{"id":654928,"date":"2026-03-31T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:27:21","slug":"chase-fields-video-board-forcing-arizona-diamondbacks-to-relocate-fans-in-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/654928\/","title":{"rendered":"Chase Field\u2019s video board forcing Arizona Diamondbacks to relocate fans in area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chase Field\u2019s new ribbon boards<\/a> are \u201cobstructing the view of the playing surface, forcing the Diamondbacks\u202fto relocate ticket holders,\u201d according to Nick Piecoro of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC. The boards block what was \u201conce a mostly transparent railing at the bottom of the 300 section in the upper deck.\u201d According to one fan, Kyle Martin, the seats most impacted are \u201cthose in the front rows of the 300 sections,\u201d but the boards also \u201ccut into the view of those in the rows above.\u201d Photos show \u201clarge swaths of foul territory as well as slivers of fair territory that are no longer visible to a seated fan.\u201d A team spokesman said that the club \u201cwas unaware the boards would obstruct views when they were installed over the winter.\u201d The organization is \u201cworking to relocate unhappy season-ticket holders\u201d and said that it would \u201coffer refunds to those who do not want to change seats.\u201d A team official said that the club is \u201ctrying to solve the problem as best it can.\u201d The D-backs \u201cdo not sound open to removing the boards.\u201d Though Martin \u201cdoes not see what choice they have.\u201d Piecoro wrote the boards have also \u201cchanged the view from the press box,\u201d forcing the D-backs to \u201crelocate a group of officials whose views cannot be obstructed, including the official scorer and pitch-clock operator\u201d (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 3\/30<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Field\u2019s new ribbon boards are \u201cobstructing the view of the playing surface, forcing the Diamondbacks\u202fto relocate ticket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,9601,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-654928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-fan-experience","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116325203780965397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}