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[knightni]

They call Comiskey (USCF), "The Cell" sometimes.
Of course that means that you'd have to be wearing some sort of prison stripes to play there...


Um...

Well... at least you'd have to have criminals there.




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Nevermind.

[Matt W]

If I said, "Let's go to the Stadium" here, there'd be some confusion.

What is it?

Nope. In New York, even in papers and on the radio, if a game is being played at Yankee Stadium, it's "Tonight at the Stadium" Mets games are "At Shea."

And the Mets new home will be called Citi Field.

[Alicia]

Here, it's like "Dodger" is a huge part of the name "Dodger Stadium" so I've never heard anyone shorten it. I've maybe called Edison Field just "Edison" but that's about it.

Even though I hate that the Devil Rays changed their name, I still like calling them the "Bay Rays" now.

[Justin]

We still just call it "the Garden."

[Matt W]

we got one of them too

[AudeSapere]

In a way, it's just the game progressing in some strange way. Right? I have this argument with my dad like every six months. I don't support steroid use, but then I kind of think, well, what about Tommy John surgery? Technology happens. Corporatism happens. It's depressing, but what the hell do you do? Boycott it?

it's still the jake to me

[Wez]

In San Diego it's "hey let's go to a Padres game". Who cares what it's called; they play baseball there.

Some people still like to call Qualcomm Stadium (the "Q") by the old moniker Jack Murphy Stadium (the "Murph"), but I doubt half of them even know who Jack Murphy is. I don't think I've ever heard it called San Diego Stadium. Technically it is Qualcomm Stadium on the site Jack Murphy Field. I just call it the Big Parking Lot.

But who the fuck is Jacobs anyway? Some rich guy who owned the team and named the park after himself. Is that any better than a corporation?

[mojogal]

When I visit the west coast I might go to a Padres game but never have asked to go to Petco. But in Glendale it's always the Dodgers or Dodger Stadium. I would not be able to handle a name change there. Half the parks I've visited with corporate names I've referred to as "Team" park. I refuse to waste my precious breath advertising conglomerates.

I'm sifting through emails put aside while I was on break. A recent one invited me to sign a petition to save Jacobs Field. I didn't know it was going to be named after the insurance company. I'm definitely signing. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-jacobs-field


little note - thanks to Alicia for taking the initiative starting threads for B's sake. I respect wrestling but don't always get it. Baseball is my first love and what brought me here. I only posted in the one thread because that's what I thought I was supposed to do.

[Alicia]

Yeah, no problem, I decided to play nice finally. Even though I meant no harm when I said I didn't want the baseball thread to just die.

I actually have some "fun" baseball threads planned, but they may take myself a bit to think about first.

[Matt W]

Wes, technically the Padres play at Petco Park.

[Alicia]

Whenever I ask my friends to go to a Padres game, half the time I say, "Let's go to a Padres game," the rest of the time it's, "We HAVE to go to PETCO." It's one of my favorite stadiums, so I include the name of the stadium half the time.

[Maynard,]

The reason I'm not totally against naming stadiums after corporations is Wrigley Field. I've always been against it. Every time I get into arguments I have to stop and tell myself that I don't want Wrigley to change its name.

One of the reasons it annoys me is because companies are paying to have their name put on something when the tax payers put up the money. That's how it is around here. The Colts are having a completely new stadium built. A tax increase paid for the stadium, but Lucas Oil paid for naming rights after the budget for building it was done. I could see paying for the rights to an old stadium, but the citizens are paying for everything. Bring back my Hoosier Dome.

[wagnike2]

The Hoosier Dome? Seriously? I don't know, I have no problem with the name Lucas Oil Stadium. Nor did I with the RCA Dome. But, maybe my understanding of how it is being funded is different. From my understanding, they pretty much just added an additional 1% tax on dining out. Seems like something simple enough to avoid.

[Lindy]

But who the fuck is Jacobs anyway? Some rich guy who owned the team and named the park after himself. Is that any better than a corporation?

The Jacobs brothers owned a real estate development company that built and leased a lot of buildings in Cleveland and also owned the Indians from 1986-2001. Progressive Insurnace, the new namesake is the third biggest Insurance company in the US and is headquartered outside of Cleveland. While I don't like the name change much, at least the business that has its name on the park now is from something local.

[Maynard,]

The Hoosier Dome? Seriously? I don't know, I have no problem with the name Lucas Oil Stadium. Nor did I with the RCA Dome. But, maybe my understanding of how it is being funded is different. From my understanding, they pretty much just added an additional 1% tax on dining out. Seems like something simple enough to avoid.

A few other things are taxed as well, movie theaters for example, but that is the majority of the money. I believe the 8% tax only affects Marion County which is where I live (part of the reason it is a bigger nuisance for me personally). I know I'm not personally out much money, but it's the principle of it.

I don't personally mind RCA or Lucas Oil anymore than Conseco Fieldhouse, Petco or any other brand name stadium. It's that the city expects us to pay for something and allows someone else the naming rights for more money. Since one of the selling points of the stadium was that it could be used for oh so many things, you couldn't call it the Colts Dome or Colts Stadium or whatever.

[Wez]

Matt W, technically I never said the Padres play at Qualcomm Stadium.