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Just how big and tall is the A’s Las Vegas Stadium? Believe it or not, there is a domed baseball stadium in this world that matches the team’s planned size and capacity. That’s the good news. The bad news? Everything else about it, and other dome stadiums and all arenas in general highlight just why the latest renderings of the Las Vegas baseball stadium still don’t make any sense. You don’t need to be Art Van da Leigh to understand just how wild this is.

Is the A’s Las Vegas Stadium feasible? That is the big question everyone wants to know. And to that extent, the answer is yes. We actually have proof that you can build a domed baseball stadium on 9 acres with a capacity of 30,000. As much as I despise John Fisher, that much is true.

For proof of that, we travel to Japan and a place I have watched a game from, the Seibu Dome or what is known today as the Belluna Dome. Located to the west of Tokyo and home to the Saitama Seibu Lions, it began life as an outdoor stadium before a roof was placed on top in the late 1990s.

That allowed it to host various nonbaseball events, including the G1 Climax 24 Finals in 2014, a time when Tetsuya Naito was still known as the Stardust Genius. Odd times those were.

Anyway, the Seibu Dome covers a little more than nine acres in terms of area size. The specific number varies. I have found 9.5ish online and if you measure on Google Earth you get closer to ten. But it’s close enough.
The capacity is 31,522, which puts it in line with what the A’s are planning for. That brings us to a huge discrepancy between the two. Seibu Dome features just one bowl. The A’s renderings have four separate decks. That doesn’t compute in the slightest.

Moving on to the height, Seibu Dome is 63 meters at its highest point. Tropicana Field is roughly 68 meters in height. And the most obvious comparison, the Sydney Opera House is 67 meters. That gives us a good idea of what the height of the Las Vegas baseball stadium would be somewhere around that range.

Of course, that is roughly 2022 Stories tall. For comparison, the largest tower at the Tropicana is 70 meters and the MGM Grand across the street is 30 stories. New York, New York is obviously taller but they still didn’t block off the resort with a full size statue of Liberty.

Even if Bally’s were to push their hotel to the very back corner of the land plot, the amount of dead space this stadium would create is massive. You are talking about 1015 stories of view that is taken up by what will look like a disfigured rolly polly. There is a reason why there are no renderings of the back view, by the way. Because there is nothing to see. Everything is focused toward the strip.

I know Bally’s isn’t exactly the smartest company in the world. But eventually, they will catch on to this fact. At that point, what do the A’s do? Dig down. That is always expensive and making the stadium seem smaller at street level defeats the purpose. Do you really want it going eyetoeye with the Excalibur Castle?

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