The More Things Change...

The Texas Rangers will be moving out of 26-year old Globe Life Park at the end of the season to take up residence at Globe Life Field.  What’s the difference, you ask?  Well, the field has a retractable roof and air-conditioning.

According to the Rangers’ website, GLP was designed to cool off fans with something called a breeze; the park was designed to breathe, if you will.  Unfortunately, an alteration, as in $$$ suite project, killed the breeze, so to speak.  Rather than tear down that wall, the Rangers are building a $1.1 billion replacement—in a public/private partnership, nudge, nudge, wink, wink—to seat all of 40,000 people.

I bet air-conditioned GLF will have a real small carbon footprint.  Just kidding.