Baseball Conversion at the Alamodome

[@mikehenry7427]

Seems like a hell of a lot of effort for two games.

[@eamonnmaccionnaith5761]

Do they do this often? The amount of work involved is incredible and despite their best efforts, the end result looks shoddy.

[@benxvariety8878]

*shitty

[@leftlovely]

BenXVariety no, shoddy is a word

[@kkoreooo4748]

Henry Jr r/woooooooosh

[@leftlovely]

Katelyn Huang you don’t know what a woosh moment is.

[@kkoreooo4748]

I do

[@Double.J]

That baseball field looks like absolute crap. I thought the Tampa Bay Rays have the worst, but here I have been corrected.

[@MotionCC]

DoubleJ The Oakland coliseum is still worse

[@jbsmg]

Tampa has a major league franchise. San Antonio is just doing an exhibition game.

[@daveschwartz5893]

@@jbsmg exactly. Comparing a fixed field to temporary is ridiculous.

[@wedeni3220]

Tampa isn’t even that bad

[@JDMatthias]

This looks like a field rolled especially for baseball which isnt used in San Antonio much

[@trilliante7732]

This is the worst looking baseball field that I have ever seen.

[@michaelhartman683]

Did you see the old MetroDome in baseball configuration? Nothing worse than that.

[@3rdPlaya0709]

Michael Hartman actually the metrodome had a way better baseball field than this. The metrodome was actually designed to be a baseball stadium so its dimensions and surface were far superior to this. How would I know? I am from Minnesota and have been to multiple games and events at the beloved metrodome

[@michaelhartman683]

@@3rdPlaya0709 That's a pretty low bar to clear.

[@3rdPlaya0709]

Michael Hartman the metrodome was amazing.

[@3rdPlaya0709]

Michael Hartman kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYGpqZyGqbeMbrc This explains it all pretty well and you will see that the dome was FAR superior for baseball than whatever this shit we just watched is.

[@markmalasics8413]

A couple things to look for: 2:48 The mother-ship from Close Encounters lands and then leaves. 3:32 Burying Jimmy Hoffa near home plate.

[@daboys1215]

Looks like a wet carpet in the basement after your washing machine backs up.

[@ForceMaximus84]

That grass looks so weird. Like it’s a glitchy LED screen.

[@Ghostrider6A]

No grass inside. That's all artificial.

[@braiden3649]

It’s called turf

[@nxt4150]

@@Ghostrider6A it could still be maintained a little better

[@toddhill6478]

That was a lot of time work labor and money to convert that field for just 2 exhibition games.

[@99somerville]

I'd like to know who paid for this. No way did it pay for itself.

[@ronclark9724]

@@99somerville Its mostly the same artificial turf used for UTSA football games, exceptions being in the infield, base sliding boxes, home plate area, and the pitcher's mound... Arenas and domes reconfigure for a lot of events, this is normal...

[@danielr4640]

I didn’t know the Alamodome had a baseball game in there until I seen this video. Amazing

[@boahneelassmal]

this is - by ll means - not exactly what I would call amazing^^

[@bastscho]

There is so much logistics behind this. Absolutely crazy!

[@zachlafleur6651]

I looked up the dimensions of the baseball field inside Alamodome and it is quite like the old Baker Bowl in Philadelphia (except shorter right up the middle). That, and being indoors with a capacity for baseball of just a few hundred less than our old Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Definitely not BC Place or the HHH Metronome, but suitable for temporary use for baseball, basketball, arena and Stadium concerts, as well as a more permanent use for soccer or American football.

[@michaelbauer8778]

What is soccer?

[@zachlafleur6651]

@Michael Bauer It is a ball sport where the ball is kicked, or head butted toward a goal in a way that only the goal keeper can touch it with their hands. Other than in the U.S. it is called football, whereas our football here is a totally different game. It is also called association football here in the U.S. as well as other countries around the world.

[@walterwidmaier198]

hardly even worth it. looks tediously like a waste of time

[@barnmaddo]

Looks like it only took a dozen people less than a week to do the change. So not that much people time wasted. Hosting a concert there or w/e probably also requires quite a bit of time.

[@qlvinc]

Walter Widmaier this is a temporary field you turds,, of course it’s not going to look as good a permanent field

[@Khorzho]

I agree. The machinery and time it takes to 'convert' this stadium from one sport to another is awful. Just build an outdoor field ffs.

[@3John-Bishop]

All this for just one game?

[@Ribo138]

The only thing tedious would be explaining to an imbecile the benefits of multi purpose facilities such as these. And the only thing wasteful was me reading your comment and wasting the seconds of my life to call out a social media drone parroting the same “wasteful” comments on industrial style videos showing the amazing talents of man kind. I feel sorry for you and the small mindset you have to only see the surface level of these videos and not be in awe at the thousands of years that led mankind to be such a great mover of time and space. I could go on but I’ll wait for a reply and see if you have the brain power to at least give me a small burn or call out one of my statements that you can find a pinhole in.

[@lwbossie]

So that's why bud light is 12$ a can

[@haydenkerr6771]

As a San Antonian, the Alamodome is an absolute embarrassment to the city and it’s sports

[@raphaelgomez604]

Homie Legend 6 this is true

[@mattdajedi]

And people want an NFL team to play in there, Absolutely atrocious. All of our Stadiums are crap. The At&T Center is in an industrial part of the city with is terrible. I wish we would upgrade the Alamodome and build a basketball arena downtown, and also improve our downtown skyline.

[@andylasceski]

Monster jam is good in the Alamodome

[@steinyy923]

Homie Legend 6 yeah I live in SA too and I hope they build something better in the future. Only thing the Alamodome is good for is the rodeo. And that’s a stretch

[@prosportsclips5564]

TheeKIDMatt you also need it to be for hockey too :p (rampage)

[@dylanwallace2031]

Just looked this up that the rangers played a couple exhibition games here at the end of spring training only like five baseball games were played here

[@chewlew2818]

This is actually just insane

[@BAYBAY_316]

It's a lot of work to watch guys hit a ball and run around

[@TheRealLink]

A fascinating, pretty quick transformation for sure, but as others said you'd imagine the end result looking a bit different.

[@erickettler2345]

Ugliest baseball field I have seen in my life

[@mzpogi]

As a filipino I will never ever forget this dome because this is the venue were Manny Pacquiao became a superstar in boxing when he knockout Marco Antonio Barrera for the World Featherweight Championship

[@SFbayArea94121]

mezi rae feelapeenis

[@MacDaddyRico]

There's one good reason a hot dog and a coke will cost you $12 at the ballpark...

[@willhyten498]

Why did they put dirt under the Astroturf if they weren't going to directly play on it when there's infill for the turf?

[@262melo]

for the bases and the pitching mound

[@DaTwistedOne1]

In baseball the infield is slightly higher then the outfield. An MLB field must have slight pitch from infield to outfield.

[@hazelwood55]

Probably to soften up the field for balls chopped on the ground. It would give a truer bounce than astroturf over concrete.

[@rory4814]

@PStar7 *They're

[@unrootz]

Anyone else notice the driver fall out at 5:31?

[@GeorgeDubya43]

For which vehicle

[@ddomino4]

@@GeorgeDubya43 The big white semi truck in the middle. If you watch it on slow motion speed on your phone you can kind of see it. You can also see the ambulance pull up right beside it.

[@jeffreymartinez6064]

How do you get so hurt by falling out of a truck

[@Cain-x]

Good catch - there was an ambulance that took the driver away.

[@ssimon84]

Frame by frame, he walked over to the other side of his truck, then went back to his door, opened it, then was flat on the ground and didn't move until the ambulance took him away. My initial thought is that he had a heart attack.

[@josephbradley9778]

Left field looks like 420 feet and right looks like 260.

[@joeisles7186]

How many HR did leftys hit

[@BHV0810]

About 1M

[@BHV0810]

And also, the wall in right is higher than you think..

[@Engineer9736]

Lmao of the entire 6 minutes of sped up work, there was 15 seconds of actual event (from 4:08 to 4:23 ) 😂 Cleanup looked a lot easier than the setup luckily.

[@danielr4640]

I didn't know The Alamodome have baseball there too

[@danieldougan269]

Just a couple of exhibition games for the Rangers.

[@Seanalbertt]

Well. As the saying goes. “Jack of all trades, master of none.”

[@ronclark9724]

@@Seanalbertt Its a multi purpose dome...

[@pasqualz]

Would be nice if viewers knew how long this time lapse took. Can’t be sure but seems like at least 7 days which seems like a long time to do a conversion.

[@zhoubiden6003]

I mean seeing the entire baseball game flash by in like ten seconds showed alot

[@shallowsportsmen8992]

Im imagining a strong moldy carpet smell

[@SFbayArea94121]

Shallow Sportsmen like at grandmas 👵 house

[@windsor9064]

I live in San Antonio and we go see events over at the alamodome

[@vasthockey4382]

The Alive Chicken why did you feel the need to say this

[@danieldougan269]

Can we just take a moment to marvel at that basketball setup? That's very fan-friendly for a dome. I guess it had to be since it used to host the Spurs. If they're going to keep hosting basketball there though, that center-hung scoreboard is looking extremely dated. I know they have bigger video boards on the outer walls, but they overlooked the hanging scoreboard when they renovated the place recently.

[@iamspeters]

What you saw for basketball was the UIL state tournaments for both boys and girls.

[@xRestart]

Only home runs righties gonna hit are inside the parks lmao

[@beefwellington8646]

“I’ll see you at the ALMAMO” -Kip James

[@repost_6337]

I understood that reference

[@kennethriley377]

What happened at 5:31 ? Someone got hurt... Few frames before ambulance got there someone was on the ground surrounded by people.

[@DanChampionJr]

My guess is the truck driver got hurt. 1. Right outside his drivers door. 2. They stopped loading his truck and brought in others. 3. They unloaded his truck back into the pile it left empty.

[@CrestfallenChameleon]

good catch! didn't notice it before

[@TreverHapless]

Looks like a baseball field you’d build on Minecraft or something

[@kennethduncan3922]

How do they keep the buckets of the loaders from scratching the concrete surface as they load the dirt?

[@WilsonTomines]

Next Video:Baseball To Hockey

[@Robsksas]

The outside of the Alamodome looks like a dead cockroach laying on its back.

[@RND_ADV_X]

It looks like they keep bringing out soil for the diamond area, and then sweeping it up, and then bringing more out... What is going on?

[@dylanharris5673]

I cant believe there was a baseball conversion at the Alamodome

[@princeofdarknessxyz1]

would be cool to check out a baseball game at alamodome

[@luispaulino917]

Grama sobre concreto?😱😱 Las lesiones en ese estadio deben estar por docenas.

[@jwbogacki]

Is this one built with a basement? lol! #peeweebigadventurereference

[@jacques4223]

I can understand why professional Football, Baseball and Soccer franchises aim for newer single-sport facilities due to the amount resources needed for constant field conversion throughout an entire year.

[@Jonas_Aa]

You missed a spot.

[@dogaemiramasyal8955]

I think San Antonio would love an XFL team.

[@joshbuffalow]

I really like this video!!👍👍👍

[@alexandermitchell9070]

They shouldn’t have had any lower deck at all in the outfield. That field is tiny. Granted, that would probably bring the capacity down to around 35,000 seats that wouldn’t have part of the outfield out of view but that capacity would be okay, at least for temporary use.

[@hawkofthereborn43]

It's. on. fucking. concrete. Might as well just not even bring real dirt in and paint the asphalt in baseball field colors

[@samxyx]

Is the dirt really just sitting on top of concrete? Seems dangerous

[@nelsonbilly34]

what were the dimensions to left and right

[@avantjeef]

Don't know the exact but right field looks nothing less than 300 ft tbh

[@bigworm2816]

This is really satisfying.

[@ryanstrnad8442]

I remember the SUPERDOME would host a spring training game or two during some weekends back in the 80s and 90s. There, theyd have regulation foul lines (315ft minimum). I don't believe that would be possible there now with there past renovations. Back then, even for football games, the sideline seats would be farther back than usual.

[@lionsfan7500]

For the residents of San Antonio I'm sure this was a cool novelty having a couple MLB games in town but shame on the MLB for not taking this a bit more seriously and doing the field the right way and also why not play two regular season games there, with every team getting 81 home games a year it wouldn't hurt to have two teams give up 1 home game a piece and have a 2 game series. The Astros vs the Rangers twice a year at the Alamo dome, and I know both games would sell out! San Antonio is a good sports town and deserve something cool like this!

[@ronclark9724]

While MLB waves the short right field wall for a exhibition game, I doubt it would do so for a MLB regular season game...

[@b07x]

Wtf this video has 666k views as its 6 min long

[@ticksunbs4944]

So I’m watching a time lapse at 2x speed

[@shahidkurd3805]

how long does it acully take my guess 24 hours how many workers

[@mattrost2574]

Is that grass made of velour? Why did they put a microthin layer of dirt under this cheap-looking grass in the infield?

[@crumbummin9459]

looks just like the metrodome when it had a dual purpose setup

[@palehorse1511]

Whine about ticket prices all you want but that is a hell of a lot of manhours to make these conversions.

[@pacificnorthwestnative5050]

I will take a guess, and be presumptuous to say that you work at that facility?

[@Staszu13]

they have to put dirt on the floor UNDER the infield?

[@SDRacing88]

Infield is slightly higher than the outfield

[@andymartinez5197]

They didn’t take BP before the second game?

[@BaseballPlayer0]

Where are the bullpens. RF is like 10 feet away.

[@JoeLund34]

that was cool

[@snakm]

daaamn, the effort it takes for a baseball field tho

[@Fitzcam1]

Impressive but what a pain in the ass. Wow.

[@7mileDem]

What are the dimensions????? Center field look 450 ft.

[@davidlafleche1142]

280 ft. to right field.

[@jaredesham9380]

anyone else wondering how many homers get smashed over that like 200ft right field wall

[@benxvariety8878]

what i don't understand is wouldn't it be too easy to get a hr on that field? i mean what are the measurements? it looks like the right field wall is 40 feet from the edge of the infield

[@ronclark9724]

Granted the right field wall isn't far enough, but for a temporary venue for MLB exhibition games before the season starts, its okay... The Alamodome was built to be the football stadium for UTSA, but has failed to attract a NFL team. Too small for the NFL, but too big for UTSA. For a while it was the venue for the San Antonio Spurs NBA, while its been used for hockey, soccer, baseball, and rodeo... Basically a multi-purpose dome venue... If San Antonio ever landed a NFL or MLB franchise San Antonio would have to build a new stadium, but could use the Alamodome as a temporary venue until a new stadium is built. Most likely new locker rooms/clubhouses for a major league teams would have to be added... San Antonio could knock down the seating bowl beyond the right field fence to increase its size if necessary to please MLB...

[@deedas]

They never completed the stadium for the baseball games. WTH?

[@larrywt656]

It was never intended for baseball. The minor league team has their own outdoor stadium, but it only seats about 9000 which was too small for the major league exhibition games, so they used the dome instead. The crowds for each of these games in San Antonio were surprisingly big.

[@BHV0810]

Home of the 2018 Final Four

[@jamesk1301]

The gaps in the outfield are like Polo Grounds

[@theoddchild6090]

It’s not as far as you think But this field looks trash

[@jim2lane]

I didn't see any dirt under the outfield, so outfielders extending for a catch are literally diving on top of concrete in this stadium 😒

[@ronclark9724]

It's a temporary baseball stadium for a two game exhibition series at the end of spring training...

[@jim2lane]

@@ronclark9724 ok - but I stand by my prior statement

[@Alfsp1]

Did they play ?

[@alitlweird]

What’s the actual start to finish time?

[@GranJRod]

I didn't think Texas had unions because that field took forever to get converted. That had to be a union job.

[@centexan]

They must have changed something over the years. I've never been there for baseball. I've been there for football and the turf didn't look like this crap. It was very good.

[@blakem9109]

Is that an ambulance at 5:31?

[@ssimon84]

Yes, it looks as if the driver of that truck had a medical emergency. Go frame by frame, you'll see him walking around the front of it, then goes back and opens his door, then is seen laying flat on his back until the ambulance removes him.

[@2112joshman]

Right field is tiny

[@byra4171]

This looks a little bit like the Expos stadium

[@doseofreality100]

Such an illusion. This configuration is a TINY field.... not just in right field. It's just that the distance to RF is so small it makes the CF and LF dimensions look expansive. Thing is.... this field is about the same size as my high school field was. It's a pathetic 280 feet to right field. Despite looking deep as hell, it's only 395 to that corner in dead center. And in LF it's a moderate 340 feet.... which is on the small side of the spectrum as far as pro baseball is concerned. It's hard to believe this place hosts MLB games once in a while.... granted usually spring training games, but still. The Dodgers and Rangers played there in 2015 during that year's spring games. The Dodgers hit 3 HRs in the first inning.... yeah. It's puzzling too. I mean it's a very.... VERY pathetic 280 feet to right. But look at all that foul territory down the third base line. If they'd just slide the whole infield toward the side where this camera is set up they could conceivably add about 20-30 feet to the RF dimensions while still maintaining a decent amount of foul territory down the 3B line. I mean just sliding that infield 20 feet toward us (the viewer) would make the RF dimensions a less of a joke, but still a joke nonetheless, at 300 feet even while maintaining the LF dimensions. I don't know. It's clearly not a place designed for baseball, that's for sure, but it just seems like they could alter the placement and angle of that infield to maximize the overall dimensions to a better degree if you ask me.

[@Ben-xp4gu]

The reason the home plate is so far out is because of sight lines from the upper seating. the first year it was pushed back and people couldn't see. Realistcally the 2 games played here are just so fans from another city can get a chance to see the rangers play a game.

[@ronclark9724]

@@Ben-xp4gu The exhibition games that are played here at the end of spring training is to bring the Rangers or the Astros fans that live in Central Texas a MLB game to attend without having to fly or drive to Arlington or Houston several hours away... The combined metros of San Antonio and Austin is approaching SIX million, far too many for the Rangers and Astros to ignore... The Rangers have never drawn 3 million for one season, a goal they do desire to do, every fan attending a MLB game in Arlington from Central Texas is welcomed...

[@danielkustra9071]

@2:13 near middle of the screen where the turf is rolled back; the dirt stops before the boundary line so it slopes causing the ball to roll towards the boundary line instead of following it's momentum straight. P.s. Only an observation on what I seen. It may be a 'crown' for rain.. Unless it's a closed stadium🤔

[@supersasukemaniac]

It's a closed dome.

[@benignobrionesiii]

Looked like left over Astroturf was used for the field.

[@QAZ-OMEN]

So the baseball field isn't even grass here ?

[@ronclark9724]

Domes don't have grass, they use artificial turf... Retractable dome stadium do have grass...

[@mean36083]

I’ve played baseball half of my life and I’ve never seen a field like this ever!!!!! Must be low budget or something

[@RyanMiller3039]

How often is this done and how much does it cost? Edit: All that for 2 or 3 baseball games???

[@Time-LapseVideos]

It was done for about 3 years. The Rangers played 2 preseason games each year.

[@michaelyork3198]

I was thinking when is the dirt coming in. How do they blend the grass so it looks legit. Nothing. This cracked me up. I was expecting a lot more

[@ronclark9724]

I am sure the Alamodome would be using artificial turf designed for a baseball field than a football field if baseball played a full season there. Notice the turf was cut in five yard widths suitable for a football field covered with the white chalk stripes...

[@Devastator-by7tm]

I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul

[@bigtuna4984]

200ft to RF?

[@georgehenry76]

This makes Tropicana Field look like Camden Yards

[@11679MRT]

Isn't right field too short without a raised wall?

[@mkay8334]

It’s probably about 300 feet so on the short end but not bad

[@twowombmates]

the number of times something is done and redone!!- must be a union gig. M

[@OnlyOneNation74]

How deep is left field lmao

[@Peterson1451]

Who’s the basketball team?

[@expfighter5112]

San Antonio Spurs?

[@Peterson1451]

Maybe?

[@Peterson1451]

Or it’s a actually probably a college team

[@Peterson1451]

Like utsa

[@chinorap7846]

Segun yo ese estadio era el de los astros de houston no de los rangers de texas.

[@davi-moraes7334]

it would be cheaper to build a smaller stadium for basketball, the amount of money you must have spent to do it just 1 time imagine doing it straight

[@j_y06]

Y'all needa understand that this is indoors and not outdoors. Like y'all be trippin sometimes.

[@戦う顔しているベイファン]

どこのスタジアム？

[@thatsjustme6969]

That left field wall looks way too deep for baseball

[@cianamor6963]

I'm just gonna dink home runs into right field at this place