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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It remains strange to me that a team with a park that nice can't draw better. Kaufman is a beautiful place to catch a game. I've been to about a dozen MLB parks and apart from SF and maybe Seattle, KC is my favorite venue.
It has to have something to do with its location and the fact that growth went north, south and into the Kansas Side rather than kicking out a little further east towards the sports complex. But man, it's not THAT hard a drive out there and it sure is nicer to do that than try to find somewhere to park downtown. Even metrolinks and stuff suck something awful in most cases.
Going to the ballpark is just something that seems to have ever woven itself into the fabric of Kansas City. Again - I'll admit to my biases given that I wasn't alive in the 70s or remember their best years in the early/mid 80 (my memory of the Royals comes online around the beginning of the Bo Jackson era; 87 ish), but I just never recall it being the 'in thing' to go to the stadium to catch a ballgame.
And that's a shame because it's a hell of a ballpark.
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It was the “in” thing to do during the Brett Era.