They slipped in a chardonnay and wi-fi reference in the very first paragraph. Well done. Oh, and a gay joke in the very first comment. Hilarious!

In 2003, after the death of Bobby Bonds, the team unfurled a number of banners around the stadium in his honor, reading (if memory serves) “Giant For Life.” This would’ve been a touching tribute, except that Bobby Bonds was famously and bitterly not a Giant for life, having been traded away in the game’s first star-for-star blockbuster.

I think he’s missing the point…

Anyway, this is a really stupid article. All of his points are just dumb

The commenters think they’re a lot more clever than they actually are.

Anyway, there’s a lot to pick apart here. Why is it that AT&T Park is always slammed for snobbery associated with wine drinking? Because it’s the only ballpark that’s ever served a parton a glass of wine, right? Shit I’ve found local wines offered at minor league games, so shut the fuck up about that please and thank you.

Two, the ennui of their assumed typical San Francisco baseball fan is a complete lie as we all know. I’d like to take these people to a game, sit them in the centerfield bleachers with me and my crew, and see how much ennui they can pick out. Loud drunk people hurling insults at the visiting centerfielder and occaisonally getting thrown out of the ballpark for fisticuffs and other shenanigans.

Bobby Bonds isn’t a Giant for life? Fuck you. I consider him to be. A real Giants fan loves any player who’s done well in this uniform, whether it was for 20 years or one year.

While the writer’s arguments weren’t valid to begin with, any mention of Joe Morgan basically eliminates his right to complain. You can associate Joe Morgan with how AT&T Park may or may not suck only by the few games he spends in the broadcast booth. And even that is a stretch.

What a loathsome turd of a person, the one who wrote this.

(There’s an old story, probably apocryphal, that the architects had intended to stick the bullpens in center field, but somehow forgot when the time came to build them, so consumed were they by the ballpark’s outward appearance. That’s why they’re now in foul territory, a la Wrigley. I love this story. It’s like a little parable.)

Uh, lots of ballparks have bullpens in foul territory. Candlestick did. I’ve never heard that story, and it doesn’t make sense.

These throwback ballparks are the brick equivalent of a Ken Burns documentary — is it any coincidence that Burns’ Baseball arrived in the thick of the retro craze?

Actually, the documentary arrived pretty much at the beginning of the retro ballpark craze. I think Camden Yards and Jacobs Field were the only retro ballparks that were open at the time.

That article was fucking stupid.

Holy shit. I hope this writer stabs himself with his pen: that’d be a better use of it than this shitbird writing anything.

Also, one of the commenters seems to think the park was built to get Barry Bonds DINGERZ. Oh, the fail.

I think Deadspin can be really funny sometimes but this one misses the mark. It’s also factually incorrect—the public was NOT footing “40 percent of the bill” because no one that I know of actually includes property tax exemptions as part of the construction costs. Oh, and even at $100 million in subsidies (which I’m pretty sure the city of San Francisco has already earned back many times over in revenue from the SOMA revival), the ballpark is a bargain. Try asking the residents of New York City if they got their money’s worth for Cit Field and the new Yankee Stadium.

FYI, the guy who wrote it used to write for SF Weekly, who are the undisputed Kings of Condescending Snark.

Oh, everybody stop being so sensitive. It’s the first in a series.

I will post a comment on there later condemning gay jokes in regards to SF…those are just lazy and unfunny.

What is this… the new F-U Penguin?

Wow. That was really fuckin bad.

- how can a guy spend a game with Joe Morgan and come away thinking that is the typical fan experience at a park, any park?

- AT&T is often cited as having the best food of any park in baseball.

- I think he was trying to write and over the top article to be funny, but it just wasn’t.

You left out how the seats, concourse and aisles are all narrow and many of the seats are at a weird angle to home plate.

I’ve seen this complaint before, but I’ve never, ever experienced it, and I’ve been in a lot of sections. Anyone else?

There’s one sensible commenter:

Despite the chants of “Phillies suck!” every game I attend, I really like this ball yard. HOK’s artificial quirkiness (bumper pool bumpers in the outfield, anyone?)doesn’t apply here, as they had to shoehorn the park into the available land. Sure, the Mo-Mo’s crowd leaving in the 7th blows, but the food is good and it is infinitely better than the shithole that is Candlestick.

And wouldn’t even click on the link to give them traffic

The worst part is this guy I know that is a RedSox fan reads Deadspin all the time, I’m sure I’ll have to have a little discussion about the article with him. /grumble /copies URL for this thread

I like this

Next up: Nationals Park. Got any horrible experiences to share? Send them to craggs@deadspin.com.

ya’all are creative writer types, make up some seriously funny, ridiculous anecdote and see if it gets into print. /nudge nudge wink wink

relax, it’s obviously a bitchfest that they’re doing for every city, and the plethora of bullshit/stereotyped jokes is proof that there’s very little ill to speak of our park. Wait for the Dodger Stadium edition (featuring lots of borderline racist slurs against mexicans) and remember that it’s deadspin, the mere fact that there aren’t any spelling mistakes is accomplishment enough.

For 15 years, the team sold Barry Bonds and sold him hard, but last year, with Bonds at last off the roster and prevailing sentiment now aligned against them, the Giants all but sandblasted him out of their stadium, taking down the banners and murals commemorating his pursuit of Hank Aaron’s record. Whatever you think of Bonds, this was very much his house, the dimensions tailored expressly for his bat. You can’t just pretend him away. But the Giants tried, turning their ballpark into a massive, twee memorial to the team’s animating philosophy that its loyal fans are a bunch of distracted, slobbering morons.

So…was right field supposed to be in the damned bay? Or were they just supposed to build the third base line along the street, and have no stands on that side of the field? Quit complaining about the dimensions, already; not a single left-handed hitter advanced to the second round of the 2007 home run derby at AT&T Park on a sunny, warm, not very windy evening. Not Ryan Howard. Not Prince Fielder. Not Justin Morneau. But Alex Rios, a guy who has hit more than 20 home runs once in his life, advanced past them. It is NOT easy to hit them to right field, guys.

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