Best ballpark in the game?

[CHF]

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PNC Park is the best place I've ever watched a ball game, so it gets my vote.

[Evan_OS]

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I really like the AT@T park for some reason.

[Tovarich]

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Someone vote for Tropicana just so it gets a vote.

I've been to most of the stadiums in real life (need 7 more), but Pittsburgh and San Francisco are easily the two best to me

[Cras]

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Petco is nice, but a total pitcher's park. But PNC might just be the nicest park in the Major Leagues.

I however had to vote for my hometown New Comiskey Park aka US Cellular.

I understand that you can choose anypark where you club plays, so why not try a hand at one of the classic grounds? Polo Grounds would be very interesting with modern players. Can't wait to play a few games there.

[knich]

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Something has been brought back to my mind today and that is that last year, the SCEA team only did Yankee Stadium based off of blueprints and it was bare and not very accurate for Yankee Stadium. This may bring new life to a Yankee franchise. I've also just watched Baseball's Seasons 2003 and saw Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS, and it rekindled my unbridled hatred for all things Red Sox. I may be rejoining my Yanks just to beat up the Sox.

Trust me you'll be playing with the Yanks again this year. I go thru this every year and come to the same conclusion..there's no place like home. 28 baby!

[EnigmaNemesis]

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I picked AT&T Park.

The park is dead on.

I would have chose Fenway since the dimensions are perfect, but the lack of manual scoreboard, and animation neon Citgo sign hurt it a bit. (also have not seen if they fixed the Coca-Cola corner in upper left field roof, but an early shot showing 1/2 of it looks like it might have been fixed).

[Fetrey]

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I'm going to have change my favorites list after i play the game since they made the ballparks look more realistic this year. Still...Camden Yards is my top pick.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Alright, AT&T it is. After watching a few Giants games, seeing the beauty of the park, and after watching Inside the Clubhouse on MLB network, I have decided that I want to do a franchise with the Giants, and a regular (no fantasy draft) at that. They have a lot of talent and I get to beat up on the Dodgers. Win-Win

[Blzer]

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Sometimes I choose not only which park I want to play in most, but which other parks I want to play in most.

That said, the NL Central has the most unique, thrilling ballparks around (Busch, PNC, GAB, Minute Maid, Wrigley, and Miller). That's partly why I was the Cardinals last year, knowing how much I love the new Busch Stadium (which looks much better in this year's game without that awkward blue building) and the other ballparks around it.

The NL West has some great ballparks if you know them in real life, that is more so than just playing them in the game. You get a better feel of them, specifically LA and SD, in the day time if you've watched your team play them there all the time. It has a nicer vibe as a result, so in a nostalgic sense, I also love the NL West stadiums for that reason. Coors Field is highly underrated, and is a great road stadium to travel to and try to clear the outfielders' heads.

My top five favorite parks (still unsure of the order in all) are:

AT&T Park
PETCO Park
Busch Stadium
PNC Park
Angel Stadium

And just so you know, it ain't easy to poke one into McCovey Cove in real life. Here's a breakdown I once posted about how difficult it really is:

Hitting a ball into McCovey Cove isn't easy.

One of the authors was making a catchy introduction about seeing Sandoval blasting it into the Cove like it was a normal thing, but he has only done it twice. The only person it's been normal for was Bonds, who did it 35 times in eight seasons (and in 2005 he only played in five home games). Since AT&T Park opened (ten seasons), there have only been 34 splash hits by players not named Bonds, and that includes visiting teams as well.

Sorry for the little statistical background for ya'll. Anyway as I said, this is absolutely not a normal thing. Part of it is the wind, and the other part is the walk in right field is larger than people always make it out to be... not to mention down below that outside of the stadium is a portwalk that it must clear as well.

To put things into perspective with stadiums like PETCO Park and AT&T Park, AT&T only had three balls last year that actually cleared the 421 foot RCF area (four balls to reach the water), and PETCO only had nine home runs reach or clear the sandbox area in RCF last year.

And this year, AT&T Park seems to have the wind blowing in most of the time (which seems like something the developers heard from me), and it plays a lot more like the park where right field is very tough to hit it out of, let alone having it reach the Cove. Good luck!

[ps2baseball]

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Fenway Park is DEAD ON - with the exception of the wall, which they seem to add to the logos every year:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/16/c8/b7/the-green-monster.jpg

Now if only they could have the CF tarp for day games only!

Great job adding the new LF and RF sections! And fixing the pens!

Would love to see the "Sox" grass eliminated - both by the Sox and SCEA!

[skinfan31]

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I think PNC is the best. I love the design of the park and the background with the bridge and river.

Maybe someday a major league team will play there

Couldn't agree more!

[BDD]

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Fenway Park is DEAD ON - with the exception of the wall, which they seem to add to the logos every year:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/16/c8/b7/the-green-monster.jpg

Now if only they could have the CF tarp for day games only!

Great job adding the new LF and RF sections! And fixing the pens!

Would love to see the "Sox" grass eliminated - both by the Sox and SCEA!

This might just be a bit of minutia by a Sox fan. However, if you look up into the retired numbers section in right field, you'll notice that Jim Rice's #14 is missing and not hanging up there. It's very very good, but not quite perfect. That was kind of a bummer for me as I was a huge Rice fan. Ah well, can't win 'em all

[DieHardYankee26]

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I'm definitely going to like the challenge of hitting it into the Cove

[paulpop72]

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Come on...Yankee Stadium??? It's not even the nicest ballpark in New York!

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Come on...Yankee Stadium??? It's not even the nicest ballpark in New York!

I agree.

Come on Yankee fans, this isn't a "fan voting" it is what looks the best in game.