I was in Turner field for the Olympics, countless Braves Games and most recently for the State High School football championships as GA ST. Stadium. Truist Park blows it away and is in Cobb County, not Cumberland County. Love your vids.
Also the Los Angeles Memorial Colleseum was used by the Dodgers 1958-61. It hosted three games of the 1959 World Series. Seating was 93,000 when the Dodgers played there. Built in 1921 and used for football games and for multiple Olympics. Still being used today.
The weird & quite remarkable thing about Olympic Stadium is that it is still technically in use as it will be a host venue for the 2026 World Cup & it also hosts CF Montreal matches in the early part of the MLS season due to the weather being too cold to have matches outdoors at neighboring Stade Saputo.
exactly, Cumberland is the city, Cobb County is the county, Ginger needs an update on geography, next thing u know he will say the city of Phoenix is in Phoenix County, LMAO, we all know it's in Maricopa County
The Expos had an average of about 24,000 people in 1993 or 1994. They were often getting even bigger crowds than that because they had a good team. I remember being there in those years and having 35,000 people at weekday games and 50,000 at weekend games. The only reason why that number wasn't always like that was because it was a little lower in the spring. Good teams could have kept the Expos in Montreal and they eventually would have had their stadium. Gutting the team and then hoping for a new stadium is not the way things should have been done. Everything was backwards with the ownership group of that team. To say that the Expos had bad attendance in those years is ridiculous. I was there. You weren't.
Is the hotel still open at Olympic Stadium? Also, it would have been cool if the suspension could actually lift the roof off to make it a kind of retractable roof stadium. Especially if it were a softer roof sort of similar to the Metrodome in Minnesota. It would have been really cool if in nice weather they could lift the roof with the suspension and then roll it up so people staying in the hotel could look out their window or go on a balcony and watch the game from above.
I went yesterday. The tower is under renovations and is currently closed. It was my first time there tho (i live in the metro area) and I really liked the stadium, but it definitely needs both love and a sports team
Well, "Ginger", even though I still say you seriously need some voice lessons...your channel content is getting a lot more interesting. Kudos for that.
You left out another forgot MLB stadium, Cleveland Stadium were the Cleveland Indians played back in the 1980s, that is now the Cleveland Gardens, Thay tore the stadium down and we're the Cleveland Indians use to play baseball is now First Energy Field where the NFL football team the Cleveland Browns play Football.
They can't rip the roof off of Olympic Stadium as there is no drainage for rain that would fall inside. The water would just pool and they will need to pump it out.
Olympic stadium only cost $770 million to build in the mid 70s . The 1.4 billion was over 30 years of renovations . However , even $770 million would equate to $4,405,158,550 today
If I remember correctly the city or Montreal has spent WAY more money on roof renovations for that stadium than they ever did for the entire stadium itself. I remember MLB players hated playing there. They said the turf felt like playing on a tennis court instead of a field.
@@bjdon99 Another thing which really hurt the Expos was 1994. After all those years the Expos were finally a GREAT team in '94 with players like Larry Walker and Pedro Martinez amongst others. Then of course the one year they really stand a chance happens to be the same exact year of the '94 MLB strike and there is no postseason so they don't make the playoffs or even win the division because they stopped playing. That might be a big reason the Atlanta Braves have that all-time world record of any sport with 14 consecutive division titles. Braves won the division in '91, '92 & '93. The Expos looked poised to win it in '94 but the strike killed any chance of that happening. Of course the Braves won the division and the World Series the very next season and then won the division every year for the next decade after that. That's what gave the Braves the record because they technically won 14 straight division titles because there were no division titles the year the Expos led the division due to the '94 strike. If that season plays out the chances favored Montreal winning the division so at best Atlanta would have only had 11 consecutive division titles in that case which isn't even an MLB record much less an all-time world sports record. I remember the Expos very well though. Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, Bartolo Colon, Javier Vasquez, Fernando Tatis Sr., Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Even during their bad years they had some great players. I can't remember specifically but I wouldn't be totally surprised if Randy Johnson didn't start out as an Expo too. If that's true I can't imagine what a rotation of Pedro, Johnson, Vasquez, and either Colon or Cliff Lee would have been like. That's also with Fernando Tatis Sr., Larry Walker, Vlad Sr. and possibly Grady Sizemore in the lineup. If I remember correctly in order to rent Colon for half a season the Expos traded a great 2nd baseman, Sizemore and Cliff Lee just to get him. Having all those guys together would've been a heck of a team but the '94 strike really killed the Expos more than any other team in baseball.
@@matthew01234Matt; u r correct RE: Randy Johnson. Also; during the "bad" seasons (record-wise), they had HOFs Andre Dawson & Gary Carter along w/Al Oliver (albeit briefly), Steve Rogers, Charlie Lea, Tim Raines, & Delino DeShields amongst notables.
There was the Montreal's Expo that played at the Stade Olympic, but the team was sold. I even went to one of the final matchs (or even the last one) but because baseball isn't as popular as hockey in Québec, we were like two groups of maybe 6 peoples, and the mascot Youpi (now with the Mtl Canadien). it was in the early 2000's and I was around 14
Hey I love your videos I have always loved the construction how stadiums get engendered it’s amazing anyway am from the Bay Area and I believe seal stadium is still up it is a turf baseball and soccer field the stands at just about all gone but a part still up it’s actually nice it still sands tho
Yes. I was at a Phillies game when they announced the games would be shifted to Philadelphia. Got tickets right behind the visitor's dugout for $5 or $10. @@Marcuswelby-nx2te
I wonder if you'd be interested in making a video about MLB Radical Realignment? I would personally expand two teams and have four regional leagues with eight teams each with NO interleague play. It would be easier on players, more profitable for the teams, and it would add back juice to the All Star Game and the Postseason. Plus you can market it as "Green" ✌️
I laugh at you… how you bash them for making the stadiums with too much seating… sadly, not that many years ago.. those same stadium didn’t have enough capacity.. you need to bash MLB for over-pricing the tickets to the point.. poeple are no longer willing to go… and rather than admit their fault, they lower the capacity to make the rest of the seat more valuable so they can keep raising the prices… That my friend is MLB and the teams own fault.. that and the game (like most sports today) are losing fans willing to pay these prices. The minors are not feeling the same crunch.. but they don’t live and die off TV ratings and gate reciepts as the high priced players go to the MLB’s… but fans still pack the houses… because the ones that do still love baseball… MLB is too much about making money and it’s turning fans off…
I was in Turner field for the Olympics, countless Braves Games and most recently for the State High School football championships as GA ST. Stadium. Truist Park blows it away and is in Cobb County, not Cumberland County. Love your vids.
Also the Los Angeles Memorial Colleseum was used by the Dodgers 1958-61. It hosted three games of the 1959 World Series. Seating was 93,000 when the Dodgers played there. Built in 1921 and used for football games and for multiple Olympics. Still being used today.
USC has the lease on the Coliseum now, the way it looks now is nothing like in the '70s when the Rams played there
LA Coliseum opened in 1932 for the Olympics.
Wow. Atlanta fulton county in the back ground... went there before in 95 ish for a game, when my uncle lived outside if atl.
The weird & quite remarkable thing about Olympic Stadium is that it is still technically in use as it will be a host venue for the 2026 World Cup & it also hosts CF Montreal matches in the early part of the MLS season due to the weather being too cold to have matches outdoors at neighboring Stade Saputo.
I believe in Canada, the venues will be in Toronto and Vancouver. Montreal will not host matches.
Truist is in Cobb County, GA. Georgia does not have a Cumberland County.
exactly, Cumberland is the city, Cobb County is the county, Ginger needs an update on geography, next thing u know he will say the city of Phoenix is in Phoenix County, LMAO, we all know it's in Maricopa County
the Braves moved to the 'burbs because of the fanbase being located there, it's not because Turner Field was falling apart
The Expos had an average of about 24,000 people in 1993 or 1994. They were often getting even bigger crowds than that because they had a good team. I remember being there in those years and having 35,000 people at weekday games and 50,000 at weekend games. The only reason why that number wasn't always like that was because it was a little lower in the spring. Good teams could have kept the Expos in Montreal and they eventually would have had their stadium. Gutting the team and then hoping for a new stadium is not the way things should have been done. Everything was backwards with the ownership group of that team. To say that the Expos had bad attendance in those years is ridiculous. I was there. You weren't.
loria sucks so much
Mike High Stadium did host a AAA baseball team, the Denver Zephyrs.
“Mike”
Is the hotel still open at Olympic Stadium? Also, it would have been cool if the suspension could actually lift the roof off to make it a kind of retractable roof stadium. Especially if it were a softer roof sort of similar to the Metrodome in Minnesota. It would have been really cool if in nice weather they could lift the roof with the suspension and then roll it up so people staying in the hotel could look out their window or go on a balcony and watch the game from above.
I went yesterday. The tower is under renovations and is currently closed. It was my first time there tho (i live in the metro area) and I really liked the stadium, but it definitely needs both love and a sports team
Mile High Stadium was originally a baseball stadium, and meant to house a baseball team. It was used by a minor league team, I believe.
Yes the Denver Zyphers
Denver Bears. The place was still known as Bears Stadium when the Broncos moved in.
Well, "Ginger", even though I still say you seriously need some voice lessons...your channel content is getting a lot more interesting. Kudos for that.
The Montreal Alouettes still use it in the fall for the playoffs, that's about it for sports as much.
The CF Montréal also use it for their first few games and for the playoffs
Arlington Stadium wasn't all that bad. The only real issue was the brutally hot weather.
I remember first seeing Arlington stadium first time back in '77 when they hosted the Yankees. I did get a kick out of the scoreboard.
Olympic Stadium still has hosted some preseason Blue Jays games.
I was supposed to go to the 2020 one with my family but well... it was 2020
I did see a game at Olympic Stadium. I think Vladimir Guerrero hit for the cycle that day.
I still can't imagine Montreal getting a new MLB team. A Minor League maybe.
Truest Park is in Cobb County. Love the content man!
You left out another forgot MLB stadium, Cleveland Stadium were the Cleveland Indians played back in the 1980s, that is now the Cleveland Gardens, Thay tore the stadium down and we're the Cleveland Indians use to play baseball is now First Energy Field where the NFL football team the Cleveland Browns play Football.
I' Scott ment they tore down the old MLB STADIUM were the Cleveland Indians played MLB BASEBALL.
Sick’s stadium ?
They can't rip the roof off of Olympic Stadium as there is no drainage for rain that would fall inside. The water would just pool and they will need to pump it out.
They need to renovate the structure of the stadium. They also talked about maybe putting a retractable roof
The Broncos played at Mile High Stadium
What about Sportsman Park, original park of the St. Louis Cardinals?
Sick's Stadium in Seattle. One season for the Seattle Pilots befote they move to Milwaukee.
Olympic stadium only cost $770 million to build in the mid 70s . The 1.4 billion was over 30 years of renovations . However , even $770 million would equate to $4,405,158,550 today
If I remember correctly the city or Montreal has spent WAY more money on roof renovations for that stadium than they ever did for the entire stadium itself. I remember MLB players hated playing there. They said the turf felt like playing on a tennis court instead of a field.
And built primarily for a 2 week festival. Then the Expos and Allouettes n moved in and it wrecked both of them
@@bjdon99 Another thing which really hurt the Expos was 1994. After all those years the Expos were finally a GREAT team in '94 with players like Larry Walker and Pedro Martinez amongst others. Then of course the one year they really stand a chance happens to be the same exact year of the '94 MLB strike and there is no postseason so they don't make the playoffs or even win the division because they stopped playing. That might be a big reason the Atlanta Braves have that all-time world record of any sport with 14 consecutive division titles. Braves won the division in '91, '92 & '93. The Expos looked poised to win it in '94 but the strike killed any chance of that happening. Of course the Braves won the division and the World Series the very next season and then won the division every year for the next decade after that. That's what gave the Braves the record because they technically won 14 straight division titles because there were no division titles the year the Expos led the division due to the '94 strike. If that season plays out the chances favored Montreal winning the division so at best Atlanta would have only had 11 consecutive division titles in that case which isn't even an MLB record much less an all-time world sports record. I remember the Expos very well though. Larry Walker, Pedro Martinez, Bartolo Colon, Javier Vasquez, Fernando Tatis Sr., Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Even during their bad years they had some great players. I can't remember specifically but I wouldn't be totally surprised if Randy Johnson didn't start out as an Expo too. If that's true I can't imagine what a rotation of Pedro, Johnson, Vasquez, and either Colon or Cliff Lee would have been like. That's also with Fernando Tatis Sr., Larry Walker, Vlad Sr. and possibly Grady Sizemore in the lineup. If I remember correctly in order to rent Colon for half a season the Expos traded a great 2nd baseman, Sizemore and Cliff Lee just to get him. Having all those guys together would've been a heck of a team but the '94 strike really killed the Expos more than any other team in baseball.
@@matthew01234Matt; u r correct RE: Randy Johnson. Also; during the "bad" seasons (record-wise), they had HOFs Andre Dawson & Gary Carter along w/Al Oliver (albeit briefly), Steve Rogers, Charlie Lea, Tim Raines, & Delino DeShields amongst notables.
IIRC those costs included other facilities around the stadium like the Olympic velodrome and pool.
Genuinely baffled by your objection to a roundabout
There was the Montreal's Expo that played at the Stade Olympic, but the team was sold. I even went to one of the final matchs (or even the last one) but because baseball isn't as popular as hockey in Québec, we were like two groups of maybe 6 peoples, and the mascot Youpi (now with the Mtl Canadien). it was in the early 2000's and I was around 14
The 2024 A's could play in an 1980's Arlington-type stadium in Vegas if they can find any way to avoid the Coliseum. Stay tuned.
Do forgotten NFL stadiums and NBA NHL arenas
0:56 for Olympic Stadium in 2027, is Montreal, Quebec’s turn for Major League Baseball In 🇨🇦 ⚾️
1000% sure the announcment of a new MLB team in Montreal would create a major revamp project for the stadium.
Montreal returns 2027-2028 stay tuned
Hey I love your videos I have always loved the construction how stadiums get engendered it’s amazing anyway am from the Bay Area and I believe seal stadium is still up it is a turf baseball and soccer field the stands at just about all gone but a part still up it’s actually nice it still sands tho
@ham869 - HERE IS CORRECT INFORMATION ABOUT SEALS STADIUM WHICH WAS DEMOLISHED IN 1959 - == en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seals_Stadium ==.
Went to an Expos home game in Philadelphia. The stadium was literally falling apart and they moved Expos home games to other stadiums.
The vet?
Yes. I was at a Phillies game when they announced the games would be shifted to Philadelphia. Got tickets right behind the visitor's dugout for $5 or $10. @@Marcuswelby-nx2te
when you call twitter X it makes me think you respect elon musk
MLB preseason games in Montreal are not minor league games.
We don't even have minor baseball...
This disheveled video is behind the 8 ball
Save the big o aka turtle dome
Have ever been do any of the stadiums you talk about all these stadiums but we never hear about you visiting them
I wonder if you'd be interested in making a video about MLB Radical Realignment? I would personally expand two teams and have four regional leagues with eight teams each with NO interleague play. It would be easier on players, more profitable for the teams, and it would add back juice to the All Star Game and the Postseason. Plus you can market it as "Green" ✌️
I agree.
@@robertbrackins1308 👍
Haha, Olympic Stadium should be forgotten.
No
NO!!!
No in texas..... just get .more sunshine...
Fun and interesting video. But please don't keep using the grating terminology 'MLB baseball'.
The serpent head above Stadium Olympic is a poor man's CN Tower
I completely disagree with the assessment of Globe Life Field. It is a very good stadium!
I laugh at you… how you bash them for making the stadiums with too much seating… sadly, not that many years ago.. those same stadium didn’t have enough capacity.. you need to bash MLB for over-pricing the tickets to the point.. poeple are no longer willing to go… and rather than admit their fault, they lower the capacity to make the rest of the seat more valuable so they can keep raising the prices… That my friend is MLB and the teams own fault.. that and the game (like most sports today) are losing fans willing to pay these prices. The minors are not feeling the same crunch.. but they don’t live and die off TV ratings and gate reciepts as the high priced players go to the MLB’s… but fans still pack the houses… because the ones that do still love baseball… MLB is too much about making money and it’s turning fans off…
Why don’t talk about European stadiums your running out of content with North America stadiums