As promised,
here is a
2p2 thread with some pics of my opening series visit to Busch
They were taken with a mid-line 4.0 megapixel digital camera.
My general observations on Busch:
pros:
fans are much much closer to the action-the stadium goes up much more than out
good sightlines
lots of room to roam--wide aisles and concourses
no longer have to circle the ramps up...nice
plenty of standing room in good locations
$8.25 for a 24 oz draft beer (good by modern stadium standards)
$4.50 footlong corndog is good too
kept much of the old charm...dugouts with pennants and WS titles, Stan the Man statue, old scoreboard, etc
cons:
didn't like the asymmetry between first base and third base lines
sucks that left field isn't finished yet
big aisles and asymmetry create a sort of fragmentation of the crowd