It's OK for what it is.
Nowhere to park, but it's on the MAX light rail, so it works out.
It's also the location of this legendary sports moment --
http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregon ... _11BLOO113
I used to get a contractors' dealio where a vendor reserved the first base foul territory (where there's a bar... cool setup), and they'd have kegs and BBQ burgers and whatnot for us all game... need to get in on that deal again.
It's also Jerry Glanville's home field these days.
From the outside, the rooton old building looks like it's about to fall down, but they dropped some bucks on the inside a few years back (throwing money at a decrepit old AAA stadium probably wasn't the best use of funds, but whatever.
But all in all, it ain't bad for what it is. They made it so you can stand outside and watch the game, if you're too cheap to pony up the $5 for a cheap ticket... and they usually just open up the gates after about the third inning anyway.
And they pull massive crowds by AAA standards on Thursday games (always night games on Thursday), when it's Thirsty Thursday, aka cheap beer night. The 1st Base bar becomes quite the meet-market/singles bar on thursdays (they average something like 15,000 on thursdays, about 2000 or so the other days).
As Derron mentioned, it looks like the MLS disaster (a scam brought to the Good People of Portland by one Merrit Paulson... yeah,
that guy's kid... who better to take financial advice from?) is going to take over the whole stadium. There's talk of putting a new AAA park in Lents, a fairly shitty neighborhood out on the corner of town, which would suck... baseball belongs downtown, no matter what city you're in. Not sure what Portland State (which is right up the street from PGE Park) is going to do if it becomes soccer-only.
BTW -- RACK the kid from my high school who advanced to the second round in the home run derby and launched bombs all over the place (I think he had the longest shot of the derby, but the two high school kids got to use metal bats, so there's that).
This town love events like that, where we get to play host to visitors. We get another NCAA Hoops Regional year after next... bring it all on. Like analysts and people who track such things always say, it's an awfully big city to have so few sports... we'll get out MLB team sooner or later (sup, Marlins keep talking about moving here... we'd need a roof like Safeco in Seattle has for the early season games). Now they've done away with the state-run sports gambling, the sporting climate should improve.