^ v creative and informative article. The cantilever thing explains the hard-to-pinpoint difference between the baseball I experienced as a kid, and games at Wrigley.
I grew up going to Comerica Park-- a solid stadium, but the cheap seats have you sitting so high up and far back that you need binoculars to see the players, pretty similar to Comiskular Rate Field Park... both stadiums are so tall and open that it almost feels like you're spying down onto the field from an adjacent highrise. Meanwhile the lower deck seats are totally open to the elements, with no chance of shade, so you get absolutely annihilated by the sun.
The openness gives Comerica one of the best views in sports, but it also lets out all the noise and energy. Sox park is similar, though less flat.
Meanwhile Wrigley feels enclosed, cozy, intimate and loud as hell.
Either way, I really hope the Sox build a new stadium in the 78 and orient it northeast, just because it would instantly become the best skyline in baseball and give Sox games a unique selling point that the Cubs can't replicate.
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