Went to a day game on 3/27/10 against the SF Giants Plenty of fans of both teams were in attendance. I'd have to say this stadium was more like an old minor league ballpark - sparse, not a lot of fluff, needing some renovation, but sufficient to host baseball games for plenty of fans. The grandeur of the signage on outside of the stadium belies the inside condition.\n\nParking was fairly easy, and only $5. Despite signs disallowing tailgating, there was plenty of that, including lots of people throwing balls in the parking lot where cars were moving around. Parking lot staff did nothing to stop them. On the other end of the lot we were in were the practice fields, and when we arrived the Angels were just finishing their batting practice so there was a huge crowd of people standing around at the far end of our lot..\n\nGoing in, we stood in one line and got all the way up to the ticket lady before finding out that they had a _separate_ line for tickets purchased on line, so had to move to the other side of all the intake lines, and stand in line again to enter. The lack of signage for that was annoying. I must also say that the lady who checked my purse for contraband did the most thorough job of any purse-checking person I've ever seen. She was in everything!\n\nWe had cheap bleacher seats just beyond first base for this game. They were fine, but they were also in the sun for the whole game. Didn't care for the fellow next to me constantly and loudly talking to his friends in our row and the row behind, but that's not the stadium's fault. One funny thing was that it appeared that the players had to actually pass through the public portion of the stadium to get from the practice field to the game field, including coming across the concourse where the concession stands were, among the fans, and down the steps where the seats were in left field. It presented a good opportunity for fans to ask for autographs, for sure, but somehow it struck me as weird. That would never happen in a major league park.\n\nWe walked around the whoie stadium to see what they had, and were strangely unimpressed. Food selection was fairly standard for stadiums, nothing special there. My BF liked their beer selections.\n\nLeaving the game afterwards was really bad as traffic was only superficially directed by stadium staff and Tempe PD, both of whom seemed surprisingly confused on what needed to happen. It took more than a half hour to drive the two blocks away from the stadium exit. You'd think that after having four week of games there (and doing it for four years), they'd have figured it out better, esp. since they knew ahead of time that the game was sold out..\n\nI think we can put Tempe Diablo Stadium in the \"been there, done that\" category now. We had a good time, but probably won't move any mountains to go again for a few years.
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