New Ballpark
« Dirty Half Dozen | Main | Home Opener Pics & Stadium Notes »Diaspora has one heckuva picture of the new ballpark. The skyline's great, although not quite PNC quality. And I think I count 8 ads.
There's this exchange over at GUB:
Dan: The most egregious happening is the opening of a Build-a-Bear Workshop in the concourses.26th Man: Just wait until you have kids, dude.
Not only am I trying to blockout the games of the past weekend, I'm trying to blockout the whole new stadium deal. I can't help but feel that the owners are quite willing to manipulate us fans so they can suck away our money with plutonium-powered vacuum cleaners. That's not a pleasant thought, so I'm trying to focus on the fact that everybody's having fun, which is the point of following baseball after all. I really shouldn't complain since Mulder looked good again, in daylight and against a lot of right-handed hitters, no less.
Somewhat related, you may have seen some Houston Astros 2005 DVD ads over at Viva El Birdos and elsewhere, which is fine by me. What does bother me is that shop.MLB.com doesn't have a DVD for the 2004 NLCS champion. The other DVDs there look pretty good, but why can't they manipulate me with highlights from the Beautiful Summer of 2004?
If you want to satisfy a baseball urge during a strange off-day in April, Anthony Reyes goes tonight against the New Orleans Zephyrs at 7pm. The radio feed's live over WHBQ and amazingly MiLB has Gameday coverage. Junior Spivey went 0-for-8 last night in a 16-inning game.
Posted by Rob at April 11, 2006 12:03 PMThe next DVD on my list is this one:
It's not quite what you're talking about (which I'd love to have btw), but it does include Game 7 of the '04 NLCS, along with 5 other classic games in their entirty, and some other little goodies all for $42. Oh, and the mlb.com shop has it for $70 if you want to donate some money to Mr. Selig.
Do you think if we wrote letters to the right place in MLB we could persuade them to produce an '04 NLCS DVD Set?
Posted by: John at April 11, 2006 05:36 PMOh, I didn't know about Amazon having those DVDs.
I hope they'll start releasing pretty much all of their post-season archives on DVD. Maybe I'm missing something, but it's hard to see why they wouldn't do that.
Posted by: Rob at April 11, 2006 06:17 PM