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

[@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

[@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

[@daboys1215]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@chewlew2818]

This is actually just insane

[@BAYBAY_316]

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

[@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)

[@lwbossie]

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

[@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

[@TheRealLink]

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

[@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.

[@MacDaddyRico]

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

[@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

[@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...

[@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

[@joeisles7186]

How many HR did leftys hit

[@BHV0810]

About 1M

[@BHV0810]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@erickettler2345]

Ugliest baseball field I have seen in my life

[@kennethduncan3922]

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

[@josephbradley9778]

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

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@princeofdarknessxyz1]

would be cool to check out a baseball game at alamodome

[@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

[@shallowsportsmen8992]

Im imagining a strong moldy carpet smell

[@SFbayArea94121]

Shallow Sportsmen like at grandmas 👵 house

[@jwbogacki]

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

[@luispaulino917]

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

[@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

[@shahidkurd3805]

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

[@dylanharris5673]

I cant believe there was a baseball conversion at the Alamodome

[@joshbuffalow]

I really like this video!!👍👍👍

[@Staszu13]

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

[@SDRacing88]

Infield is slightly higher than the outfield

[@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...

[@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.

[@dogaemiramasyal8955]

I think San Antonio would love an XFL team.

[@samxyx]

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

[@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.

[@TreverHapless]

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

[@mattrost2574]

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

[@Alfsp1]

Did they play ?

[@7mileDem]

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

[@davidlafleche1142]

280 ft. to right field.

[@WilsonTomines]

Next Video:Baseball To Hockey

[@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.

[@Robsksas]

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

[@chinorap7846]

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

[@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

[@BaseballPlayer0]

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

[@jamesk1301]

The gaps in the outfield are like Polo Grounds

[@theoddchild6090]

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

[@hawkofthereborn43]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@bigtuna4984]

200ft to RF?

[@andymartinez5197]

They didn’t take BP before the second game?

[@alitlweird]

What’s the actual start to finish time?

[@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.

[@Jonas_Aa]

You missed a spot.

[@crumbummin9459]

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

[@byra4171]

This looks a little bit like the Expos stadium

[@pacificnorthwestnative5050]

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

[@BHV0810]

Home of the 2018 Final Four

[@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...

[@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

[@twowombmates]

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

[@2112joshman]

Right field is tiny

[@bigworm2816]

This is really satisfying.

[@GranJRod]

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

[@snakm]

daaamn, the effort it takes for a baseball field tho

[@SleepscapeSerenity]

more crew than fans at the motley crue gig...

[@georgehenry76]

This makes Tropicana Field look like Camden Yards

[@Fitzcam1]

Impressive but what a pain in the ass. Wow.

[@ticksunbs4944]

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

[@tollboothjason]

Who was playing basketball? UT?

[@posysdogovych2065]

UTSA

[@KobaCrawls]

@@posysdogovych2065 No. It was Rangers v. LA Dodgers

[@brianpacos4072]

@@KobaCrawls You're not so smart, are you?

[@naoki0130]

Brian Pacos huh? It says in the description.

[@brianpacos4072]

@@naoki0130 The question was about who was playing basketball before the conversion. I guess YOU are not so smart either.

[@jaredesham9380]

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

[@JoeLund34]

that was cool

[@OnlyOneNation74]

How deep is left field lmao

[@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

[@joeylawn36111]

Gonna hazard a guess that the Rangers haven't been back since....

[@vincentsemenowitz1]

I kinda thought thay you were talking about the Rangers in Scotland based of your profile picture and then I remembered that this was a baseball video

[@joeylawn36111]

@@vincentsemenowitz1 I'm one of the few Baggies fans here in the USA

[@vincentsemenowitz1]

@@joeylawn36111 I like Wolves so...

[@joeylawn36111]

@@vincentsemenowitz1 Wouldn’t mind being in 13th place right now....😞

[@vincentsemenowitz1]

@@joeylawn36111 lol

[@palehorse1511]

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

[@clebo99]

Was this a preseason game or something?

[@ronclark9724]

Preseason exhibition game after spring training...

[@faithfamilyandcountry7452]

Who plays in the Alamo dome?

[@ronclark9724]

UTSA football team... The San Antonio Spurs did before their new arena was built...

[@cianamor6963]

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

[@wmwarner9196]

Who played here and why?

[@larrywt656]

For a few seasons, the Rangers played their final two games of spring training each year at the Alamodome (different opponents each year). The Rangers were trying to increase their fan support in San Antonio.

[@noobforpresident2024]

Wait I'm confused. If the Rangers still played at the Alamodome in 2015 then how long did they play at globe life park? The reason I'm asking this is because the Rangers new ball park (Globe Life Field) is already under construction.

[@Time-LapseVideos]

This is just a preseason game, the Rangers don't normally play at the Alamodome.

[@ronclark9724]

This was a two game exhibition series at the Alamodome at the end of spring training and before the regular season started...

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@alexledesma4863]

Why did the rangers play here when they are based off of Dallas?????

[@Time-LapseVideos]

They play at the Alamodome as part of their spring training, and to attract more fans from the San Antonio area.

[@joemartin1253]

Alex Ledesma Stupid questions!

[@b07x]

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