yeah, thats way to effing big. they reduced capacity over the years, it opened at 22,000, but thats much too big.

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The purpose of Pilot Field when it opened was to be expandable into an MLB park. The way it's set up, there's a big-ass metal roof that in actuality could be removed for the third deck. But now, there's no way Buffalo will ever attract an MLB team. They should knock out a couple more thousand seats and leave it at 15,000.

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mechaphil

Had a good time last night...I was a little out of it because I got home around 4:30 AM the night before and then I spent the day out in the heat at the art fest. But I thoroughly enjoyed everyone's company and the nerdfest at the end of the game.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

Yesterday was awesome.
Stopped at:

The Galleria (Good lord carousel is a ghetto shitpile)
Allentown Art Festival (breathtaking and enormous)
Spot Coffee (Amazing how I accidentally run into people I know (Missy and her rents) in a city I don't even live in)
Shops along Elmwood (Sweet)
and Dunn Tire Park (Pretty nice and better looking than Alliance Bank, aside from the ghetto Bullpens)

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Dude, Coca-Cola Field. Or as I will always call it, Pilot Field

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mechaphil

oh yeah, im well aware of the MLB plans they had. but they could really renovate it and turn it into something spectacular.

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Eh, I don't see anything spectacular ever happening to it. It's a fine park, but it's nothing that'll ever be worth writing home about.

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mechaphil

when i go to games, i always park by the park and mill around and look in... given where it is, and how much land they have to work with, they could make the park AWESOME.

first off, red seats? what is this, fenway park? go to traditional green. 2. the first deck is ABSURD. its much too big, and set back. remove half, and build a second deck closer to the field, and build luxury suites. heres the kicker, due to the new deck thats closer to the field, and the space it saves on the street front, you could use that space for office space on one side (first base side) while the third base side facade could be a traditional open exposed.

just some ideas i had given from what i remember.

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They won't sell luxury suites there. They don't even sell out the existing suites that they have, which aren't half bad regardless.

Coca Cola Field is the crown jewel of AAA ballparks, hands down. You're talking about gutting the thing and starting over for no real good reason.

crown jewel? im sorry to say, outside capacity, it is average at best. im not trashing it, but really, a major renovation, while naturally not plausible, would be a very good thing. just some ideas i had.

in fact, huntington park in columbus was named the best ballpark, of every level of baseball, including MLB parks. i, personally, love 5/3rd field in toledo.

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Yeah, I've been to and played at Alliance Bank and Falcon Park (which to be fair is AA) and Pilot Field is much much nicer.

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It might not be spectacular, but Tom isn't the only one who has called it that. In fact, Pilot Field was widely credited as the first park to start the retro baseball park revival before the media started ignoring it in favor of Camden Yards.

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mechaphil

i can see the influence, kinda. many new parks are modeled after it, but at 22 years old, and with an MLB team not relocating to buffalo, a downsize wouldnt be a bad thing, i was merely saying that, with unlimited funds, i would do.

but crown jewel, i would have to just flat out disagree. probably 22 years ago, yeah. but now? naw.

i know too much about ballparks and arenas and such.

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That's 100% correct. HOK Sport used Pilot Field as a test case to see how the retro style ballpark would work. They got the job for Camden Yards (and others) because of what they did here.

im not arguing that, but im arguing the claim its the crown jewel of AAA.

in all fairness, HOK Sport (now populous) does probably about 80% of major north american sport facilities. they could have thrown up 4 concrete slabs with seats on it, and they still would have gotten the camden yards job.

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I met up with people for about two minutes before Caroline was there ahaha. Would have called to see where you all were seated, but I was in the upper deck and down below looked crowded enough that I was like eehhhhh another time.

There were so many things wrong with the little thing (TERRIBLE ACTING, TOO) at the end oh my goodness.

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‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

For the record, it was :

"Jesus Christ, just pump YOUR shit and move along"

(These are the things that come out of my mouth when people spend time eating their food at condiment stations when there's a line behind them.)

We were sitting in the upper deck too.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

What? Hahaha I should have seen you guys. Oh well.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

so, pictures?

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PSA: I am an overly sarcastic person. If you take me at my word, then i will most likely anger and offend you.