$4 million Renovations to Taylor Stadium Completed

The pic in that planned renovation looks cool. I like that M I Z Z O U and that brick.

The ball park looks like shite, it's a joke. Get some brick in there, add some character. Those tin bleachers they added on the 3rd base side look terrible.

That said, you can't blame the grass on anybody. It's just not possible with the weather right now.

I agree, it does look worse. I'm not sure where the 4 million went. (I wonder if some of that was for the new clubhouse, which we wouldn't be able to see in those pics).

Having a nice little character filled ballpark with plenty of brick would seem like the easiest thing to build on campus. For the life of me I don't get why we don't have a cool little ballpark.

These pics make me even more nervous about the additions to Faurot. The hill needed to be moved in, but for the extreme cost they didn't move it in enough. They should have scrapped the track.

Seeing some of the images of the new luxury boxes, with the white couches and the strange noise deflectors that don't cover the entire upper deck, I'm worried that Alden's lack of taste will rub off on the stadium.

This is a better picture of what was suppose to happen, and again nothing like the purposed plan

Precisely why Mizzou fans can't get behind the Mizzou baseball program no coverage for the games on T.V. or radio, no support from the athletic department, and taking shortcuts on renovations.



At least there is hope for the Royals this season, and even though they have one of the cheapest owners in all of the major sports they do have one of the most amazing ballparks to watch a game.

I believe somewhere it said only 600 seats were added along the left field line.

Yeah, I did notice that too.

If that was the case I wish they built what they proposed with bleachers above it, wrapping around from the existing bleachers.

Or reverse, with the bleachers at field level.

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I agree, it does look worse. I'm not sure where the 4 million went. (I wonder if some of that was for the new clubhouse, which we wouldn't be able to see in those pics).

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I don't think that much if any of it was going to be noticed by fans. My understanding is that a majority of it was for the clubhouse/offices. The players no longer need to walk across the football field to get to the field. I think there's an indoor hitting facility now connected to the stadium. The players amenities are supposed to be pretty damn nice. All things you aren't going to see from that pic.

Having said that, the field and the stadium is a joke. We've talked about it before and I'm not sure where you put it, but they just need a whole new stadium. It's near impossible to do much with the current stadium with how it is crammed in between everything else.

As for the grass, get rid of the artificial stuff. Looks bad. The grass itself, remember, it was covered in snow not much more than a week ago. Kind of hard for anything to turn green in this weather. Even when the snow melted, I'm sure that field was just saturated. Hard to work on, if at all.

Honestly I've played on a better baseball field

Are those not chairs being installed in that new section down the left field line?

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Are those not chairs being installed in that new section down the left field line?

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Not sure if it's chairs or bench seating, but apparently the construction isn't done and probably won't be done until the season is almost over. Still bottom of the barrel in the SEC if you ask me.