“Guests are permitted to bring food and sealed clear bottles of plain, unflavored water into Comerica Park. For the kids in your group, juice boxes are also allowed. No other bottles, cans, or liquid containers are allowed into Comerica Park.”

Here’s the link as well: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/.....t.jsp#food

I was really surprised when I first read this. My husband and I bring food in with us regularly; it saves some cash and I can’t eat much at the park anyway due to a food allergy.

1. The umpires’ union has, for years, not allowed replays of “controversial” plays, including (but certainly not limited to), called third strikes, double plays originating at second base, steals, and anything that calls their judgment into question. This rule is so out-of-date that it’s laughable, but there’s no reason to blame the Tigers for not including this stuff. The umps do have it in their power to turn off the scoreboards if they feel they’re being utilized improperly.

2. I agree: CoPa has an out-of-date scoreboard presentation. Most parks have the ability to post an inordinate number of stats, from OBP and OPS to pitcher K-to-BB ratio…but they don’t, because a) those stats scare management, who want safe numbers that Joe Fan understands, and b) they really are limited by a lack of space. It’s one thing for TV to show all those numbers, but to read them from 400 feet away, they need to be huge.

In the absence of a great new HD scoreboard out there in left, the wraparound LEDs at CoPa would be a great place for all of these additional numbers…and would give you a reason to actually look at them.

Other great examples of scoreboard usage for stats in baseball are: Indians, Cardinals, Giants, and Braves.

but the thing i miss most, is first being able to walk around the entire outfield. but mostly, standing under the statues and taking in a few innings from almost straight away center. it can be a beautiful sight. the last time i was able to get there was 2004 , standing in that spot, holding up a “RESTORE THE ROAR” poster. how times have changed

Also, the concession stand employees are slow.

When its crowded i prefer the upper deck, the lines are all small and there is nobody blocking my view.

Oh, and I still have a soft spot for the wave.

As for the pizza, Little Caesar’s isn’t the greatest, but pizza money did buy Miguel Cabrera. But it compares favorably to the cardboard-tasting frozen nuke-za they serve some places. And if you get it right out of the oven, you know it’s hot (see my “hot” dog rant above).

View of the skyline
Tiger history displays
Statues
Food
Concourses
Souvenir shop
The Coney joint
TVs at the concession stands

Don’t like:

Not Tiger Stadium
Prices (for everything)
Sitting lower than field level in the infield boxes
Miles from the field in almost any seat
Airsickness in the upper deck (as opposed to the best upper deck in baseball in Tiger Stadium)
Blaring music so loud I can’t talk baseball between innings.
No organ
Gigantic scoreboard dominates the park but is 90% ads.
Too darn big in the power alleys.

Overall Comerica is a bland and uninspiring replacement for Tiger Stadium. Pittsburgh, SF and Philly are all much better new generation parks.

1. The Wave; come on what is this, 1985? The wave sucks and is played out.

2. More importantly, the crowd only cheers before pitches when the scoreboard says: “make noise”. It’s like the crowd isn’t as into the game as we could be because everyone waits for the scoreboard to tell them to make noise.

I’ve brought in all sorts of food over the last couple years (without any sort of hiding) and never ever had a single problem. Everything from venison jerky to cheese and crackers to blueberries. I’ve actually asked what the ‘rule’ is and was told that as long as your food is of a quantity to be consumable by you and your group (they don’t want you becoming a secret vendor) and it is not a readily available ‘ballpark type’ food (hot dogs, nachos, pizza etc.) there is no problem. The only allowable beverage is water in a sealed, clear plastic bottle. I’ve brought sealed gallon jugs with no problem. Basically, as long as you don’t abuse this policy, they will let you use it.

I used to complain alot about not having the game on in the concourse and that was nice that they added that. One other small thing that i’ve noticed would be nice would be if they had either more condiment stands or have cafeteria type slide bars to set you food tray on when you are at the condiment bar. Its hard to balance something to drink with the tray and putting ketchup and mustard on the dog.

Besides that, love the park and everything about it.