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Why Your Stadium Sucks: Turner Field

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HurtsSoGood
09/29/09

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Atlanta has been brought to you by the Coca-Cola Company since 1886.
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FlakJack
09/25/09

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Standing O for Jerome from Decatur. (And a fried chicken breast offering to his Cow God).
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Hellskitchen49
09/25/09

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"I hate the kiss cam. My senior year, some friends and I took a trip to ATL. I had brought a lady friend to the park after finals, so of course her nights were pretty free plays into the Southern hatred of things different (read in Southern drawl: queer) by showing two guys of the away team, but alas, my college roommate from Colorado wore a Todd Helton Tennessee throwback (I know, I didn't know they made them either) and I didn't wear any John Rocker stuff . SO, who ends up on the Jumbotron, yep. And yep, I get told by the date girl, "Oh, I didn't know you were gay!" - yeah, FML. Poor Southern girl, didn't know it wasn't the Gay Cam. So, yeah, the whole night I had planned in the hotel took a little longer to happen because I was the gay friend thanks to Liberty Media for stealing the team from Ted Turner and the Kiss Cam. But you know, maybe, in the end, I win."

Can someone translate this paragraph into English? What is this gay douchebag saying?
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HurtsSoGood
09/29/09

@Hellskitchen49: Gee, your comment makes the main article, and you still have the green checkmark of n00bness next to it? Let me square you away, bro.
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Clarence Rosario
09/25/09

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I lived in Atlanta when The Ted opened -- saw the last game, ever, at the old Fulton County Stadium. Lived close enough to wake up one morning, mix a bloody mary and walk a few blocks to watch them demo the joint.

The one original concept The Ted introduced to the world would be the notion of the overpriced bar/restaurant lurking in the outfield. The Chop House begat New Yankee Stadium.

Protip: don't walk home through Grant Park in 1997 after the game.
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Clarence Rosario
09/25/09

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And here I thought the Tool Race was Yankee fans rushing to the D train after games...
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Gourmet Spud
09/25/09

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So, yeah, the whole night I had planned in the hotel took a little longer to happen...

Major League ballparks - always with the temporary cock-blocking.
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SpecialAgentOrange
09/25/09

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Why Your Stadium Sucks: Turner Field

Otherwise known as a convenient excuse for Craggs and Co. to bash Southerners. Because, of course, those Southerners all like to stereotype and discriminate against other people.
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We Are All Lance Uppercut
09/25/09

@SpecialAgentOrange:

But, in stereotyping and discriminating against "Craggs and Co." for (somehow) stereotyping and discriminating against Southerners for (presumably) stereotyping and discriminating, haven't you become what you set out to destroy???

Or maybe you're just remarkably thin-skinned, and the "aren't you being intolerant ... of intolerance?" gambit is as clever as you get.
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SpecialAgentOrange
09/25/09

@We Are All Lance Uppercut: You say "potato", I say "hypocrisy".
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Torgo's Executive Powder
09/25/09

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I'm part Poarch Creek Indian so first of all, we pretty much screwed the Cherokee out of Georgia with some help from Andrew Jackson and fuck, implicit racism is marketing GOLD for Indians who run casinos - and well, hey there is a Golden Moon Casino Level - of Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians fame - so maybe Chief Nokahoma never really left, he just got a job at the Casino?

What is your tribal name? Chief Runs With Sentence?
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Silent Q
09/25/09

@Torgo's Executive Powder: I, for one, appreciate that he abbreviated "ATL" and "FML". It really would have been too wordy if he hadn't.
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David Hume
09/25/09

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we pretty much screwed the Cherokee out of Georgia

At last, the long awaited explanation for why she spent the rest of her life painting yoni.
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Tommy Craggs
09/25/09

@David Hume: Wow.
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SavetoFavorites
09/25/09

@David Hume: Wowee. +1.
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MattinglysSideburns
09/25/09

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...the park is named for Ted Turner.

As it is a park in the South, I just assumed it was commemorating the execution of Nat.
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SavetoFavorites
09/25/09

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A shot with a full profile of left field, and only a partial, obstructed view of the balancing right-field area.

Figures, Craggs.
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Gravy
09/25/09

@SavetoFavorites: How trite.
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SavetoFavorites
09/25/09

@Gravy: More "pandering" than "hacky," I'd say.
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