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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)
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
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...
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