In case you can't read the text in the image above, we quote it here:
Coors Field: Home of the Rockies
On Aug. 16, 1990, almost a year before baseball awarded Colorado an expansion team, voters from the six-county Denver area approved a 0.1 percent sales tax to fund a baseball-only stadium. The ballpark's total cost was $215 million.
Architects originally designed the park to seat 43,800. However, after fans set dozens of attendance records at Mile High Stadium (1993-94), Rockies ownership paid to increase inaugural Opening Day capacity to 50,200. In 1998, capacity was increased to 50,381 after the opening of new suites in right field. That year saw Coors host baseball's 69th All-Star Game. The park currently seats 50,445 fans.
The 76-acre ballpark stands at 20th and Blake streets in Denver's lower downtown ("LoDo") district. Fans sitting in the first-base and right-field areas are treated to a spectacular view of the Rocky Mountains. Every year since it opened in 1995, Coors has been a league leader in attendance. On a clear Saturday night when the temperature is 72 degrees and 23 percent humidity, there isn't a better place on Earth.
Most of the stadium seats are green. However, the upper deck's 20th row is painted purple, signifying exactly one mile above sea level.
End of Quote from http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/col/ballpark/index.jsp
Did you notice the parts that were outdated? Well, anyone who has attended a game at Coors Field in the last two or three years would know that the "spectacular view of the Rocky Mountains" has been replaced by the less-than-that view of some high-rise apartment buildings or condos.
Next, the statement "Every year since it opened in 1995, Coors has been a league leader in attendance hasn't been true for several years, in fact, not even in the ballpark, so to speak, as they finished 13th in 2008, which was a World Series-based improvement from 2007.
Lastly, the statement "On a clear Saturday night when the temperature is 72 degrees and 23 percent humidity, there isn't a better place on Earth" sounds great, but probably doesn't happen more than once per season, if that. It's usually hotter than that, and drier, and because the idiots aligned the stadium for that mountain view that doesn't even exist any more, the sun is usually shining right in your - and the player's - eyes until the fourth or fifth inning.
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Actually, this is not completely true. If you sit in the upper decks in the home plate and down the right field line, you can see over the buildings and get a pretty decent view of the mountains. For now, because they are trying to build another 14 story building out there, but this time a lawsuit has been filed to attempt to preserve what little view is left.
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