Greatest Stadiums

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The van that was parked right outside of our house that was blasting Free World drove away. Do you hear anything, Yes, yeah, it's not the van at these two. Google wants to bed. We have new neighbors, we think, and CJ wants to put every negative feeling he has onto them, which I do appreciate that he's not putting it onto me, But it's the neighbor on the other side he's blasting Free World. But you're like, that guy is cool because he has an old range rover. He's an Orange rover and he

has a Kobe sticker on the front of it. Okay, so that's your friends, and this is what he's doing. Well, he doesn't know. We're trying to record a podcast in this environment. The greatest you have to think that at every moment, someone is trying to record a podcast. That's just that's that's just the climate that we're living in. That is a little We're happy that you guys are listening to our podcasts in these times. This coffee is hitting you in a way. Um, J, my second cup

of coffee. I have some bits I want to do real quick. I don't know, Um, what's the WiFi here? Okay, that's like you know when you go into like a place and your recorded studio or prodcast and yes, um, do you guys validate? Yeah, okay, those are the bets I wanted to do. You had to hold up a paper. Remember that. I have another one on here, but it's not good. It's since the quarantine has started. Uh. C

J has gotten into a Twitter feud with an NBA star. Yeah, and as Cantor stole my tweet, I didn't know we were going to talk about this, but I tweeted. I tweeted that now I feel like the exact tweet was. Now I feel like Jordan's flu game was irresponsible and feel like in there, I don't think I feel like

he's in there. That's what That's what it was. And then ten ten or eleven days later and as Cantor tweeted this same exact thing, word for word, punctuation for punctuation, and he was getting numbers, and I was just like, dude, you can't just steal a little lowly comedy writer, basketball video makers tweets like that. Mine went viral. People got mad at and and then I because you go and you look, and it was like a lot of people we know, even people that I didn't know that we

were that good friends with that we're defending you. That's nice. But then I also saw Celtics fans being like, come on, man, this is like the third tweet stolen, Like, I can't imagine never doing that to Victor Ladipo. No, I mean, and his Cantor is very hate herbal. I can see him being like a guy on your team that you you hate him. You're like, why are we giving n s? So many minutes. So you know, some of these guys will always find a way to be hated during non

playing times. But what's going on over there? I'm having some bodily issues. Just okay, So that's the cancer and its cantor enis. And then my my good friend who has hung out with him a few times goes ns does that he doesn't care and he doesn't. He acted like he didn't the fat Jew of the n b A. But you know what, we like the fat ju Now. I don't rem mark my words. I do not. Okay, other sports updates, We've watched half of the Michael Vick. What do you think of that? I thought it was good.

I didn't know that there were two parts, and so it ended and I was like, but we haven't gotten to the second part. I look forward to the second. They're doing a very good job of of painting him sort of as a victim of his narrative now and I think, you know, obviously times have changed. I think he's changed immensely for the better. But I don't think for documentary saying this is a lot of the lot of issues I have a documentary sound was that they're

very biased or they have an agenda. Oh yeah you could. I could watch a documentary and be like, yeah, I will, I will go to Congress, I will march on the hill. And then I could watch a documentary that is the opposing view and go, oh, yeah, no, they're right, Like I switched so easy. I don't know if we need two parts. I don't I'm not sure I'm going to

watch the second part. YEA Bleach Report came out with a pretty good one a few years called called VIC and it's kind of covering the same ground less access to his friends and family. But I don't know. Yeah, I have always said that, not that anyone cares what I say, but I do think the way that it went down, in the way that he was vilified, did have a lot to do with race. I really do believe that culture where he came from, all of that was. Um,

that was definitely part of it. And so sometimes, you know, I think the first part was laying the groundwork for that. Oh you know, oh, I like when you had just made me I feel like we're in a star was born, um, and then that doesn't end very well. CJ has gotten some very good news that the Jordan doc he's dropping early. The ten part. I mean, I just complained about VIC being two parts, but the ten hour long ten part it's I think it's not just Jordan. I think it's

the Bulls. It's called The Last Dance Esparents released early um, and it's caused a lot of turmoil, I think. So far, Megan and I've been doing pretty well together here in quarantine, and I would like to update our listeners. We are I mean, knock on wood, we haven't gotten as that would luster. We haven't gotten in any big blow ups. And I know that's very surprising since one of us is mentally unstable. But CJ got us I am in some ways, just quieter ways. CJ got us a ping

pong table, and I love the ping pong table. It's really awesome. It's really great. It gets us to go outside, and again I we're very grateful unfortunately we have this space we can go outside. Like That's the weird thing about being quarantine in l A is it's just so beautiful outside and we are a lot of walk outside and as long as we retain social distance. But yeah, ultimately, you know, it's a little weird where you're like I can't go outside, it's poison, can't virus is spreading. But

then it's just like it's so nice looking outside. How much do you miss the NBA? What do you think? Well, I just is there a way that you could articulate it to people that are listening to may also? Yes, I mean I think you know a lot of people bigger than me. I have already said it. But it

is our form of escapism. It is the NBA and also, especially in the last few years, has had a great connection and a great like representation for the majority of you know, how we feel about social issues, and for these players in the league and Adam Silver and the fans to not have this platform to either express the importance of social issues or just you know, have fun and escape and watch these great games is such a bummer because it's like, you know, we've gone through events

like this, national tragedies, and we go, you know, we're just gonna get minds off and watched the Super Bowl, watch the All Star Game, watch the finals, and what do we turn to now? That was the first thing to go down. Well, yeah, and the added layer of scariness is that some of the players were sick, you know, in a way, it almost like thank God, well it definitely once they shut down. I do think that helped a lot of people that were not tuned into what

was happening realized this is real. Were you were? You were like, did you realize it was that real at that time? Oh baby, I've been listening to podcasts since January about this, But did you know, Like, Hey, we're gonna prepare, We're gonna be I kept saying pre this, I was like, there will be a tipping point, like something will happen and then we will take it seriously. But I listened to a podcast probably back in February that said and it was It's the Daily of the

New York Times, um and the Health. It was a man who had been following it. He had he maybe lived in China and as a correspondent, and he was like, Americans need to be prepared to worst case scenarios. Spend a few weeks at home. And I went into work that day and I was like, did anyone else listen to this? Because a lot of my coworkers would listen to the Daily. And then we started sort of having conversations like once a day, just a little like coronavirus update.

But then on that Wednesday, I was at dinner with a friend from high school and we both had our phones away, as I think is nice to do at a dinner, and you know, we were catching up. I hadn't seen her since the weddings. We were chatting and she has a baby. And then we both looked down at our phones after two hours and the NBA had been canceled and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had tested positive.

And then when we said goodbye, I hugged her like three times because I knew then and you hadn't seen her for years, adding um and I see her like four times a year, but I just I knew once that happened, Like I went into work the next day for like an hour, we ordered lunch, and then they sent us home. Like that was that. The m b A was the tipping point for a lot of people. I think that helped them realize. For my dad, it

was the Masters. Once the Masters was canceled, he was like whoa, because that's an outdoor event, like the golfers could still in his mind like play. You just don't have fans. Like Once that stuff started to share, it is interesting, and I'm sure there was conversation about about doing the Masters without fans, but you know, I think everything was just shutting down. It just would have been

that your responsible thing to do. Probably we found out that this will probably come out in a few days, but I found out yesterday that's all the other lovers of this did that Wimbledon as canceled? And when and like when that really breaks? When does that usually happen? Um July? Like end of June July. And they can't postponent because the grass and you know, it's a living plant is what they play, so there's not a way to sort of recapture that. So that's sad. You know,

we're dealing with sports being canceled. I think sports has still brought us some happiness. You and I watched Game seven of year it was last night. Was kind of great because all of Twitter and ESPN and you know, House the Highlights and all these big sports uls had been playing throwback stuff and I feel like last night was the one game that everyone is they played the two They played Game five in Game seven of the two thousand sixteen NBA Finals, where the Calves won, and

I feel like as a collective. No one has ever rewatched a game like that collectively. Yeah, like the whole I looked at so many people my well, in my Twitter timeline, everyone was tweeting about it as if it was just happening. People are noticing things because I just think everyone was too nervous during that game to notice certain things. And so many of my friends that we're posting about it. Last night, ever, friend from Cleveland, and she was like, I'm so nervous right now, Like I

know what happens and I'm still nervous. What does it make you feel like seeing all those people in the stadium, Like do you get anxiety seeing you? Know? It's just it's very strange to even like watch movies now because it is so like you're just everything. You're like, let's not gonna happen again. That's not gonna happen again. Um, it's just an old cell phone in a movie. Yeah, it feels like a simpler time. I do think we'll get back there, And I guess that probably perfectly brings

us into our topic today. We were inspired to do this because this was going around a bit on Twitter. I saw I think it's a guy the first person I saw do it, Mike Dine, and I don't know him, but thanks for the inspiration. And it was people listing their first stadium, their last stadium, their best stadium, and there were stadium and I partook. I'm changing it a little bit. But we thought, in the spirit of oh God, honoring a place that we love to go for sure,

that we would do an episode about the greatest stadium. Yes, and hopefully it doesn't bring too much pain to our hearts. I don't think so at all. I think we'll look back with fondness. And even as even as I was like doing the Twitter challenge, I I wasn't a challenge. No one asked me to do it. But I had softened, like I had. Even so Philip Rivers is now on the Colts and that has happened since the I know, but I've even everyone's like, you're gonna like him, You're

gonna like him. I'm like, oh, well not. And I have softened like it's just like, wow, football seems beautiful, Like that's it's everything is um you it's Red Britains, you know, it's it's it's hindsight with beauty and um, did you make that up. I guess I don't think it's like correct rems with beauty. I said, hindsight with beauty with beauty. Okay, boy, so we're fine. We're fine. CJ's mom is also texting us about um fake Louis Baton masks she's making up. My mom has been doing

a very good job in this quarantine. She's been staying inside, but now she's picked up hobbies where she's making fake Matt not fake Mass, fake Louis bat Yeah, she's using fake Louis but Louis Vatton fabric to make masks, which is great. So um, let's get into our first pick. Okay, our first pick for greatest stadiumium. And I want to preface I haven't been that many stadiums have I really I was thinking about it in the shower, and you

really have all the ones that you've dragged me to. Um, Okay, my first stadium that I would like to talk about is twenty minutes from our home, Staples Center. You're gonna clap for that greatest stadium. I just think it is one of those, uh is one of those stadiums that

has talked about that it is. It has characters so many things have happened there is distinct looking and a lot of people have been talking about it lately because the Clippers just bought the Forum, which was a legendary Lakers like Lakers one I can't remember, like it was

like old school cool. It reminded me of a giant movie theater, one of your favorite Fresh Prince episodes and too for them to move and I gotta look back and see how you know, Lakers fans or l a people kind of felt about it, but then to recreate. That's why I don't think people are that mad about it, because so much history has happened in the Staples Center and when you go, it is truly it's an experience

that goes beyond sports. It's you know, culture. You see all the celebrities there and I'm talking to Lakers games and even Clippers games and Sparks games have been there. It is, I think, a really great stadium. I think it's easy to get to. I think, you know, I think the food can step up a little bit. It's mostly a lot of chains, like you get a Blaze Pizza there, you get Tonnelds. But um so the food

experience isn't that great. But I think it is a great kind of middle ground of like luxury and fun seeing like celebrities and you know. And they dimmed the lights around the at least for Lakers games. They dimmed the audience and they the court is just kind of like lit up like a show, like a Broadway Boys show, and I just love that atmosphere. Now, what was the first stadium we ever went to? UM Probably gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio to see the Bulls versus the Calves,

and that's no longer. That's so interesting that some of these that we love are the very first stadium I went to. Gosh, and I wasn't gonna put it on my list, but I guess it will because I really did love it. The first stadium I ever went to

was the Hoosier Dome UM, which then got changed. The name was changed to the our Cia Dome, and our high school used to play our rival high school in the Who's Your Dome And it was like, so, I mean, I was a child, but we would get like you would go in a suite quote unquote because they were like four thousand people there, you conn have a suite, and it was just it would get so loud during

Colt schemes. I remember people talking about it being the loudest stadium, and I do know a lot of people will take offense to this because football stadiums are supposed to be outdoor, and so that's why I don't have Lucas Oil on here, even though I think Lucas Oil here. No. I think Lucas Soil is so beautiful and so amazing and has hosted a super Bowl, multiple final fours. It's

really considered like a crown jewel. But a lot of purists say football stadiums should be outside, and so it has all these beautiful features and really great food and hanging cars and pyrotechnics, but it's able to do that. Go ahead performing performing in the horseshoe. I think the ceiling being the ceiling being able to open, the windows opening like the first time I went into it, I cried, for sure, But the Hoosier Dome felt like one of those like old nasty stadiums, like we would be at

games and stuff would be falling from the world. I did because it just felt like home to me because it was my first experience, um the first NFL game I ever saw, was there High School, like it just everything happened there. It was the center of Indianapolis, like fun for me as a kid. And I think there are good and bad versions of that. I like a stadium that is classic and has a lot of history

but has been like well maintained. I think, I don't know if it was just a bad game I went to, but I went to Wriggley, and I do not like Wriggley. I mean, I don't know if they've updated it since, but it was cold old and this is I'm talking about like a game in August that I saw and it was like if you get in the shade at Wrigley, it is freezing. Yeah, so Wrigley has undergo a chap like a renovation, I think. I think I do think

they pumped like a billion or something in there. But when I used to work in Chicago, my two like assignments would be to go to the Cell and to go to the US cellular field where and then to go to Wrigley. And just as like a person that was using things, the Cell was like a mecca. And then Wrigley, even though it's this hollow ground and the goat and the mr it was like this is falling apart.

They remember Lupinello would do his press conferences in a sod closet that they converted into like a press room. It would be so hot to get up to like the press box. Sometimes you would have to climb a this sort of staircase but half the ladder. It was really not a great like working environment. And having been in even their clubhouse and then seeing the White Sox clubhouse, it was like, oh, you guys are being screwed because but but a lot of players we're fine with that

because it was like, you're playing at Wrigley. It's a lot nicer now. But I am not one of those people that like loves the Wrigley. We also, yeah, it's it's I think it is a little bit biased because we had moved to Chicago to do comedy and that's where all the comedians had lived was in that area, and boy, what an inconvenience. Oh yeah, I mean for anything.

I feel like I've mentioned this on this podcast, where you would get a letter at the beginning of the season that was like, hey, sorry, your house is about to get really fucked up by Cubs fans, And that was the exact and you're like, okay, I would be forty five minutes late to work at Blockbuster because and I would have left a half hour early to make it on time, but the trains would just be too full. You kind of get on and the vibe of just

like Wriggley area in general. We would do bad shows there, we would we lived there, so we did have love for it, but it was it's not our favorite a week a week before a season. One time, though, I do have one good memory, and it's I was getting off the train after shift up Blockbuster and it wasn't busy whatsoever. It was week before the season, so I think people were kind of waiting for the you know, quite before the storm. And I get off and one guy next to me is walking very slowly, just like

looking at the stadium, and it was Jeff Garland. And then I went to him and I was like, hey, Jeff, my name CJ. I do comedy here, blah blah. I goes, oh cool, Yeah, I'm gonna walk around the stadium. You wanna you wanna walk with me? I was like sure, So I walked with him and we went to who Who's the statue? Outside of Wrigley, Harry Carrey like Barry zero. Is that a no? I think it's not very Zito.

It sounds like a baseball name. Anyways, we went, we walked for fifteen minutes and and stood and he said he likes to visit that state statue before every season. Yeah, that's nice. You have to see like a legend with a legend. Let's take a break and we're back, and we're back. Okay, wait, so did you pick one or yeah? I said the Hoosier Do. I wasn't gonna. I played at the Hoosier. Is it the practice remember when we went, So that's where the that's where the movie Hoosiers was filmed. Yeah,

I think so stadium. That's actually not I think that was the high school because the championship game I think was played where Butler plays and that people like love that. This is the thing people in Indiana like worship their stadiums. I almost said my least favorite stadium was Mackie Arena, which is produced one, and I was like, people are going to come for me, so I didn't. But you say so many bad things on this podcast that could be vilified, and you won't say MACKI stadium is not

one of your favorites. No, I was gonna say it was the worst. Yeah, you can't. I can't say that. You're scared of that, you're scared of your your This is called hincklefield House. I couldn't. We love a field house in Indiana, So hincklefield House. People if there was like a big time Homer on here, they would say that. I know people love the i U One Assembly Hall. I don't know. Um, so we ride hard for our stadiums there. My parents lived in a town called Washington, Indiana,

where very famous about some famous basketball Washington Robinson, Washington, Indiana, Washington, Indiana, Washington, Indiana. Um. Now, I have to look it up and it's a tiny, tiny town and the high school stadium sat more people than the town had population wise. Like that's how intense high because people from other towns are coming famous basket. What are you looking up exactly? I'm trying to figure out who are these men from this small town. I

don't think anyone cares. That's the thing. Okay, okay, great, my mom will care, and she's our most avid listener. Shout out to your mom. Your mom does listen and gives us it's going to be really upset with me that I can't figure this out. Well, that's pre research you should have done. Well. I didn't know that it was going to come up. Luca Zeller, the Zeller's Zellers, thank you, and they're all from this place. Now I

can move on, you know, when it's like just you can't. Um. I do want to criticize your first pick because I I love Staples Center, I really really do. My issue is I do not like a stadium that is shared

by teams in the same sport. The first time I went to MetLife, I was like the like where there's no giant stuff, and it's like, oh well there's no giant stuff because then they have to have Jet like it just it and and Staples I think obviously you feel the heart is in the Lakers to the point where the Clippers are like, we're building our own stadium,

and then I think I'll like it more. But it just feels so vanilla to me, Like I love a stadium that's just like purest I love a stadium that's dripping in history of a team, dripping in the colors. Everything is like just that theme and so when something has shared it, I think, yeah, I think more so it's sad for Clippers fans because I think the Lakers do do a good job in the city, obviously of covering up that they do not share that stadium with

another basketball team. Like when you go to a Lakers game, there is not a single piece of evidence that the Clippers also play every game. But that's how it is. If you go to MetLife, there's no there's no giant stuff when the Jets are there. But that's I don't know. Life is so weird because where is that in. That's New Jersey. It's called the New York Giants. Yeah, there's just a lot of issues there. Netlife was what I put as my worst stadium, and I said, it's not bad,

it's just boring. But what happened after the last time you went to MetLife? You came over and yeah, it kind of our first date. Nothing happened though, I know, but it was like a nice moment. Okay, and the Colts beat the Jets. That's the nice moment I remember. Yeah, for the Jets and Giants to share a stadium, and I guess it happened with the Lakers and Clippers for a while. Two really rough teams is h Yeah, it's not gonna make a stadium appealing. You know what, I

just changed my pick. I'm going crazy change it. I'm going left out of left field. You're going left, you're right before. I love and it like holds such a special place in my heart. Arthur Ash Stadium, that's where, um, it's actually right next to city Field. City Field one of my honorable mentions. When that little apple comes up, Oh, I get excited. City Field has amazing food, It's easy to get to. I love Mets games. They're so fun. It is such an event, like when the US Open.

Is that where they play? Yea, So Arthur Ash is so the U s t A like Tennis Center is right next to the city Field complex. It's all out in Flushing and Arthur Ash is just this giant mecca that was built for tennis. And I think now the roof can close so they can play when it's raining or you know, it has lights. It's just beauty. It's so beautiful. And to be in a massive stadium of that size when there's just two people competing like against each other, it's really amazing. I got to walk on

the court this summer. Someone took me on it and I truly teared up. Like I love Arthur Ash. I was telling CJ recently, every time I could do a project about him, I would. I did so many Arthur Ash projects. A true hero and incredible. Gosh, just an American athlete hero that I think a lot of the good kinds of athletes look up to now as as a voice of positivity. Um. But yeah, the U S Open is so amazing and just a really fun I

hope it ends up happening this year. But Arthur Um. Yeah, Labor Day Arthur Ash Stadium is incredible and good concessions. I love the drink, Like what's the drink again? Because I always told people about this drink. It's called the Honey Douce, and so it's a gray goose and then I don't know what else is in gray goose, and then maybe lemonade, and then they take little honey dew Scooper balls and they make little tennis balls and put

it in. I mean, it's you took the cup home and I use that cup a lot, big fan of it. I'm sure that's why people tune in to hear about what cup I use, but um, the US Open is great. So yeah, I mean like tennis stadiums in general. That's what always loving like tennis video games is that when you get to pick a stadium, they are so distinct looking. Like in basketball, every court surface is hardwood, but in tennis it's like there's clay, there's is there sand, No,

there's clay, grass and the hardcore. But then there's two different kinds of clay. There's red clay, which is what the French Open is and the red clay. A French Open has a beautiful stadium as well. I've been to Margaret Court Stadium in um Melbourne. I would love to go to Wimbledon. I know that center Court would be so beautiful. Um. And then there's green clay. Okay, cool,

okay cool cool? No um yeah okay, Well, so I feel like my second pick you're gonna like and it is Banker's Life and I've only been one, but it is just on paper and from the side of it, it is a really great stadium. Beautiful and not just down to whatever materials or like lighting. Um, yes that is visually. I love how it's kind of like stacked up it's a field house, but it's a stadium, I know, but it's called Banker's Life field House, hanklefield House, like

that is the architecture. There is something different about when people say that there is not a bad scene of house whenever they refer to a stadium. I really feel like there is like I don't know why, but when you're really high, it still looks like you get a great view. You're like kind of on top of the game, kind of um. And it is beautiful, It's easily accessible. It's in like a fun part of town. I mean, I don't you probably have your own opinions about It's

in downtown Indianapolis. So that's why I have like issues with my first pick. Actually, Banker's Life was just really cool, really accessible, really fun vibe the crowd. I don't think the pacers were that good that year or particularly like amazing, but it was still pretty packed. You went and walked around for like an hour, walked around. I got I got in trouble because I was trying to buy a Demontes Sabonis jersey and I was in line for such

a long time. Not abandoned me, which is fine. I was just drunk and I got scared of drink and her brother never showed up and just sitting alone. But it was it was a really great stadium and and I want to get back there. And it's right next to Harry and Izzy's. Yeah oh yeah, by all the restaurants and you can see Luca Soil from it. Like Indy has set up the downtown and like a really is it connected to a mall? No, but very close to them all Circle Center. Oh do you have any

bankers life stories? Um? I tried to work there. They didn't get higher, but no, I love bankers life. My family has definitely um caused issue in a suite before home of the All Star Game next year. I hope it happened. I hope so too. But um, yeah, I mean that because there was like recently there was a friend not a friend of a friend, but um, Yahoo was calling out Indianapolis for saying for calling out the NBA for hosting or for letting Indianapolis host the All

Star Game next year. I feel like it's trash or something there, and it's just like then, you've never been to the stadium, and I think you've never been to a large event there. Like we hold we hold the Indie five hundred every year, but this year that's like five hundred thousand people. We've hosted a super Bowl and c double like we can do it. Everyone who has been to an event in India is like, listen, it's not like my first choice. But when you get there,

it's set up so well. Everyone's so kind, you know. It's like when we went to Minneapolis super Bowl was like, this is set up really well. It's just negative forty degrees and Indy, you're not going to have that, Like, what's the weather going to be like that in February? It'll be nice. The super Bowl was like sixty degrees. It was great. Really yeah, it was a fluke. I mean, Jesus smiled on us for being a state in the babble bell. Okay um, okay, So I have some honorable mention.

I've never been to this stadium, but I know that I would love it. It's like a true dream of mine. Lambeau, Lambeau. I want to go to Lambeau. My dad has been. I'm always like, tell me about Lambeau and he's like I was in a suite and I wish I had been like out with the people like I would love to go there. Um, I've been to the Bills Stadium so fun and quote there was a blizzard happening. They had to plow the field at halftime. That's how much this would have been, like not two nine, maybe I

was plump um. Well I look at the photos and I'm like, I was plump um and then gosh, I know, for the sake of it being what it is, I sort of have to mention it. I've only been there once. I would love to see the Knicks play at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, I have not seen that. You have. I have and thanks to our friends Tommy McNamar who also sang a beautiful song about us at our wedding, but he got the craziest hook up. You got us like front row behind courtside for Bulls Knicks a few

years ago. Granted the Bulls weren't good, but it was like people talk about Madison Square Garden and how beautiful is and how it is experience, like, yeah, it probably has some of the best character of a stadium I've ever seen. As well. The ceiling is just like mesmerizing. That's why it's so like even if you're not a Knicks fan. If you're a basketball fan and the Knicks haven't been good, this song it's not good, it's like it makes you mad. That important. Yeah, I mean that's

I felt lucky. I saw a Rangers game there and it was cool. I honestly felt like I was in a movie that we're just all these like finance bros pouring in and you're the heart. You're in the heart of New York City. Yeah, you're actually in like my least favorite part of New York City. So when you go in, you're like, think, that's where all movies seemed. It's like Grant Like, um, you know, right by the trains people get dropped off. That's where everyone enters the

city from, you know, New Jersey or whatever. And yeah, it is like because all all stadiums and movies as a kid were in you know, Madison Square Garden like Space Jam and um Eddie all that stuff. I have one more honorable mention and this this stadium gets a lot of trash talked about it news Soldier Field, I think is so beautiful. I actually when I first saw it was like that does look crazy. It's grown on me just because it's right on the lake. You you

come into the city, you see it immediately. It does look like a space ship dropped onto some sort of like Washington d C. Monument. But it's when you're inside of it, it's um it's beautiful. Like it's too cold always in it and it's very hard to get to, but it does have a very cool feeling in it. And I remember having a really good Italian beef there and also no bad seats, like the way the incline was set with that space shuttle. We were in like the second level and I felt like I had an

amazing view of the field. It's just tough because it is outdoor in Chicago, winters are but they take that as like a rite of passage where they look at something like Lucas soil and they're like, you guys are pussies, and it's like, yeah, we are. Yeah. I have a couple of honorable mentions. I was gonna say the Forum, which I've never seen a game there, but it just I just want to so I want them to play

the when the NBA resumes, hopefully it does. They're trying to find I think they're talking about a central location for all the teams of place so that there's not a lot of traveling, and like players would just like live in that city for the next few months. I think the form would be great if they're doing no fans with the which they shouldn't do. It's not that, you know, capacity is on an issue, and you could just if it's made for TV. It's easily. You just

light up the court and they play. And I think all the players would appreciate being in l A. Those very reasons why we're grateful to be here and not in New Yorker anywhere else here already, Yeah, exactly, um or Miami, but I think Florida is like it's gonna be a while to that clears up. But I also had a really good time at Fenway. I think that is a what I was talking about, classic but in well maintained and just I actually really liked the Boston crowd.

Like I've been to the Celtics games and it's a little you know, kind of what you know, kind of a little racist and um but I don't know, just it was. I saw a game there during the summer a few years ago with my friend Connor the Green Monster, the Wall and like, yeah, there's a lot of just like and the town. The town. I just think, yeah, I'm not a Red Sox fan. I hate Boston sports.

But go to a game at Fenway during the summer and you will be one over and you've been to the garden, Boston Garden it was called the Fleet Center at the time. Saw Lebron play his rookie year. There is that has the really pretty floor, parquet floor. They don't have that anymore. I don't think I don't think any teams have that anymore. I thought it was so cool. Yeah, I mean, the guys are back outside, um, but they're not issues. Uh. Anyways, I want to go back to

Fenway again. It is just like, yeah, when when sports come back now, it's like that is a thing that people should do well. People do this. Going to every baseball stadium has been something that like old men do with their children's for forever. And I think that's so beautiful and amazing. I love Dodger Stadium. Yeah, oh yeah, I can't really. We both forgot that Dodger Stadium is

so beautiful. To be at the top of this mountain looking out over all of l A, the palm trees, Um, it's also an older one that feels like it's been maintained. Actually it's not old. I think it was mean to look old because there was some displacement of families to build that in recent years. But it's a really beautiful like I took my parents there and they were like, this is this It is like your parents or friends

in town. Uh, and you don't want to go to to like touristy spots, like a baseball game at Dodger Stadium Dodger dog delicious. Um. We went on Memorial Day and so they had three you know, fighter jets fly over and then there was a World War two vet. I of course lost it. My mom and dad and I were all sobbing, you know, kicked out. I did get kicked out, I have that was a different game. I did get thrown out of Dodger stadiums. They took our vape pen Yeah, and um, we're gross. And it

was it was after the game. We were just waiting for the fireworks. I guess what has pen in his cargo pants. If you throw someone out of a stadium for fireworks, they can still see the fireworks. You just sit outside ding dong. Okay, um, but yeah, Dodger Stadium. It's also an Echo park, which is like awesome. Oh yeah, I mean that that's a crown jewel. It's force Field. People say it is beautiful, but I heard the neighborhood. It's like it's like a weird type of Wrigleyville. But

in Colorado. I believe that. I believe that. I mean, I thought you're going to say something naughty, Old Comiskey. That was when I went there with my grandfather and there's such a cute photo cargo stadium looked like it was cool. Yeah. The issue with the cell the cell is like a great stadium. For some reason, the Chicago has an iconic skyline. They decided to put US Cellular Field facing northern Indiana, the ugliest part of the country. All they had to do was turn the stadium hundred

and eighty degrees. Yeah they should have done that and also too but easy to cellular Cellular and that skyline, Man, that don't really make you love Chicago. When you remember falling in love with Chicago the first time I was coming back. When you drive in, when you drive in and you see US Cellular and um, up, someone just dropped off a package and a doorbell. But um yeah, you see us cellular and you see the skyline, You're like,

oh yeah, I really like the city. Should we take a break before we get to our final picks and work back with our final picks again? You know, thank you for listening to this podcast. If you have any suggestions for topics or if we missed any, if you feel passionately tweet at us. That's why I've been saying so many this time address it. Well, it's just such a This is a hard one because it's like we

probably haven't been to our favorite stadium yet. I feel like we've been to a lot though, yeah, um yeah, and and oh yeah I had another honorable My dream is Lambeau. I really would love to do that. And you know what I would like, this is a hot take. The Colisseum sucks. That's a terrible stadium. It's like, I know, it's iconic, great, beautiful. I love the fire Olympics, yes, thank you. A very bad place to see a modern football. Yeah,

the food is terrible. Um Like, and I love Rams like l A Rams fans who are really trying to make it a thing. But like the tailgate is like embarrassing and like the seats are bad. Everything is not good. They're getting a new stadium. We have like three stadiums under construt action here. Another honorable mention I had was US Bank Stadium. It's a newer one, but I think it was. I mean it was We went and saw the Super Bowl there the Eagles beat the Patriots, and

I thought it was really beautiful. Oh yeah, yeah, all of those I mean all of those indoor that new Atlanta. One part of me thinks it would be interesting to go to the one in um the Cowboys stadium is that called Texas Stadium? Like I would almost rather go to that stadium to see a college football game. I would love to go to Michigan the Big House, Like there's definitely you could even just do like a big ten like ring of great stadiums and be very, very satisfied.

Are you ready to do your number one? Yeah? My number one? And I feel like I talked so passionately about my other ones that I don't feel like it's my number one anymore. But the United I hate the United Center, you hate the Madhouse on Madison. You you make your case, and I don't have a case. For other than the Bulls, and it was just nineties basketball,

which is my favorite thing the whole world. And then getting a chance to go there as many times as I did in my twenties, UM was incredible, and I in my head when I think of just like great sports visuals, I always think of the Jordan's statue of him doing the jump man outside of United Center, which I now found out is inside the stadium. I think so much history has happened in there. I think it was one of the first newer stadiums I've ever been to.

And I saw one one Bulls game, their nineties Bulls game there, and I also saw all of the Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah um Lu all dang years there and that was when I refell in love with basketball and I haven't stopped since. And it has been a great experience. Okay, And so now this is why I don't like it. UM. I have been lucky enough to see Bulls, black Hawks, Simon and guard Funkele and the first round of an n C Double A tournament there. I lots of experience.

It is very hard to get to. It's not in a great part of town, and I don't even mean danger wise. There's nothing walkable around, so it's like it's like out in the middle of a no man's land of Chicago. That is, I've been like stranded outside there. I don't think it has a lot of character. I think the best sporting event you can see there is black Hawks. I do think a black Hawks game at United Center very very fun um more fun than a King's game at Staples Center. Like Lakers own Staples I

think the black Hawks own United Center. I just when they're like when the Oregon there's something about the hockey that gives it the character that it lacks when the Bulls are I think that's something that just had happened because of the last decade the black Hawks had one. To some extent. Yes, I also think live hockey is the like hockey is the best sport to see live. It is the worst sport to watch on TV, I think. And so that just sort of like Trump set and yeah,

I think the United Center sucks. Can I ask you this one this I just wanted your reaction on this. But does Benny the Bull help at all? Benny the Bull does not help. The only thing that helps I do like and they probably don't use this anymore. The running of the Bulls like through the different party do which was directed by the house Keys brothers, the guys who made the Matrix or one because now Trains, but

it is they I don't think they used to. In the beginning the original one, the Bulls would run over a team bus with the team's logo that they were playing on it, run it over and everyone would go nuts. And they don't have that in the new one, according to my friend John who works for the Bulls. And also they still use the nineties like Burned here and there, the Alan Parsons Project song. They should not do that

with this team. It just is like because kids when people like do the fantasy lineup thing where they just like running out to and they picked that even if they're not trying to recreate the Bulls, it's so iconic and you don't do that for this crappy Bulls team. Terrible organization right now. Um, but yeah, I mean that to see that intro, the Bulls intro when the team was good it was, it would make me. I think

you just like the team though so not the stadium. Yeah, I think Chicago sports is one of the most fun things to be a part of. Yeah, I mean we've mentioned every stadium, four of them, and I think Wrigley probably is at the top, and then Soldier Field probably after it. For me. Okay, so now my number one pick this was this is going to be a shock

to you. I think I'm going baseball. Um. I was very lucky enough to go to Old Yankee Stadium with my family and it's the only stadium I've ever been to, the only sporting event I've ever been to where they were like, we are getting there two hours early so we can go to the used to there was like a graveyard or maybe not the bodies there, but definitely like the blacks of the greats. And Yeah, it just was a vibe of you felt like you were in

a special place. It felt ethereal like it definitely felt like hallowed ground, beautiful, You're part of something special, historic, American, like all of those things that baseball is. We're very much like encapsulated in this place. And I've been to New Yankee Stadium and it's obviously beautiful and modern, but like that feeling that you just have in your heart is very much gone. Unfortunately. Yeah, I'd like to go there.

I don't remember, but there was always you know in comedy, there's those Lauren seats, those Lauren tickets and may they exist at Madison Square Garden and the Yankees. And the day before I found out it wasn't getting renewed at Fallon and offered me the tickets, and they knew they were firing, you know, it wasn't. It was more so they were passed down to a just one of my co workers, and he was like, do you want to

go to the game tomorrow. I was like, oh my god, We're gonna get to sit in Lauren's seats behind home plate at Yankee Stadium. And then you got fired, um, not fired, was not going to be allowed to come back after a couple of weeks. Um. And I was like, that's really embarrassing to go there after I knew I wasn't gonna be a part of the show anymore, did you? So you didn't go? I did not go. Well, but that's new Yankee Stadium, that is, and I'm talking about

old Yankee Stadium. Um, what year was that then? Gosh, I think I was like fourteen or fifteen, so last year and what did it become? I think they tore down so hard to me. You know, they're big. They can't remember when the Hoosier Don't got torn down. We all watched it on the news. Like when they tear down on those things. That's what's so sad, is like then they're just gone. Like the Forum can't be torn down because it's a historical landmark. Right. But I don't know.

This is a great YouTube recommendation, but there's there's I don't know if it's a serious or not, but there's a bunch of them where people go into abandoned stadiums with like drones and like beautiful cameras and they just shoot these abandoned stadiums and the seats are still up, even some of the turf. The silver don't look up the Silver Dome that is the where the Pistons played for a long time and won a bunch of championships,

and which is it's interesting. That's another kind of honorable mention. And again I'm biased, but the Palace of Auburn Hills, which is in the suburbs of Detroit, but the Pistons had so much history there and I don't know why. I do know why they moved the team to uh, downtown Detroit because Detroit is on the rise, and but it was like, there was nothing wrong with the Palace of Auburn Hills and now it's just a you for

like concerts and stuff. Yeah, so it's it's just weird how some of these places will leave a venue or a stadium and there was nothing really wrong with I do like a venue that's downtown though, Yeah, I say bring it to the people. I mean in l A. It's different because downtown is not like the epicenter of what's popping on. Like there's things happening downtown, but then there's also things happening sort of like all over the city. For the Yankees, I mean, you've got to go all

the way up to the Bronx. It's obvious. I think though a lot of these stadiums are built, our teams go to an area to gentrify or to vitalize, vitalize the economy of that area, but also revitalizing it pushes out a lot of people who have lived there for a very long time. Stadium eat I think. I think the Bronx like very much. And I hope this is what Inglewood two is like, this is our um economy.

You know that stadium becomes where people work and like then open businesses um round it because and and Dodger Stadium, you're they're not really able to do that because it's like up a hill. It's at like the top of a hill and that's where it is. But then you know, you hope the trickle down. But you Yankee Stadium so beautiful. R I P. I feel really blessed I was able to go there. Thanks Dad, Thanks Dad for a lot of those Yeah, oh thanks Dad for this whole episode.

To have a parent who loves going to sporting events and you get to go to all these things. And I also love going to sporting events in different towns. I mean even when I'm on the road for stand up like I've been to Indians games like Pirates games. I love. That's Like one of my favorite things to do when I'm on the road is go go see the teams, Go see the stadiums, go see the environment that they have there. I went to one of the

worst NBA games I've ever seen in Denver. I don't even know what the stadium is called where the Nuggets play, but it was Nuggets Hornets and it was like thirty to forty at halftime very Me and Charlie Barry were very high and it was so fun. Um quick, you talk about New York Barclays Stadium, anythink Barkley Center. I think Barclay's. I saw the Nets practice there and then

we saw Bruno Mars there. I think Barclays is in such a cool part, Like if we were to move back to New York, I would love to live in downtown Brooklyn. I think it's like a really um fun part of Brooklyn. I think it's cool that it's like dug down into the ground and then you certain descend like that. I think all of that, but Barclays does sort of like lack some character for us, I think. I think as especially with Katie and Kyrie playing there.

I think it's on the rise of course. Um but I'm very glad that they have a stadium there, and um it was It's been fun seeing a few games and there. I'm very happy that they don't have to share I mean they used to be like all the way in New Jersey. Wow, we love you guys. We are really really sending um as much positivity and while wishes and hope for health and safety and happiness as we can, and I hope, I know this episode is

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