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What do we do with the Astrodome?
KHOU ^ | 03/21/2013 | Doug Miller

Posted on 03/22/2013 1:25:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

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To: 21twelve

That was done at Texas Stadium before the implosion. I got a couple of seats from there.


41 posted on 03/22/2013 2:20:43 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Can’t really disagree with you. Of course you know you have committed an unpardonable by saying anything good about the hated Evil Empire. Back in the ‘50s when I was a kid, the first thing I learned at my mother’s knee was to hate the Yankees. (My father didn’t give a hoot one way or the other but my mother sure did!)
Last big league stadium I was in was Milwaukee and that was VERY nice. Well located and I love the retractable roof. No more rainouts. It was open the night I was there - about a month before 9/11. Very pleasant, friendly and welcoming.


42 posted on 03/22/2013 2:20:51 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I've all but given up my crusade to rid the world of fools; there are, I found, just too many.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My a a Blues Brothers movie to gut the insides and then blow it up with a Die Hard over and again movie.

If nothing else a mushroom farm.


43 posted on 03/22/2013 2:21:25 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Normal isn't normal anymore.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Another idea.
Fill it up with sickos of the like that kill babies and let them eat each other.
Send them from around the country.


44 posted on 03/22/2013 2:23:11 PM PDT by right way right (What's it gonna take? (guillotines?))
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To: Responsibility2nd
29 Million to demolish?

Please!

45 posted on 03/22/2013 2:23:46 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Responsibility2nd

Tear it down before New Orleans floods again!!


46 posted on 03/22/2013 2:25:43 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Responsibility2nd
Since they're no longer using the Astrodome, Houston's baseball team should change its name back to the Colt 45's. After all, what's an "astro"?

While we're at it, the New York Mets should also change their name. "Mets" sounds like a city in France.

47 posted on 03/22/2013 2:25:46 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: ansel12
I don't remember the Colt-45's playing in the dome.

But I do remember going to see Elvis at the Rodeo.

And Evil Knievil make some success jumps.


48 posted on 03/22/2013 2:29:46 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: trisham

Connecticut may be a beautiful state but I make it a point to avoid driving through it whenever we go south. I only wish I could do the same for New York but it would mean a very long detour and involve a foreign country.


49 posted on 03/22/2013 2:30:16 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (I've all but given up my crusade to rid the world of fools; there are, I found, just too many.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Within the next five years, due to lawsuits by the perpetually offended, the names of all sports teams will be changed to a random mix of numbers and letters.


50 posted on 03/22/2013 2:32:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My first job, sold popcorn, sodas, etc when I was 11 years old....lied about my age, sposed to be 12. Great life lessons in those years there, big dorky white guy working with all kinds of teens, grown men, old men, most had just been paroled. I was stuck once selling hot dogs, carrying around a metal box with a sterno can keeping those dogs warm. I hated it, heavy and hot, up and down those stairs. One old black man knew I was struggling, not selling many. He said, “lemme show ya how to sell them dogs.” I reluctantly let him strap that box on that held my hot dogs and therefore, all my money. He started sliding down the aisle, all smooth and suave. He yelled out, A loaf of bread, a pound of meat, and all da mustard you can eat, HOT DOGS!!!” He sold 5-10 real quick and when he got back up the stairs, he just smiled and said, “dats how ya do it boy!” Somehow it never sounded the same coming out of my white bread self.


51 posted on 03/22/2013 2:33:03 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Oh, you live in New Hampshire. My husband worked in Manchester for years. We still have many friends in the area.


52 posted on 03/22/2013 2:35:53 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wxgesr

What a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it. :)


53 posted on 03/22/2013 2:37:02 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Hadlock Field, the Portland Sea Dogs stadium is small, but an order of magnitude more pleasant. It is in downtown South Portland, but there’s plenty of on street parking and reasonable parking lots, the views are great, the fans are great.

Half the idiots who go to Fenway, go there to be seen (e.g., John Kerry) and the other half are tourists who watched Field of Dreams and Fever Pitch and don’t the difference between the on-deck circle and the infeild fly rule.

You either have to park in a hospital parking lot a mile away and walk or take the Green Line packed in like a sardine. It’s easy to find because the wave of humanity walking from Kenmore Square T-stop to the security maze outside the Park.


54 posted on 03/22/2013 2:37:08 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: trisham

Why is it that any thread about any ballpark in North America is hijacked by Fenway lovers?


55 posted on 03/22/2013 2:39:45 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: Fiji Hill

I would assume it’s short for astronaut, it being Houston.


56 posted on 03/22/2013 2:40:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Responsibility2nd
I remember when it was the eighth wonder of the world. Sigh.

One day at work I referred to artificial grass as "Astroturf." A guy in his thirties laughed.

"Astroturf?! It's called 'field turf' these days."

Man, that made me feel old.

57 posted on 03/22/2013 2:44:41 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I don’t know. Perhaps because Fenway Park is baseball perfection?


58 posted on 03/22/2013 2:44:54 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wolfman
Make it the capitol building of the newly formed Republic of Texas.

We have a winner!

59 posted on 03/22/2013 2:46:10 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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Make it section 8 housing. Then in 5 years it will be gone without having to pay expensive demolition people.


60 posted on 03/22/2013 2:46:45 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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