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Off the Boulevard 

Why a new ballpark doesn’t help the city, and is better suited for the suburbs.

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Say what you want about The Diamond — a spindly, spiderlike and top-heavy structure — but it's impossible to pass the ballpark without being drawn to its eye-catching concrete forms. And on game days, the energy flow is contagious when the…

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