I guess the plus was also that there was no “Everybody Clap Your Hands.” Clap-clap-clap-clap, ad nauseum. Plenty of crowd shots on the Jumbotron, but no Kiss Cam, no Flex Off, no dance contests, no trivia, no nothing. A girl raced in to steal third base in less than 30 seconds, winning Chick-Fil-A for her row. With such bad sound, maybe it didn’t matter much that there wasn’t much between-inning entertainment. Likely it was because of the airplane-hangar effect one often gets with a dome, but the acoustics were lousy. Though Morgan is a legend, the sound system didn’t do him justice. I assume one can watch him at work during the game. In a walk around the concourse, the most unique characteristic is being able to look directly into the back of the booth for Ranger PA legend Chuck Morgan, now in his 44 th year at the mic. Whereas Target Field has the Kasota Gold limestone, the design motif at GLF could best be described as “Early 21 st Century Garage Floor Epoxy.” No stately looking beams that remind a person of the grand old sites. That was across the street at The Ballpark in Arlington. Remember the classic stadium look when Jim Morris joins the Rays in “The Rookie”? Not here. In eyeballing, I’m guessing that a wheelchair user would be closer to the field at GLF than at most other parks.īut as for ambience, not so much. That is another bonus to the “up” rather than “out” format – at many stadiums, lower-bowl wheelchair seating is at the back of sections, which puts them very distant from the field. As for accessibility inside, the concourses were wide, perhaps as wide as I've experienced anywhere, and a good number of the sections had wheelchair seating at the back. There was more space on the other side, however, so perhaps it’s there, but that would have meant more walking once we got inside the park. He wasn’t with us on this trip, so I wasn’t looking for handicap parking, but I didn’t see handicap parking on the side we entered. My son has a physical limitation, so accessibility issues are important to me. One can always add a layer of clothing, but when it’s hot at a game, it can be just plain miserable. When considering the difference between cold and hot, I think my preference is for a dome in hot weather. IT, the roof definitely made things bearable on what could have been a fairly unpleasant afternoon. Most of the game was pretty Three True Outcomes, so for non-fan Mrs. It’s covered whenever the temp gets to 85. It's Texas and it was 92 degrees outside, so it was a welcome break to have the dome covering the field for the entire game. I’m guessing that those behind us probably missed some of deep left field. We were in the front row in the outfield, above the left field fence, so we would had to stand and lean over the rail to see a ball on the warning track. The biggest exception was the right field upper deck, which had quite a few rows. It’s also built more “up” than “out,” so it seems that there are few places where there are more than perhaps 20 rows in a section. Seats circle the entire field, and most of the way from pole to pole, there are five levels or sublevels. My sense is that there are likely few bad seats in the mix. Like most of the recent stadium builds, it’s not massive in size, seating just 40,300. It’s located next to Jerry World, so perhaps it’s taking advantage of Cowboy Fever to have a good amount of parking nearby. (Also, I’m a technological nincompoop, sitting in an airport, so I’ll put pictures in the comments rather than trying to embed them in the blog.) In a word, I’d call Globe Life Field “underwhelming.” But I don’t do just one word, so here’s more. So instead, it was off to Texas on the Take a Tums Tour, where I managed eight straight days of barbecue or chili, topped off with a visit to Arlington today. I like baseball, but they ain’t topping Mama either. And I would have liked to catch the Twins this year, but it’s the weekend of my mom’s 90 th birthday. I love baseball, but they ain’t topping my son. Next up was to catch the Twins in Texas last year, but they had the nerve to schedule their series the weekend of my son’s wedding. My hope had been to visit the new Globe Life Field when it opened in 2020, but then this thing called COVID happened. Having completed my trek to visit all 30 current major league stadiums a few years ago, the Rangers threw me a curve by opening a new park, even though the old one wasn’t that old.
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