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| - I believe our particular visit was slightly underwhelming, because the roof was closed and it was a drab day. That being said, I don't necessarily mind some indoor baseball. It gives it a unique arena sort of feel to it. I don't necessarily mind not being able to see the CN Tower from my seat, because if I want to see the CN Tower, I can go outside and look at it. Plus, I'm at a baseball game to watch baseball. It also isn't drab like Tropicana Field.
So then why do I feel like our visit was underwhelming? I guess it's because there's not much that particularly stands out about Rogers Centre. But first, some mentionable highlights.
As far as its location, it is perfectly situated into a downtown area in a way I have never seen accomplished by a stadium. It's very easy to get to by public transit, too. The area surrounding the entrances are buzzing with seemingly good fans, considering Toronto currently represents what is left of professional baseball in Canada. My absolute favorite thing about it here was how quiet the fans are during the game! After the 2015 ALDS seventh inning insanity, I was expecting the absolute worst (why were fans throwing things if Toronto just took the lead?). Emotions must have been skyrocketed that game, because this was by far the best crowd for a game I have ever been to. Here, fans don't start screaming and throwing their hats in the air just because a ball is hit in the air. What I hate just about more than anything in baseball is that fans do not possess the ability to read a ball off a bat.
Some people seem to complain about how clean the concourse is. Who hates cleanliness? I appreciated it. The video board is also solid, and a lot bigger in person than I realized. Granted, you don't get much a view of it on television, since it's in high center field. Sound is also crisp inside the stadium, and not echo-ey.
Unfortunately, the stadium finds a way to feel older than it is, despite being clean and relatively new. Maybe part of the that is because of the playing surface (although I'm not playing on it so I couldn't really care less if it's grass or not). It's a very high capacity stadium, which lends to giving it an old-time vibe (the Polo Grounds, for example, held around 55,000). The concourse is very crowded, because it's not very wide and most of the souvenir shops are right out there in the walking area, instead of being set inside their own little store compartments. And the stores that do exist are really small. Because Rogers is a multipurpose venue, it causes it to not have a lot of identity and it doesn't "feel" like baseball in the way Busch Stadium, for example, does (although I don't think anywhere in the world is a baseball town the way Saint Louis is). Finally, foul territory is very large at Rogers Centre, which forces the seats back, which pushes us fans further away from the action.
If we are ranking ballparks, Rogers is consistently going to be toward the bottom of the list.
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