Tropicana Field Somehow Keeps Finding New Ways to Be Even Shittier

Tropicana Field is a dumpster of a Major League ballpark. This is news to no one, of course; I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been campaigning for years to get this place torn down. All of the obvious things that make it a terrible place for baseball have been well documented. But somehow, unbelievably, fresh examples of its shittiness continue to unveil themselves to us even today.

Case in point: last night's game between Trop tenants the Tampa Bay Rays and their guests, the New York Yankees. With the Rays trailing 3-1 as the top of the ninth inning was just beginning, play was delayed because of..a power outage. Which lasted 43 minutes. Rays pitcher Austin Pruitt had thrown one pitch to Thairo Estrada before the delay; when play finally resumed, Estrada took him deep on the second pitch after the restart. The Yankees would go on to score four runs in the inning to blow the game open, and it finished 7-1.

Now, Tropicana Field is obviously not the only major sporting venue that has suffered a power outage. The Superdome in New Orleans famously lost power for an extended period during Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, to name one instance that stands out in recent memory. But last night's power outage at the Trop is just another reminder of what a tragic joke of a ballpark that place is. I pray every night to the Baseball Gods for the day that Major League baseball is no longer played at Tropicana Field. Hopefully that day is getting closer.