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Ben Clemens FanGraphs Chat - 7/13/20

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Ben Clemens

3:44

Least favorite is Yankee Stadium

I hate the short porch

Jon

3:44

What about Citi Field stands out?

Do you mean the seat positioning?

Ben Clemens

3:44

It's the way they handle the upper deck support, I think

3:45

There are no walls keeping the concourse separate from the seating areas

Other than the spot directly behind home plate where there's a club

so you can just walk a complete circle on the concourse and still be catching the action

When I go to games in person I'm a serial walker

I spend maybe 35% of hte game in my seat

3:46

Like I enjoy Petco, just like everyone else

But at Petco I went to go get a beer and I had to walk up some stairs, while still being on the lower level, go through several sections of concessions that didn' give me a view of the game, and then get my beer at another concession stand that was in essentially a hallway

It's maybe just b/c of how I watch

3:47

And I bet some of the other newer stadiums are set up like Citi too and I just haven't been

Adley

3:47

Which stadium (including corporate sponsor, if applicable) has the best name?

Ben Clemens

3:47

Guaranteed Rate FIeld

best b/c it's the worst

I actually like the ones that are corporate sponsored but with good connections to the city

3:48

Busch, Coors, Miller, Wrigley, for example

Miller changing to American Family Park is a travesty

Jimmy

3:48

What about the Ranger's new park is an upgrade from the old one?

Ben Clemens

3:48

Well you see

3:49

The old one was merely a Globe Life Park

But the new one? It's a Globe Life Stadium!

(the roof is what's better presumably)

Actually dangit the new one is globe life field

lol

Even worse

Adley

3:49

Setting aside TB and Oakland, which team most needs a new stadium?

Ben Clemens

3:50

I'm gonna be honest, I don't care for Fenway. I don't think they need a new stadium but I just think there are a lot of bad seats

What team needs a new stadium aside from them? Eh, I'm gonna say no one springs to mind, and honestly the Red Sox don't actually need a new stadium, I just like to poke fun

3:51

A's and Rays are the only two big offenders left at this point I think

Adley

3:51

What are the best tickets you've ever had for a game?

Ben Clemens

3:51

When I worked at an investment bank we had a client event and sat directly behind home plate second row at Yankee Stadium

so, that

3:52

That I've paid for on my own dime? For my wife's birthday three years ago we got front row right field seats at Citi

So that she could make a Curtis Granderson sign and hold it up when he ran past