Great American Ball Park gets makeover

[TeamBoone]

How about improving the quality of the food first, before you increase the quantity of junk your giving away

Are you kidding me? The hot dogs are great! Really, really fresh buns too.

[Raisor]

Really, really fresh buns too.

Just like Puffy


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[Caveat Emperor]

Nice to see the Reds adding a few amenities each offseason to spice up the park a bit. It's a good feeling knowing the team is continually moving away from the cheapness known as Carl Lindner.

The Riverboat deck was a quality addition last year. Hopefully they've added to it nicely, because it really did give the park a hometown flair to it.

[*BaseClogger*]

How about improving the quality of the food first, before you increase the quantity of junk your giving away

Better than most of the parks I've visited...

[GAC]

Last week, the club placed a red 2008 Toyota Tundra pickup truck on top of the elevator shaft well beyond the fence in center field. If a Reds player hits the truck during a home run, one randomly selected lucky fan will take home the $31,000 vehicle.

I wonder what you could get for truck dented by Adam Dunn on Ebay?

[RollyInRaleigh]

Probably get a better price by advertising it on Redszone.

[reds44]

Here is another view.

[REDREAD]

While I understand needing advertising and promotion dollars and adding some character and quirks for the fans, this seems like a bit much. I will take a wait and see approach to this.

A little too much advertising and coorporate type ins.. kind of kills the quirky charm of it. Sure, it's the Reds right to milk every cent they can, but I miss the days where every seat wasn't sponsored, and every inch of wallspace on a stadium wasn't covered with some kind of ad..

[George Anderson]

A little too much advertising and coorporate type ins.. kind of kills the quirky charm of it. Sure, it's the Reds right to milk every cent they can, but I miss the days where every seat wasn't sponsored, and every inch of wallspace on a stadium wasn't covered with some kind of ad..

When I think back on baseball stadiums of the past I seem to recall alot of advertising. The right field wall of Ebbets Field was covered with many, many advertisements.

I have no problem with corporations sponsoring every and anything at the park. If it helps keep tickets prices low and also helps bring in quality players then sponsor away!!!!

[Jpup]

I like it. It reminds me of Kaufmann in KC. I love things like that.

[Chip R]

While I understand needing advertising and promotion dollars and adding some character and quirks for the fans, this seems like a bit much. I will take a wait and see approach to this.

A little too much advertising and coorporate type ins.. kind of kills the quirky charm of it. Sure, it's the Reds right to milk every cent they can, but I miss the days where every seat wasn't sponsored, and every inch of wallspace on a stadium wasn't covered with some kind of ad..

I agree with both of you. I understand that they don't pull in the TV money a lot of franchises do so they have to make it up somewhere. I also understand that a lot of this keeps ticket prices low. But it's starting to get to the point where, as REDREAD said, they are putting some kind of thing on every blank space in the stadium. It's like a bunch of little kids just adding stuff to something they built for no reason whatsoever.

[Cedric]

The old stadiums had WAY more advertising than the new one's. Just looking at old pictures you can see advertising everywhere.

[GAC]

Here is another view.

Hope the doors are locked. Because it would be a bummer to get to the stadium one day and find it gone. In Cincy - it could happen.

[paulrichjr]

Is there a "new" baseball park that looks any more "redneck" than GABP in centerfield. Personally I think it really looks cheap. One better...I think it looks "John Allen Cheap".

[KronoRed]

Is there a "new" baseball park that looks any more "redneck" than GABP in centerfield. Personally I think it really looks cheap. One better...I think it looks "John Allen Cheap".

I prefer 'The Bengals took all the stadium cash' cheap.