  Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 1119 Registered: 11-2004 |
With opening day nearing it reminded me that the old stadium is still there rotting away. What's latest with the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy and their plan to save part of the stadium? | ||
Taj920 Member Username: Taj920 Post Number: 301 Registered: 01-2004 |
Big ideas, no money. | ||
Border5150 Member Username: Border5150 Post Number: 198 Registered: 03-2004 |
I gotta say it: "TEAR THAT SCHITT DOWN" | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1922 Registered: 03-2006 |
in the movie Tiger Town, the dad tells his son "Tiger Stadium will be here forever". I think he was right. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6245 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba has fond memories of taking his girlfriends to the far reaches of the back of Sec. 24 early in Spring, skipping the afternoon at Cass Tech. HS. There's an associated story if interested. Just ask. jjaba, Tigers fan just back from Spring Training.. | ||
Harpernottingham Member Username: Harpernottingham Post Number: 380 Registered: 04-2006 |
I had a good look at the ol' girl today. And I've never seen her look worse. Garbage strewn all over creation. Signs more tattered and torn than ever. Mike Ilitch might not give a funk anymore, but Jeff Wattrick and Co. certainly do. He and the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy are doing all they can to make the best of a bad situation. If any out-of-town fans or media wander by the old ballpark at all tomorrow, they'll be appalled. (That is, unless Ilitch or the city sanctions a last-minute cleanup. Of course, even then it'll still be appalling.) I had the time and energy on my hands and felt like picking up the trash and sprucing up the ballpark, but then I thought, screw that. Not the night before Opening Day. Let Ilitch pay for it. Oh, right ... he doesn't "own" it. Well, the little caesar can have his Opening Day at Comerica Park tomorrow. But that arcade's got about as much to do with baseball as the WWE has to do with wrestling. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1586 Registered: 11-2003 |
TEAR THAT SCHITT DOWN!••••••••••• | ||
Nemoman Member Username: Nemoman Post Number: 8 Registered: 03-2008 |
I will always remember it as Brigg's Field - just as I remember every lawnmower engine I reluctantly started as a kid. But I digress. I do remember days floating on a lake, catching bluegills (it takes 20 for a meal) drinking cold beer, while the bourbon-soaked voice of Ernie Harwell narrated another tragic defeat. Al Kaline sparkling, as Joe Sparma walked six batters in a row. You cannot tear down a legasy. You should not have built a new stadium. You already tore down JL Hudson, | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 4942 Registered: 12-2005 |
Jjaba, quote:I'm asking.  | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1587 Registered: 11-2003 |
"You cannot tear down a legasy. You should not have built a new stadium." That's right... let it rot on the corner... that's a better plan. I say we screw potential tax revenue and a more appealing project on that location. I think the old chipping paint and rusty lights etc will be a catalyst for development in SE Michigan. | ||
48202 Member Username: 48202 Post Number: 53 Registered: 10-2003 |
In honor of jjaba, one link for each letter: o n t h e b a l l s | ||
Detroiterinspirit Member Username: Detroiterinspirit Post Number: 45 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yes - just if we could save Tiger Stadium, everything in Detroit would be "magically" fixed... Wake Up...having buildings like Hudson's, Tiger Stadium, & the Train Station are symptoms - not the cause of Detroit's problems... If Detroit's economy was running full-throttle...then the possibility of these old buildings being save/re-furbished would be greater, but because Detroit has not had a real base for its own economy for over 30 years...we will have crumbling landmarks, crumbling infrastructure, crumbling neighborhoods.... If people on this forum and groups like the Tiger Stadium group or Friends of Belle Isle would step back...work together...and really focus on the important issues...MAYBE - JUST MAYBE Detroit could start improving. But these groups focus are lead by people who are focusing on specific feel-good memories --- NOT REAL ISSUES that need to be addressed. | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 278 Registered: 09-2006 |
quote: I googled to see if the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy has a web site, in hopes of getting an email address for Mr. Wattrick. I figured I would let him know about DY and encourage him to register and keep us all informed on the old ballyard's status. Alas, the web site is under construction. http://www.oldtigerstadiumcons ervancy.org/ | ||
Eric_c Member Username: Eric_c Post Number: 1195 Registered: 11-2003 |
Mr. Wattrick is well aware of this site, I assure you. | ||
Dds Member Username: Dds Post Number: 568 Registered: 10-2006 |
I wonder whatever became of Mr. Wattrick. | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 824 Registered: 05-2004 |
Yeah, let's not leave any reminders of when Detroit meant something besides a place of crime, crummy schools and wrecked neighborhoods. Throw more money downtown and let the rest of the city rot. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 374 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Does the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy have a key to the ballpark? It must be difficult to raise funds for any effort when you are not allowed to access the site of your project. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 6249 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thanks 48202 for jjaba 2901. That's it, as recorded Dec. 19, 2005. Those were lovely days in Briggs Stadium. Happy opening day, wrong park, wrong address, same good team. When jjaba was in Lakeland, Fla. last week, Magglio Ordonez was honored at the start of the game for giving $100,000 cash to a scholarship fund for students in SW Detroit. Good guy! jjaba. | ||
Detroiterinspirit Member Username: Detroiterinspirit Post Number: 46 Registered: 01-2005 |
Paul you state, "Yeah, let's not leave any reminders of when Detroit meant something...." So let's just turn Detroit into a giant museum and not try to fix the crummy schools & neighborhoods...That is a great plan! Let's face it...we need to set the priorities correctly and fix the current problems AND realize that we do risk losing more landmarks - but again what good is a bunch of restored landmarks if the city is dead....if you want memories...move some artifacts to Henry Ford & Greenfield Village.... | ||
Crash67 Member Username: Crash67 Post Number: 44 Registered: 05-2007 |
If you're going down to see the Tigers during this homestand, check this out ... For those who missed the opportunity to buy unique memorabilia items from Tiger Stadium last fall, you’re in luck. The Detroit Historical Society has an assortment of authentic items mined from the legendary ballpark at Michigan and Trumbull and is making them available for sale at the Detroit Historical Museum Store starting Wednesday, April 2. Tiger fans who bring in a ticket stub from any game at Comerica Park this season will receive 50 percent off their total purchase of Tiger Stadium items at the Museum Store while supplies last. Specific merchandise available for sale includes seat backs, stadium bricks, vendor uniform shirts and jackets, Ernie Harwell cassettes, programs, baseball card sets and other Tiger Stadium souvenir items. Check out their website for hours www.detroithistorical.org or call the Store at (313) 833-7911. |
