The Tigers got rid of the dirt pathway between home plate and the pitcher’s mound. It was the last MLB stadium that had it.

49 comments

1. Lame

2. Why is Detroit actively getting rid of their ballpark whimsy?

3. Those poor groundskeepers

4. Can’t have shit in Detroit

5. That’s super lame, I thought that was such a unique touch for that field

6. Sad to see it go, felt a little nostalgic. Found it funny that even ESPN’s play-by-play field included it. Also, just why? What is gained by removing a nice little touch like this?

7. Why do stadiums get rid of their unique features? This is like removing Tal’s Hill and the Marlins’ home run sculpture

8. Blasphemy.

9. Travesty.

10. Boo

11. 

12. I liked that landing strip of theirs. It was a nice old-fashioned touch

13. ok first of all what the fuck

14. Chase field lost their keyhole when they went to fake grass. Boo that

15. no whale, no pathway, i’m worried about the scoreboard tiger.

16. They’ve also removed the script Tigers that had been above the scoreboard for so long to replace it with the name of the park.

17. Every day is worse than the last

18. Booooooooo

19. Booooooooooo.

20. but how will the pitchers know where to run?

21. Chris Ilitch is an underrated terrible owner in baseball.

22. Wtf. Now how am I supposed to know where the baseball supposed to go

23. Motor city shitty kitty move

24. This has pissed me off. I hate going to bed mad.

25. All the fun things coming to an end…

26. At least it looks like they left the home plate shaped dirt patch around home plate.

27. (Bring back Tiger Stadium!)

28. At least we still have the script “Tigers” above the scoreboard

29. How will the pitchers know where to throw the ball?

30. 

31. Stupid modern things

32. We used to be a real society

33. This is fucking bullshit.

34. This is unamerican!!

35. IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE

36. Nooooooooooooo

37. Nothing is sacred.

38. Incoming curse

39. Ah yes. A throwback to early baseball, before the catcher position was established.

    Back then a pitcher had to throw the ball and race it to home plate. If they didn’t get there in time, it could turn into a stolen first base. 

40. Damn, I liked that, was like having the dirt infield during raiders home games, you instantly knew where you where.

41. I know this is really, really hyperbolic because it is literally just a strip of dirt, but stuff like this is why everyone is depressed now-days. Everything must be soulless and “professional”. Nothing can be fun and quirky. All cars, furniture, and appliances must be black, white, or grey. Fast-food restaurants that used to have unique colorful architecture are all grey boxes now. Even the constant bombardment of ads we get are soulless minimalist crap. No one cares anymore because the fun is being sucked out of everything.

42. NOOOOOO!

    It was one of the cool things about the stadium.

    This is the second worst thing the Tigers have done to their fields. The first one being tearing down Tiger Stadium.

43. Nooooooooo! One of the reasons I was super excited to visit the park this year!

44. what the fuck, man?

45. The light has gone out of my life

    Okay maybe not that deep but still why you gotta do that

46. Boo! Bring back unique ballparks!

47. Why am I so sad over dirt

48. Also, their home plate is huge

49. My favorite story ever is a reporter doing a deep dive into why they had it and the consensus ended up being “the groundskeeper likes it”