“The Arizona Diamondbacks ripped out the grass at Chase Field ahead of the 2019 season, replacing it with synthetic grass. [...] The Phoenix-based major league baseball team thought it would save 2 million gallons a year. In the first season, the savings were closer to 4.5 million gallons, which is roughly the annual water usage of 49 households in the Phoenix area, according to the Arizona Department of Water Resources.”
49 households...either the D-Backs don’t use much water or you guys use too much.
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Most prominent forerunner of the legal challenge have been the former Staten Island Yankees, the short season team of the New York Yankees, that announced early that it would ceade operations and sue the MLB.