Cubs Suck.
Yeah, actually probably.
I want my 10 dollars back 
Was hoping to get into this one to pass the time.
This is no bueno.
I wish UH would find a way to donate the open seats in the 3rd level to schools and families. Since we honor our veterans at every game, give them free tickets and their families. Radio stations should give away these tickets and fill those empty seats.
UH can make their money through concessions and gear. I just feel like that space is wasted. It’s so much fun to take a family and experience a college football game. I’m a season ticket holder and will be wearing blue this Sat.
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It’s an awesome park and the Stros fans are top 10 in the MLB imo…
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Lots of empty seats at Astros game rn, playoff game and still empty
I would have thought about going if I wasn’t working today. I found some $30 tickets online.
If we sold 25000 corporate tickets every year, we wouldnt have any problems either…
As long as you win. Start to lose, and those corporate people find other things to do.
Except the ones who do tHe WaVe
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So was the Braves… circumstance of coming off a dynasty in a big town…
AGAIN… HOUSTON FANS DON’T COME OUT UNTIL THEY THINK THE TEAM IS A POTENTIAL CHAMPION!
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I don’t feel any kind of way about them. Loyal fan base though.
Minute Maid is okay. There are definitely much better parks though.
Petco, Camden, PNC and Coors to name 4 off the top of my head
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Coors ain’t a better atmosphere than Minute Maid…
Neither is PNC…
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I’ve been to Camden Yards many times… at best they’re equal to us… at best…
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I just like how minute maid plays. The dimensions are really cool. The design is a really good TV backdrop. It holds up really well for the time it was built which is no longer crazy new.
It’s just a fun park visually and the way it plays, really adds to the game imo.
I’m not so much talking about amenities or fan experience etc, because I dont know what these things are like at all.
Id say PNC is more similar in that way than camden or coors. Yeah coors has the altitude but other than that its kind of just ok, product-wise. Petco maybe, if you like no offense in any direction except maybe right down the LF line with that building, which IS cool they incorporated that, for sure
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I think non-cubs fans just think Wrigley is an absolute bandbox, but its really not so much if you watch every game. (Which i have many times)
The wind blows in off the lake MOST days. And it just knocks everything in the air to right field down. To left field is more forgiving, but you still gotta hit it on a line to the LC gap on a lot of days. Especially early and late in the year. Double especially when it’s cold. Right down the lines is actually just long. So you gotta really crush it if youre near the foul poles.
But yes, in the height of summer, when the wind flips, there are days where half of us on this board could probably hit it out. But those days are actually relatively rare.
I actually generally prefer when the cubs travel, just from an excitement standpoint, because sometimes it gets old having the game dictated by weather so much. It’s fun for football, not so much for baseball, imo.
Going to minute maid was definitely a breath of fresh air for me as a fan, just watching it on tv.
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For most of SEC country, the Braves still are the only team in the Deep South. Florida’s kind of its own thing.
But yeah, I went to Twins and White Sox games this year and their stadiums made Daikin look jam-packed. I watched Cubs-Cardinals on July 4th and the Cardinals fans were clearly the louder group in Wrigley. I think like 75% of the “Houston isn’t a sports town” discourse is just people watching every Astros/Texans/Rockets games and then only watching the absolute biggest games in other cities. At least as far as pro sports cities go, none of our issues are unique to us, but people act like we live in this world where Houston teams are the only ones that inflate their attendance and have late-arriving, largely fairweather crowds, and often have quite a lot of visiting fans. And then another like 15% is fans getting an inferiority complex from the fact that major sports networks give more air time to teams in coastal markets.
Playing in Houston does hurt UH, though – the Coogs, like Georgia Tech and Pitt and Miami, have to deal with the fact that there’s a product that customers will always strongly prefer just down the street, which sets a functional price cap on UH tickets and makes it almost impossible to capture the attention of the casual fan in the way that UT or Bama or Ohio State might. Like I said in another thread, our fan dynamics function more like those of a private school. Our fanbase is basically always going to be capped by the fact that it has to be almost exclusively comprised of our alumni and their loved ones.
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Better ballparks, I wasn’t talking about atmosphere. And neither was this dude.
Houston baseball fans are mostly newcomers after 2017
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At least we don’t have one sport fans at UH like the Bamas, UTs, Ohio States etc.
I work with UT, OU, and LSU football fans and they are silent during college basketball season.
When Kevin Durant signed to the Rockets my Longhorn coworker didn’t know he played at UT.
The only fanbase at work that I have great conversations with outside of college football season is with Aggies.
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