Stairs of Dugouts

[Nafro]

Okay this may seem like a ridiculous thought and question. Are baseball stadiums dugout stairs still mostly aluminum? Anybody who has ever tried to walk on aluminum with spikes knows its kind of like skating (with the wrong foot wear)

 

Would it not make sense with all the money invested in these ball player's, to either change the access to the dugouts? (Raise them up so they are right at field level and put higher screening in front). This would eliminate the steps so there is zero chance of accident. Or at the very least put a composite coating on the steps, so they are not as slippery. (Though that leaves the potential to "catch a spike" going in and out still)

 

I count approximately 3-4 million dollars in lost player time the last two years. That would easily cover the cost of a renovation to all our stadiums. I'm sure over the years there has also been minor league players you never even hear about injured.

 

Is this a crazy thought? You have one set of stairs up from the clubhouse and the dugout is level with the field. You would extend the covering and add higher invisible fencing to the front to avoid being hit by a foul ball. Access to the fields is at each end of dugout. The players use the stairs twice a ball game with a railing through a narrow entrance from the clubhouse. This stops the potential for injury 16-18 times (plus all the other times in warmups) skating up and down stairs, with no railing.

 

Of note you may have to stop calling it a dugout. The last sentence was the only sarcasm of this post.

Edited May 6, 2015 by Nafro

[Sorrow]

Most stairs are concrete for easy cleaning. The issue is that a lot of water tends to still stick to the concrete after they're hosed down.

[Governator]

If they carpet an entire stadium like Rogers Centre between events, surely they could extend a strip of turf on the stairs for grip

[TheHurl]

A nice carpet would really tie the dugout together.

 

A Come Together carpet...you are a marketing genius.

[KingKat]

A Come Together carpet...you are a marketing genius.

 

So shag?

[Spanky99]

A nice carpet would really tie the dugout together.

 

A Come Together carpet...you are a marketing genius.

 

Hah!!

[JohnnyLonghorn]

Its cus we are cursed. Izturis missed all of last season tripping on steps and Saunders blew his knee tripping over a sprinkler.

[Deadpool]

A nice carpet would really tie the dugout together.

 

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[Nafro]

Ugh sigh....I'm not a fan of carpet...down stairs. . "We are cursed" says the Leafs fan. We aren't cursed, we were spoiled in the 80's and early 90's. Seattle has never even won the World Series or played in it for that matter. Ask Chicago "Bartman" Cubs fans about cursed.

 

It's kind of stupid to have million dollar athletes go up and down slippery cement steps 20-30 times/game 162 games/season with spikes on. Seems to me like a recipe for disaster. Ask Mo Vaughn about dugout stairs.

[baseballsss]

whats the TL;DR version of this

[KingKat]

whats the TL;DR version of this

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[Deadpool]

Ugh sigh....I'm not a fan of carpet...down stairs. . "We are cursed" says the Leafs fan. We aren't cursed, we were spoiled in the 80's and early 90's. Seattle has never even won the World Series or played in it for that matter. Ask Chicago "Bartman" Cubs fans about cursed.

 

It's kind of stupid to have million dollar athletes go up and down slippery cement steps 20-30 times/game 162 games/season with spikes on. Seems to me like a recipe for disaster. Ask Mo Vaughn about dugout stairs.

 

I see what you did there. I, too, am a fan of bare floors.

[o2cui2i]

maybe we need more coordinated players?

[crazy47larry]

maybe we need more coordinated players?

 

*Sigh* Take Valencia off the list.

 

"With Saunders getting rest and Danny Valencia unavailable after turning his ankle when his cleat got caught in a floor drain after Monday night’s 3-1 win, the Blue Jays brought up slugger Chris Colabello from triple-A Buffalo."

[Spanky99]

*Sigh* Take Valencia off the list.

 

"With Saunders getting rest and Danny Valencia unavailable after turning his ankle when his cleat got caught in a floor drain after Monday night’s 3-1 win, the Blue Jays brought up slugger Chris Colabello from triple-A Buffalo."

 

So he didn't twist it slipping on the stairs? LOL...at cleat getting caught in a floor drain, terrible luck.