It started with getting there. Fresno has done a pretty good job of posting signs directing traffic from the freeways to the parking lots.

Not so much in Sacramento, where the first "Raley Field" sign we spotted didn't appear until we were already committed to the off-ramp, and it was pointing us away from the stadium.

We trusted the direction, but the next sign was pretty well hidden. Luckily, we had an inkling of where we were going and found our way to a parking lot.

Which cost us $10 for the privilege of parking about 4 blocks away from the stadium, in a gravel, unmarked, poorly lit lot. Score one for the Chuk and downtown Fresno.

Inside, our group decided that the Chuk beats Raley (which is 2 years older) for concourse, the number of seats close to home plate and scoreboard (can't beat the big, colorful Chukchansi sign).

The view looking out is a tie. The Chuk has some interesting looking downtown buildings looming over it; Raley has a more interesting looking Tower Bridge over the Sacramento River and the more definitive downtown capital skyline, but it's not as close and not as easy to see from some parts of the stadium.

The Chuk's got a pool, but Raley has a big grassy hill that runs from right-center around the foul pole and down a bit of the right-field line. Raley wins on that one, because more people can enjoy it.

Maybe the folks who run the Chuk can take a piece of the staff parking lot behind right-center and turn it into a grass berm?

And then that grass would be greener, too.