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Rick has never written a serious thing in his life, some of which can be found at ESPN the Magazine, McSweeney's, Radar Magazine, Deadspin, Flak Magazine and The Morning News. The rest can be found here. He lives in Los Angeles, is a White Sox fan, and maintains a personal blog.
Let’s start 2010 with a bang!
Last week marked the final time that the doors of the iconic (if otherwise ugly) Metrodome stadium in Minnesota were open. With workers packing up their boxes, janitors turning off the lights, and some fateful soul being the final person to lock the doors, it ends the Minnesota Twins 28-year-long reign inside of the Metrodome. But instead of being a somber day, let’s instead look at it as a celebration. A celebration of blowing the fuck out of stadiums!
Kingdome, Seattle, 2000:
Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, 2001:
Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, 2002:
Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia, 2004:
RCA Dome, Indianapolis, 2008:
Rick, that’s an awesome collection of implosions you got there. A few years ago they imploded a whole city block downtown to make room for a new mall. I was about 2 miles away watching it live on tv and also viewing it from my porch. I’ll never forget that dust cloud that made it to our house, we had to run inside and close all the windows.