I'm down for drinking a couple of WAY cheaper beers in the parking lot, and I've done that before anyway. But getting out to tailgate an Astros game, in the middle of summer, isn't going to catch on with many, IMO. As I mentioned before, in the paid lots around MMP, you likely aren't going to be able to set up canopies and such. There just isn't that kind of room. And if you can't get out of the Texas sun in June, July and August, well, we all know how that is. With tailgaters coming to the game and people leaving work downtown at the same time, all parking in the same lots, I just don't see it happening during the week. Maybe a different story on the weekends. And then you've got to add porta-pissers all over the place.
And unless they're building some parking lots by BBVA, I can't see tailgating being too easy to do there either.
As for Rockets games, the only place I've ever parked to go to Toyota Center is the garage. I guess there's outside lots around there too, but I just don't see that catching on either.
This deal is mainly for the soccer fans who have been tailgating for 6 years or however long the 1836 have been here. They'll be the main ones doing the Texans-like tailgating. Doing that at baseball and basketball games, even if it's allowed, I just don't see that being much more than drinking a beer in your car with the A/C running and downing some wings you brought from Wing Stop or something. Which you could already do anyway if you really wanted to.