Praise for the K from the Globe & Mail
Because Kauffman Stadium, "The K" as she's called by the locals, took my breath away. She left me feeling that within her confines is exactly where the game of baseball was meant to be played.
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Kansas City, Missouri, what’s the deal? It’s 2010. We’re living in a day and age where metropolises everywhere are increasing public transit options in hopes of getting people out of their cars. And you’ve cancelled the bus route to your sports complex, which hosts thousands of people at least 88 times a year? Fail.
we had a bus route to the K? we had buses?
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Sadly yes
There were rumors Cordish was going to set up shuttles to and from P&L to the stadium, much like they have from every bar in St. Louis to Busch, but that hasn’t materialized.
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by RoyalsRetro on May 25, 2010 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions
That was beautiful
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by Jeff Zimmerman on May 25, 2010 12:18 AM EDT reply actions
I love the K...
I really do. I think it’s one of the most beautiful ballparks in baseball. However, the one thing I cannot stand about the K is the cheesy, over the top amusement park feel that it has gotten over the past few years. I can deal with the little kid’s area and such, but do we really need some “host” in between innings and the other cheesy things they do at the K? I grew up in KC, but I go to college in Boston and I went to a game at Fenway this spring. I understand that it’s difficult to compare the two considering the Red Sox field a much better team, but the atmosphere at Fenway is a million times better from a baseball fan point of view because it lacks those cheesy elements that the K has. Just my two cents.
A few years ago,
I went see our Royals play the Sox at the K. (It was the third game of three-game sweep of Boston that year). Anyway, I was sitting next to a Sox fan, and we had some pretty good talk about baseball and ballparks. All around a decent guy.
Around the middle of the fifth or sixth—the K staff were doing the dance contest thing or the find the ball under the helmet game—the guy turns to with a confidential look on his face, leans in, and asks in a low, furtive voice, “So, they do this dumb shit for every innings of every game?”
I had to agree with him on that assessment.
Though in the K’s defense, I imagine what they’re trying to do is create a “family atmosphere.” But from my point of view, I don’t see why the game itself isn’t good enough to do that.
And every team in baseball
Save for the Red Sox, Yanks, and Cubs, does goofy crap to distract people from baseball.
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by RoyalsRetro on May 25, 2010 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, it's really true
Every game that I’ve been to recently (home games for Twins, Brewers, Orioles, and Nationals) has this kind of stuff. I don’t see it as a big deal and will either just have fun with it or just ignore it (based on how the team I want to win is playing). It’s really there for the people that come and aren’t there just for baseball. I guess it doesn’t really bother me.
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by MinnesotaRoyal on May 25, 2010 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions
The Yankees do it too
Baseball cap shell-game, subway race, trivia contest, groundskeepers singing “YMCA”…it’s just as “bad” (if you really dislike the between-innings amusements) in Yankee Stadium as anywhere else.
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by Matt Klaassen on May 25, 2010 1:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah -
it was a family atmosphere in the 80’s when we were winning. We all went the to game together and filled out scorecards, great family activity.
Put a winning product on the field and you don’t need the fluff.
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I was going to say
those sorts of things are exactly what you do when you’re trying to draw people to your ballpark, but want to distract them from horrible things happening on the field.
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by Sweep_the_Leg on May 25, 2010 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Dude's comments about the buses or lack thereof
Really irked me, just like it always irks me whenever some other dipshit starts complaining about bus routes which no longer exist.
Of COURSE there’s a reasonable explanation, ya dolt: people weren’t riding it.
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da metro
When I lived in KC, I used to take the bus to games. Lived in Westport at the time and it was super-easy to just hop on at the Plaza. It’s a shame they got rid of it.
by Yunielateral Movement on May 25, 2010 9:29 AM EDT up reply actions
I highly doubt they were going empty every single run
Not enough to make a profit maybe, but I’m sure there were at least some people who relied upon it.
When I become mayor
there WILL be light rail. High speed light rail from each of the major suburbs that will put you in Union Station in 20 mins. And from Union Station you can transfer to the local downtown loop, or the local midtown loop. Or, you can transfer from Union Station to the Truman Train which will whisk riders from Union Station to the K in 10 mins. Better yet, there will also be a KCI Train. Imagine, living in Olathe and leaving your car at a park and ride and taking 2 trains to KCI and getting there in a 1/2 hour…during rush hour.
After living in New York for years and seeing how Grand Central Station is used it makes me sad that KC can’t do the same. GCS used to be a major transit hub for cross-country trains. Now, it is a major commuter hub where people train in from up to 60 miles away each day…
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Mike Sanders is touting a commuter rail/light rail plan
I believe there would be a park and ride near TSC, which would be much needed.
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by RoyalsRetro on May 25, 2010 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions
The explanation is actually
That the city couldn’t afford it. People were riding it.
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by RoyalsRetro on May 25, 2010 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions
If enough people were riding it
the city could afford it. Nobody (government or private sector) cuts off a service that they can at least break even on if doing so creates a decrease in good will.
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Not really
Fares only make up about 25-30% of what it takes to run transit. Transit always needs to subsidized (as do roads!)
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On the other side...
The highway system around the stadium is probably Top 5 in America. Not many ball parks are so easy to get in and out of, which is why a public transportation system wasn’t really worth it anyways.
Just car pool with a DD like we do :) Also how are you supposed to lug around your Weber 22.5 on the bus!
I have never understood though
Why they make it so dangerous to walk across the exit ramps. Lots of people walk from those hotels to the game and you have to play a game of Frogger to make it to the game without getting splattered.
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And the damnable thing is
that pedestrian overpasses would not be that expensive.
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Good assessment...
But that opening paragraph made me want to barf. C’mon Mr. Man, if our stadium’s that beautiful, don’t we deserve something better than the types of cliches that gained renown in an 80’s Berlin song or the content a 13 year old would reserve for a Creative Writing description of her first trip to the Mall of America?
by Tracer Bullet 82 on May 25, 2010 10:25 AM EDT reply actions
I take offense.
The only Berlin song that ever even had a cliche in it was the song they were forced to record by their record company, and which ironically killed their career.
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Unfortunately...
The cheesy in-between-innings stuff originated in the Minors, where people went to have a good time even if they didn’t care about baseball. Baseball purists don’t need (or even like) it.
What this shows is that there aren’t that many purists left, save for in NY and Boston maybe. Pure baseball fans couldn’t come close to filling the K – thus the need for all the cheeseball crap they do now.
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This would be an interesting FanShot...
What’s the most irritating routine you’ve seen at the K? At any baseball game?
Me? I hate the usherettes in a way that’s probably inversely proportionate to how much I’d want to bang most of them. And this type of confusion only serves to make me hate them more.
by Tracer Bullet 82 on May 25, 2010 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
What’s the most irritating routine you’ve seen at the K? At any baseball game?
Anything involving Tim?
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I wouldn't exactly call NY baseball fans purists...
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I have noticed that they've gotten a lot better at utilizing CrownVision this year.
Even just little stuff like the the Royals’ batters’ photos have been really spruced up. They have different poses and use the height and space and detail of it more.
So the Royals have that going for them.
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