. Both parks still reflect the originals while updating. Both get thumbs up. Now if only they moved Shea out of Flushing and into Brooklyn.

kom22

Monument Park would be below the Dark Glass Hitters back drop. The Glass enclosed in Centerfield would be a resturant I think.

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