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| - Yeah, so this place, pretty good!
I'm going to go ahead and unleash a few gripes first since, when it's the taxpayers' dollars paying for it, you want to know that the money is being well-spent.
First of all, the guys who decided to build the digital scoreboard were dumb enough to not build a back up board for when there's a technical malfunction with the original. The game I went to had NO scores, stats, info, jack shit, or fuck all for the first four innings. That's just fucking stupid to not have something as basic as a back up scoreboard in place. The digital one WILL fail again somewhere down the line and you're going to have a bunch of pissed off fans again if a back up isn't implemented.
Only other negative thing worth mentioning is that the people doing fan stuff between innings are SUUUUPER annoying. Some good-looking girl with the worst announcer voice ever was the one that really caught my attention. There are tons of beautiful women in Charlotte and I'll bet most of them are less annoying than this one. Go home and practice, lady.
Oh! One more: every time there's an out for the opposing team, they play some really stupid sound effects. Yo, Knights, we're not a group of fifth grade children and we're not a bunch of hicks that can't pronounce words with more than two syllables. Quit dumbing down baseball.
Okay, having said all that, it's a super nice facility with some great views of the Uptown skyline. The concessions are definitely some of the best around, with tons of local food and drink options. Tickets are relatively cheap and they have $3 beer on Thirsty Thursdays.
The baseball playing isn't great, but that's part of the charm of minor league.
Anyway, it really is a very good place. I'm just a little disappointed in some of the things they've messed up. A lot of people are all ERMAHGERD BASEBALL IN UPTOWN CLT! But I'm not the kind of person that will give you a five star review just because you exist. I expect more.
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