Critiquing the WEIRDEST and WORST Baseball Fields - feat. Jomboy Media
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Major League Baseball has some requirements for their fields. These, obviously do not. We looked all over the internet to find the fields with the weirdest dimensions, in the worst places, and simply just...bizarre. Thanks to Jomboy Media for his breakdown on this video. He also did a video on weird ball parks on his channel. Link below!
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This gives me flashbacks to playing NCAA Baseball 06 and making the weirdest ballparks I could. Good times, good times.
I enjoyed launching HRs into cornfields on that game
Fumble dimension should do this
apparently they are adding stadium creator in mlb the show 21
They are bringing back the make field feature
@N Mussell sucks for u buddy. buy a next gen console
As a former track and field athlete, some of these oddly shaped tracks around the oddly shaped fields are making me very curious about how meets are conducted and distances measured.
SAME BRO😭
I'd imagine they'd just take a yard/metre wheel thingy-me-bob and measure up much track to be marked for specific races, though I think the weirdly shaped ones are totally cool for track and field though. Almost entertaining.
@@tipi5586 I'm sure they know what it is before its even designed.
As a former distance runner it woulda been cool to not run in circles. Weird man. Weird
@@bobbyriggs3656 i never understood why the tracks look always the same. For me the big problem with track and field on a high level is that were pushing phyaical boundries and records are rare. So why not build different track layouts?
freaking hilarious & well done! My late father was an oddball hurler, a left-handed 'butterfly' knuckleballer in the 40s for Colorado School of Mines. He must've told me this story a hundred times over the years, that one semester their left field had to be shared with the geology department's quarry overflow of broken up boulders. All in play on balls hit more than 220 feet, fielders weaving between huge rocks to track down fly balls, etc.
the union city one is actually pretty dope
Its is. And if you go there you get a good view of the NYC skyline
I played high school on that field the view is nice but in the late summer the visitor side by the grandstand doesn’t let wind in and is ridiculously hot.
@@WillRauh those 105 summer days lmfaoo worst football practices but I love my stadium no matter what
I've played there a few times and the wind almost always blows in or left to right so I never saw anyone dink one into the home run well
3:52 464 in right field
Giancarlo Stanton: _Pathetic_
Did he say "Kermit the Frog getting shit-piped?" Lmao.
If you look at the zoomout of the one in Hull (10:18), that island in the bottom left used to have an Italian POW camp and was where they filmed Shutter Island.
Watching this I forgot what what a actual baseball Field looks like 😂
That's perfectly fine, so did the architects who designed these!
This reminded me of a field on a naval base near my house. I grew up on that base and only moved off when dad left active duty. I used to love playing there, really just because I didn’t know any different/better. But I went back there recently because it’s close to medical, and I still have to get referrals from a doctor on base. The field is meant for little league teams. For teams with players aged 5 to around 16.
The dugouts are as nice as you’d expect from that kind of field and there’s enough foul territory for it to feel fair, but the entire field is surrounded by driving range nets and an 8ft chain link fence. Left and right field look about 270ft and center field looks around 310ft (by eye. I did get an architectural degree which made me pretty good at judging size, height, and distance. So I trust myself to make those estimates lol).
First of all, how is ANY kid who either hasn’t or has barely started puberty meant to ever hit a non-ITPHR? Especially since they’d have to clear the 8ft fence.
The range nets (around 60ft tall) are anchored by massive metal beams that smother the warning track. There are pads at the base of them but years of collisions, including me two times, have made them paper thin. I remember plenty of playable balls hitting those beams at weird angles, totally killing any momentum as well as ruining morale.
There are also weird bumps in the turf in center field and divots on the third base side of the infield. The bumps were usually just uneven dirt, but I remember games where guys would trip over bumps that weren’t there a few days before. Even the guys who had played that field for years tripped up on the “new” bumps. As for the divots, we always just assumed it was moles or gophers. But when an exterminator was called in, they couldn’t find any evidence of tunnels even close to the field. So I never found out their origin.
But the absolute worst thing about that field that I still don’t understand was a kind of booth (it looks like the kind at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or the ones at Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace) that stands 3ft back from the home plate umpires position. I never saw an umpire use it, and even now, 17 years later, it’s still in pristine condition. I have no idea when or why it was built, but I’m sure it’s older than I am. We hated it, the teams we scrimmed against hated it, even the umps hated it. But MWR wouldn’t allow it to be removed. There were countless plays that failed because the catcher couldn’t ditch his mask and get behind it fast enough to get under the ball. Even if by some miracle they did, they now have a 7ft wooden rectangle blocking their line of sight. But it also acted as a backstop if there was a wild pitch or a fielder accidentally threw off target trying to get an out at home. But those plays were never satisfying and both teams complained when it happened. The pitchers would even apologize or try to cheer up the dudes it happened to.
Even with all it’s awful, awful faults, I have really fond memories of that field. Practicing and playing in heavy fog, rain, 90+ degree heat with no humidity, or when it was 50 degrees out since it’s a 10 minute walk to the ocean from the field.
I don’t think I’d appreciate the game as much now if I had grow up playing on a “normal” field. Maybe that’s weird to some people, but for all it’s “quirks,” I love that place.
Some former and current major league parks have weird features as well. The left field wall at Fenway, the right field porch at the old Yankee Stadium, the LA Coliseum before Chavez Ravine was built, the left field terrace at Crosley Field, straight-away center field at the Polo Grounds and several others.
7:39 This field is right by the Nassau Coliseum, home of the NY Islanders
Oh cool I knew that town sounded familiar
I think this deserves a part two. You need to see Patchogue-Medford’s baseball fields. A soccer and baseball field in one
6:42 is my favorite part lol
PLAY BALL BITCHES😂😂😂😂😂
2:33 that field is sponsored by manscaped
Fucking sucked playing there
bruh in 2:40 "-'
i mean in 2:38
I MEAN AGAIN 2:39 IM A MESS
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I graduated from St Vincent’s this year and played on the baseball team there as well. As odd as our dimensions are on the field we actually always threw up a chain link fence down either the 50 or furthest 40 yard line cutting the distance roughly in half.
You know the field is bad when you’re screaming “WTF is that?!” before any commentary even begins.
This video had me bustin with laughter
polo grounds: you wanna deep center field?
jelsma stadium: **hold my beer**
Surely a temp fence is placed over the football field during games (in line with L and R field)?
Kurt Halbauer turn around... you see the joke? Just flew right over your head....
Relax.
Kurt Halbauer my dad went to high school there and he said that there was a metal fence they would have to stake in the ground but many years later the school didn’t want to pay for a new one so they just left it open
The last one on the list remind me of exhibition stadium where the Toronto Blue Jays used to play. It was also home to our Canadian football team the Toronto Argonauts. Before moving into the doms in 1989 half of the football field was behind the outfield wall parts of it would be rolled up to make room for the outfield fence.
My old middle school has two softball fields adjacent to each other with no fence in between each other past the dugout, and the one on the left has no fence past the dugout either which leads down to a hill so any ball that bounces in play but goes past the foul line is sure to be a nightmare to retrieve
Just to note, Canisius College puts up a fence during the season to make the dimensions more normal
Standard or adjustable based on the scout?
@@charlesmurphy3222 - ah, now here's a man that knows REAL baseball.
Also hate how he butchered the pronunciation
Weehawken, NJ: Built on top of the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel. Clear the Right Field wall, and the ball lands in the traffic entering/exiting the tunnel. It's also another example of football and baseball shoehorned together.
You've heard of Babe Ruth Clearing the polo ground's center field but nobody heard of someone hitting a 606 mega bomb in that last one lmaooo
Good ol Jelsma AKA “The Rock”. 4 of my schools players hit their first dingers in one game there. I only ever played football there but always thought it was a sorry looking baseball field. Surprisingly it is a really amazing football stadium.
Awesome football stadium. I always liked the quirkiness of the ballpark, but I’m biased. It was my home field. Did they still use a temporary fence in center when you played there?
I played at hull high and it was the coldest windiest game I’ve ever played
Fr hull is straight garbage to play at
The one in Guthrie they put a removable fence at 375 in center, would not know that if I didn’t play them
8:20
Why is no one talking about how the field is shaped like an actual Diamond.
This is the best field in the history of baseball.
I was really hoping someone else noticed this!
I played an away lacrosse game at Hull, it was a rainy day and in the middle of Boston harbor, it is crazy. We went from rain, to thunder, and some snow. We won but it was hell to be playing in that
At my high school, it’s 355 to right, 382 to center, and 462 to center if you ignore the fact there are no fences in center and it’s just a hill down to the practice football field.
I’ve played football at that baseball feild in hull, it’s located directly across from boston so sunset games are owlet beautiful with the city skyline over the water, there’s also a huge turbine windmill somewhere in there
old field of Mediapolis High School in Mediapolis Iowa. The outfield is the football field and the right center/Left Center fence is the farthest outfield fence on the stadium. It's similar to the Key West and St. Mary's field except without the Poconoesque track facility and the death drop onto the highway at the end of the fence.
I played youth football at Rice field against the S. Burlington youth team inside their running track and there was broken glass everywhere. So you can add that to the crazy shape of the ballfield.
gotta remember some schools don’t play home games on their campus and have a shared field with better dimensions and facilities, the weird ones are just for practice
I don't understand.
I think the weirdness of outfield dimensions is one of the greatest things about baseball. I love all of these.
YERRRR!!! Union City was a pain. I played at a rival hs. Weehawken’s worse cause there’s two baseball fields, a football field, and a track field all in one. Not to mention that you’re LITERALLY PLAYING ABOVE THE LINCOLN TUNNEL. Any bomb you hit is gonna take out a few windows as it’s surrounded by passing vehicles tryna get in the tunnel. 64th st field and Hudson County Park in North Bergen was also terrible.
Kellenberg alum here. Can confirm how creepy that field is. And, since it was a sump, it would take 2 days for the field to drain after it rained.
The last one is slightly reminiscent of the Polo Grounds. But wow. I was looking for a few wacky fields and that went from wacky to utterly absurd. The football goal posts in play over 2nd base however take the cake. I hope they have ambulances standing by for pop flies.
I like to imagine that on the giant fields, they use temporary fences because they don’t need any seats so they just move fences
I’ve played in Thompson, place is a nightmare. Constantly had to play no doubles defense which allowed weak bloopers to land easily
These parks are awful. Our high school field was like the fenced in Polo Grounds. 330’ at the LF pole, 335’ at the RF pole, 385’ at LC, 390’ at RC and a whopping 535’ at the CF corner. Lots of extra base hits but few dingers.
cool vid.
Lake Elsinore Storm of the California league has a weird layout,,ok maybe not as extreme as the High School and college ball parks in this video but for High A in the Minors..it is funky for pro level.
Thanks for getting point stadium in Johnstown. Hosted a D2 college conference tournament for years. Another one in western pa you could have looked at is Showers field in Dubois, pa. Fully turfed but has quirky dimensions, and a party deck in left field. Backstop is so tight that foul balls off the back pad are like bullets aimed at the back of the umpires head. Check it out
Games at the point are fun too watch
Las Cruces High School
Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Right center is almost 400 with a batting cage jutting into Right Field. To top it off it futures a “unique” off-center infield Diamond.
I decided to check on the El Camino field and it turns out now those old basketball courts turned into ANOTHER baseball field.
8:26 is when Jomboy comes in, don't bother with the rest!
4:42 I’m less worried about the baseball field and more worried about the runners on the track. Wtf? 800m should be two laps but that can’t be correct on that shit!
I live near a school that has an odd shaped baseball field and I know that they install a fence during baseball season. I would bet that most of the fields that you show here do something similar to make them more symmetrical.
I don’t think anything else has made me laugh so hard this decade. Fucking loved this video
Why O why did I think, I can have a nice dinner and watch this. I was laughing so hard I spit my food out. I’m dead. 🤣🤣💀
Okay that same high school in Darby used to have a sister school where there was an actual tree on the infield and a tree stump that stuck out in lane one. Also it had football field and the tree was not far from the goal post. The school was eventually shut down through mergers .. Thankfully we only had 1 meet ever at that HS.
I love loooong outfields. My only HR in Little League was a screaming ground ball that never stopped rolling.
I’ve played on the Woodson field in Fairfax!! Center fields feels like 200 with a green monster
I watched this video hoping Jelsma was on here somehow. I chased too many bombs into the end zones in HS. Way to go Guthrie, OK. 👌🏼
So they don’t have the temporary fence anymore? That was my home field growing up but we had a temporary field. Kinda like those old school ones with ads.
I grew up in Thompson nd and played so many games on that field, and I’ve never seen or heard of anyone going yard to dead center
Surely the last one could be easily fixed with a small temporary fence in center field? Baseball and football seasons don't even overlap in high school so there's absolutely no reason they couldn't shell out a few bucks to slap a few hundred feet of plastic fencing out there as opposed to leaving the entire football field as fair territory.
Guthrie puts up a temporary fence during the season
I live in Guthrie, OK and as soon as I saw this video in my recommendations, I wondered if Jelsma was in it.
I've called games in Guthrie and really was looking at these other stadiums like "these aren't that bad". Died laughing that Jelsma was #1
Mario Franklin ayyy, Mario! This is the field i played on. Loved its quirkiness. He didn’t mention it bc you can’t see it from drone shots, but there’s also that weird hill in RF. When I played there, one of the left field light poles was in play.
3:09 Oh those surveyors knew EXACTLY what they were doing
Some high school in east Texas has the field lights actually in the outfield. 3 massive poles about 20 feet from the outfield furnace.
I mentioned this to Jomboy on his Facebook page, but the blacktop that used to house the basketball courts at El Camino High School is being converted into the girls' softball field. Source: I'm an alumni and I'm still in contact with some of the remaining staff there.
I've played on that field in Barnesville, Oh. For high school games they put up a temporary fence. But when I played little league out there they will play 2 games at once with no fence up. It is hilarious.
I know they put up the temp but it was too good not to pass off as real
El Camino High School is next to Colma which is infamously known having most of the area covered by commentaries and the dead outnumbering the existing population.
I played #1 Guthrie Oklahoma. There was no temporary fence and the field goal was left in. They didn’t even leave the padding on it. It was hilarious
😂
Thanks for using Comerica twice in the intro for asymmetrical parks lol
Old tiger stadium was pretty bad. If you sit to the right behind the batters box hope you enjoy your view of a concrete column blocking the field
I actually had to play at the Thompson field in ND and the goalposts and everything are indeed in play and they actually have the nicest field in ND
Are we sure they don't put up a temporary fence for baseball at Jelsma Stadium? That looks like pure hell playing center field there.
Imagine how many cutoffs need to happen to bring a ball back to the infield on some of those parks
In South San francisco, it is quite difficult to
NOT hit a foul ball, into a cemetery. the dead/
live ratio is like 20:1.
steve
if u pause it at 3:54 u notice not only the odd dimensions and the football field but there r 2 baseballl diamonds on this field look at the screen south of this field and west by where he put the 311ft on it
You got RICE Memorial wrong - the track is not in the field. I've called 40+ games there (and played 100+ more as a kid). It's not in play - they have a fence, and it's actually round. CF is a little short due to the football field.
In ND all the fences went to keeping the bison from curb stomping the fcs this season
I played at what we call the dungeon. Buts it’s really called Hatten Park, in New London, Wisconsin
"Play ball, b**ches." I lost it on that one.🤣😂🤣
Any time you can combine It n baseball, you're golden. Lol
Was not expecting to see Hull on the list 😂
A lot of university multi purpose field have movable outfield fencing that goes up creating a more even oval shaped out field... You wont have to hit a 600ft bomb to right in a lot of cases because of these fences...
These are like the Men's Softball League Fields in the late 80's.
"F--k it... it has grass... Play Ball!"
I would bet that the number one on this list, as well as other dual purpose facilities, have an outfield fence removed when football is in play.
I've played multiple times at canisius college. Had to play right field for a game and pitch another and they both absolutely sucked.
The field at 2:48 looks like ones they place a few extra temp fences in for multiple tball and other younger players to have simultaneous games, there are a couple fields with similar geometry but with permanent fences in my area.
They just redid Derby High School and its beautiful now
I played a game on a field with no outfield fence, and a dirt track that looped around center and and right field. Wouldn’t be so bad if there wasn’t a concrete lip surrounding the die
I know I saw this one before, why did I not see Kellenberg? God, I hope they use a different stadium for games (being so close to Mitchell Field and Hofstra that the varsity football games were played at the latter when I went there for a year).
Kellenberg Memorial used to be a proper field back before that road (Glenn Curtiss Blvd) existed.
BTW, Union City High School’s & Canisius’ ballfields are kinda dope & weird at the same time.
So this is my Saturday night in quarantine
absolutely hilarious commentary!!!!!!
7:15 I live 10 minutes away from that field
The narrator is funny as hell..he kept me laughing the whole video
Thanks man
They should get one of those little nets they use for the celebrity softball games in the MLB
the guthrie one goes back and forth on football and baseball and when they have baseball games they put up a temporary fence up
it’s around 300 ft center i think so it’s not 606 ft
My high school couldn't even bother with the weird dimensions, as the street grid hemmed in the football field already. So they just put the infield in the corner of an end zone and basically gave up on having any sort of right field. But they did put in a 40 foot fence to stop the neighbors from complaining about broken windows. They actually flipped the infield to the other end zone recently... Not that it helps.
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2:53 WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A LIGHTPOST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIELD
Should have added Balboa High School in San Francisco. It's the smallest field I have ever seen.
How the hell does a terrible field like that happen in decently sized town in Oklahoma, the geography is flat land for hundreds of miles around that stadium, plus there is open farmland in every direction after like one or two miles.
i wonder if some of these fields have a temporary fence for baseball play
I was checking out the Canisius athletic center on google maps because I'm starting a cleaning job there, and that abomination brought me here.
Gelsma Stadium is a mutant compared to the other baseball diamonds, being fused with part of a football field.
The second field is the field the bat bros uses sometimes
The Briantree MA field is used for little league... so the town knows there’s about a 0% chance a kid hitting a bomb into the side of the town hall