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Saturday - November 1, 2008

Disch-Falk renovation photos, part 18

It's Field Turf time. Since we've got our first scrimmage on the new turf scheduled for tomorrow, I thought I better get my act together and post the photos I took of said new turf last month.

Here's a wide-angle view from behind home plate:

I took that photo on October 3rd. You can see lots of sand has been spread out over the turf...sand that will sink to the "roots" and give us a good playing surface. I'm guessing things will look a lot less sandy tomorrow!

I'd stopped by a couple of days earlier (on the 1st of October) when things weren't quite so settled. Here's a shot of a piece of the warning track, waiting to be installed:

You can clearly tell that it's plastic in this shot. The backing looks pretty thin. It looks like once the sand settles in around the "blades of grass" it will be pretty tough stuff. It seems that you can still get more of a rug rash sliding on this than you would on real grass, though.

I have no idea what this guy was doing:

Spreading some sand, perhaps? Although, really, that thing looks more like some sort of vacuuming machine. And, the tractor behind him? It appears to be called a Broce Broom.

And, a few more photos taken on October 3rd...

Here's the 3b area and coach's box:

The only non-turf area on the field will be the pitcher's mound:

And, here's home plate:

I'm gonna miss watching the crew paint the lines. I really am. And, I wish they'd used dirt for the bases, home plate, and the running lanes. But, I hear it's no fun trying to keep the dirt and turf separate. Trade-offs. It's all about trade-offs. Eh?

One last shot. They've moved the Longhorn logo out from behind home plate and put him in shallow cf:

Posted by Joanna at 11:19 AM