Comments on: Wrecking Ball Closing in on Tiger Stadium

By: Joseph Hughes Coleman

Joseph Hughes Coleman — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:33:15 +0000

Leveled for the parking concession, Illich should be tarred and feathered.

By: Hockey Arena

Hockey Arena — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:28:45 +0000

I hope now that everyone realiezes that the new Hockey Arena will be going up here. Can’t everyone see that!!

By: Deaner

Deaner — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:46:27 +0000

It’s very sad to see one of baseball’s cathedrals in such a state of disrepair.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:53:01 +0000

One more thought: Would it be too much to ask to be allowed into the stadium one last time? If the city is going to allow it to be taken away from us forever, the least they could do is let us take what’s left of it in one more time.

And to those that may say we had that chance back in 1999, then the stadium should’ve been leveled back then, before the end of 1999.

To all those that have tried their best to save Tiger Stadium over the years: Thank You. Those rafters will never leave my heart…

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:47:03 +0000

When I think of my high school days, I think of skipping out of school early on Tuesdays and Thursdays and catching the afternoon games with only a few thousand (more like 400) fans in attendance.

I was young, I had a car, and that’s where I wanted to be. I’m glad I did that while I had the chance. There was nothing like it – You could hear everything; the ushers even let you get away with sitting up close behind a dugout. There was nothing like it, and now it will be wiped away as if it never existed.

That is very wrong.

I don’t understand how a historical building/stadium/field is allowed to be diminished to nothing. Shouldn’t the state of Michigan step in here?

The thing that bugs me the most is that when the Super Bowl was here, Tiger Stadium was used for events. I believe the one in particular I am thinking of is a concert with Snoop Dogg.

How, after sitting idle for 15 years, was the stadium good enough then? Easy: The city of Detroit was going to make money off of it. And now? C’mon, drive up Woodward from Jefferson to Square Lake – that’s a no-lie biopsy of metro Detroit. You may as well be living in New Orleans and left for dead if you live south of 8 Mile.

I’m sure this will all end by paving paradise and putting up parking lots… for the Casinos in the area, of course.