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Last Year's Rank: 69
Title Track: 87
Ownership: 55
Coaching: 91
Players: 66
Fan Relations: 63
Affordability: 41
Stadium Experience: 31
Bang for the Buck: 86

Minute Maid Park is celebrating its 10th season, and the Astros are trying to lure back fans who are no longer juiced by the novelty of the venue. (Attendance plunged nearly 8%, to 2.78 million, in 2008.) To jump-start the turnaround, the team froze ticket prices for the first time since Minute Maid opened, in 2000, and didn't stop there. At 10 games this season, for $10 fans get a seat in the top level behind home plate and a hot dog, chips and soda. Elsewhere in Union Station, certain concession stands sell 14-ounce beers for $5. Throw in a $35 all-you-can-eat promotion on Thursdays, plus Saturday night deals for Houstonians who want to mingle at the new FiveSeven Patio bar (named after Biggio and Bagwell), and it hardly matters that the team hasn't made the playoffs in three seasons. Actually, it does matter: The Astros suffered double-digit drops in the Fan Relations (26 places) and Players (17 places) categories this season. Yet Minute Maid still has defenders like David N., who wrote on Yelp.com: "The view over the train tracks always leaves me with a warm feeling inside." Until the Astros' woeful farm system starts producing the Killer B's of tomorrow, that view will have to do.