I really like the design of the new stadium - far nicer in scale than, say, the ersatz 'Yankee Stadium' in the Bronx. This really fits!
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I really like the design of the new stadium - far nicer in scale than, say, the ersatz 'Yankee Stadium' in the Bronx. This really fits!
Cleon Jones catches a deep fly ball in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Valley of the Ashes, and a second-grader smiles in front of the black and white television.
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Impressive.
The marlins gave a media tour yesterday
Photos are from the Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/0...t_type=gallery
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Great looking ballpark. Marlin's supposed to have a pretty good team too . . . sure hope they can put some butts in those seats!Originally Posted by peterrod16
Some's basturds, some's ain't, thats the score.
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I wouldn't count on it. Most of South Florida is pretty much broke
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Mike Francesa, who hosts a very popular and authoritative sports radio program based in New York, alluded to the new Marlins Stadium as being "Art Deco" in design.
What are the attributes of the stadium that qualifies it as being "Art Deco?"
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It's in Miami, therefore...
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Well, he isn't authoritative on architecture. There is nothing Art Deco about Marlins Park.
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Agreed. Anyone calling the style of architecture art deco doesn't know the definition.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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Is it just me, or do those "waves" look like they were made by some kids during 3rd grade art period?
Also, didn't metric distance markers go out with the leisure suit?
LOL"Flamingos are a go?"
"Yes, they look very nice"
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
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But he "hosts a very popular and authoritative sports radio program based in New York."
How could he possibly be wrong?
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I don't know much about art, but I did listen to the show this afternoon, and he did say weird mix between Art Deco and Jimmy Buffet or Parrot Head. Not sure if that makes it any better.
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Well, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and he's wrong.
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Miami has a ton of great Art Deco buildings...
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...and trust us--Marlins Park is NOT one of them.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
- Walt Whitman
Better
The Cavalier reminds me of this one ballpark that used to be in the Bronx...the name of said ballpark escapes me at the moment.
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Do what they want to
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That they tell you
Individual game tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 AM.
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That's pretty much the status quo in certain parts of Dade County. I work not all that far from Doral, and I experience similar results when I venture into the local stores before work or during lunch (and these aren't mom and pop places, major chains like Publix, McDonald's etc.) Got so I had to stop using the drive-thru at McDonald's and go inside so that they wouldn't screw up the order (or if they did, I could correct it on the spot, not that easy to do in the drive-thru with other cars behind you). And parts of Broward (at least my part, which is Southwest Broward, not far from Dade County) is getting to be the same way. I've taken to shopping in central Broward or even southern Palm Beach county, so far that has remained pretty much English-speaking.
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The fish are kind of cool, but it looks like those fluorescent green surfaces won't age well.
And seeing the "Psychedelic Matterhorn" close up reminds me of something like this.
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Florida didn't boom until after the 1950s when Air Conditioning was invented making houses livable. So I'm assuming places like that just saw cars as the wave of the future and any other form of mass transit as being on its last leg. It was a weird time between trains being needed because not everyone had a car and this period where people use trains to not pollute the air.
The problem now that we are facing in Tampa is what Miami has been facing, the town spread out further than ever and now they need mass transit if either city wants to stay connect to other parts of town or fewer people will go to these places.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
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$4 - $5 a gallon would be more of an inducement to use rail transit than air quality.
problem is rail transit construction per mile is extremely expensive these days ($10m+ per mile) even if the right-of-way already exists.
with the "spread" a rail transit spine without connecting tributaries like subway systems (ny, bost., phil., d.c., chi, etc.) the areas served are in a narrow band.
the turd in the punchbowl
reality really sucks.
enjoy the game more...
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I call it Losangelesation
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Tampa tried to build a light rail to orlando for disney and the magic 2 years ago, but people pitched a fit over the price tag.
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
lol sup yo
Plus honestly i'd rather have a light rail that went all around St Pete/Tampa/Clearwater than to go to Disney/Orlando.
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Yeah seriously I feel the same way that the beach is more appealing then disney!
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.
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Are the outfield walls going to be that color?
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