Good modern stadium, was the best when it opened.

Solid, above average park in every way.

A huge improvement over their old park, Municipal Stadium. That was built at a time when The Indians had a strong, contending team, and it was absolutely huge. Only perhaps Comiskey Park was as bad of a stadium for the old school parks when I was a kid. The Indians were generally awful then, and the cavernous place was so empty that it seemed like the mausoleum for some titanic, ancient evil creature from an HP Lovecraft story. Sometimes, if such a list actually existed, there would be more traffic on a frigging Bananarama weblist on this site than there was in that stadium, I mean tomb.

great sitelines, food and beer

Jacobs Field is the best damn ballpark out there!!!

The drummer gives new meaning to mistake by the lake. Somehow I can't expect anyone drumming during a game -- except in Cleveland.

Jacobs Field is a good looking, well designed ball-park that offers everything the best stadiums do without seeming like an amusement park. It has the largest free-standing scoreboard in baseball, the most unique light stacks, representing Cleveland's industrial heritage, it has a mini-green monster out in left (which is better because it's not as ridiculous as the actual green monster), it is the only stadium with three bullpen mounds instead of two, and it has John Adams, the drum guy who is THE MAN... he can single handedly get the crowd roaring. Take a look, most of the "bad reviews" are from Pittsburgh fans (surprise surprise) or people from Baltimore, who are just upset Jacob's Field one-upped Camden Yards!

Easily the best baseball stadium in America!

I have been to various ballparks and I have always come away feeling that Jacobs Field is the best.

I earned my B.A. near Cleveland and managed to visit this ballpark once. (My buddy worked for a PR firm - there was no way to get tickets in the late 90's) Jacob's Field is a first-class ballpark with great views from almost every seat. It's also convenient to downtown Cleveland and a great bar district. Wonderful baseball and nightlife experience.

Love the Jake definite improvement over municipal stadium although i have many great memories there also

Great park. Miles ahead of Municipal although I had a great time at both. Clevelanders should be proud.

I love the place,but did they have to have all those $%$Y%$^ level after $#$#$%%$ level of luxury suites? It puts the upper deck too damn high up and away!If only there was some way to remove them and make the upper deck closer to the field - you know ,like a baseball park!

I live in Cleveland and have been to the Jake between 30 and 40 times; I really like the place. I think that their $12 bleacher tickets are one of the best values in baseball, with the only drawbacks being that you can't see the state of the art scoreboard system (just added in 2004) or the nice view of Cleveland. All of the seats are pretty good with the exception of the upper deck outfield ones (I've never sat in them, but I imagine that it's difficult to get into the action from up there). I've been to a few sold-out games there; the atmosphere when the Tribe is good (or even decent) is electric. I always enjoy looking up at the toothbrush lights as I drive by.

This a nice new stadium that the Indians really needed because Cleveland Stadium, the mistake by the lake as it was known, was just a total dump.

Good park.

A park that needs no corny attractions such as Pac Bell and Minute Maid. A real ballpark not an amusement park.

It's clean and friendly, but there is nothing special about it at all. It felt like any team could play there (you know...insert team here type of a thing). Just very generic.

Beats the mistake by the lake, thats for sure

If I would have gone there five years ago I would have been impressed. They did not look toward the future of ballparks when building this. If you sit in the last row of the upper deck, you are as far a way, if not farther away than you would be in the round cookie cutter ballparks of the 70's.(gotta make room for those 4 rows of luxury boxes.....) Also the concourses reminsd me of the hallways in my old high school. Free tickets? Sure I would go. Pay? Never!!!! Wait till the tribe starts to suck again. The place will be half-empty anyway. Go to PNC in Pittsburgh. The place will be half-empty too. But at least they're consistent. And who could blame us. 100 losses?! Pat Meares and Derek Bell?! But the ballpark makes it all worth it!!!!!

Not bad, but definitely not too great. It looks just like Camden, upper deck has to be one of the farthest from the field in baseball. It represents all that is wrong with Retro parks.

This park was refreshingly novel at the time it was built, but now it just seems generic -- a not-very-memorable variation on the "retro" idea. Sure the amenities are nothing to complain about, and the design does have a few interesting quirks as do all parks of its type; however, it does lack the big "attention getter" -- the signature feature that really stands out and sets a park apart from the others -- like the Green Monster at Fenway, the warehouse at Camden Yards, the ivy-covered walls at Wrigley, bay view at Pac Bell, the left-field arches at Enron, the yellow bridge at PNC, the white edifice spanning center field at Arlington, etc. Also I'm not crazy about the big gaudy scoreboard (almost as bad as the one in Detroit), nor the layer upon layer of suites that push the upper deck up to the stratosphere.

It's okay, I guess. The sightlines suck in someparts of the stands, the lines take forever to get anything, the ushers arent very helpful and its just an average park. Goto Pittsburgh and see a for real ballyard! Lets go Bucs! Cleveland sucks!(hahha, luv that Cleveland/pittsburgh rivalery!)

A tremendous success for Cleveland baseball. But not as good as Camden Yards.

The Jake represents everything really great about the history and the future of the game of baseball. It is fan friendly and while sitting in the stands on a hot summer night watching the Indians win in the bottom of the ninth...it is pretty hard to believe you are in Cleveland!

The Jake is really beautiful when it's lit up at night. When you drive by at night, something about the place makes you feel like you just have to stop and go in. I also like that the exterior design looks different from all the other retro parks, with the white steel and yellow brick instead of the usual red/green Fenway spinoffs.

Excellent park and design! It's remarkable, what the Jake has done for the Flats and Cleveland! Only problem is there's no ^%#@#^^ seats left before the season starts! Memo to Cleveland:HOLD BACK SOME TICKETS FOR DAY OF GAME!!!

To be blunt, camdem yards pulled up a bunch of its seats so it can do what cleveland did by angling the seats toward the action, other parks put a "kidsland" in for the tots to play after the Jake came up with it first and it sits it the heart of downtown! The park is simply great.

Best of all the new stadiums , Who would have known this could have been a great baseball town??

Cleveland bought their fans back with this stadium. Where were all of these 'great' fans when they were playing at the Mistake? Jacobs is a nice stadium though. Cleveland rots! Cleveland rots!(referring to its fans, not the city itself).

Great ballpark! Even have their own beer ... plus about 40 others. The best fans in baseball fill every seat for every game. Hard to get tickets but worth the experience! Go Tribe. Very sorry to see Mike Hargrove leave.

Sure beats an empty Municipal Stadium!