Man the comments. I can't believe the amount of people who don't want downtown baseball.
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We have a stadium that is unique in MLB, and as a city have done a terrible job at preserving anything historic. The reason is that things 40-60 years old don't seem to be worth preserving, and we tear them down all the time.
Every stade besides Fenway, Wrigley, Dodgers, and Oakland are all the new downtown style parks. They're great, but its cool that we have the only stade built when it was built.
Kind of a clunky wording there but I get the sentiment but Kauffman (and Dodger Stadium) is the product of an era where most of those new downtown stadiums came from, namely cookie-cutter bowl like stadiums in the burbs with essentially symmetrical fences and stadium structure. Essentially-boring and totally utilitarian (and I think any objective look a the K prior to the revamp would confirm this). IMO after old Yankee Stadium was torn down only Wrigley and Fenway deserve any sort giant nostalgic treatment. Dodger Stadium is close only cause it was the first of the cookie cutter breed, and we don't want to be in any sort of company as Oakland.
All of this is a long winded way of saying it's been a long time coming to get rid of all these 60's and 70's stades and go towards the retro-modern look, which I happen to like a lot. Not saying it's any sort of justification to need a new stade, I think Kauffman is pretty great and could be used for decades, just that it's an inevitability.
Now if they could pick it up and put it down in the crossroads opening towards downtown, will not be opposed to it.