Stadium Tours

Tell everybody kind of the idea.

How did this all come about of giving free tours of the stadium during Balloon Fiesta?

Yes, so we give stadium tours on a regular basis, and if people just contact us, and as long as the schedule permits, then we do it.

It's not like we never do it.

But with the case of the Balloon Fiesta, we figured that there's some people that are out of town or there's just some people who live here who are already awake in the morning early and wanted to do something afterwards.

And so this is the first time, or this is the only time during the season where we just say every day at noon to show up at the pro shop, and I'll be there.

And whether it's a couple of people or whether it's 20 people, you know, in the off season, we can take people into the clubhouse.

We can show them the indoor batting cages.

There's some things that we can show them in the off season that we can't during the season for obvious

reasons.

And so, yeah, we always do tours that are free, but this is just a time where it's like every day, we're going to do it at noon and come on by and get a, look at the history of baseball in Albuquerque, and you see some really cool things behind the scenes.

Well, and to confirm that, when we mentioned it briefly yesterday, I did get a text message from a listener who took one of the tours last year, and he says he was absolutely amazed at the parts of the stadium that you get to see that you typically obviously don't get to see when you're going out for a game during the season.

Yeah, you know, the main thing is the clubhouse, the indoor batting cages, but, you know, I try to give people, like, a view of, like, We're inside the clubhouse, and then this is us walking down the steps to get to the field.

So this is what it feels like to be a player, to walk down the field, and this is what it feels like to be in the dugout.

It's a show in different things, and I try to give people a history, too, in terms of this is what Tingley Field looked like.

We have a lot of great old photos you can see.

Professional baseball was played at Tingley Field.

It looks like this.

Now it's two softball fields across the street from the zoo.

Then there was the Albuquerque Sports Stadium, and this is what it looked like with the drive-in.

ballpark, which you know, Bob, and now this is what it looks like now.

And so being able to see immediately side-by-side different photos of what it once looked like, what it now looks like, I think it gives people a really good appreciation for just how special of a ballpark we have.

And how long is the typical tour?

You know, honestly, it's anywhere between 30 minutes and an hour.

I really just ask people, like, how much time do they have? It depends on the size of the group.

Tell everybody kind of the idea.

How did this all come about of giving free tours of the stadium during Balloon Fiesta?

Yes, so we give stadium tours on a regular basis, and if people just contact us, and as long as the schedule permits, then we do it.

It's not like we never do it.

But with the case of the Balloon Fiesta, we figured that there's some people that are out of town or there's just some people who live here who are already awake in the morning early and wanted to do something afterwards.

And so this is the first time, or this is the only time during the season where we just say every day at noon to show up at the pro shop, and I'll be there.

And whether it's a couple of people or whether it's 20 people, you know, in the off season, we can take people into the clubhouse.

We can show them the indoor batting cages.

There's some things that we can show them in the off season that we can't during the season for obvious

reasons.

And so, yeah, we always do tours that are free, but this is just a time where it's like every day, we're going to do it at noon and come on by and get a, look at the history of baseball in Albuquerque, and you see some really cool things behind the scenes.

Well, and to confirm that, when we mentioned it briefly yesterday, I did get a text message from a listener who took one of the tours last year, and he says he was absolutely amazed at the parts of the stadium that you get to see that you typically obviously don't get to see when you're going out for a game during the season.

Yeah, you know, the main thing is the clubhouse, the indoor batting cages, but, you know, I try to give people, like, a view of, like, We're inside the clubhouse, and then this is us walking down the steps to get to the field.

So this is what it feels like to be a player, to walk down the field, and this is what it feels like to be in the dugout.

It's a show in different things, and I try to give people a history, too, in terms of this is what Tingley Field looked like.

We have a lot of great old photos you can see.

Professional baseball was played at Tingley Field.

It looks like this.

Now it's two softball fields across the street from the zoo.

Then there was the Albuquerque Sports Stadium, and this is what it looked like with the drive-in.

ballpark, which you know, Bob, and now this is what it looks like now.

And so being able to see immediately side-by-side different photos of what it once looked like, what it now looks like, I think it gives people a really good appreciation for just how special of a ballpark we have.

And how long is the typical tour?

You know, honestly, it's anywhere between 30 minutes and an hour.

I really just ask people, like, how much time do they have? It depends on the size of the group.