Yankee Stadium Receives Low Ratings From Fans

For pretty much the same reasons IGYAR gave. The stadium’s gorgeous and historic and all, but the prices are ridiculous. There also don’t seem to be as many awesome fan promotions as other parks (probably because the Yanks don’t need an extra “attraction” to get people to come most of the time).

That being said, it is absolutely ridiculous that Fenway is ranked #2. Yes, it’s a place you should go to at least once, but it is so cramped and old there. There are some pretty bad seats there as well. I would probably rank it a 3.

I loved the old Stadium… but the experience of getting in and out, being able to move freely in the concourse, and the sight lines in the new place are all huge upgrades in my book.

My only change would be put Monument Park where it belongs- beyond the left CF wall. Stick the visitors bullpen under the Mohegan Sun thingy.

Because I’m not going to give my team anything less than a 5, even if I don’t really feel it deserves it. Though I do feel our Stadium deserves it.

The ballpark and whole concourse is beautiful. There’s not a bad seat in the stadium. I sat back row bleachers and had a great view. Even in the 200 level you feel like you’re on top of the field.

The concourse is clean and easy to navigate. It has to be jealousy to receive a low rating.

Barndon, how could you limit your poll to whole numbers? How will you calculate Value Over Replacement Park based on these ratings?

I suppose I’d say 4 for Yankee III for the reasons listed above. It’s very shiny and BIG. I am not a great fan of the x-rays from the humongoid video screens everywhere, and I think the front entrance is way too Vegas-y with the cathode rays. Which is too bad, as that entry with those great banners is really tops. I haven’t been to a day game, and I expect in daylight that’s less of a problem. The monuments are great, but close too early and are too isolated. Inside, great sightlines and really good views from the top deck, considering how far up it is. All that, plus the too-high prices mentioned above, would make it a 3. BUT the team and the fans add something. When 40,000 plus start singing Enter Sandman, or during the 1st inning salute… that is something that few other teams can match, and I’ve enjoyed it at a playoff game and at a midweek Orioles game. Please stop smoking in the upstairs bathrooms.

I’d also give Yankee II a 4. In full disclosure, I only saw it half-full in the 90s when the Matt Nokeses of the world were boring the Bronx. But walking into the yard that I saw for so many years on TV was moving, thinking of Reggie blasting homers into RF, seeing the dirt Billy kicked on umpires. So the history, and the dirt-cheap availability of tickets, bumps up the score to 4. I sadly didn’t see the pre-75 park but I bet it would have been a 5.

I won’t rate Mays Field (AT&T). I think I’m too biased. There’s no better looking park in baseball. Nowadays even midweek games are exciting (and sold out). It’s too expensive too, but I don’t buy anything at the park anyway. If you are in town, you should go. As they seem to have corrected with Citi Field, the walkways and stairways and whatnot are totally insufficient. The stairs by the Third Street Bridge are impassable after the game. Dress warmly unless it’s September. (Or October!)

Candlestick was an utter craphole, as bad as everything you ever heard about it. It was possible at summer games to get sunburned and suffer hypothermia at the same time. Vortices blew hot dog wrappers up over the rim of the stadium. 0.

I only went to Shea once, again in the early 90s. It was like Candlestick, but warmer, with less garbage in the air and more fans. I’ll give it a 3, but I understand it didn’t hold up particularly well in its last decade.

I got to Citi Field last week. It is a very pretty yard, a very enjoyable space. It looks an awful lot like AT&T, but it seems HOK realized that there are too many chokepoints in AT&T, so the walkways are a little bigger, the spaces a little more open. Just enough. And amazingly enough, there are pretty nice views over towards LaGuardia around the rim. I would give it a 4+, but for all the Jackie Robinson worship and Dodger crap strewn everywhere. Boo. You’d think the Mets never won a World Series and the Doyers won more than one in their lousy bum-itude in Brooklyn. So, let’s say 4.

Which brings us to the last major league park I have visited, which the Bronx Bombers will sadly be visiting tomorrow. The Oakland Colosseum [sic] is a depressing dump. During the A’s heyday in the 70s, it was just one of a bunch of boring round stadiums, but had a nice centerfield view of the Oakland hills which also helped air flow through on hot days. When the Haas family owned the team, it was clean and their community relations program helped keep the stadium somewhat full and more importantly they kept a competitive team on the field through most of their years of ownership.

Now it’s dead. Dead. The concessions are depressingly similar to what they were when Charlie Finley ran the team, but more expensive. Drums, cowbells, and whatnot do not fill in the deadly ominous silence. Tarping off one third of the stadium does not create any kind of scarcity or excitement, it just allowed ownership to cut back on ushering staff. You all will see a different Colosseum in the next few days, which will probably be colonized by many Yankee fans. The A’s sold out opening night and had paid attendance over 20k only 7 times this year (twice against Boston). Against Texas one night in May they had 9,193 PAID attendance. Zero.

I looked up the average rating — from one to five stars — for each of the 30 major league stadiums at the popular review site Yelp.com.

So much for discussing those numbers.

In Arizona, hot dogs are $1.69 if I remember correctly. I had three hot dogs for the price of one at Yankee Stadium. To be honest, they were equally tasty too.

What does everyone think of Wrigley? Anyone ever been there?

What does everyone look for in the “perfect” stadium? Obviously low prices, good seats, but are there any special features?

With the roof open, it’s actually a very nice park, certainly better than that abortion in Tampa.

and you’ll find a happy person. You get the entire season for $405.

Its a nice field right? they brought over all the statues and all the plaques it still has that old style like a museam feel. And hey the team does matter obviously if there good it makes your experience that much more meaningful in they end i give them a strong 4.

I think the place is great. The field is open so if you want you can basically stand at field level the entire game and not visit your seats. Seems like a lot more choices of food. Some bleacher seats are blocked, but other than that the views from all aspects are great. I’ve sat at every level possible there from top to bottom and all great views. Actually maybe that sounds more like a 4 and I can name another reason. It doesn’t have the same feel as the old stadium.

I can see ticket prices and concessions costing a lot being a problem. It’s ridiculous, but it’s because they know we love our club and we’ll buy the tickets to go see them even if it is once a year. It’s what happens when you have a good team in a major market.

Citi Field was ranked higher than Yankee Stadium? Sigh…

and fill those effing seats! What a joke. Still to this day there are seats empty on camera. Why? because no one wants to pay frickin 150-200 bucks just to sit 15 rows back of homeplate. Whoop dee doo. ALl for one game on Tuesday night against the Royals. What a joke. And on top of that mess the have the audacity to charge $32 for parking!!!! ALong with $11 or 12 for a beer!?!?!?!?!?!? And it isn’t even close to being as loud as it was in the old stadium. One final comment: It is still better than that toilet bowl they call Fenway/

the toilets are nice

I don’t think you can talk about prices when discussing the stadium. That’s an unfair advantage to the small market teams in that they can charge less because they don’t pay A-Rod, Tex, CC, etc.

From an overall stadium perspective, just talking about the stadium, its a 5. Its perfect. The high archways in the entrances, the field is gorgeous, the museum, Monument Park, the Great Hall.

From a strictly stadium only standpoint, what more could you ask for?