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@harrymaciolek9629 5 месяцев назад

Don’t forget reasonably priced seats. Don’t see those anymore.

@adamsmith583 5 месяцев назад

Never been to an AL Central game? I've never bought a tigers ticket over 10$.

@bryantsteury8910 5 месяцев назад

Rays games may be the exception that prove the rule, but I have season tickets and for any game NOT against the Yankees/Red Sox/Cubs, and especially during the week, they can be 5 bucks

@gedias1 5 месяцев назад

Supply and demand. Less demand, lower pricing.

@beartackle 5 месяцев назад

I'm a White Sox fan. Thankfully, since the stadium isn't full, I get cheaper tickets! Also, I found out that if I buy my ticket at the counter in the stadium, there is no tax for some odd reason. Ahh... the memories of $7 tickets, even though I was way above the field.

@albertmendez2262 5 месяцев назад

@@adamsmith583Try an A’s game. Lol

@spacecadet2226 5 месяцев назад

Ah the ticket booth. As recently as 2010 I remember going to will call or purchasing tickets on gameday at the window. Paper tickets were also a great way to remember games you attended.

@jongilbertson2106 5 месяцев назад

I collect tickets of all the games and concerts I attended in a scrap book. It is high on sentimental value. I have to make up tickets now.

@bigferd4534 5 месяцев назад

Well said!

@mdx799 5 месяцев назад

You betcha

@spacecadet2226 5 месяцев назад

@@jongilbertson2106I love technology and convenience of e-tickets. From immediate delivery, transferring to friends, reselling, and using your phone at the gate. But, I really miss having a paper ticket to save from special games and events. Still have plenty from my younger years that mean so much.

@justinman114 5 месяцев назад

I have all my game/concert/movie ticket stubs from as far back as I can remember in a little box, but this last decade or so has pretty much stopped the pile from growing :(

@PizzaRollz1 5 месяцев назад

Honestly, the whole bit about reducing capacity frustrates me; you could drop ticket prices to something more affordable, get more people in, and allow more access to games with the reduced prices.

@martenkahr3365 4 месяца назад

Unfortunately, reality does not bear that out. People that aren't interested in personal attendance of stadium events aren't going to start showing up even if the tickets were free. People that attend at all these days are typically regular attendees, and will pay the ticket price if it's even remotely reasonable. There's a limit to how much additional demand you can stimulate by lowering prices, and by this point the stadiums have figured out the sweet spot for supply/demand. And many stadiums are still struggling to remain profitable without major lines of revenue outside ticket sales (like ads and sponsorships). There's no point in increasing capacity (or paying maintenance for the larger capacities of the past) if no amount of price reduction or advertising is ever going to fill those seats.

@firebird6522 14 дней назад

@@martenkahr3365 Interesting post.

@gregorydillon9167 5 месяцев назад

That opening shot was gorgeous. I took my 83 year old mother to Camden Yards this year. I called the stadium and asked if there was any way I could get her a paper ticket since I don't know if she could handle digital. They said they couldn't. Paper tickets were only done in emergencies now. It really felt like a new age then.

@texarican_77 5 месяцев назад

I took my dad to Fenway last year...his first time ever...we had a good time!

@user-bu3wi4ku7s 5 месяцев назад

Stadium bathroom troughs for male patrons. Definitely not seen anymore.

@theorangecrush 5 месяцев назад

You must have never been then to the Oakland coliseum.

@larslan1975 5 месяцев назад

@@theorangecrushthe A’s will soon be obsolete,though!

@trevor5904 5 месяцев назад

Say you've never been to a browns game w out saying you've never been to a browns game.... I've seen the pisser line 80 deep and multiple drunk men playing swords in the sinks trying to relieve their bladder quicker so they can refill it faster w more alcohol

@thomaskirk9546 5 месяцев назад

I remember them at Veterans Stadium now gone in Philadelphia.

@andrewneese6484 5 месяцев назад

Doesn't Wrigley Field still have troughs?

@314jrock 5 месяцев назад

When it comes to Baseball stadiums, I love seeing ticket booths for aesthetic purposes even though they’re not needed anymore.

@jparent1205 5 месяцев назад

Ticket Booths, if still around at your stadium / arena , are actually hidden gems. My local arena doesn’t charge any of the fees from Ticketmaster when bought in person. Spent 90$ on 4 tickets vs. 150$ for the same event on Ticketmaster

@tommyfu9271 5 месяцев назад

But for almost any game for any team tickets are cheaper on the secondary markets.

@jparent1205 5 месяцев назад

@@tommyfu9271 yeah that’s true I bought basketball tickets for 4$ on Tuesday night the example I was using was for tickets to Monster Jam which doesn’t have a resale market

@jefffinkbonner9551 5 месяцев назад

Don’t ever disclose the name of that arena or else the Ticketmaster mafia will come shut it down!

@briand5083 5 месяцев назад

The last time I purchased a ticket at the ticket office, I was still charged a fee by ticketmaster. This was because ticketmaster owned the rights to ticket sales at that venue, so they still charged the fee.

@tommyfu9271 5 месяцев назад

@@briand5083 that's strange different teams do things differently. I've probably been to about 300 games in the last ten years and bought directly from the team less than 5 times.

@jpguitar34 5 месяцев назад

Affordable ticket and consession prices are obsolete too.

@logantaylor8354 5 месяцев назад

One thing I really like about my favorite baseball team is that you can bring in takeout.

@Schneltor 5 месяцев назад

@@logantaylor8354 Who is this team? I may move and switch my allegiance! LOL

@logantaylor8354 5 месяцев назад

@@SchneltorThe mariners

@Schneltor 5 месяцев назад

@@logantaylor8354 I want to move to Vancouver, so that's the best possible answer.

@luisreyes1963 5 месяцев назад

I concur. 👍

@Bill_N_ATX 5 месяцев назад

When I was a kid, I remember getting outfield seats for two bucks. I’m only 60 but still. You can’t even get a drink of water for two bucks anymore.

@delphic464 5 месяцев назад

Men's bathrooms with 40 feet of stainless steel trough, 15 men standing shoulder to shoulder in total silence, unrinating in unison with an organized group of men waiting their turn.

@diddyknux 5 месяцев назад

I agree that massive stadium lighting is obsolete and unnecessary... But they look kind of cool and iconic, in a nostalgic way.

@ono3869 5 месяцев назад

The jock jams playlist is also obsolete. I can't remember the last time I heard Queen's "We will rock you" play in the stadium.

@trevor5904 5 месяцев назад

They def still play that shit back in my home city at the local games. Pump up the jam, whoomp their it is.... I thought it would get retired when they built a new arena... but no. They still play it, and now, at the local universities, they no longer have the band at basketball games and are using it there now.

@afridgetoofar1818 5 месяцев назад

Gary Glitter’s Rock n Roll song used to play every game

@titanbronco1627 5 месяцев назад

@@afridgetoofar1818that song doesn't get played because stadiums don't want to give Gary Glitter royalties for his song or be associated with him. He's a convicted child molester.

@valpix7007 5 месяцев назад

@@afridgetoofar1818 That one had good reason to get jettisoned, though. *shudders*

@petertrudelljr 4 месяца назад

@@valpix7007 You can enjoy the music and hate the artist. Talent is still talent, no matter how vile the person.

@williamlloyd3769 5 месяцев назад

All the old scoreboards are obsolete and replaced by LED screens of various sizes and types all over the stadium. PS - Loved it when they ripped out the old scoreboards at the LA Colosseum and put in both the huge scoreboard as well as the two smaller scoreboards. The stadium looks much nicer after they simplified / restored the area. Place is ready for another Olympic closeup!

@itinerantpatriot1196 5 месяцев назад

Tiger Stadium used to have general admission and pole seats. I still remember Reggie Jackson hitting the light tower in the 1970 All-Star Game at the old stadium. When I was a kid the seats were made of wood and when a rally was getting started everyone would bang the seats, make the whole place rock. And bleachers. Anyone who knows Tiger Stadium will remember the center field bleachers and the bleacher creatures who used to inhabit them. You could get a ticket for $2.00, but you were sitting with the two dollar crowd and it got a bit crazy. They had to shut them down a couple times a year if it got too wild. When they built Comerica they left bleachers out because of it. Ah, the good old days. I loved Tiger Stadium, the ballpark of Ty Cobb, Hank Greenberg, Al Kaline, and my childhood.

@trevor5904 5 месяцев назад

5$ bleacher seats in the mid 90s.. and sometimes you'd even get a ticket for another game in the bleachers. Forsure some crazy people up there though. Some guy was showing us his knife he brought for protection.

@itinerantpatriot1196 5 месяцев назад

@@trevor5904 It was still two bucks the last time I sat up there, but that was the mid-80s. I'll never forget the night some guy thought it would be a good idea to show up wearing Yankee pinstripes. He might have made it through the game if he hadn't stood up and flipped people off once the group "F-U" got going. Yeah, he had to be escorted out. Then there was the game someone thought it would be a good idea to give everyone in the bleachers a free Dominoes Pizza calendar. What did you end up with? Numerous game stoppages as the grounds crew went out to retrieve one the thousand or so paper airplanes they got turned into. I remember when they talked about putting a cage over the bleachers. Ah, the old ballpark. Crazy folks indeed, but if you were a young 20-something like me, it was comical to watch.

@db-rc5fr 5 месяцев назад

That single seat behind a beam in center field

@itinerantpatriot1196 5 месяцев назад

@@focusmphoto I spent some time in Boston and was supposed to go to a game at Fenway but a Nor-Easter blew in and dumped a bunch of snow on the place. The club rescheduled the games, headed for Texas, and I left Boston the following week. I saw the Green Monster so many times on TV, seeing it live would have rocked. But some things are just not meant to be I suppose. Fenway and Wrigley are the last of the palaces. Ballparks these days seem to have a 30 year shelf-life. Lots of money to be made building new ones.

@richardlukey7299 5 месяцев назад

1971 not 1970 (that was in Cincinnati).

@R.J._Lewis 5 месяцев назад

I think the features like will call, ticket booths, and turnstiles will never fully go away. The ticket booths and will call may be drastically reduced, but there will always be fans (like me at Coors Field this past year) who were just in the area on game day and decide to take in a game on a whim because you're already there. And turnstiles may not be for counting fan attendance anymore, but they are incredibly effective measures for crowd control and to keep a steady pace moving into and out of the stadia to stop a crush.

@FIFODavid 5 месяцев назад

I noticed how a lot of the pictures of the elevated lights were of Jacobs Field/Progressive Field in Cleveland. I love the lights. Every time I drive up I-77 near Cleveland and getting excited seeing the "toothbrush lights" because it takes me back to when I was a kid to watch the 90s and early 2000s Indians teams.

@Lostmymind1 5 месяцев назад

Go Tribe!

@axmajpayne 5 месяцев назад

That stadium will always be Jacobs Field to me and the arena will always be Gund Arena

@lawrenceporter8389 5 месяцев назад

Turnstiles in European Soccer stadiums are still very common and included in new stadiums. I assume it’s for security. They’re afraid of crowds barging their way in. These are huge turnstiles too. Well over head high.

@nicegan8902 5 месяцев назад

Australian stadiums make everyone line up outside turnstiles and they go through everyone's bags. They basically treat turnstiles like an airport security area.

@hashbrownfob 5 месяцев назад

Guess their fans must just more insane because they can't even drink in the stands, only in the concourse pre-game, half time and post (this may only be UK tho)

@LeCharles07 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, the stadiums in Kansas City have the same kind of thing.

@MATTY110981 4 месяца назад

The Hillsborough disaster is one of the reasons turnstiles and ticket barriers are still a thing in English stadiums.

@mariusfacktor3597 5 месяцев назад

1:02 I don't know why but I still fear when I go places with only a digital ticket like "did they want me to print it out before hand?". I guess it's still true at places like the DMV. You need to bring actual paper even though they have printers there.

@richardbeckenbaugh1805 5 месяцев назад

Turnstiles are still used to prevent re-entry. With many stadiums now having concerts, lighting towers are making a comeback as a way to hang concert lighting. Paper tickets now must be available as a federal lawsuit mandated their return. People must either be able to print the tickets at home or at the stadium. This was due to a lawsuit by visually impaired people who sued under the ADA.

@user-bb3yv8dy7q 5 месяцев назад

I went to a SF Giants game last Sept. and pickup my ticket a the box office will call window.

@SnowmanTF2 5 месяцев назад

Standing room in the NFL seemed more driven by TV blackout rules, standing for 3 hours is hardly what most people want to do and are generally in worst position than seating, but this is basically not counted in minimum seating to get the game blocked from local TV. So gave owners who could typically sell more cheap seats a way to do so without risk of blackouts.

@billbeliakoff5589 5 месяцев назад

I have a friend that used to work at Soldier Field before the city privatized it who would sneak me in for Bears games and I would move with the line of scrimmage. Even though I basically had standing room I always had the best seat in the house.

@mysteryhombre81 5 месяцев назад

@@billbeliakoff5589 thats cool but not quite sure what u mean?

@dp0456 5 месяцев назад

Meanwhile German soccer stadiums, where u take a 20 min walk to the stadium, stand for about 2,5 hours in the stadium and return to the train station with a 20 min walk. Really no problem there

@ryanm1732 5 месяцев назад

@@mysteryhombre81He would move and stand wherever the ball was being hiked from, kinda like how they do on TV except they have like 3 cameras and switch between each one depending on what yard the play is starting from, except he would physically walk down to the closest spot to where the ball is. Kind of a brilliant idea actually.

@overpwnage18 5 месяцев назад

Lower demand for baseball tickets? Attendance is in a 20 year high. Of the three newest stadiums built in the last 15 years, 2 have upper decks in OF

@BK_718 5 месяцев назад

Which one doesn’t ?

@overpwnage18 4 месяца назад

@@BK_718 Truist

@BK_718 4 месяца назад

@@overpwnage18 smh 🤦🏻‍♂️ I should have known. I did truist in 2022. Beautiful ballpark.

@charleslamar4861 5 месяцев назад

You forgot "astro-turf.".

@kotaowens6978 5 месяцев назад

I’m not even thirty yet but this made me feel so old with how much this stuff has actually changed 😂

@KWally 5 месяцев назад

Paper tickets are still very much around, they just use a printed barcode instead of the rip tag now.

@tommyfu9271 5 месяцев назад

Some teams don't have them at all anymore. They used COVID as an excuse to get rid of them completely.

@FredSox49 5 месяцев назад

There will be at least one ticket window forever for persons picking up tickets left by the teams (home and opposing). In addition, I've claimed tickets in Washington, Denver and St. Louis left by White Sox personnel.

@pentu7738 5 месяцев назад

edible food was removed from Stadiums 20 years ago

@chickey333 5 месяцев назад

Are there still "box seats" in the preferred areas of the stands? And it looks like they've done a good job of designing out the obstructed view seats that were behind those vertical I-beam columns in the old stadiums.

@krisandnancyboucher1277 5 месяцев назад

That’s what I was going to offer, the old fashioned, literally set apart by iron rail work, box seats. They could make scrambling for a foul ball a painful effort!

@cameronlewis1218 5 месяцев назад

This is a great video idea. You could do way more with this. Even make it into a series… Keep up the good work!

@roberthudson1959 5 месяцев назад

I still patronize a ticket booth whenever I attend a game because I have no interest in getting a smartphone.

@mikebarnes2294 4 месяца назад

Without a smartphone even if you buy a ticket online you often need to get it printed at Will Call.

@mikekole 5 месяцев назад

How about beams? Well, ok, you can sit behind them at Wrigley and Fenway for a full price ticket.

@moussamiller4812 5 месяцев назад

The thing about baseball upper decks is that people like to buy upperdeck tickets since they're cheaper, but then just move down and sit in the lower levels since most MLB stadiums don't seem to care when you switch seats anyways

@mrmoose6619 5 месяцев назад

Stadiums that hold football and baseball on the pro level. I always felt it was another slight home field advantage for those teams who did when the ball was in the infield part for those teams.

@MrCho14 5 месяцев назад

All multi-use pro stadiums are gone except technically Oakland. I only mention that b/c it could still be used for football or even soccer even though no non-baseball team calls that stadium home not to mention the A's will be out of there shortly. In more recent years, they would lay down sod over the infield and unless the baseball team made it deep in the playoffs there would be no conflicts.

@jonvia 5 месяцев назад

Would be cool to see ticket booths become food, beer, and merch areas.

@BillSmith-rx9rm 5 месяцев назад

You like throwing money away.

@davidsandford6324 5 месяцев назад

I do miss paper tickets though.

@andrewolding8747 5 месяцев назад

Most baseball stadiums still use Ticket Booths. Most teams are not the Dodgers and Yankees who sell out every game.

@stickynorth 5 месяцев назад

Great list! Some I wouldn't have even thought of... One I'd add is athletics tracks! Most stadiums that were designed and built in the past included them to hold large competitions or were added for the hopes of winning the Olympics, etc. At least outside of the USA were stadiums that were for football and athletics are still a rarity with LA Memorial Stadium being the largest and best used of them... Here in Canada? Montreal's Olympic stadium has space for its track but was removed decades ago and Edmonton's Commonwealth Stadium has it but rarely uses it since the main tenant is/was and probably always will be the Edmonton Esks/Elks CFL franchise which despite its waning popularity still can regularly draw 35-40K per game on a good year...

@stickynorth 5 месяцев назад

Fixed domed stadiums are also obsolete...Seattle's King Dome, Tampa Bay Tropicana Field, San Antonio's Alamodome... Montreal's Olympic Stadium which despite being empty just got $850M last week to rebuild its formerly retractable tent roof into a fixed semi-transparent Teflon dome. The only domes that get built these days are ones that have roofs that be retracted, folded or slide out the way, with the exception of Las Vegas which for obvious reasons went with a closed roof... Thank you Skydome effect!

@mls515 5 месяцев назад

Many stadiums including the LA Coliseum that used to have a running track have had the field lowered and stands built closer to the football sidelines.

@reverend_wintondupree 5 месяцев назад

@@stickynorthIsn't the LA stadium fixed dome as well?

@PhillyBagel 5 месяцев назад

Seeing that many retractable roof NFL stadiums keep their roof closed most of the time, the latest NFL arenas have fixed roofs.

@gregsells8549 5 месяцев назад

@@mls515 For the 2028 Olympics, a platform will be built for a temporary track above the field and lower rows of seats.

@circusitch 5 месяцев назад

Water fountains. Why give away free water when you charge $10? $40,000,000 salaries aren’t paid from thin air.

@r3d5ive87 5 месяцев назад

I miss urine troughs.

@cameronlewis1218 5 месяцев назад

Thanx for making me laugh out loud! 😅

@geniferteal4178 5 месяцев назад

I tried to go to a concert recently. My usual plan would be to go to the box office and buy whatever's left just before the concert I was actually surprisingly told I could pay cash for the ticket but they could only give it to me digitally. I would have to install an app and provide an email address for them to send the ticket to just so I could walk 10 feet away and show it to. The guy waiting at the gate. Kind of ridiculous if you ask me.

@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI 4 месяца назад

Actually I wouldn't mind ticket booths coming back. We need to dismantle the Ticketmaster Monopoly.

@bullwinkle2380 5 месяцев назад

Will the new Las Vegas A's ballpark be obsolete several years after completion???

@robertpuffer3927 5 месяцев назад

It will never be built , probably never have real renderings released

@richardphillips9064 5 месяцев назад

Not gonna happen

@josephdhippolito5456 4 месяца назад

The A’s as a team are obsolete.

@NoahStew 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for making the opening shot of baltimore

@uc95nu51 5 месяцев назад

Short toilet lines. I don't see them anymore.

@gui18bif 4 месяца назад

0:23. It's just because LEDs are cheaper. LEDs suck for sports because of the 50/60Hz caps.

@SandBoxJohn 5 месяцев назад

3 professional sports venues that no longer exist that I know of had gravel parking lots.

@NaztyNate 5 месяцев назад

Man.. I'll never forget having a paper ticket as a kid and holding onto it for dear life in line ready to go through a turnstile. I HATE digital stuff replacing this!

@alekhidell7068 4 месяца назад

Here’s another one: apolitical games.

@nakfx134 5 месяцев назад

A bit interesting for soccer stadiums general standing seating is becoming more popular.

@sominboy2757 5 месяцев назад

Black and white scoreboards. All pro, D1 college and even down into high school to a certain extent have video scoreboards now. The black and white ones you saw until the late 2000s are obsolete

@chrispontani6059 5 месяцев назад

Also ramps to get to the upper level. It’s all escalators and elevators now.

@forgottenplaces9780 5 месяцев назад

Theres always been a ramp in right field, ive used it many times.

@bandit1blue01079 5 месяцев назад

I hate the fact that there is a lot of standing room now. As a disabled person this is making it harder to go to games

@hillogical 5 месяцев назад

As a Cubs fan that visits Wrigley Field several times a year, this whole video is funny! Good video, though. It's interesting how a design element like the ticket booth has been impacted by the smart phone!

@bossfan49 5 месяцев назад

Good video. Interesting, original idea. @1:00 " ..require many less bulbs." How about "..much fewer bulbs." (sorry, can't help it)

@BillSmith-rx9rm 5 месяцев назад

How about simply, "requires fewer bulbs."

@MrCho14 5 месяцев назад

General Seating isn't needed at most events, aside from the NFL or playoff games for MLB, because there is almost always plenty of seating available. Ushers are easily avoided meaning you can pretty much anywhere you want to with the cheapest ticket.

@saulchapnick1566 Месяц назад

What you are saying is that people do not want to sit down and watch a game of their home team. They would rather walk around, have drinks and “take in the stadium.” We are living in changing times.

@nathanlong1908 5 месяцев назад

Guess it's not really something becoming obsolete but the protective net that was extended all the way down the foul lines a few years ago definitely took away from the aesthetic of stadiums and overall viewing experience

@KayleeG0 5 месяцев назад

Sad the cheap seats are even cheap anymore

@rickposter3534 5 месяцев назад

Drawings for the new White Sox stadium in the South Loop were released earlier this month and there are upper decks in the outfield. I guess they're not quite dated yet.

@jmd1743 4 месяца назад

The upper decks would be cool if they turned them into rooms such as team museums.

@psidvicious 5 месяцев назад

How about reasonably priced concessions?

@Thechad201 5 месяцев назад

The carpet style Astro Turf.

@TBone31 5 месяцев назад

You should do a collab with depressed Ginger! Both of y’all’s stadium vids are very entertaining

@afridgetoofar1818 5 месяцев назад

The right field upper deck was my area to sit at Jacob’s Field

@jamescaron6465 5 месяцев назад

THe original lighting came from mercury vapor lights which were even heavier than Nickel metal halide. They also took forever to acheive maximum light output. The instant on LEDs are so much better for that.

@zlinedavid 5 месяцев назад

I can remember those from playing high school football. That’s why even for early-season games where there was still sunlight through most of the game, they’d throw the lights on because it took a good 15 minutes for them to get to full brightness.

@filanfyretracker 5 месяцев назад

@@zlinedavid Ive heard some stadiums even did the lights early just because they also helped cut down on shadows. I worked in a supermarket with them and wow if a storm fluttered the power they took awhile to startup. And only like every three would be hooked to the generator.

@gui18bif 4 месяца назад

Fuck the digital ticket shit. It has just led to higher prices. Back when sales were in only pen and paper, you didn't have hundred dollar tickets. They just could not do that. Same goes for the cashless sales. Digital just makes shit expensive

@AVWC2727 5 месяцев назад

More support for the inflatable roof in the club of obsolete things in a stadium.

@kevinhendrix3536 5 месяцев назад

There’s a height requirement for lights. Too low and these monsters hit it above them

@philosopherkingzant2037 5 месяцев назад

The big heavy land stands permanently remind me of Pokemon The 1st Movie

@REAL-UNKNOWN-SHINOBI 4 месяца назад

Ah, so instead of sitting for 3 hours you want to stand for 3 hours? That doesn't make sense at all.

@centrist1008 5 месяцев назад

This video was sad. Part of my childhood gone. Don’t get me wrong, I would do the same thing in MLB’s shoes. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.

@Ease1x 5 месяцев назад

It's a double-edged sword, on one had it's cool to see the infrastructure behind the game we love evolve, but that comes with lots of memories and things we grew up with being removed. Good from a technical standpoint, but emotionally not so much

@automan224 5 месяцев назад

I didn’t know Tobey Maguire is making RU-vid videos now

@forgottenplaces9780 5 месяцев назад

Haha, your not the first to say that…

@geniferteal4178 5 месяцев назад

Paying with cash at the concession.

@derekelliott6098 5 месяцев назад

Lights, and all electrical things, use Amps or Current (A or I), that is translated in watts when talking about power consumption.

@itsallspent 5 месяцев назад

Yep! They dont sell beer , at the stadiums any more. They lost the opener😊

@howboutnow974 5 месяцев назад

1:54 *outfield

@kingcronecker 5 месяцев назад

Goals at Old Trafford.

@Danp34332 5 месяцев назад

The Yankees don’t draw a crowd very well at all. It’s embarrassing how empty that stadium is sometimes given how big NYC is and how many millions of Yankees fans live within a half hour of the stadium.

@filanfyretracker 5 месяцев назад

I be they charge too much, Because Philly is smaller than NYC and they can fill up Citizens Bank Park pretty good for night games but their tickets are likely quite a bit cheaper than Yankees.

@tomballentine6106 5 месяцев назад

A 16 oz beer for under $12.00. Definitely obsolete!!!

@CharlesBrown-dd8vz 2 месяца назад

Requiring patrons to have smartphones seems ridiculous to me. I don't have one nor am I going to get one just to attend a MLB game.

@stephaniegormley9982 5 месяцев назад

1:51 Those were never very popular anyway. Going back to pre WW2, only Comiskey in Chicago and Tiger in Detroit had outfield upper decks around all, or nearly all around the stadium.

@v4v819 5 месяцев назад

Low cost beer, food, tickets...

@rbingraham 3 месяца назад

Some of these may be obsolete but that doesn't mean it's an actual improvement or a good thing.

@forgottenplaces9780 3 месяца назад

No, it doesnt, esp the getting rid of cash or paper tickets

@fatclumsymountainbiker7930 5 месяцев назад

1:28 Who is Will Call?

@shanesinclair6549 5 месяцев назад

Orioles still use they’re ticket booths!

@pedrobat13 4 месяца назад

Funny that most of these features are still used in Europe.

@onenightblitz 4 месяца назад

1:31 turnstiles also hinder evacuation

@1320fastback 5 месяцев назад

I miss the old Jack Murphy in San Diego 😢

@ReverendBenzo 5 месяцев назад

Got enough ads and billboards in your stadium there, Yankees?

@danieljackett4193 5 месяцев назад

How about the upper deck being close to the field The first row of the upper deck at Comerica Park in Detroit is further away from the field than the last row of the upper deck was at Tiger Stadium

@lo1bo2 5 месяцев назад

I remember how Tiger Stadium's upper deck was basically on top of the lower level, instead of being set back. Wonder how far away the last row of the upper deck in center was, considering Tiger Stadium had a deep center field of 440'. Hardly anyone hit a ball by the flagpole.

@danieljackett4193 5 месяцев назад

@@lo1bo2 there isn't an upper deck in the outfield at Comerica Park, so you really can't compare them

@lo1bo2 5 месяцев назад

Oh, I know. Just wondering for my amusement how far away from home plate the farthest seat at the old ballpark was. I went to maybe a dozen games at Tiger Stadium (including a doubleheader), moved away, and eventually one at Comerica on a vacation. @@danieljackett4193

@JeremiahErickson 5 месяцев назад

I hope they don't eliminate seats...

@aaronlewis2150 5 месяцев назад

So attendance is down, paychecks are getting higher. Good to know

@MrJimi16 5 месяцев назад

I disagree that the outfield bleachers have gone away because they don't need the capacity. The majority of stadiums are in the 40-42k range, and while the 50k stadiums tend to be older (only three in the last 25 years are even 46k), the change to having fewer outfield seats doesn't track with that. Rather, I think the reason stadiums have fewer outfield decks is because they block the view out of the stadium.

@forgottenplaces9780 5 месяцев назад

I would say it somewhat depends on market but many teams would rather use the space for premium areas than use it maybe 2-5 games a year that actually demand the capacity, plus they dont like aesthetic of so many empty seats, i dont really think its about outside views, the math is undeniable that attendance has decreased markedly since the 2000s

@corydavis4450 5 месяцев назад

Bro really said outfield upper deck provides the worst views…smh

@Madmun357 5 месяцев назад

#1 Being the Astrodome.

@irvingr.fatback886 3 месяца назад

Andy Frain

@mariusfacktor3597 5 месяцев назад

Soon those huge parking lots will be obsolete. As cities deal with their housing shortages, that enormous area of land will be ripe for better uses. And it's much cheaper and quicker to take a bus or shuttle to the stadium.