Business booming at Waffle House after L.A. sports columnist’s tweet criticizing Atlanta (Louisville: city hall, layoffs)

[Born 2 Roll]

Business has increased at Waffle House restaurants across metro Atlanta and North Georgia after noted Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke mentioned the restaurant in a derisive tweet criticizing Truist Park and Atlanta Braves’ fans.

ATLANTA — A tweet by a Los Angeles sports columnist during the Dodgers-Braves series criticized Truist Park, Braves fans and even mentioned Waffle House. But it wasn’t all bad. An area manager for Waffle House says that tweet actually brought more people to their restaurants.

The tweet from LA Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke said, “After the five-game madness against the Giants, this NLCS Game One in sterile shopping-mall Atlanta stadium feels like a Saturday night in May..most excitement is discussion of post-game trip to Waffle House.”


Business booming at Waffle House after LA sports columnist’s tweet (WSB-TV Atlanta)

[T Block]

Well, my international network of researchers tell me that there's a Mellow Mushroom on Windy Hill.

But see, the famous Varsity business model was that they could quickly serve large crowds of people and had the floor space to handle them.

But what's an epic location for a baseball stadium ? Basically, it should be close to a train station.

[cwkimbro]

“After the five-game madness against the Giants, this NLCS Game One in sterile shopping-mall Atlanta stadium feels like a Saturday night in May..most excitement is discussion of post-game trip to Waffle House.”

An LA area sports columnist criticizing the Battery? What a crock of ----. The two baseball stadiums in the LA area are surrounded by massive fields of asphalt.

If you're gonna dish it, you better have something better to compare for your home city.

For all of the criticisms of the move to Cobb, which I wasn't for, the Braves have tried to at least do something of value around their stadium. LA area baseball stadiums just have skid marks around them.

Even the old stadium Turner Field, has more going on around it than what LA has done with their ball fields.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

An LA area sports columnist criticizing the Battery? What a crock of ----. The two baseball stadiums in the LA area are surrounded by massive fields of asphalt.

If you're gonna dish it, you better have something better to compare for your home city.

For all of the criticisms of the move to Cobb, which I wasn't for, the Braves have tried to at least do something of value around their stadium. LA area baseball stadiums just have skid marks around them.

Even the old stadium Turner Field, has more going on around it than what LA has done with their ball fields.

Tell it!

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

An LA area sports columnist criticizing the Battery? What a crock of ----. The two baseball stadiums in the LA area are surrounded by massive fields of asphalt.

If you're gonna dish it, you better have something better to compare for your home city.

For all of the criticisms of the move to Cobb, which I wasn't for, the Braves have tried to at least do something of value around their stadium. LA area baseball stadiums just have skid marks around them.

Even the old stadium Turner Field, has more going on around it than what LA has done with their ball fields.

Not only that, but Dodger Stadium faces away from downtown Los Angeles. What a wasted opportunity. Imagine seeing the Los Angeles skyline and some tall California palm trees rising above the outfield wall. Instead, it's just a couple of brush-covered hills.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by Craziaskowboi

Not only that, but Dodger Stadium faces away from downtown Los Angeles. What a wasted opportunity. Imagine seeing the Los Angeles skyline and some tall California palm trees rising above the outfield wall. Instead, it's just a couple of brush-covered hills.

That’s a good point.

Though, when construction on Dodger Stadium began back in 1959 and when the stadium opened back in 1962, Los Angeles at the time didn’t really have much of a skyline to look at, largely because of height restrictions in the city that prevented the construction of any buildings higher than 150 feet in height before 1957, with the exception of the 454-foot tall L.A. City Hall, which opened in 1928.

The Downtown L.A. skyline as we know it today did not really begin to sprout until the late 1960’s. But then again, most American cities did not really have skylines as we know them today as relatively only very few American cities (namely New York and Chicago) had multiple real skyscrapers before about 1960 or so.

So the hills (of the Elysian Park area) that Dodger Stadium faces in looking away from Downtown L.A. were the most scenic feature of the area at the time that the stadium was built in the early 1960’s.

[seussie]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

Even the old stadium Turner Field, has more going on around it than what LA has done with their ball fields.

Yes, in part because they left and better leadership has taken over redevelopment where the city and Braves' exerted control failed time and time again.

Why are people so up in arms about this tweet? It is sterile. It's a mall. Design-wise it only has added more glass and chains. People are really mad about this? And his tweet is old in internet standards, he's been hyping Waffle House up for some time. I see news is slow these days.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by seussie

Yes, in part because they left and better leadership has taken over redevelopment where the city and Braves' exerted control failed time and time again.

Why are people so up in arms about this tweet? It is sterile. It's a mall. Design-wise it only has added more glass and chains. People are really mad about this? And his tweet is old in internet standards, he's been hyping Waffle House up for some time. I see news is slow these days.

I would not say that metro Atlantans were really mad about Bill Plaschke‘s tweet.

But many metro Atlantans were definitely energized and maybe even a little exercised about the tweet for multiple reasons, including that it was a derisive criticism of an Atlanta landmark from a big city West Coast sports writer (who writes for the frequently-criticized Los Angeles Times).

Though the full reaction to the tweet might have been somewhat delayed largely until metro Atlantans were able to see that the Braves would win the NLCS and eliminate the Dodgers from the MLB Playoffs, the tweet comes across to many metro Atlantans and Georgians as a big-city West Coast journalist looking down on the seemingly suburban-oriented culture of a Southeastern city/metro like Atlanta.

Even though Plaschke grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and attended college in Waco, Texas and Southern Illinois just outside of St. Louis, Plaschke has been working for the L.A. Times and living in L.A. for almost 35 years and is pretty much a longtime Los Angeles and Southern California resident both at this point in his career and in his life.

And Plaschke’s criticism of Truist Park (a stadium which anchors a large-scale mixed-use development that many metro Atlantans take much pride in) as a “sterile shopping mall Atlanta stadium” kind of comes off as something that what a coastal elitist really thinks about a largely suburban/exurban oriented and suburban/exurban feeling Southeastern metropolis like Atlanta.

Plaschke’s derisive tweet about Truist Park and Atlanta basically came across as a not-so-subtle dig at the (largely suburban and exurban) culture of Atlanta... Which is something that understandably has seemed to have touched a nerve with many people in an Atlanta metro area and region where many (if not most) residents live in suburban and exurban environments... Suburban and exurban environments that some West Coast and Northeastern urban elites might derisively criticize as “sterile” and/or worse.

The tweet (which comes off as an attack on Atlanta culture by a West Coast elitist) touched kind of a cultural nerve, because it illustrates distinct cultural differences a coastal area like California and a Southeastern area like Atlanta.

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by Born 2 Roll

I would not say that metro Atlantans were really mad about Bill Plaschke‘s tweet.

But many metro Atlantans were definitely energized and maybe even a little exercised about the tweet for multiple reasons, including that it was a derisive criticism of an Atlanta landmark from a big city West Coast sports writer (who writes for the frequently-criticized Los Angeles Times).

Though the full reaction to the tweet might have been somewhat delayed largely until metro Atlantans were able to see that the Braves would win the NLCS and eliminate the Dodgers from the MLB Playoffs, the tweet comes across to many metro Atlantans and Georgians as a big-city West Coast journalist looking down on the seemingly suburban-oriented culture of a Southeastern city/metro like Atlanta.

Even though Plaschke grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and attended college in Waco, Texas and Southern Illinois just outside of St. Louis, Plaschke has been working for the L.A. Times and living in L.A. for almost 35 years and is pretty much a longtime Los Angeles and Southern California resident both at this point in his career and in his life.

And Plaschke’s criticism of Truist Park (a stadium which anchors a large-scale mixed-use development that many metro Atlantans take much pride in) as a “sterile shopping mall Atlanta stadium” kind of comes off as something that what a coastal elitist really thinks about a largely suburban/exurban oriented and suburban/exurban feeling Southeastern metropolis like Atlanta.

Plaschke’s derisive tweet about Truist Park and Atlanta basically came across as a not-so-subtle dig at the (largely suburban and exurban) culture of Atlanta... Which is something that understandably has seemed to have touched a nerve with many people in an Atlanta metro area and region where many (if not most) residents live in suburban and exurban environments... Suburban and exurban environments that some West Coast and Northeastern urban elites might derisively criticize as “sterile” and/or worse.

The tweet (which comes off as an attack on Atlanta culture by a West Coast elitist) touched kind of a cultural nerve, because it illustrates distinct cultural differences a coastal area like California and a Southeastern area like Atlanta.

The Battery and Truist Park have, surprisingly, more urban traits than some people realize.

And - it looks really good on TV. I'm evenly pleasantly surprised myself.

[Born 2 Roll]

Originally Posted by aries4118

The Battery and Truist Park have, surprisingly, more urban traits than some people realize.

And - it looks really good on TV. I'm evenly pleasantly surprised myself.

Those are really good points, but for critics (often most typically cultural elitists from either the Northeast or the West Coast) who don’t like and look down on the region for whatever various personal reasons, landmarks like The Battery and Truist Park (even with as impressive and as attractive as many metro Atlantans and Georgians may find them to be) are nothing more than new tools to level personal attacks and insults on an area of the country that they don’t like, look down upon and/or feel threatened by.

And while I cannot prove it, I suspect that Plaschke (as a longtime Los Angelenos who very likely has aligned himself with that region’s cultural elites) likely may be feeling a little insecure about all of the television and film production activity that is taking place in a Southeastern city/metro like Atlanta instead of the TV/film industry’s traditional international hub of L.A. and Southern California.

Plaschke’s derisive tweet about Atlanta didn’t come out of thin air. His tweet very likely may have came from an elitist attitude of thinking that mega-city L.A. shouldn’t have to compete with a significantly smaller and seemingly less-established Southeastern metro like Atlanta in sports and entertainment.

His tweet came across with a distinct air of arrogance as though he thinks that he should be too good to have to visit and be in what he and other coastal elites likely think of as being a city that is beneath them.

It feels like the guy was attacking our way-of-life (both real and perceived) because he feels like he is better than us because he lives in Los Angeles and is a veteran sports writer for the L.A. Times.

It was the undeniable condescension of the tweet that many metro Atlantans and Georgians are reacting to.