Mark Kriegel wrote an article today about Barry Bonds’ visit to Dodger Stadium, and this is one of the paragraphs:

Dodger Stadium is endowed with an almost Zen-like beauty. To their everlasting credit, the people who run it don’t feel a need to abuse the fans and impair their hearing by blasting “YMCA” or “Cotton Eye Joe” over the sound system. The Dodgers have the greatest announcer in Vin Scully, and a wonderful, mellifluous organist in Nancy Bea Hefley. The fans, for their part, remain a remarkably civil lot, despite the many provocations of traffic going in and out of Chavez Ravine.

He must have used a time machine to go back to 1995 or something, because Dodger Stadium does play that loud music, and you don’t get to hear the organist very often anymore. Or maybe other ballparks are just worse? As I alluded to in a previous post, I wish Dodger Stadium would return to it’s more pure state, not this corrupted version.