Article: Petco Park: top-notch, but no splash hit: newspaper review says New San Diego ballpark 'evokes Aztec ruins' more than it does baseball.(Opinion)

Editor's note: San Diego seems proud of its new downtown ballpark, but some in San Francisco take exception to the comparisons made with the Giants' own five-year-old urban baseball stadium. Is Petco better than SBC (formerly Pac Bell) Park? Here's a view from one Bay Area journalist:

It's bad enough that the San Francisco Giants' two top pitchers are in dubious health and our ballpark's name is now a set of initials. Now, another California city has unveiled an even newer field of dreams--one claiming to be no less than "the world's best ballpark."

But rest easy, San Francisco. The pride of McCovey Cove still takes the honors, if not in the entire ...

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