Not Tal’s Hill but specifically one of the three flag poles being ON THE FIELD
The Vet had some holding cells in it for a while.
The USS Mariner was a big hokey looking yellow ship behind the centerfield wall of the Kingdome in the 80s. It would fire its cannon after M’s home runs and wins.
Minute Maid had tons of gimmicks. There’s the train, obviously. Then Tal’s Hill + the flagpole. We also have a giant gas pump that counts homeruns. And I think all that is dwarfed by the huge tacky sign that just says OXY.
Also, we had this camera in center field, but no one remembers that.
shea used to have a vegetable garden in the bullpen, which i always liked
We had some fugly storage containers near right field for a while until the remodel.
There used to be a bell out in left field of the old rangers ballpark. Back when it was still ameriquest field.
Look, I love Busch, but both the current and previous version were not what I’d call, “unique or interesting”
I do think it’s funny that Big Mac Land continues long after McGwire retired and even into a new stadium he never played in.
For a short time we had a tugboat to bring pitchers in from the bullpen, and a ship with cannons in the outfield that fired them after Mariner home runs.
Thin turf over concrete😅
Edit: and a jail lol
The Metrodome was notorious for sucking the hat right off your head on your way out of the stadium
People are just cool with a brick fucking wall in the outfield covered in a single layer of ivy that isn’t even full until mid-season.
Edit: forgot to mention the “home run basket;” extending from the top of that wall is a 4-5 foot net set at an angle making it impossible to rob a home run at Wrigley. Though the net is more likely to keep drunken fans and their belonging from falling into the field.
Gas station in the parking lot seems like a thing that would be unique to LA
Bring back the home run sculpture!
the broken clock. every time i take someone to nats park i ask them what they think the 12 stars around the w logo symbolize. and then after they guess i say it symbolizes the fact that it used to be a clock and it broke 15 years ago and the company that made it went out of business so nats park has no way of repairing it and they haven’t taken it down yet
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Oh that’s easy. At the Metrodome they had a…oh, you got it.
Well we have a giant apple and orange foul poles
Still Minnesota, but the row of pine trees just beyond the center field fence was awesome.
I mean it’s gotta be the wall, right? Not [that wall](https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/661fe1727ddab0c131c244b5/Clippers/960×0.jpg?format=jpg&width=960), obviously.
We had people fucking in the hotel
Does the team on the field count?
[Never forget](https://i.redd.it/hfhk1ijxbrp71.jpg)
Our scoreboard and the fountains, no?
[RIP Rusty](https://youtu.be/-OF2Toly2KI)
Western Metal Supply
Bernie’s slide into a mug of beer
Bring back Tal’s Hill you cowards
Duffy’s Cliff at Fenway Park. The warning track from LF to CF wall was just a giant grass hill
[The perpetual motion rube goldberg machine thing](https://k8librarian.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/kinetic-sculpture.jpg?w=640)
We got a pool
We had a [domicile](https://www.thursdayreview.com/images/chief.jpg) in center field with a resident.
Dodger Stadium has a botanical garden
Not Tal’s Hill but specifically one of the three flag poles being ON THE FIELD
The Vet had some holding cells in it for a while.
The USS Mariner was a big hokey looking yellow ship behind the centerfield wall of the Kingdome in the 80s. It would fire its cannon after M’s home runs and wins.
Minute Maid had tons of gimmicks. There’s the train, obviously. Then Tal’s Hill + the flagpole. We also have a giant gas pump that counts homeruns. And I think all that is dwarfed by the huge tacky sign that just says OXY.
Also, we had this camera in center field, but no one remembers that.
shea used to have a vegetable garden in the bullpen, which i always liked
We had some fugly storage containers near right field for a while until the remodel.
[When the monuments were on the field](https://youtu.be/ygyg3KM9pXA?si=31T6tgvXObHFqtlJ).
There used to be a bell out in left field of the old rangers ballpark. Back when it was still ameriquest field.
Look, I love Busch, but both the current and previous version were not what I’d call, “unique or interesting”
I do think it’s funny that Big Mac Land continues long after McGwire retired and even into a new stadium he never played in.
For a short time we had a tugboat to bring pitchers in from the bullpen, and a ship with cannons in the outfield that fired them after Mariner home runs.
Thin turf over concrete😅
Edit: and a jail lol
The Metrodome was notorious for sucking the hat right off your head on your way out of the stadium
People are just cool with a brick fucking wall in the outfield covered in a single layer of ivy that isn’t even full until mid-season.
Edit: forgot to mention the “home run basket;” extending from the top of that wall is a 4-5 foot net set at an angle making it impossible to rob a home run at Wrigley. Though the net is more likely to keep drunken fans and their belonging from falling into the field.
Gas station in the parking lot seems like a thing that would be unique to LA
Bring back the home run sculpture!
the broken clock. every time i take someone to nats park i ask them what they think the 12 stars around the w logo symbolize. and then after they guess i say it symbolizes the fact that it used to be a clock and it broke 15 years ago and the company that made it went out of business so nats park has no way of repairing it and they haven’t taken it down yet