Dominion = big ballparks

By: TheGreenMiles
Published On: 10/20/2007 11:30:43 AM

Back in the 1960s, baseball teams started building ballparks built not to hold the typical Friday night, regular season game crowd (about 30,000) but to hold the largest playoff game crowd that could ever be expected there (about 60,000).  You could tell just by the names.  Instead of Fenway Park and Ebbets Field, we got Dodger Stadium and Yankee Stadium.  The result?  Ballparks that are eerily half-empty for 95% of the games played there. 

It only took 30 years, but teams finally learned their lesson after the Orioles built the more intimate Camden Yards.  Jacobs Field and the Ballpark at Arlington soon followed.  More recently, the Oakland A's stopped selling tickets in their third deck for regular season games.  Except for St. Louis' Busch Stadium III, named as a tribute to its predecessors, no new baseball facility has been called a "stadium" since Kansas City's park opened in 1973.

Dominion is asking us to build a stadium when all we need is a park. the production and transmission capacity for our

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