Green Bay Booyah #1
This is "some bank" park located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the aptly named Green Bay Booyah. The team name is excellent--Booyah is a locally made soup one can find at church socials and fire department benefits--good stuff. The Booyah are part of the Northwoods League, an excellent upper midwest minor league-like baseball league for college players.
The ballpark is new this year, and I really want to like it. It is uber practical -- comfortable seats and all concrete, a 100% artificial turf to keep costs down, a playing field that allows for a semi-professional soccer team to play here as well (the configuration of the field includes an especially short porch in right field), built in a light industrial area near Lambeau Field (they got a deal from the town of Ashwaubenon), and as noted named after some bank that most likely helped pay for many of the amenities.
For all of the practicality and the newness, they left out an important feature -- esthetics. The short porch in right field features a wall reminiscent of the "Green Monster" at Fenway Park, but it instead features blinding digital ads that run during the duration of the game (its genuinely difficult to see a ball hit to right field if you are sitting on the 3rd base side of home plate. The view past the outfield fence features a factory--not the brick and mortar type, but one that is more recently constructed out of pole barn material. Hopefully the Booyah will begin attracting more of a crowd -- I think a little energy would help.
With all of this said, it is a huge upgrade from the previous park, and the people who work here are great--from ticket office on up. I guess I'm just disappointed that they were not able to work out a deal with the city of Green Bay--the original idea was to have a park in downtown along the Fox River--would have been a beautiful setting. With all of this said, they have the bones of a good ballpark, but need to change a few things up.
Green Bay Booyah #1
This is "some bank" park located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the aptly named Green Bay Booyah. The team name is excellent--Booyah is a locally made soup one can find at church socials and fire department benefits--good stuff. The Booyah are part of the Northwoods League, an excellent upper midwest minor league-like baseball league for college players.
The ballpark is new this year, and I really want to like it. It is uber practical -- comfortable seats and all concrete, a 100% artificial turf to keep costs down, a playing field that allows for a semi-professional soccer team to play here as well (the configuration of the field includes an especially short porch in right field), built in a light industrial area near Lambeau Field (they got a deal from the town of Ashwaubenon), and as noted named after some bank that most likely helped pay for many of the amenities.
For all of the practicality and the newness, they left out an important feature -- esthetics. The short porch in right field features a wall reminiscent of the "Green Monster" at Fenway Park, but it instead features blinding digital ads that run during the duration of the game (its genuinely difficult to see a ball hit to right field if you are sitting on the 3rd base side of home plate. The view past the outfield fence features a factory--not the brick and mortar type, but one that is more recently constructed out of pole barn material. Hopefully the Booyah will begin attracting more of a crowd -- I think a little energy would help.
With all of this said, it is a huge upgrade from the previous park, and the people who work here are great--from ticket office on up. I guess I'm just disappointed that they were not able to work out a deal with the city of Green Bay--the original idea was to have a park in downtown along the Fox River--would have been a beautiful setting. With all of this said, they have the bones of a good ballpark, but need to change a few things up.