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| Gurriel's hair has found a new level in recent weeks |
It might just be that I don't see it nearly as often, but to me, Comerica Park in Detroit is possibly even lovelier than Camden Yards in Baltimore. I think it's my favourite one! "Heads know" that old Tiger Stadium was the actual best of the old ballparks (neither excessively twee like Wrigley nor actually a hole like Fenway), and it is a little sad that it is gone forever, but I really admire the approach they took to the new ballpark in Detroit: rather than build a teensy little bandbox retropark to replace it, they built what that wag Bobby Higginson once referred to as "Comerica National Park," its walls unreachable (and, the legends say, unbreachable). And even if they did bring the fences in pretty significantly, and mess around with the bullpens, the overall impression nevertheless remains one of spacious vastness/vast spaciousness, regardless of how the field actually plays. I just really like it! I could happily watch the Blue Jays play every road game there, especially if they win 10-1 whilst doing so, like for example were José Berríos to pitch an essentially faultless eight innings, and were the Blue Jays to homer three times (Gurriel, Springer, Bichette) in a four-run fourth that would itself be all that they needed, and yet they persisted. A lovely night at a lovely ballpark, unless you were there to watch the Tigers specifically.
KS
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