Umm…...the sweet smell of severed animal parts. The mural on the wall outside is pretty cool though ironic because it makes me think of happy cows which you would’nt be at all if you ended up at Farmer John’s.

Was Dodger stadium. The first Angels home game I ever attended was at Dodger stadium. When the Dodgers were on the road, we would play our home games there.

you weren’t kidding were you?

I went to an Angels-Doyers game at the ravine last season, sitting in the top deck behind home plate. My parents and I were all wearing red, and all the vatos (there were plenty, so look harder next time) kept yelling THIS IS THE REAL LA every time they walked by on the way to the beer line. The guy in front of me loved to turn around and yell F* YOU after ever halos K or anything else that excited him, which was really classy since he was with his woman and his 4 year old daughter.

Dodgers fans are the new Raiders fans.

looks a little like Scottnak, Did you guys go to the game together.

When I do get out to see an Angels game when they are actually playing at home(I have seen them play in 5 different stadiums(none of them being Angels Stadium), I actually hope to time it so I can go to Dodger Stadium as well – just to say I was there. I have a goal to eventually get to every Major League Stadium.

Which is a strange coincidence. I can tell it’s the same from the scoreboard and attendance figures.

A co-worker had unloaded a pair of tickets on me that were behind home plate but just far back enough to be in the shade, luckily.

This was my first trip to the mountain since infancy. And despite how (relatively) awesome our seats were, all I could keep thinking was “damn, Arte spoils me.” I wouldn’t trade the Big A and its denizens for anything.

The City and the Dodgers recently agreed upon a plan that will once again bring public transit to the stadium from Union Station, starting right after the All Star break.

Dodger Stadium itself, architecturally, is really an impressive example of Mid-Century design. As for the sight lines, though…I’ve only been to one game there in the last 5 years, and I just can’t remember how they compare to Angel Stadium.

was the first time i saw vlad and oc play. back in the day with the expos.

It is no wonder I ahve not been there since Big Mac hit out of the stadium and I have no desire to go back.

wear a uniform that says “Los Angeles” on it?

Not sitting in the cheap seats, but not sitting in the expensive seats either. I’ll be in the orange seats in the second deck that you can see in Rev’s 4th photo, just about even with the first base bag. I’ll be wearing my Halo gear and I fully expect to take crap for it.

It’ll be my first time at Dodger Stadium.

paid $45 for 4 tickets and a choice parking pass at ebay. I had 5th row in the second highest section about mid-way between 1st and the left field foul pole. Not a bad seat.

I decided against eating to save money, but instead blew the bank on an extremely watered down Hefeweizen beer they sold to me for $12.

it’s another thing to continue to embrace a color scheme that went out with the Brady Bunch as if it should be a fond reminder of days gone by, and not the aesthetic nightmare that it actually is.

it was a game between the doyers and the mets. the mets won 4-0 or 4-1. i hated the stadium, and i thought the dodger dog tasted like crap

i went to a game last year (dodger vs. rockies) and went to the tented souvenir (sp?) shop in left field after the game. there was a guy wearing a red Vladdy jersey and got ganged up on with guys saying “must be nice to only have 1 world series title.” pathetic.

Everyone (not on this board) keeps saying how it’s a classic stadium blah, blah, blah… I really hate it. It’s a dump. It’s ugly.

I appreciate older stadiums. I’m not one to fall in love with the amenities of new stadiums while disregarding the dinosaurs. I love old and new for what they are. But Dodger stadium is just a bad place to watch baseball. I hate getting there, I hate being there, and I can’t get out of there soon enough.

It has ALWAYS been a pig to get into and out of. This is why SoCal fans are infamous for arriving late and leaving early. We were weaned on the traffic catastrophe that remains Chavez Ravine.

It has ALWAYS been cold and sterile. Mid-century modernism is like that. The councourses are like underground parking garages, and the only notable thing to look at is the view OUTSIDE the stadium. And even THAT is second-best available. If the stadium had been inverted 180 degrees, the fans would have a magnificent view of the night-time skyline of downtown LA as their backdrop, with less distance between them and the object of their view to soak up smog and obscure the scenery.

It has ALWAYS been an obvious metaphore for class warfare in LA County. The financial and Hollywood elites with inside access dominated the field level boxes and all garnered as much attention as the team on the field, along with unbridled access to the players themselves, while the lesser fans stood in the outfield bleachers. That has actually been a well-known “selling point” for the team.

Maybe before my time, but I CANNOT RECALL EVER experiencing knowledgable baseball fans there. Predominantly, this is the place where people need to listen to Scully on the radio tell them what they are watching with their own eyes in front of them, because they cannot trust themselves to figure it out on their own. It is the place where I had to talk the attendees sitting around me to return to their seats because they were leaving early while Dennis Martinez was pitching a perfect game – the first ever thrown AGAINST the Dodgers at that stadium. It is where my brother – a die hard Dodger fan – decided to go stand in the beer lines with Reggie Jackson coming to bat in the World Series (justice being served, as Reggie hit a HR right to where my brother was supposed to be sitting.)

That anybody cannot appreciate the difference between that aged queen and places such as Angels Stadium and Petco Park, and the fan experience within, just reveals that person’s deep-rooted sense of denial.

It is what it is, far away from the city’s “center”, aging, yet not terrible in and of itself; the concourses in busy games are really tight, though. The worst is the jackasses in the cheap seats, that’s true.

has got to be one of the worst stadiums around. I have been to about 25 stadiums so far, ranging from the classical Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Wrigley, to the middle aged (ie Dodger Stadium, Shea (RIP), HHH Dome, The Chokeland Colesium), to the new ones like Petco, Safeco and PNC, and I have to say Dodger stadiums ranks as one of the worst. Granted, it is the 3rd (is that right?) oldest current stadium, but that is just no excuse. I mean, I read a story about how there are no drinking fountains (or very few) because they want people to spend $$. And why is it that you can’t go from level to level while at the game? And I haven’t even gotten into the Dodger fans…they should just blow that place up and start all over…
In case you were wondering, my favorite so far has been PNC in pittsburgh, with Angels stadium running a close second. We don’t know how good we really have it here. :)