not that i regret having read it; the sadness i meant comes from recalling vividly games at the "old" busch stadium, the lumbering old behemoth of barbed wire and concrete. not unlike a prison complex, really...but there was something so endearing about that. it looked, felt and smelled like an actual ball game there. not the kind on TV with advertisements scrolling 'cross the bottom of the screen, but a genuine, firmly-attached stadium for SPORTS. all the corporate sponsorship was overwhelmed by its gray, cumbersome allure. hell...it even had an old-timey hand-moved scoreboard, which i had the pleasure of visiting once. what a marvel of a place.
i haven't been to the new stadium, just outside it....and it looks like all the other stadiums i see on TV. it's not ugly or pretty, it just blends in. the old-style architecture (the kind that won't look old, just outdated, in 20 years) clashes horribly with the electric moving billboards surrounding it. i don't know what to say, really....i'm not a baseball fan, but that's one more hollow enterprise where there previously hadn't been one.
not that i regret having read it; the sadness i meant comes from recalling vividly games at the "old" busch stadium, the lumbering old behemoth of barbed wire and concrete. not unlike a prison complex, really...but there was something so endearing about that. it looked, felt and smelled like an actual ball game there. not the kind on TV with advertisements scrolling 'cross the bottom of the screen, but a genuine, firmly-attached stadium for SPORTS. all the corporate sponsorship was overwhelmed by its gray, cumbersome allure. hell...it even had an old-timey hand-moved scoreboard, which i had the pleasure of visiting once. what a marvel of a place.
i haven't been to the new stadium, just outside it....and it looks like all the other stadiums i see on TV. it's not ugly or pretty, it just blends in. the old-style architecture (the kind that won't look old, just outdated, in 20 years) clashes horribly with the electric moving billboards surrounding it. i don't know what to say, really....i'm not a baseball fan, but that's one more hollow enterprise where there previously hadn't been one.
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