Visited Miller, Wrigley, and Guaranteed Rate Last Weekend!
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imgur.comPosted May 10, 2019, 1:45 AM UTC
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imgur.comI did this last season it was soo worth it. You can actually stay in chicago and take the amtrak to miller only a 90min ride $50 round trip.
I loved all 3 parks but felt Brewers and White sox fans were the friendliest
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I can't stand cubs fans compared to Milwaukee fans and south siders
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I have to admit when I was at wrigley I nervous. Fans were nice but a number were not friendly. I felt more friendly at Rate and miller
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Going to be doing this exact trip in June. Any tips?
The best beers in Miller Park are out in right field on the second deck, the burgers are good.
Get to Wrigley early if your sitting in the bleachers because it is all GA. Buy your peanuts/sunflower seeds outside. They have a couple of good beers I didn't find quite the selection like at Miller though.
Gautenteed Rate only opens 90 Minutes before the game instead of 2 hours like every other ballpark. But both bars on 33rd Street are good. Cork and Kelley had a killer Italian beef sandwich.
Umm, they have Old Style and that's all you need.
Tailgate the Brewers game! Tailgating opens 3 hours before game time in the main lot. It's a unique baseball tradition.
Guaranteed Rate isn't worth going to if you're not interested in the teams playing. Minor league ballparks are more enjoyable. If you insist on going, go there first.
That is ridiculous. This is an exceptional park. I am a bit biased due to being a Sox fan, but I have been to every park and can say it holds its own. Excellent food, some of the best in the league. Wide concourses with a wonderful outfield area. Great sight lines from every seat in the park, even the upper deck. Aside from foul poles, no obstructed view. Awesome bar I right field. One of the best kids areas in MLB.
As an outsider, there's nothing really interesting about it. No water features, no dome, no skyline view, no water views, no nostalgia, etc. Just the ugly outfield fence and billboards that makes it feel like a cage. It should have been on the lake or facing north downtown. It's usually ranked third worst in baseball behind Oakland and TB. Every modern ballpark has overpriced good food and seating that faces the mound.
I will disagree that the park lacks features and nostalgia. Guess it depends on what you consider a feature. I would argue Wrigley, aside from the ivy has no significant feature. San Fran aside from being on the water has no feature (unless you count a giant coke bottle slide as a feature). Jacobs field has no feature. Both great parks and I could go on but my point is that what is a feature is an opinion.
Not a perfect park and would have been nice to face the city. And the lists ranking it low are probably written by the same people who forget the team even exists. Lack of emotional connection with the team = lower objective rankings in everything Sox related.
the pinwheels on the score board are the definition of nostalgia, they are recreations of the old ones from Comiskey, one of the originals is still in the park somewhere on the concourse.