{"id":20209,"date":"2023-04-19T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20209"},"modified":"2023-04-20T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:03:10","slug":"whats-new-at-the-old-ballpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/whats-new-at-the-old-ballpark\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New At The Old Ballpark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 baseball season is underway and there have been some changes at Guaranteed Rate Field.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start outside the stadium, where some nice, and long overdue, landscaping has been put in place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20215\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_oldcomiskeyplate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_oldcomiskeyplate.jpg 756w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_oldcomiskeyplate-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/>The area surrounding the home plate from old Comiskey Park in parking lot B has been surrounded by artificial turf and blocked off from the rest of the parking lot.\u00a0 In addition, strips of trees and vegetation has been planted across the divider between the lot and Gate 5.\u00a0 While the reduced room in the lot makes it harder for me to park there, this is an overall net positive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20216\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_millerlite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1073\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_millerlite.jpg 1073w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_millerlite-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_millerlite-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_millerlite-768x389.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1073px) 100vw, 1073px\" \/>Inside the park, Miller Lite continues its takeover of right field.\u00a0 After replacing Goose Island and rechristening the area behind the right field as Lite Landing <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/changes-to-the-ol-ballpark\/\">last year<\/a>, they have added additional branding above the out of town scoreboard on the scaffolding.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20217\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_newclubs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_newclubs.jpg 491w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/23_newclubs-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/>The upper deck gets two new clubs, the High Life Sky Lounge down the left field line and the Blue Moon Balcony along the right field line.\u00a0 Both give upper deck patrons a place to stand and watch the game while imbibing in their beverage of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 baseball season is underway and there have been some changes at Guaranteed Rate Field.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start outside the stadium, where some nice, and long overdue, landscaping has been put in place. The area surrounding the home plate from old Comiskey Park in parking lot B has been surrounded by artificial turf and blocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10588,597,6917,10587,1365],"class_list":["post-20209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-blue-moon-balcony","tag-comiskey-park","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-high-life-sky-lounge","tag-miller-lite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20218,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20209\/revisions\/20218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}