FTFA: 13. [of 14 respondents] Atlanta Braves -- 0.892 toilets per 100 seats

They should rip out the unused sinks and install more toilets at Turner Field.

I see the A's are dead last, by far, at 0.669 toilets per 100 seats. However, the Coliseum has urinal *troughs* in the mens' restrooms. Is a trough counted as only 1 toilet? Each trough can accommodate three persons.

Good question; Wrigley has troughs too. First time I saw them I was flabbergasted, as I was pretty sure we were well into the 20th century and all.

As anyone who's attended a playoff game this fall realizes, there's also a class dynamic in all parks. When an upper deck sells out, there isn't nearly enough restroom capacity. The box-seat patrons get to pee with Pittsburgh-like convenience, but the cheap seats are a real Oakland in urinal terms.

20th century

21st?

He may have gone over 10 years ago - the sentiment would still hold.

However, the Coliseum has urinal *troughs* in the mens' restrooms. Is a trough counted as only 1 toilet? Each trough can accommodate three persons.

Wow, o.k., I'm going to show my ignorance here(living overseas and all), but don't most men's public facilities have urinal troughs? I can't think of any large pub/stadium/school/hall etc. facility in Australia that doesn't have urinal troughs.

Wow, o.k., I'm going to show my ignorance here(living overseas and all), but don't most men's public facilities have urinal troughs? I can't think of any large pub/stadium/school/hall etc. facility in Australia that doesn't have urinal troughs.

well, australia's not really a country, so it's hard to compare the two.

well, australia's not really a country, so it's hard to compare the two.

It's a country all right- a country for criminals.

Wow, o.k., I'm going to show my ignorance here(living overseas and all), but don't most men's public facilities have urinal troughs? I can't think of any large pub/stadium/school/hall etc. facility in Australia that doesn't have urinal troughs.

Pretty much everything built since 1980 has individual urinals, at least in my experience.

Oakland is 2.44 American Standard deviations below the mean.

Wow, o.k., I'm going to show my ignorance here(living overseas and all), but don't most men's public facilities have urinal troughs? I can't think of any large pub/stadium/school/hall etc. facility in Australia that doesn't have urinal troughs.

I just gained an enormous insight into why you people are the way you are.

Dodger Stadium also has troughs I believe.

I think we'd need to know the breakdown of urinals vs. toilets, as well as the breakdown of men's toilets vs. women's toilets, to properly evaluate these statistics.

Legend seat-holders wear gold plated diapers.

Pittsburgh Pirates -- 1.89 toilets per 100 seats

Wow, that's about 3 restrooms for each fan! How many bathrooms in Exposition Park?

Pretty much everything built since 1980 has individual urinals, at least in my experience.

When Purdue redid Ross-Ade Stadium, they eliminated the troughs and put in urinals. On the non-student side we went from basically never having a meaningful wait (even though the restrooms were incredibly tiny, having been constructed before the upper half of the stadium existed) to now standing in lines of 10-15 people. Well, the wait did get sort of bad in 2000...particularly at halftime of the IU game, but now we are back down to no meaningful wait thanks to having fewer than 40,000 bothering to show up.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway still has troughs. I can't imagine what would happen if they installed urinals. Well, I suppose I can...not sure if half the people at the race would know how to use them, and the other half wouldn't bother to flush.

At the Giants game yesterday, I was really lamenting the demise of the trough.

Is a trough counted as only 1 toilet? Each trough can accommodate three persons.

Lying head-to-toe, or all in a pile?

Shoulder to shoulder... eyes straight ahead.

What the #### is a urinal trough? Is it what I'm thinking?

The obligatory urinal trough video:

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What the #### is a urinal trough? Is it what I'm thinking?

Yes. Yes it is.

The obligatory urinal trough video:

My life was a richer and fuller place before I watched that.

Angel Stadium has urinals, Dodger Stadium still has metal troughs. Duchamp is not impressed.

Can anybody articulate the anti-trough position to me? I don't get it. Trough = less time waiting to pee. Point, trough.

#4: Indeed, as any woman who's had the misfortune of sitting in the upper deck at Target Field this year knows all too well. (Especially in April and May, especially when all the school groups are there and the open space in the bathrooms becomes clogged with tween girls who are only in there because it is warm.)

The upper deck doesn't even have to sell out in some parks.

I suppose the only thing about the Metrodome that I miss is that I finally learned the trick for not having to wait in the ridiculous lines at nearly every women's bathroom in the place...walking down to the section with the folded football seats and using those bathrooms.

Can anybody articulate the anti-trough position to me? I don't get it. Trough = less time waiting to pee. Point, trough.

Aside from their complete lack of privacy, the troughs are always running, so (potentially, I don't know how it actually breaks down) more wasted water.

i am glad us grrrls don't have to use troughs is all i can say

surprised that the astros wouldn't give numbers, but there is almost never a wait of more than a few minutes at the women's rooms and that is really only after the game. almost never lines during. and that was true when we were selling out the games.

actually there are very few bathrooms in the club and suite levels and you have to walk around to find em

The next team topping the list of high-ranked restrooms was the Chicago White Sox with 1.69 toilets per 100 seats at US Cellular Field.

Let's Go, Go-Go Sox!

Also, if some douche clogs a urinal, it's no big deal. A clogged trough is a disaster.

@26

Who flushes a urinal? If it's yellow, it's mellow. Brown? Flush it down.

#27--Considering all the complaints I usually hear about the dodgy men's toilet facilities at Wrigley, I wonder how bad the women's are. (Not like I expect an answer here...we're down to 3 posters who admit to being female?) I've never really been in a horrible women's restroom at any MLB ballpark. Milwaukee County Stadium was just old and reminded me of the bathrooms at my junior high, which were of a similar vintage and condition. The Dome just didn't have enough of them.

we're down to 3 posters who admit to being female?

Down? I think three is the new BBTF high.

...the Pittsburgh Pirates were best at [...] providing approximately 1.89 toilets for every 100 seats at PNC Park.

There's a "most toilets" and "Pittsburgh baseball" joke in there somewhere, I just can't find it.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cover/2005/cover1007.html

Oct. 7–13, 2005
Rich Fan, Poor Fan
by Josh Levin

Washington was once a sports-stadium innovator. Not anymore. ...

Once a stadium innovator, the District has become the ultimate follower. If you thought Mayor Anthony A. Williams rolled over for Major League Baseball when the Expos relocated, you ain’t seen nothing yet. The D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission, the mayor’s office, the Nationals, and Major League Baseball have chosen to kill off the league’s last ugly duckling and replace it with yet another shiny baseball jukebox. ...

According to ballpark architect Joe Spear, the stadium’s public concourses will include ... one “water closet” (toilet) per 350 men and one for each 75 women, and one “urinal” (urinal) for every 100 men. The folks in the penthouses upstairs? They’ll never have to decide between soiling themselves and missing the chance to see Jamey Carroll swing the lumber. On the suite and club levels, there will be one lavatory per 125 men and one per 125 women, one water closet per 250 men and one per 50 women, and one urinal per 75 men.

Can anybody articulate the anti-trough position to me? I don't get it. Trough = less time waiting to pee. Point, trough.

I once saw a circle trough at a bathroom from some place of commerce that I can't remember. Hands down, the disgusting thing I've ever seen.

@30

The little infrared sensor flushes it for you. It also dispenses some sort of anti-stink spray.

For the Yankees, did they include the stadium itself?

(I don't know why I made that joke; hell, I'm a Yankee fan. One of the few things Red Sox fans are right about is that the stadium really does look like a toilet (which, I hasten to add, is much better than smelling like one :))

Aside from their complete lack of privacy, the troughs are always running, so (potentially, I don't know how it actually breaks down) more wasted water.

Lack of privacy? For reals?

Dude, we're all adults here. Nobody's looking at your cack.

Aside from their complete lack of privacy, the troughs are always running, so (potentially, I don't know how it actually breaks down) more wasted water.

Lack of privacy? For reals?

Dude, we're all adults here. Nobody's looking at your cack.

Well, I do live in San Francsico (Ha Ha, gay joke).

Also, lots of kids at baseball games. I remember one time at the stick a I went to the bathroom and a kid had completely dropped trou (including briefs) to take a leak in the trough.

I've seen that happen a couple times at the Coliseum. That's just funny as hell; nobody really knows what to do. The kid? He couldn't care less!

I once saw a circle trough at a bathroom from some place of commerce that I can't remember. Hands down, the disgusting thing I've ever seen.

In the old Griffith Stadium there was one main men's room for the entire lower stands, and about half the crowd consisted of cheap cigar smokers. During baseball season it was one thing, but halftime during a Redskins game in December, with the heat turned up and a near capacity crowd on hand, produced a sight and smell you'd never forget. The enormous circle trough in the middle of the room had 360° lines around it, and without exaggeration, at any given point there must have been over 1000 smoldering cigar and cigarette butts, both on the floor and in the trough. The challenge was to get in there fast enough after the first half ended, in order to be back in your seat before the second half began. It was about a 50-50 proposition at best.

Pretty much everything built since 1980 has individual urinals, at least in my experience.

New Comiskey park (opened 1991) has troughs.

I've never seen troughs outside of sports stadia, but I assumed that they were part of the experience in all ballparks.

Bar I'd visited before: the men's room had two toilets, FACING EACH OTHER, with nothing between them.

I don't think I've ever used a bathroom in a sports arena and I hope to never have to. I can probably count on one hand the times I've used any public toilet in the past 20 years or so. This can be traced back to 2 main events. 1- When I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I had a sudden epiphany and realized that nobody washed their hands or really cared if they pissed in the urinal or on the floor and that this was as true for adults as it was for elementary school students. 2- maybe 10 years later I was at Summerfest (big music thing in Milwaukee). I was a reluctant user of public toilets at this time but I still did use them occasionally. Anyway, I went into the men's bathroom at about 11 PM. By this time, as usual, the line for the women's bathroom was probably a quarter mile long but the men's had no line (but was pretty crowded inside). The men's room was disgusting but this is something you pretty much have to get used to if you're a man. There were paper towels and toilet paper all over the floor, along with beer cups and assorted other debris. Two extremely drunk women came into the men's room, laughing about how long the line for the women's bathroom was. They proceeded to take off their underwear, squat in the corner and piss on the floor (all over the piles of garbage, mind you), giggling and talking the whole time, while the other guys in the bathroom cheered them on. That was the last straw for me, I got the hell out of there and have avoided public toilets as much as possible ever since.

I'm scared to comment on #43 or 44, so I'll just drop this:

I once saw a circle trough at a bathroom from some place of commerce that I can't remember. Hands down, the disgusting thing I've ever seen.

That was a sink. I know because I pissed in it too.

In the Georgia Tech football stadium, there is a truly horrifying bathroom. It's basically a concrete room, but around the edge of the walls, they ran soaker hose at about eye level. On the floor there is a small trench where the concrete is about 2" lower than the rest of the floor around the edge of the wall.

The point is: you pee on the wall. Georgia seems to have no health codes about restrooms. It's like the urinal Amsterdam.

[45] An engineering professor of mine did the same thing on a tour of a manufacturing facility we were on.

That was only slightly less mortifying than when my boss used a urinal but forgot to first take off his wireless mic after presenting to the Board of Directors of a listed corporation; sitting in the meeting room, it was like that scene from "The Naked Gun."

I've never been to an A's game in Oakland, but I've been to Raiders games there. I wasn't aware they had restroom facilities, unless "Where the woman in the Patriots jersey is sitting" counts.

That was a sink.

Indeed, it probably was. The elementary school that I alluded to in #44 had one of those too. It was actually pretty cool (in theory) because you turned the water on by stepping on a metal bar that went around the perimeter of the sink. No having to touch a faucet. I'd say the usage ratio for it as a sink or as a urinal was about 50/50.

Bar I'd visited before: the men's room had two toilets, FACING EACH OTHER, with nothing between them.

Which part of a toilet is the face?