Anyone who has seen the movie Bull Durham knows life in minor league baseball is less than glamorous. There’s the long bus trips, dealing with whacky on field promotions designed to bring fans to the stands, having to both grow up while trying to become a professional, and not trying to not let the world around you bring you down.

If you’re a player for the Mets AAA affiliate, the Las Vegas 51s, there’s another issue you have to deal with – sewage spewing onto the field.

The sewage is but one of the many factors that makes Cashman Field, the home of the 51s, an inadequate ballpark. Cashman Field has become an out of date ballpark, and one of the least desirable places to see a baseball game in Pacific Coast League, if not all of professional baseball.

As a result, the 51s rank 26th in attendance out of the 30 AAA teams. They rank this low despite having Wally Backman, a member of the 1986 Mets, T.J. Rivera, the top hitter in the league, Travis Taijeron, a participant in the AAA Home Run Derby, and big prospects like Dilson Herrera, Gavin Cecchini, and Gabriel Ynoa.

As Betsy Helfand writes for the Las Vegas Journal-Review, the 51s know about Cashman Field’s myriad of issues, and they are hoping to secure a $60 million “private-public partnership” to build a state of the art ballpark in the suburbs of Las Vegas. MiLB President and COO Pat O’Connor state that the move from the city is necessary as “[y]ou want a place that’s easy to get to, attractive to get to convenient to get to and in your case in Las Vegas, that’s probably not downtown.”

Ultimately, the 51s goal is to emulate what transpired with the Charlotte Knights. The Knights built a $54 million ballpark through a “private-public partnership.” The end result was a state of the art ballpark dubbed one of the nicest in all of baseball. Attendance rose from 3,083 fans to 9,686, which was the highest attendance figure in the minor leagues. The new ballpark was on display at the 2016 AAA All Star Game.

Taijeron was certainly impressed with the park saying, “It’s a nice environment and a great place to bring your families and all that, from what I’m told. Obviously, you could see a lot of families in the stands. A lot of positivity. It makes it a lot more fun when you’ve got that kind of environment around you and you’ve got a stadium like this that draws a lot of people.”

The 51s front office was impressed as well. Team President and COO Dan Logan traveled to the All Star Game to see the new park and meet with Knights’ COO Dan Rajkowski to get some insight on the process and figure out how to replicate the experience for 51s fans. Based upon that meeting and other efforts, Logan feels confident something will get done to build a much better ballpark.

Ultimately, Logan believes the 51s will have a great ballpark like BB&T Park, the Knights’ home, saying, “It’ll be built right. There will be shade, the cooling system will work for the summertime, we’ll have suites, we’ll have a club area like this, we’ll have party decks. This is awesome. It’s got something for everybody. That’s kind of what you want to do. You want to appeal to the whole market, everybody.”

Ultimately, if the 51s are able to accomplish their goals and move out of the sewage infested Casman Field, Knights COO Rajkowski believes the 51s will “jump to the top of the Pacific Coast League in attendance.”