Hold on to your scorebooks, the future of baseball stadiums was just unveiled in Cleveland.
Major League Baseball has an attendance issue.
Younger people are not watching baseball as much let alone coming out to games to watch it in person.
Since 2007 the average attendance per game has gone from 32,700 to 26,600.
Don’t care about baseball?
And I guarantee this will be the trend for stadiums around the country over the next five years.
The renovations start by turning a Terrance Club into the Terrance Hub.
Obviously, times have changed so it didn’t get much use other than weddings and corporate events.
Now, the Terrance hub will be an indoor bar area with staggered view box seating.
Then there is the left field terrance which perviously was just completely empty seats.
Besides the playoffs, I don’t think I saw a single person sitting up there last season.
And why would you?
This shit is like Oprah designed the stadium.
YOU GET A BAR!
AND YOU GET A BAR!
AND YOU GET A BAR!
By now you are probably starting to get common theme of the renovations.
It’s not all bars though.
That’s so many bars.
They are also adding a right field terrace with guess what…more bars!
I don’t know if you know this but Cleveland LOVES to drink.
That and getting fat is kind of our thing.
At least these bars are replacing what was possibly the worst design decision in MLB stadium history.
This next renovation will really piss off the traditionalists.
I mean seriously, this looks nicer than half of my friend’s apartments.
“Honey, hurry up Jose Ramirez is up to bat!”
I’m talking a lot of shit here but this is all pretty awesome in my book.
Younger people see baseball as a social experience more than a sporting event.
Gotta keep up with the times or get left behind.
