Pretty wild. So a suggestion: The American family parks somewhere cheap, takes public transit to their favorite family outing, then consumes less soda and beer. Enjoy the ballgame in a better-than-1960 stadium, while also chipping away at an environmental and obesity situation that 1960 never knew!
You have to get with the times and eliminate all that. Sell a VR package where I can watch the game as though I am sitting behind first base. Bonus if my buddy across the country can sit next to me and we can chat.
They're trying to continue to make money in a world with locality rules and limited space, and we are increasingly entering one where your location doesn't matter. Covid just pushed this agenda a little harder than it was naturally playing out.
Might have a great experience, might be stuck at the station for an hour waiting for a train. We used to do what you suggest when I was a kid (park at the light rail terminus, ride in to Orioles games), but ... that was back when it used to run more-or-less reliably.