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Originally Posted by David Watts
I've only made to Comerica a few times, but in my opinion one it's biggest faults is just how far away from the field you are. Especially in the upper deck. It's a nice place though.
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I think that was a conscious design choice though... to minimize the overall size of the upper deck, push it outward and increase the grade.. That allowed a larger main level with no overhangs. On the main level, you can be 40 rows back or in the club level with nothing in front of you but the field, blue skies and the occasional vendor. At the risk of sounding like a baseball snob... I've probably only sat in the upper deck maybe a half dozen times in the 200 or so games I've attended... so I'm not overly familiar with the sight lines.
Tiger Stadium was superior in the first handful of rows along the baselines before the support beams and overhang started intruding. Anything beyond that and when you tilted your head back to track a fly ball, you got an eye full of girders covered in pigeon poop. Thankfully most of games I took in at Tiger Stadium were well after their 1984 glory days... A busy mid-week day game was maybe 10,000 fans, so sneaking away from restricted views wasn't too challenging as long as those ruthless old man ushers were distracted.