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The Rays’ New Stadium

Since I know everyone who reads this (does anyone read this?) cares so much about the [Formerly Devil] Rays, I figured I’d post a link showcasing their new planned stadium. The Mets and the Yankees are each getting new stadiums in 2009, which we all should know by now. While both new facilities appear beautiful and luxurious (Yankee stadium is even planning to have a martini bar, mmm hedonism), I thought it was odd that both stadiums are designed to pay some sort of homage to older stadiums. This new Rays stadium is probably one of the coolest looking stadiums I’ve ever seen and could open as soon as 2012. It goes in the exact opposite direction of the two NY stadiums and has a rather futuristic design. The stadium is an open air stadium and even when the roof is closed it will still be open (don’t make me explain, just click the link). It has a retractable transparent roof that will still let the sunlight in when it’s closed. It’s also right by the bay. I’ve heard some concerns with since it’s always open, how will it deal with heavy rainstorms indigenous to the Tampa summers, but I’ll just give the architects the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully it’s not just all aesthetic flare and an inherently non-pragmatic design. Anyway, here is this link to it, judge for yourselfNew Tampa Bay Rays stadiumAnd just in case you’re interested, here are links to the new Mets and Yankees stadiumsCiti Field (is that David Wright on the scoreboard?)New Yankee Stadium (there’s a link on there with a slideshow of pictures, otherwise that page is useless)
Usefull links: The fan 590, Craig bierko, Worlds funniest joke, 1968 dance biopic, Bistrot