How exactly do you plan on paying for these renovations? Arlington is paying some mucho taxes for the Cowboys stadium and they aren’t going to sign off on any improvements to RBiA that the city will deem unnecessary.

…that is only 15 years old. You don’t tear down or completely renovate a 15 year old stadium. That’s not realistic.

There’s no option for “none of the above.”

There is no need for a roof. It was just as hot in 96, 98 and 99 when the Rangers went to the playoffs. The Braves don’t have a roof and look how good they have been. The Rangers need to develope pitchers from with in and if a top FA pitchers comes here fine but winning and Nolan here will help with that.

Reading this makes me want to have a coronary.

surely it can be done…

What kind of lease do the Rangers have with Arlington? Can they even thin of moving if another city built them a place?

the current structure gets a roof. Either they build a big ugly tent over it, or build a new ballpark.

would be a benefit how? There aren’t an enormous amount of day games out there. For the roof to help the way people want it to, they would just need to build a whole new stadium. I like Longhorn’s idea. Put a damn canopy over it, made of taffy.

The idea of A/C in the home dugout and bullpen is fabulous.

Really though, instead of moving the fences back, why not move the entire field back? By this, I mean, shorten the backstop. This would make the field “longer” without costing much money and costing the stadium seats (that are greatly unfilled anyway.)

If/when Andrus, Borbon et al get up here, there are larger alleys for their hits to get lost in and now some of those doubles could be triples and the Rangers have a better chance at longer innings.

but i dont think realistically there is gonna be a roof, when it rarely rains here

i know chuck morgan was talking last year or the year before about trying to get the jumbotron updated and adding more screens around the ballpark. wonder what happend to all that.

well, not really, but the videoboard is in dire need of a replacement. and i think it should be done.

sure id like a new stadium or roof, but thats not realistic. its not that old and adding a roof has been explored before.

Why in the world would RBIA need to be updated or torn down? It’s a fine stadium. In fact, I’d call it one of the more underrated stadiums in baseball.

Name the stadiums that are absolutely better.
Fenway (almost solely on tradition)
Yankee (tradition and being a pretty damn good stadium)
Wrigley (tradition)
PNC Park
Camden
New Busch
Nationals Park
Um…I think that’s it. I honestly don’t think I’m missing any stadiums that are undoubtedly better than RBIA.

Now, name the stadiums that are absolutely worse:
Minute Maid
Turner Field
Pro Player
Oakland Coliseum
Petco
Metrodome
Rogers Centre (probably)
Shea
Tropicana
I think that’s it.

The thing is, RBIA falls in that “good” stadium echelon. Is it awesome? No, probably not. But it’s good. It’s there with stadiums like Great American Ballpark (which I happen to like, though some don’t), Safeco, Kaufman, U.S. Cellular (which I happen dislike, though some do like it), AT&T Park, Chavez Ravine, Chase, et al.

So, to answer your question, that’s asinine.

disposable, but very expensive, yet so nice when you get a new one.

I thought I remembered Chuck mentioning that the scoreboard was going to be updated. Whatever happened to that?

i’ve always thought the main scoreboard in right field was one of the better there are.

is the technology to be upgraded – video, sound, and scoreboards. I’d like to replace the outfield wall so the green padding matches each other (it’s most noticeable in CF) and put less ads on the walls, but that’s second priority.

By the way, both dugouts are already air-conditioned. They installed it about 2 years ago.

I grew up going to see Ranger games at a fucking football stadium in the Bay. Sometimes you don’t know how good you have it ’til you experience the other options, repeatedly, for 15 years.

I’d rather put that money into a pitching staff. Money talks, even if it means a player has to pitch in the heat.

cheerleaders with wet t-shirts in every section, and free beer. Charge $100 for every seat.

I agree that for the most part, RBIA is a comfortable place to watch a game. I wish it was closer to Collin County, but I like going there once or twice a year.

My realistic changes are few:
I would remove the out of town scoreboard from left field, knock out the wall and move it back to where the seats begin. Only adds a few feet, but we could have a nice LED out of town scoreboard and take a few homers away from the park.

I would add ribbon boards to the facades of the first suite level and the club level.

Get a big HD board for the top of the home run porch and centerfield.

Update the audio technology because the speakers weren’t very good the last time I went and I was in the tenth row behind third base.

I love Chuck and his presentation is fine, but it could be SO much better. I can predict the exact music, canned organ or sound effects he is going to play.

My one drastic change that I feel would really help:
I would rebuild the right field seating. Tear the home run porch and restaurant out, move back the seating 10 feet and rebuild the stands to be extensions of the existing ballpark. I think suites and club seats facing home plate would be very attractive.

This way you eliminate the overhang, eliminate the posts and take away a few homers.

Probably wouldn’t cost too much to even do the drastic change because the infrastructure is already there and it wouldn’t be very inconvenient except for maybe a season.

…is that the stadium was downtown Dallas or in Fair Park or something. It’s a purely selfish desire since I live and work near downtown and hate driving on stoopid I-30 to get to the games in rush hour traffic. I would go to 50 games a year if the stadium was downtown.

Additionally, the studies that they have done on attendance point to something like 80% of the people come from the Dallas area, and 20% come from the Ft. Worth area. If they moved to Dallas they would lose out on 20% of their fanbase in attendance, but I can promise you they would pick up that many in locals.

Arlington = sux0rz. Boom goes the dynamite.

Miller Park gametrackers:

I love the Ballpark, and have had several non-baseball fans (who are friends of mine) comment on how much they liked the stadium. I think it’s really attractive from the outside, and walking around inside (before you get to the seats) is great as well. I love the open air feeling on the ground level, near the food stands.

I do think the stadium needs a bit of an update, though. I like the out-of-town scoreboard in left field, but honestly I think the stadium needs at least one more video scoreboard. If you’re in right field seats or close to them, you can’t see the video board and can’t tell what’s going on when the rest of the stadium suddenly starts cheering or booing. I went to a game a few weeks ago with some friends, sat on the home run porch, and it was the most disconnected I’ve ever felt at a ballgame.

I don’t know that we need an HD video board, but since a lot of stadiums have them now, it’s probably coming anyway. I won’t comment about moving the seats since I really don’t have much of an opinion on that. I do wonder if it would be possible to extend the pseudo roof that exists around the upper decks now, and provide a bit more shade for left field/upper deck seats.

I’m at work and it won’t let me reply for some reason…

It’s a 30 year lease, but I’m not sure if that started during the first season what.

But, assuming it started in 1994, then they’re locked in there until 2024.