Love both. Toured both. We disagree.
At DD No cool outfield train or grassy berm
Bbq food is a wash.
Polar - Wormtown Brewery
Polar has Coney Island and Wunder Bar
The field is a wash
Polar has great photo Ops. Rings, Bobbleheads
YG you can’t see left field from the press box. Oh my. And they have the queer net in right.All baseball fields are
First of all, there's nothing as pretty as a baseball field, even a bad one. (Some golf courses come close.)
In a game of inches, Polar comes up an inch short. It's not a bad place but it is less than it could be. I get the sense that it was built on the cheap.
The field lighting is supplied by standard Musco modular light poles. My kid's high school has that. It's good, it's cheap, it functions, but there was an opportunity to do something a little nicer. I like the way Dunkin integrates their lighting into the roof system.
Polar has an extraordinary amount of exposed concrete. It works, it functions, and its cheap...but very ugly (think PAWS-ARF...blech). Polar decided to paint every square inch of concrete with a monotone blue paint. Yuck.
The materials used seem to be industrial grade but not the cool industrial grade of a hipster coffee shop, the cheap industrial, functional grade of an outdoor facility that will receive very little maintenance once its installed. Built to last.
And can anyone explain to me what this narrow stairway is doing in right filed at Polar? Not quite wide enough for 2-way traffic it provides access to this ugly terrace but makes access to/from right field and the 1st base grandstand awkward.
I get a kick out of the peculiarities of a baseball stadium. I like the fact that the opposing teams meet at home plate before the game to go over the ground rules. "If the ball hits to the left of the yellow line it's in play, to the right it's a home run!" I might be the only one who liked Tal's Hill. The net in right field of Dunkin is one of those things without being a Metrodome Baggie.
Overall, I got the feeling that Polar was built quickly on the cheap. I was expecting better. Still love a baseball field, any baseball field.