Well, once again no one sees sarcasm on the internet (I should have known that would happen). I was hoping to get a more detailed response from you when I posted it, having not thought about your previous post at the time.
Of course its an awful design. Why would you take a design you already have in the books and then go "well, its nice but move those decks back as far as you can while still giving a cantilevered effect". To me this park truly shows that HOK has been tapped out of ideas for quite some time. Not that I didn't know this already but its quite obvious and even more apparent with this stadium than any other that they have nothing left to "wow" us with.
And who in their right minds takes seats away from the area behind home plate? I suppose the only thing I can say to that is that the upper deck would have been pretty far at that spot anyway so in a round about way they did some people a favor. I just hope other ballclubs don't try and follow suit on this type of design because if they do then baseball will truly be lost to the practice of capatalism.
However it wouldn't suprise me at this point of HOK made their next park a true gem like PETCO or PNC. They have been on such a flip-flop lately that its anyone's guess at this point. And also as someone pointed out earlier, this ballpark will see more than its fair share of politicians and lobbyists using it as a meeting grounds of some type. Its sad but true, their target audience with this park was probably the high-classers who will spend more on a suite than a good seat to catch a baseball game. Kinda makes me wonder what kind of tvs will be in the suite bathrooms.....
Richard
Of course its an awful design. Why would you take a design you already have in the books and then go "well, its nice but move those decks back as far as you can while still giving a cantilevered effect". To me this park truly shows that HOK has been tapped out of ideas for quite some time. Not that I didn't know this already but its quite obvious and even more apparent with this stadium than any other that they have nothing left to "wow" us with.
And who in their right minds takes seats away from the area behind home plate? I suppose the only thing I can say to that is that the upper deck would have been pretty far at that spot anyway so in a round about way they did some people a favor. I just hope other ballclubs don't try and follow suit on this type of design because if they do then baseball will truly be lost to the practice of capatalism.
However it wouldn't suprise me at this point of HOK made their next park a true gem like PETCO or PNC. They have been on such a flip-flop lately that its anyone's guess at this point. And also as someone pointed out earlier, this ballpark will see more than its fair share of politicians and lobbyists using it as a meeting grounds of some type. Its sad but true, their target audience with this park was probably the high-classers who will spend more on a suite than a good seat to catch a baseball game. Kinda makes me wonder what kind of tvs will be in the suite bathrooms.....

Richard
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