“ Is our pastime so past, its vision so backward, that, with his team lacking its own history, Fred Wilpon (or some second-tier manager) was so desperate for a folksy, Mickey-and-the-Duke feel that he had to glom on to the history of the Dodgers?
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That’s Grantland writer Peter Richmond lamenting the depressing nature of Citifield, along with virtually every other new American stadium. Richmond argues that most of these stadia are designed with revenue in mind and very little else. And it’s a shame, when you spend a billion dollars of taxpayer money on something, the least they can do is make it DIFFERENT.

-DM

[Grantland]