Every MLB stadium ranked from worst to best
By Kareem Gantt
27. Marlins Park — Miami Marlins
It can be lonely on a spaceship.
When looking at Marlins Park and attending a game there, that’s the feeling that washes over you, and it doesn’t leave until you’re heading for the parking lot. Built on top of the grave of the iconic Orange Bowl, Marlins Park is considered one of the biggest con jobs ever pulled on the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County.
Where do we begin with this spaceship?
Well, for starters, the design is the weirdest in all of MLB, maybe even all of sports, period. It looks like a spaceship ran out of gas and parked right in the middle of Little Havana, crushing the Orange Bowl in the process. Then, there’s the outright disturbing sculpture located in right-center field. The $2.5 million “Home Run” sculpture looks less like a home run and more like something Flipper would throw up if he ever saw this park.
What makes this stadium even worse is that management has yet to field a winning on-field product, which has resulted in — you guessed it — fans not showing up for the games. So for half the summer, Marlins Park resembles an empty spaceship that, for the few folks who are there, plays home to hideous baseball, and an even more hideous “sculpture,” in a hideous-looking stadium. The only reason why Marlins Park isn’t the worst is that it has some pretty cool amenities, including an outpost of the Clevelander, a place where fans can drink away the feeling of being inside Marlins Park watching terrible baseball.