exactly, Cumberland is the city, Cobb County is the county, Ginger needs an update on geography, next thing u know he will say the city of Phoenix is in Phoenix County, LMAO, we all know it's in Maricopa County
I was in Turner field for the Olympics, countless Braves Games and most recently for the State High School football championships as GA ST. Stadium. Truist Park blows it away and is in Cobb County, not Cumberland County. Love your vids.
The Expos had an average of about 24,000 people in 1993 or 1994. They were often getting even bigger crowds than that because they had a good team. I remember being there in those years and having 35,000 people at weekday games and 50,000 at weekend games. The only reason why that number wasn't always like that was because it was a little lower in the spring. Good teams could have kept the Expos in Montreal and they eventually would have had their stadium. Gutting the team and then hoping for a new stadium is not the way things should have been done. Everything was backwards with the ownership group of that team. To say that the Expos had bad attendance in those years is ridiculous. I was there. You weren't.
Also the Los Angeles Memorial Colleseum was used by the Dodgers 1958-61. It hosted three games of the 1959 World Series. Seating was 93,000 when the Dodgers played there. Built in 1921 and used for football games and for multiple Olympics. Still being used today.
The weird & quite remarkable thing about Olympic Stadium is that it is still technically in use as it will be a host venue for the 2026 World Cup & it also hosts CF Montreal matches in the early part of the MLS season due to the weather being too cold to have matches outdoors at neighboring Stade Saputo.
Is the hotel still open at Olympic Stadium? Also, it would have been cool if the suspension could actually lift the roof off to make it a kind of retractable roof stadium. Especially if it were a softer roof sort of similar to the Metrodome in Minnesota. It would have been really cool if in nice weather they could lift the roof with the suspension and then roll it up so people staying in the hotel could look out their window or go on a balcony and watch the game from above.
I went yesterday. The tower is under renovations and is currently closed. It was my first time there tho (i live in the metro area) and I really liked the stadium, but it definitely needs both love and a sports team
Well, "Ginger", even though I still say you seriously need some voice lessons...your channel content is getting a lot more interesting. Kudos for that.
Olympic stadium only cost $770 million to build in the mid 70s . The 1.4 billion was over 30 years of renovations . However , even $770 million would equate to $4,405,158,550 today
If I remember correctly the city or Montreal has spent WAY more money on roof renovations for that stadium than they ever did for the entire stadium itself. I remember MLB players hated playing there. They said the turf felt like playing on a tennis court instead of a field.
@@bjdon99 Another thing which really hurt the Expos was 1994. After all those years the Expos were finally a GREAT team in '94 with players like Larry Walker and Pedro Martinez amongst others. Then of course the one year they really stand a chance happens to be the same exact year of the '94 MLB strike and there is no postseason so they don't make the playoffs or even win the division because they stopped playing. That might be a big reason the Atlanta Braves have that all-time world record of any sport with 14 consecutive division titles. Braves won the division in '91, '92 & '93. The Expos looked poised to win it in '94 but the strike killed any chance of that happening. Of course the Braves won the division and the World Series the very next season and then won the division every year for the next decade after that. That's what gave the Braves the record because they technically won 14 straight division titles because there were no division titles the year the Expos led the division due to the '94 strike. If that season plays out the chances favored Montreal winning the division so at best Atlanta would have only had 11 consecutive division titles in that case which isn't even an MLB record much less an all-time world sports record. I remember the Expos very well though. Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, Bartolo Colon, Javier Vasquez, Fernando Tatis Sr., Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Even during their bad years they had some great players. I can't remember specifically but I wouldn't be totally surprised if Randy Johnson didn't start out as an Expo too. If that's true I can't imagine what a rotation of Pedro, Johnson, Vasquez, and either Colon or Cliff Lee would have been like. That's also with Fernando Tatis Sr., Larry Walker, Vlad Sr. and possibly Grady Sizemore in the lineup. If I remember correctly in order to rent Colon for half a season the Expos traded a great 2nd baseman, Sizemore and Cliff Lee just to get him. Having all those guys together would've been a heck of a team but the '94 strike really killed the Expos more than any other team in baseball.
@@matthew01234Matt; u r correct RE: Randy Johnson. Also; during the "bad" seasons (record-wise), they had HOFs Andre Dawson & Gary Carter along w/Al Oliver (albeit briefly), Steve Rogers, Charlie Lea, Tim Raines, & Delino DeShields amongst notables.
You left out another forgot MLB stadium, Cleveland Stadium were the Cleveland Indians played back in the 1980s, that is now the Cleveland Gardens, Thay tore the stadium down and we're the Cleveland Indians use to play baseball is now First Energy Field where the NFL football team the Cleveland Browns play Football.
They can't rip the roof off of Olympic Stadium as there is no drainage for rain that would fall inside. The water would just pool and they will need to pump it out.
There was the Montreal's Expo that played at the Stade Olympic, but the team was sold. I even went to one of the final matchs (or even the last one) but because baseball isn't as popular as hockey in Québec, we were like two groups of maybe 6 peoples, and the mascot Youpi (now with the Mtl Canadien). it was in the early 2000's and I was around 14
Hey I love your videos I have always loved the construction how stadiums get engendered it’s amazing anyway am from the Bay Area and I believe seal stadium is still up it is a turf baseball and soccer field the stands at just about all gone but a part still up it’s actually nice it still sands tho
Yes. I was at a Phillies game when they announced the games would be shifted to Philadelphia. Got tickets right behind the visitor's dugout for $5 or $10. @@Marcuswelby-nx2te
I wonder if you'd be interested in making a video about MLB Radical Realignment? I would personally expand two teams and have four regional leagues with eight teams each with NO interleague play. It would be easier on players, more profitable for the teams, and it would add back juice to the All Star Game and the Postseason. Plus you can market it as "Green" ✌️
I laugh at you… how you bash them for making the stadiums with too much seating… sadly, not that many years ago.. those same stadium didn’t have enough capacity.. you need to bash MLB for over-pricing the tickets to the point.. poeple are no longer willing to go… and rather than admit their fault, they lower the capacity to make the rest of the seat more valuable so they can keep raising the prices… That my friend is MLB and the teams own fault.. that and the game (like most sports today) are losing fans willing to pay these prices. The minors are not feeling the same crunch.. but they don’t live and die off TV ratings and gate reciepts as the high priced players go to the MLB’s… but fans still pack the houses… because the ones that do still love baseball… MLB is too much about making money and it’s turning fans off…
