re: A's release renderings for new ball park

That looks absolutely terrible.

White bed sheets covering a baseball field. Awful design.

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Sorry but I miss what ballparks use to look like.

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the soulless multi purpose concrete bowls or the parks who had to build around neighborhoods with awful sight lines and had literal poles blocking views of the field?

Yeah look above. When they went to the hardcore uniformity, it become boring and sad.

And guess what parks "survived"? Wrigley and Fenway.

Cities couldn't get out of the circle donuts of boring fast enough. I don't think any are left.

Fisher can't even pay for the stadium without selling part of the team. And has yet to find investors.

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Per the Chronicle, "The financing plans remain the same, Fisher said. The public will fund $350 million, $200 million will be debt, and his family will provide $500 million, with equity investors — still to be determined — responsible for the final $500 million. The hope is that Las Vegas bigwigs who have a particular interest in investing in the town will hop on board."

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Tiger Stadium was awesome, but so many of the seats had obstructive views due to the posts keeping up the upper deck and the roof. And the upper-deck was another problem because if you sat higher in the lower deck you would have poles blocking your views of lets say second base or any base or the pitchers mound or home plate. And you would not be able to see the ball if it was a fly ball. You would see the ball leave the infield and then your view would be blocked in the air and you wouldn't see it until came down. But if it was a homerun into the upper deck you would not see the ball and would have to wait for crowd reaction to know if it was a homerun.

Great stadium, but you had to have the right seats. Plus, the dugouts, bullpen, clubhouse, lockers and offices and concessions so on and training rooms were horrible by the 90s. No bars or clubs or restaurants fancy catering available As other clubs were building new stadiums there was just no room to build the facilities it now takes.