Went to Memphis Redbirds Game Tonight

[RynoRules]

Beautiful park. Great seats. Very good concessions. Fun distractions. Decent looking, scantily-clad cheerleaders, but the fact they had them at all is a plus.

 

Saw Rick Ankiel who is absolutely killing the ball (already 23 HRs on the season). Also saw Jason Lane (Astros' AAA affiliate was in town).

 

Other than those two, no one was very impressive except the Round Rock pitcher, a kid named Rodriguez. He had a perfect game through 6 and a third.

 

Other than being surrounded by Cards fans, its was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Anyone else been?

[Chris]

I went a few years ago. Beautiful park but I wasn't a fan of the seats at all. There wasn't a lot of room from seat to seat and even less room for your legs. Other than that I recall it as being a great place to see a game.

[rabidawg900]

I live in Austin, TX and the only baseball around here is the Astro's AAA team Round Rock Express, so they have a ton of people going to their games. Houston is 3+ hrs away. Of course University of Texas baseball is huge around here too. I saw the St Louis club and Ankiel just has been raping the ball I can't believe that the Cards haven't brought him up.

[Dirt Dog Sparly]

The clubhouses are about 2/3 size of the ML clubhouse in StLouis I am told. The weight room is done in Cardinal red with wall to wall mirrors on the wall opposite the door.

 

The visitors double hitting cage and indoor mound are opposite the door for those scantily clad cheerleaders. The cages and indoor mound are between the clubhouse and the dugout so a guy can go get some cuts in easily. The lighting level isnt the same as the field but...

 

The view from the dugouts are great. You are slightly above field level when you sit on the bench top. Nice roomy dugouts with a nook for fans to sit at field level and be able to look right into the dugout. The time I was there security had to remove two fans before they got their buts kicked by Hack.

 

There are three industrial washers in each clubhouse, heaven on earth, and the eating area is about the same size as the visitors clubhouse in Nashville minus the cave.

 

The lockers are ML sized but you only get one locker instead of two. The tile work is of course white and red, along with a carpet that is deep but can handle spikes that is red.

 

All in all a very nice facility. My major complaint however is the difficulty in getting to the loading dock to load and unload equipment for roadtrips. The dock is on the opposite side of the stadium from the visitors clubhouse and takes a good 10 to 15 min to make a one way trip. Add to that the ramp up to the loading dock from the tunnel that access the clubhouses leaves one to believe that it was an o yea moment solution when they figured out they had screwed up somewhere.

 

The same people who built Camden Yards built Redbird Stadium.