1 How can you pass up PNC Park in Pittsburgh, voted the best by ESPN? /unabashed PA booster

2 I'm just guessing, but maybe because PNC Park isn't on the West Coast?

3 "Looking at that list, i realize that some of the nicest ballparks in the major leagues are in the Western Divisions." You're probably right, but the names for these stadiums are hideous. I have nothing against corporations, but I cannot stand the way they plaster their names shamelessly on sports stadiums, even in cases where their product has literally NOTHING to do with sports! PETCO Park? (Pets and baseball. What an obvious combo. Can I bring my pet ferret to the game?) Bank One Ballpark? (Atleast this one has a nice sound with the repeated "B" but who cares about bank advertising at a sporting event?) Network Associates Colliseum? (Just rolls of the tongue, yes?) Coors Field? (Atleast this one is named after a real human being (and a Republican -- yay!) but still, it's a corporate name. Ugh. Ameriquest Field? (During the 7th inning stretch, get info on a mortgage!) Safeco Field? (Anything with a "co" at the end of it is too "co"rporate for me.) Angel Stadium and Dodger Stadium: Nice, to the point, and actually refers to the damn TEAM. Closer to home is the atrocious "U.S. Cellular Field", home of the Chicago White Sox. I'd like to see President Bush issue an executive order to change this one.

4 Give me the date, and I'm your host at Petco.

5 I worked on Safeco field in 1998, whole time I kept thinking, "Why not make right field the shortest fence in the league for griffey jr?" The year after the stadium opened he started crying to be traded. pussy.

6 The rap on Safeco was that it's a pitcher's park, which prompted Jr. to leave. I had him on a few fantasy teams, and if i was a Seattle fan, i'd have said good riddance. i think Angel statium is going through an identity crisis just like the LA, er anaheim, er California Angels. They used to call that park Anaheim Stadium, The Big A, and Edison Field.

7 Great googley moogley, I hate corporate sponsorship.

8 Do not miss the Ballpark in Arlington, it is an olde tyme ball park, except for the selection of teams to watch trounce the strangers that is.

9 Baseball bores. Annika, re-read the comments in this post and congratulate moi. http://annika.mu.nu/archives/071246.html

10 Shit Hugo, talk about not getting it. Perhaps you ARE in your niche. Should you ever desire personal growth, find someone who doesn't squat to pee, and who doesn't need to talk for a couple hours, and get a couple beers, and sit in line with a steroidal fueled mutherfucker hurling a rock at 100mph, and another guy with a club trying to whack it, and you'll learn to admire physical skill.

11 Casca, as one who longs for personal growth, I'll keep your kind suggestion in mind. Until then, I'll wait for the start of college football, just four and a half months away.

12 i'd tell you to follow the Bears, but they're 3-3 in Pac-10 play right now.

13 Oh, I do follow the Bears. The #3 ranked Cal Women's Softball Team. (Would it surprise -- no, it wouldn't -- that I like softball better than baseball? I love the pitching!)

14 softball players got bigger balls!

15 ;-)

16 I'm thinking that an auto tour might be better than a car tour. When you get to Southern California, it's easier to see the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Anaheim Angels (sue me, Rita Moreno of Arte), and the San Diego Padres by car. If you take the plane down here you'd have to rent a car anyway.