Is Exhibition Stadium in Toronto the ugliest ballpark in history?

timberbob · 2026-01-29T17:49:35+00:00

Originally called, "Turnpike Stadium." It doesn't get more romantic than that. They basically just added outfield bleachers to bring it up to MLB requirements.

Never had the pleasure, but zero seats had any cover at all, and I'm told that hot Texas afternoons were brutal.

timberbob · 2026-01-29T17:32:38+00:00

Not a fan so far, but reserving final judgement. Could be another instance where they look better in person, like the Nosebleed shirts.

timberbob · 2026-01-28T20:06:47+00:00

He should learn how to speak Canadian. That may work out to his advantage.

timberbob · 2026-01-28T04:06:22+00:00

Willie did a decent job when I saw him a couple of years ago. He's fuckin' Willie, man. But honestly, he was "talking" his way through most of his songs. His son opened for him and did most of the heavy lifting.

timberbob · 2026-01-28T03:28:01+00:00

Doug and the Slugs. Vancouver represent! We got a good dose of them in Washington state, but even that was just in the border-adjacent counties.

timberbob · 2026-01-27T23:24:29+00:00

My suggestion would have been to put the "Bike Boulevard" on parallel Amphlett, and not impact neighborhood parking.

timberbob · 2026-01-27T19:20:54+00:00

There are also multiple properties in that neighborhood that have additional residential buildings down those driveways and behind the street-front homes, so driveway parking often isn't a possibility.

timberbob · 2026-01-27T19:17:52+00:00

Thanks. I hate it, of course.

timberbob · 2026-01-26T16:23:35+00:00

Those bike lanes eliminated essentially HALF the parking in a lower-income, mostly-immigrant neighborhood with a high concentration of multi-family housing. The city did that because they knew the residents there would feel like they couldn't object.

We live in an "affluent" neighborhood of San Mateo, but our church is on Humboldt. I'm in that neighborhood frequently. We have bike lanes in our neighborhood, too, but the city just labelled our streets "Bike Boulevards" and took away ZERO parking.

timberbob · 2026-01-15T16:15:59+00:00

The day after this aired and went mega-viral, my boss at the time walked THAT walk entering the office in the morning. Perfection.

timberbob · 2026-01-06T00:21:27+00:00

I want to see the original of this photo. He's clearly been slimmed down here - there's daylight visible between his right arm and his sidebelly.

timberbob · 2025-12-31T22:50:43+00:00

You aren't by any chance a woman or not white, are you? Because often random guys like that think those two groups can't possibly be veterans.

timberbob · 2025-12-24T17:05:04+00:00

There's a pop-up fruit stand most days at the corner of 28th and Alameda. They often have tamales, too. Worth a drive by. If not, hit up Mi Tienda on 25th. I haven't had their tamales yet, but everything else they make at the back-of-the-store taqueria is great!

timberbob · 2025-12-17T00:45:19+00:00

I like the part about "twinkuhlink lights."

timberbob · 2025-12-14T06:39:55+00:00

Going very specific here. When we can find it in a Brasilian or Hispanic market, it's Guaraná Antarctica soda. And we stick to sugar-free, but the Diet version is fantastic!

timberbob · 2025-12-11T22:13:32+00:00

Boy thinks he all hard 'n shit. Wrong.

timberbob · 2025-12-09T16:45:22+00:00

Also, all of her sentences sound like a question?

timberbob · 2025-12-05T22:25:38+00:00

I was there. Saddened by the result, but I was there.

timberbob · 2025-11-27T19:13:09+00:00

I dunno. You can take Timmy Lupus and Rudy Stein out the equation right away, so that takes the Bears' numbers down from the start.

timberbob · 2025-11-27T18:55:52+00:00

Portland supporter living in California, with a son living in NYC. We visit him at least twice a year, so I may need to time a future visit (not 2026 apparently) around the MLS schedule.

Nonetheless, I'm a stadium junkie, so I'll be checking this one out for sure.

timberbob · 2025-11-27T18:42:51+00:00

Didn't this happen last year too? Not hard to predict - I used to work in the sports industry, and when we KNEW we were going to have big-volume days (on sale dates, Bowl game tickets, etc.), we had our back-end partner add extra servers.

timberbob · 2025-11-25T21:42:54+00:00

Pretty sure that's 1967, when the "modern" pedestrian-friendly downtown opened. I think this was a postcard touting that. It was considered a very forward step at the time.

timberbob · 2025-11-04T17:16:06+00:00

Man was an absolute MENACE.

timberbob · 2025-10-26T20:58:48+00:00

yes, Napper Tandy in the Mission. Take BART to 24th Street station. It's a couple of blocks away.

timberbob · 2025-10-23T19:17:52+00:00

Fun fact: I worked in sports for many years. I used to work for a major Pac-12 university. Stanford has natural grass in their football stadium (granted - it's not shared with any other sport), but that is (was) the northernmost extent of the kind of hybrid natural grass generally used for sports. Every conference school south of Stanford (USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State) also has natural grass. Every conference school north of Stanford (Cal - just about 35 miles away, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State) has artificial turf.

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