phatj wrote:It's like being on a moving walkway that doesn't move!

That's great until a couple of retirees get stuck standing on it.

The switch to "Miami Marlins" is underway. "FLORIDA" and the "F" logo are gone from the road jerseys (plus they've dumped their favorite black alternate), but the hat hasn't changed yet...

BigEd76 wrote:you gotta see this, especially the video

and you thought the Shea/Citi apple was bad...

I was so pumped up by that I napped. How unbelievably lame. It cannot possibly make the cut to be installed. The letter pile is better and even that is pretty lame. I know it says the money, public money, has been allocated, but someone need to show up an appeal to the sense that this is not the art district, but a baseball venue.

If it showered the onlookers with foie gras, I would be more favorable.

Lame is in the eye of the beholder, and if people don't like it, they don't. I don't like some things by Red Grooms and a lot of his stuff treads the line between fine art and crowd-pleasing cartoon, but I think in this case crowd-pleasing cartoon is totally appropriate. I think it will look a lot better than in that video, although still goofy, since goofy is one of the things it aspires to be, and I don't think humor in a ballpark is out of place. We're talking about the Marlins after all.

And really, what is it competing against? The Mets glacial apple? The guy who doesn't slide into the beer anymore? A light up giant Liberty Bell with a recorded "bong"? Which of these is less lame? In fact lame seems to be a requirement of the genre, so the Marlins seem to be just fitting in with tradition.

Marlins new stadium to have "backstop aquariums"

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/New-Marlins-ballpark-features-two-giant-aquarium?urn=mlb,247335

I thought it was kind of cruel to knock on aquarium glass, let alone foul off 95 mph fastballs in to them?

Comment Win:

This is obviously a very imaginative artist because he/she drew a stadium filled with fans

thephan wrote:If it showered the onlookers with foie gras, I would be more favorable.

That would be rather, uh, messy.

Woody wrote:Comment Win:

This is obviously a very imaginative artist because he/she drew a stadium filled with fans

Haha I saw this last night reading the article. It made me laugh. The one right right above it also was funny too.

Hopefully the 5 season ticket holders at the new ballpark will enjoy it on a nightly basis.