Across the street where I work there's a middle school than had a baseball diamond built a year or so back. Intersting watching the construction while they built it. Brought in that "special diamond dirt" you mentioned. Beautiful set up when it was finished. What did the schoool then do? They abandoned it, and within months weeds had overgrown the field. Your liberal school tax dollars at work!
Well, someone got the graft for building it...
Here in NJ our abandoned baseball diamonds are used for cricket by Indian “replacement Americans” - playing the sports Americans won’t play...
Yes, the sports thing is just way, way, out of hand. And it’s because the sports industry and media have made athletes into heroes. Heroic for doing what? Between them, my two sons won 3 state high school football titles. It was fun for them, and us, but they got injuries that they will feel for the rest of their lives. It’s really not worth it.
And this obsession with having high school sports facilities that rival big universities and the pros is ridiculous.