People hate change. You look at Camden Yards in Baltimore and think who would be against something like that? I lived in Baltimore when Camden Yards was first proposed and there was a lot of opposition. There was newspaper columnist, John Steadman, who made it his mission to kill the idea. They all swore Memorial Stadium was just fine. Located in the middle of a residential neighborhood on 33rd St, it had all the charm of the ol' Rockpile in Buffalo. Even worse, parking was so scarce they would park cars bumper-to-bumper and door-to-door. If your car was in the middle somewhere you were trapped until a a lane to the street opened. And people wanted to preserve that.