Fantasy MLB: Rename that park (Red Sox, Marlins, Mets, White)

[edsg25]

Let's have a little fun with a dose of fantasy, but one that has a delicious component:

giving us an opportunity, even a "what if" variety, to rid ourselves of that cold, heartless corporate naming rights to MLB ballparks.

If we have retro-ballparks, why not a retro fell to a park's name...be it in relationship to team, city, or something else appropriately and noncorporately local.

So here's your chance:

• Rename your favorite team's ballpark

• Rename any others that you like

Sure, you can get cute (Century Field for Wrigley Field celebrating a 100 years with no WS championship), but getting serious may be more fun.

Examples: AT&T Park came to birth as Pacific Bell Park (Pac Bell); San Francisco looks west across the Pacific, so why not:

Pacific Rim Park (Pac Rim)

Pittsburgh: bring back an old name but give it a baseball feel:
Three Rivers Park (it is on one of the rivers, just as TRS was)

Padres: Mission Grounds (they are the Padres, after all; and MLB hasn't had a "Grounds" since the old Polo Grounds in NY)

Rangers: It started out as the Ballpark at Arlington. It's still in Arlington, of course, but how about a more inclusive the Ballpark of the Metroplex

Mets: give it a jazzy, distinctive name: The Metropolitan

White Sox: that's easy....turn it back into Comiskey Park

Mariners: Emerald Field

Reds: Preservation Park (the original Reds were the start of pro baseball)

Diamondback: Cactus Grove (things like gardens and such have been used for sports palaces)

Angels: Park Orange

[Orangeish]

White Sox: that's easy....turn it back into Comiskey Park

Yes I agree, I really think that they will do that one day. IIRC the naming rights are changing next year, so we shall see.

[malfunction]

I would say Cardinal Stadium or Cardinal Field, but even real St Louis baseball traditionalists would just hate that idea.

[twista6002]

Citizens Bank Park (CBP) is now Cheesesteak Bypass Park

[Fred314X]

Citifield becomes New York City Stadium. (Talk about dreaming!)

[NewToCA]

With the way the Indians have been going lately, I'd rename their ballpark (currently Progressive Field):

Regressive Field



That's what happens when your major offseason moves have been the acquisition of Shelly Duncan, Mitch Talbot and Austin Kearns

[Finger Laker]

I wouldn't mind seeing a Metropolitan Field in NYC - even if I can't stand the mets

landshark/joe robbie/proplayer/etc would adapt - 2 more years park and then change next year to see you suckers park ..... or I hate you and your idiotically restrictive lease agreement that has outlasted your presence with either the marlins or dolphins crater faced wayne and am glad the marlins are getting their own stadium in 2012 park

Chase Field could be called "The Hangar"

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by twista6002

Citizens Bank Park (CBP) is now Cheesesteak Bypass Park

only if the next one south a bit on the road at Camden Yards becomes Cheasepeak Bypass Park.

[Toxic Toast]

Change Comerica Park to Navin Field (original name for Tiger Stadium)

[Lowerdeck]

Mets: City Field (all you have to do is change one letter)

For the older corporate sponsored parks, like Texas, Toronto, Cleveland or CWS - bring them back to their original names. Ballpark in Arlington, Skydome, Jacobs Field, Comiskey Park.

As a Red Sox fan: Yankee Stadium = Fourth Layer of Hell

San Fran = Pacific Park

Then take names of older stadiums, replaced. Seattle could be King Field, Milwaukee would be County Stadium II, Detroit with Tiger Stadium II, Pittsburgh with Three Rivers, etc...