Marlins Park is Way Cool, In At Least One Respect

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Major League Baseball's Marlins have a new name (Miami, not Florida), a new look and new cheerleaders. The team went out and acquired new talent in the off-season. But all that pales in comparison to its new home, Marlins Park, which has seen more scrutiny than all of the above in the long lead-up to its official debut tonight, when Miami hosts the defending world champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Back in June 2010, representatives from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took issue with plans to showcase two aquariums totaling more than 1,000 gallons of salt water in the field-level wall surrounding home plate. Last month, the Miami Herald polled online readers for their opinion on the ornate home-run sculpture behind the left-centerfield fence. Nearly 72 percent of 1,841 respondents called it "horrible," while slightly more than 12 percent consider the sculpture "slightly less than horrible."

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