Wheelsy
Well-Known Member
For the record:
Baseball > football > basketball
Baseball > football > basketball
Wheelsy OSC Sydney said:For the record:
Baseball > football > basketball
Wheelsy OSC Sydney said:Yeah but that traditional aspect is being ruined.
This outbreak of "faux" traditional stadiums is cynical and very American. There is only one Fenway Park, one Yankee Stadium, one Wrigley Field. But then you have these eyesores like Minute Maid in Houston with it's mound in the middle of nowhere for no fucking reason, just to be different. And that stadium in Cleveland I think that takes one aspect of each of the great grounds and mashes it together to form one piecemeal eyesore.
Apart from franchises changing cities, which has happened in American sport as far back as I think the fifties, teams are now changing colours and name on a regular basis. How is that supposed to build tradition and history? California Angels became Anaheim, and are now Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Arizona and Tampa Bay, teams that aren't even ten years old, changed colours and team names.
At least with football, I know my team will always be called Manchester City, play in Manchester, and wear sky blue.