Yet Another Reason Why the Yankees Are Better Than Your Team

SICK INNING OH MAN so Melky gets called out for running into the path of the Angels' second baseman, but then Teixeira comes up and hits a two run triple and the Yankees take the lead! And I'm inspired to write this post.

[Editor's note: And its a pinstripe victory 5-3 with some sweet baserunning by Brett Gardner and a Cano single.]

I really don't need to tell you that the New York Yankees were, are, and always will be the greatest ball club in the major leagues. I'm not going to bore you with talk of 26 World Series rings, 39 AL pennants, iconic uniforms, historic heroes, diehard fans. It's barely worth mentioning that they are currently the hottest team in baseball and basically crushing everyone in their path and...yeah, not even going into that.

What I was psyched to learn today is that the Yanks totally go green. Can you even process that? That the Yankees are even more awesome than you thought they were? It's like one of those infinity plus one questions that you can't solve on math tests.

Anyways. So get this:

The new Yankee Stadium has special, energy-efficient light fixtures that also reduce 50% of light waste (light going onto other property) and save 207,000 lbs of carbon emissions per night game. That's like planting a tree for every pitch of the home season.

The Stadium sells drinks only in biodegradable cups. It also composts or recycles 40% of its waste. All paper products are 100% recycled paper.

The Great Hall uses a natural cooling system (like our greenhouse!!) instead of high-energy air conditioning.

Even the toilets are eco-friendly! The new plumbing system is supposed to cut water waste by 22% and a new type of waterless soap could save millions of gallons every year.

The Yankees are the first ball club in the majors to make all their maintenance and operation manuals electronic. While this may not sound like a big deal, it will save 10 trees, 100 pounds of solid waste, 1,000 gallons of waste water and 10,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity.

Obviously, the Stadium's location lends itself to mass tranportation. Take that subway!

And the best for last...Yankee Stadium recycles its cooking oil, and has produced 7,192 gallons of biodiesel fuel to date. Using the biodiesel will cut over 125,000 lbs of carbon emissions. That's like taking 12 cars off the road for a whole year.

Just for fun, I checked out the Red Sox green agenda. The first thing they brag about is forcing student "volunteers" to pick up garbage. Like in a gulag. That's cute.