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Unlike A’s, this team is allowed to escape its ballpark with plumbing issues

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Wait. There’s a Major League Baseball team desperately looking to move out of its stadium partly because of burst sewer pipes and a deteriorating plumbing system … and it’s not the Oakland A’s?

The Arizona Diamondbacks have certainly felt the A’s pain of dealing with a crumbling stadium infrastructure, and their stadium is only 22 years old. But while the A’s have no tangible plan in place to leave the Oakland Coliseum, the D’backs found their escape route Wednesday night.