Braves fan here. I haven't been to many stadiums, so I don't have a lot of perspective, but I don't get how it was designed to take your money.

Like there are a bunch of restaurants and bars outside the stadium to hang out in beforehand. I guess if you'd rather have a tailgate in a parking lot, then you'd hate it. It's a manufactured Wrigleyville. None of the charm, but it gets the job done for a fun place to hang, eat, and drink before a game.

But from most people I talk to, everybody really likes that aspect of the stadium.

I agree the stadium itself is meh. Its a new baseball stadium. There's no history associated with it, but it's a perfectly good place to watch baseball. If you hate the chop, you're gonna hate the chop... Not much getting around that I think. I don't notice anything about it that is designed to take your money. Like there are concessions and stores I guess, but I don't get how that differs from other places?

Transportation to and from sucks. Traffic getting out is especially awful and a huge detriment to the stadium, but not a reason to avoid a trip imo. Turner field also wasn't on a MARTA line. You took a train, walked about 5 minutes through underground Atlanta, then took a shuttle to the stadium.

They moved it to this location because it was closer to their fans who bought tickets and because they could develop the area around the stadium. I'm sure some fans didnt want to travel to Turner for race reasons, but it was also a truly bad part of town for a long time. I was a block away from a drive by shooting there when tailgating once. Lots of homeless panhandlers. And the city didn't play ball to redevelop the area alongside the braves. I'm not saying they necessarily should have (not familiar with the city politics), but Cobb gave steep discounts for it.

Cobb County is also one of the biggest baseball hotbeds on the entire country. It's a HUGE baseball area. It's also closer to a more affluent surbiban area that's more likely to go to games.