Reds and Braves to play at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2025

[Jumper_Dad]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5684541/2024/08/06/braves-reds-game-bristol-motor-speedway-2025/

Bristol Motor Speedway, one of NASCAR’s most iconic tracks, will host a regular season MLB game between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds in 2025, multiple sources briefed on the plans told The Athletic on Tuesday.

Bristol has hosted college football in the past with Tennessee playing VA Tech and they've covered the pavement turning the NASCAR races there into dirt track races. They are open to trying anying to attract fans and sell tickets, kudos to them for trying this. I hope the media puts a huge push behind this and really makes this a big event.

[theguru]

[nkypete]

Any word on who the home team would be?

[Jumper_Dad]

10 hours ago, nkypete said:

Any word on who the home team would be?

I'd bet the Braves, but have zero to base that on...but Tennessee is much more Braves country than Reds country.

[bugatti]

19 hours ago, theguru said:

I guess it’d be cool to say you were there, but that looks like a horrible fan experience. 

Will they come near the 150,000 capacity number?

[theguru]

1 hour ago, bugatti said:

I guess it’d be cool to say you were there, but that looks like a horrible fan experience. 

Will they come near the 150,000 capacity number?

I agree, it looks horrible. Baseball is boring enough as it is, add a bad venue to that and I would rather eat lint. 

[nkypete]

Bristol has some cool flyovers.  That would be fun to see that.

[Voice of Reason]

5 hours ago, theguru said:

I agree, it looks horrible. Baseball is boring enough as it is, add a bad venue to that and I would rather eat lint. 

Baseball is boring if you think the only action is when a ball is hit. If you consider the strategy and action happening every pitch, not boring at all - especially with the new clock rules.

[theguru]

1 minute ago, Voice of Reason said:

Baseball is boring if you think the only action is when a ball is hit. If you consider the strategy and action happening every pitch, not boring at all - especially with the new clock rules.

The clock rules make it better and I probably watched more baseball this year than the last three years combined but it is football season now. 

[Tranquility Base]

I don't mind games played at old parks like the game at Rickwood.  Also didn't mind the Field of Dreams games because of it's connection with baseball.   This just seems pointless though.   Unless the goal is to draw a record number of fans, why break up the intimacy that smaller ballparks bring.

As to who is the home team, it all depends on who the home team is for that series.   Like when the Reds and the Cubs were in the FOD game.  Iowa is much closer to Chicago than Cincy, but the Reds were hosting that series and all the other games were at GABP, so they were the home team in the FOD game.

[theguru]

[Tranquility Base]

1 hour ago, theguru said:

Is that 800ft to dead center?   LOL.   Has that Polo Grounds vibe, without the Say Hey Kid manning CF.

[Crazy Legs]

Why do bad baseball players with no power want to play at a NASCAR venue?

Because they want to hit a ball on the track! lol

[Jumper_Dad]

This is a photo that BMS released.

[sportsfan41]

This sounds like a fun idea that could end up being a disaster of an event, especially if the weather doesn't cooperate.