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September 28, 2023
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
I only went to one game there, Summer of '87 or '88. I was about eight years old and don't remember much about it, other than we sat way up in the nosebleeds behind home plate and the folks directly behind us were a middle-aged woman and her two adult sons, all drunk off their asses. We wound up having to leave in the 7th or 8th inning after one of them spilled a full beer right down my (~12 year-old) sister's back.
So that tracks.
posted by Ufez Jones at 08:39 PM on September 28, 2023
I went to several dozen games there from 1977 until it closed. When I was a kid there were houses on the road to the stadium after you left Collins. They were tiny little homes and I wanted to live there so badly.
posted by rcade at 10:29 PM on September 28, 2023
The way Arlington funds sports facilities, the corrugated shed that the Rangers now play in won't be around long enough for fans to fart on any of the seats before the team moves to a new ballpark.
posted by beaverboard at 11:16 PM on September 28, 2023
I can't help on seats from Arlington Stadium, but I can get you an 18' tall novelty carton of Oat Milk from the GLF.
posted by Ufez Jones at 05:06 PM on September 29, 2023
A coworker bought seats from the torn-down Arlington Stadium, something I always wanted to do.
Until I visited her house and caught a whiff of those seats from across a crowded party.
28 years of sweat and spilled beer is the devil's potpourri.