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| - To preface my review... I'm a huge baseball fan that has visited a ton of parks, and grew up going to Wrigley Field in Chicago. A bit spoiled to say the least. I now find myself living in the desert and have adopted the Dbacks as my team (as long as they aren't playing the Cubs).
I like this park a lot. Tickets are extremely reasonably priced. I haven't had a seat with a bad view of the game. I've sat in box seats, as well as the upper deck and everywhere in between. It's clean, very family friendly (almost too much so!), lots of food and drink options, and on occasion we've had ushers come to our seats to take our food/drink order. I've never had that anywhere else. Scoreboard is very large but doesn't take away from the game. The pool is kind of cheesy, but I guess it's a fun quirk that defines the park.
Parking is usually very plentiful and reasonably priced (we usually pay no more than $15 and on occasion have found street parking).
Four stars as opposed to five because:
- when, on the rare occasion, the foodstands get busy they move VERY slowly and don't handle the crowds well.
- this park is almost TOO commercialized. The first time I went (when it was the "BOB" back in the early 2000s), the first thing I thought was that it felt like the game was being played inside of a shopping mall. It still has that feel.
- some friends of ours that attend games with us have gotten food poisoning from the "All You Can Eat" food.
- the post-game neighborhood experience isn't much at all....but again, having lived in Wrigleyville for over 10 years, it's probably not a fair comparison. Could be a plus or minus, I suppose.
Haven't ever attended a concert here, so I can't speak to that experience. AZ in general doesn't handle crowds well, so I could see that being a mess. As far as the overall baseball experience goes, it's pretty stellar. Now if the Dbacks could only field a winning ballclub and put some butts in the seats....
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