Ranking Every MLB Stadium Retractable Roof WORST to BEST

[@menzel17]

If the Rogers Centre gets a new roof all I ask is that they don't change the shape. The white dome has become so iconic with Torontos skyline and it would look weird without it

[@brothaman007]

This thought it not occurring to dudes that do not live in Toronto

[@themaestro3034]

I dont get the idea of replacing the stadium at all. Its been iconic to all of baseball since Joe Carter’s walk off homer in the 93 series. Once there is something like that occurring at a stadium, a replacement should be out of the question.

[@brothaman007]

@@themaestro3034 Even if it is a bottom 5 stadium? Even if it has the worst upper decks in baseball? Even though it has the seats on the lower bowl behind the plate that are the furthest away in all of baseball? The back row on the lower level behind the plate goes about 10 rows more than everyone else. With your logic, the Polo Grounds should still be around after "the Catch", or The Braves should be playing in Fulton County stadium after Hank Aaron's dinger. Come on man, be real.Carter's home run is 30 years ago. NEXT !!!!

[@jtsholtod.79]

Having gone to games at Exhibition Stadium, I remember going to the SkyDome's opening in 1989 (I still have the Domer turtle stuffed animal mascot). It was so revolutionary for its time, and still nothing operates like it today (which is both good and bad). A translucent roof would be incredible - anything to get some real light in there. I wish they could have taken out seating for windows to make it more airy rather than the concrete coffin that it is. But when there's a full crowd, the place can get LOUD.

[@rafabarreda3913]

Living in PHX and going to Dbacks games all my life, Chase Field with the roof open feels like a completely different stadium. Something about having the windows and roof open and feeling the desert breeze during the cool months here in AZ is awesome🙌🏻🙌🏻 it’s a great stadium to go and enjoy a baseball game

[@jonstefanik9400]

My rankings 7.LoanDepot Park 6.Globe Life Field 5. Chase Field 4. Minute Maid Park 3. T-Mobile Park 2. American Family Field 1. SkyDome(Rogers Centre to everyone else)

[@chickenman1917]

The Skydome (Rodgers Centre) was the first retractable roof. All the Americans were saying it couldn't be done right up to the point of the first time they moved the roof. Good Canadian engineering with help from Stelco in developing the steel girders.

[@brothaman007]

It is the first stadium. It is not the first retractable roof. Pittsburgh Mellon Arena has the first retractable roof

[@mikematson6323]

@@brothaman007 One of the original designs submitted for the SkyDome was basically Mellon Arena for baseball. Another was something similar to what the Cowboys have

[@GAlvarado]

T-Mobile Park is fun!! Glad to see it get some love, Go Mariners!

[@jonstefanik9400]

The umbrella is a nice feature to it that's much needed.

[@gregsmith8646]

Rogers Centre roof material is PVC membrane, the lower part of the stadium exterior is concrete.

[@jonstefanik9400]

I don't think any retractable stadium roof is concrete. Just The Kingdome back in the day.

[@terrycullen3302]

Yeah, this guy kept harping on it being concrete and it isn't.

[@marcusf7710]

Rogers Centre’s roof has the most breathtaking opening

[@jonstefanik9400]

No question. It may be the slowest opening because of all the panels but it's the sexiest opening ever. Plus you get a great overhead shot look at it from the CN Tower. The recent ballparks just don't do it for me.

[@julioarmenta1977]

Astros fan here. Typically throughout the regular season, when the weather is considered moderate: 70-85 degrees, they open the roof after sunset. The playoffs, the team prefers the roof closed for the noise, even though the weather is cooler. During the playoffs, if the roof is open, it's a decision from MLB

[@grantfraser6547]

You know the rogers centre roof is not made of concrete

[@brewcityba11er67]

Miller park is a completely different stadium when the roof and sides are open vs when it's closed. However especially early in the season it helps on those cold and rainy April/May days and it's always nice to know when you get tickets for a game, that it will 100% be on no matter the weather

[@vansmack4972]

American Family Field closed up is a dark and sterile venue for a MLB game. I call it The Cave.

[@keith96969]

In Toronto they gotta wait till the weather has been in the 70’s for like 2 weeks. Like next week it will be pretty warm enough for it to be open but the roof will be closed till probably may.

[@BunnEFartz]

Geez dude, Rogers Centre was the first. It was groundbreaking, without it many of the others probably wouldn't exist. Cut it some slack.

[@NoName-zb1gm]

The thing that's nice about T-Mobile is that unlike other parks it's not a box which I hate. It's a regular ballpark with a cover like you said. I like Rogers because the roof is unique and it's not obscenely large and the ballpark looks like a ballpark not just a box. I hate the windows look. That does nothing for me. Chase Field is nice because it closes quickly. It's a simple design.

[@johnholst]

Love your content Ginger! But I really have to disagree with your assessment of these parks. I'm not sure anyone cares what it looks like on the outside. They get to enjoy the game on the inside. Interior comfort, amenities, sightlines and location are far greater concerns to most fans. Rogers Centre is still a good park! The recent "refresh" has made it better than before at least. And the location is pretty much perfect in Toronto.

[@toxdazcubing]

jays fan here, yes, the dome looks bad, but it works just like its supposed to and kt is open for 75% of the time, and the new added led lights they added to the rogers centre, the light shows look sick with the dome closed.

[@jakestar121]

I hope they don’t leave the Rogers Centre, it wouldn’t be the same if they moved to a suburban region away from downtown Toronto. I’m so used to taking the regional train or subway to get to the Rogers Centre and it’s a much better experience than going to stadiums that are in the middle of parking lots

[@PredatorKingdom]

I agree it's in the best location possible, I can't believe the Chicago Bears want to get away from downtown Chicago and move to the burbs. Teams should not be in the burbs especially in the bigger cities. It's so easy to get to Rogers Centre as they should always remain there and just renovate the stadium to today's standards.

[@v_57439]

Video idea: Rank the play by play broadcasters in each league/sport.

[@RedRaiderLobo20]

My ranking would go Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, Toronto, Miami, Texas, Arizona. And I’m a Houston fan when I say that. Miami would be higher if it was ever fucking open. Rogers is an iconic part of that skyline, which brings it up.

[@dugarry500]

Every building: New and shiny - hype is over - its dated - when can I get a new building - old and gross - (and if it survives this timeline) -> old but heritage - there's history here! - finally MLB shines!!!!! It still needs owners who maintain, invest and making updates. What I want to see is a stadium that can evolve with time. We don't all need new stadiums every 25 years. It is only classical, if it survive that 25-50 years old age where everyone want something new, and it isn't old enough to be heritage.

[@JROD809]

Bro can you please include some videos in your videos? I mean come on DG , it feels like a PowerPoint with all these static picture. Why not show a quick video of the roofs opening?!!! That would’ve been helpful! Come one man we love your commentary and insight but your actual video and graphics are lackluster. You can do so much better, we’re rooting for you!

[@Bk6346]

How many of these stadiums have you attended in person?

[@vvslaysnoobs9595]

Best is Miller Park

[@treyross7057]

Faxxx

[@munchinator4000]

agreed. marlins park looks blocky and ugly same with safeco in my opinion

[@vansmack4972]

There is no such stadium.

[@vvslaysnoobs9595]

@@vansmack4972 I ain’t calling it American family field

[@munchinator4000]

@@vansmack4972 that’s the old name for american family field

[@PredatorKingdom]

It's crazy with Rogers Centre because the white top is iconic with the Toronto skyline next to the CN Tower. It's like an igloo type look like the old Civic Center in Pittsburgh. I do think a glass see-through translucent roof is something the stadium needs. I think these days with roofs is that lighting needs to be allowed into these stadiums instead of the darker look. I think if Rogers Centre does the roof they can guarantee a stay there for 12-15 years like you said in the video. I just think they should redo the seating around the stadium and modernize that part of the stadium. T-Mobile Park has the best of having a feel of an open-air stadium when the roof isn't closed. I do think we're going to see more windows and translucent designs with roofs in MLB going forward.

[@brothaman007]

The problem with a translucent roof, would be ice falling from the CN tower. There is not a lot of clear material that would not fry the people below in the summer, and still be strong enough to prevent ice from 100 stories above from cracking it.

[@PredatorKingdom]

@@brothaman007 Nah they use new technology to keep the glass from breaking, it's not regular glass.

[@brothaman007]

False. This is the specific reason they have not installed the glass. Unlike most places, there is not too many that are going to get chunks of ice falling from anywhere close to the height of the CN Tower, that is the key difference. They have had holes in the dome roof right now from ice.

[@PredatorKingdom]

@@brothaman007 False on your end, that glass will not break, like I said before they use new technology now where it's super thick glass that doesn't shatter like regular glass does, so even a chunk of ice will not shatter it. The current roof is not as strong as these newer translucent roofs are these days. The one that happened in 2018, is on the current roof which is not that strong.

[@aidankeys8534]

I believe the Rogers Centre is getting that roof upgrade in the 2nd or 3rd phase of renovations, this past off-season being just the first.

[@ThomasJM]

They just replaced it a few years ago they don't have any plans to make it clear at all.

[@marklittle8805]

The worst looking roof isn't concrete ...it is steel. It was the first one on this scale. It changed the stadium game. It has that look to ensure the roof never is in play. The slagging of the Rogers Centre is like slagging Wrigley for having a brick outfield wall..... In the end, Minute Maid and Globe Life are both ugly .. but hey, slag the OG of retractable roof stadiums

[@markcovington9195]

Should've named the Marlins ballpark Orange Bowl Park since it sits on the site where the Orange Bowl used to be.

[@bamesbamesbames]

T-Mobile Park sitting next to Lumen Field is a pleasant array of arches.

[@randomman3321]

When the roof is on at T Mobile Park, it actually adds a few degrees

[@misterfunnybones]

Rogers Center is the best because where else can you get RUSH beer & meet Geddy Lee.

[@adanalyst6925]

roofed stadiums look so depressing to be inside. But I’ve never been to one. And im sure you have a different opinion after being outside in the Arizona heat, then going to a nice air-conditioned stadium

[@jonathanphillips-yakym3646]

Imagine they put a dome on wrigley…. They’re was renders

[@williamhild1793]

Skydome is the only retractable roof stadium that looks cool. Every other one looks dumb. Milwaukee is the worst.

[@Art_V101]

The Brewers stadium has no A/C so if its closed its cause it's too cold,if it's too hot you gotta have it open or people die of heat stroke

[@packerbrewerbuck]

True. If they have to close it during the summer it's for rain and they leave the outfield panels open to allow some airflow. Unless it's raining heavy sideways and then they close it up and it becomes unbearably humid and uncomfortable. Only happens a couple games a year though at most

[@jordantibbetts8470]

They actually can make it 30 degrees colder or warmer than the outside temp

[@packerbrewerbuck]

@jordantibbetts8470 As someone who's familiar with the stadium planning and been to almost 1000 games there the main seating area and playing field do not have air conditioning. They sometimes will run the fans behind the seats to keep air moving but it would have been way more money at the time to install air conditioning units at the stadium that would have been needed less then 10 times a year if that. The club level concourse, Leinies Barrel restaurant and what used to be the 300 club are air conditioned as well as sometimes the stores. Every place in the stadium can be heated though, correct. I don't think many of the bathrooms have air conditioning either. That's why even if it's 90 plus degrees, humid and sun bearing down the roof will be open

[@NoName-zb1gm]

Maybe this is the issue that Manfred has with the stadium.

[@dcarter1023]

How we #6 smh we had the first retractable roof in the league right ?

[@spagbol525]

With GlobeLife looking like a grill - it's Texas, of course they have to relate it to a barbecue

[@jonstefanik9400]

Looks like a barn to me

[@reesejabs788]

I don't care how it looks - Globe Life Field's retractable roof is the best thing to happen to the Ranger's.

[@postal1911]

My order using your ranking…… 1,5,6,2,3,4,7

[@CarlosVazquez-p4c]

Best or worst looking, they all served a purpose. They need to put an Astrodome on Montréal s Olympic stadium 🏟 😤 😒.

[@wckdaintgood]

I personally think Milwaukee has the best retractable stadium in the league

[@MrCubsfan3]

Imo I like the design of MMP

[@Kenyon712]

Your opinion. We all have one.

[@samus4040]

Some people just can’t be pleased.

[@Jimirulz1]

Seattle's ballparks looks the best.

[@knightfall209]

I’m surprised the Oakland coliseum wasn’t worse one in this vid just for 💩 and giggles 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@al1976-v7m]

Man you have such a weird way of talking, but i guess that's part of your act.

[@2jsalomon]

dude i know. like, i want to watch the content bc im a stadium nerd myself...but damn...his voice and cadence sometimes makes me literally switch to doing something else. Its like he overly opens his mouth when talking to overpronunciate and over dramaticize it lol. Like an annoying minor league announcer

[@RhinoXpress]

2:03 they need to redo that upper deck and take out a good portion of it and put bars and stuff up there like modern stadiums are doing now with their upper decks.

[@zach_gates67]

That’s literally what they just did

[@RhinoXpress]

@@zach_gates67 no they didn't. They just remodeled the outfield section.

[@hockeyguy1998]

@@RhinoXpress not true

[@RhinoXpress]

@@hockeyguy1998 what isn't

[@good_teanice_house6789]

@@RhinoXpress get your facts straight. Thats what they did.

[@Daniel-pc8gb]

MIAMI ON TOP BABY!🫶🏼

[@pizzaman8918]

That’s the only thing we will be first at for a long time

[@Daniel-pc8gb]

@@pizzaman8918 yeh ik that’s the only thing I love, the stadium itself cuz the team trash💀

[@s.n.9485]

Globe Life field looks hideous from the outside. It looks like an old industrial warehouse, and not in a good way like the Colts stadium. It's ugly like the Spurs arena.

[@nichothepolish9868]

Olympic stadium?

[@jonstefanik9400]

They tried

[@mikematson6323]

It was a retractable roof that wasn't retractable. Between issues with the motors and the mechanism, they couldn't get it to successfully work. At different times the roof was added and removed for long periods of time..

[@dvferyance]

No longer an active stadium.

[@hawlikd]

Sky Dome!

[@tupacleahy]

You lip smack like crazy yeeeeesh. Besides that decent vid

[@JL-yz6rb]

Indoor baseball is awful