Ok, first of all let's get the whole stadium name thing out of the way.  Some bank paid a lot of money to get their named plastered on the new Tiger Stadium.  Unfortunately for them they didn't pay me any so for the time being I'll be calling it the 'new' Tiger stadium.

I've been to quite a few major league ballparks and I have to say the new stadium is definitely among the best. The seats are kind of far from the field (compared to the old Tiger Stadium) but the sightlines are great.  The stadium is decorated with Tiger statues everywhere.  They seem to have spared no expense in decorations and ornamentation.  Last week two of the large Tiger statues actually drove down US12 on flatbed trucks on the way to the stadium (they passed me on the other side of the road) and it was neat to see them installed in the new stadium.  The scoreboard is HUGE.  The water 'fireworks' are some kind of bad joke, though.  They advertised a wide variety of food but the lines were really long so I didn't get to try any.  The statues of past Tiger greats in left field are really cool.  The concourses are the widest that I've ever seen in a public stadium.  For the baseball purist the dimensions of the field are immense.  No matter how bad Tiger pitching is you're not going to see many home runs hit here.  Parking wasn't as bad as I thought but I'm kind of familiar with the area.   The carousel and Ferris wheel were big hits with the kids although the Tigers charge you extra to ride them.

	Lights on the outside of the stadium	Statue outside of the main gate	Statue on top of the main gate
National Anthem			The huge scoreboard
	Tiger on top of the scoreboard	Tiger on top of the scoreboard	Rightfield
By the third inning many people had left	By the third inning many people had left	View from rightfield	Steel Tigers adorn the seats on the aisles
	Ty Cobb	Hal Newhouser

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