The Forbes baseball team value estimates have been released, and in my latest spin at Baseball Prospectus, I take a look at what this means for stadium deals, the Mets’ and Dodgers’ debt woes, the Rays contraction rumors, and the … Continue reading
Every year as baseball season approaches, I get (and have) the same question: How come I can’t watch my home team’s games on my computer? The answer, it turns out, is more complicated than I’d expected: Living in the future … Continue reading
Ten years after the idea of “contracting” baseball teams died a merciful death, it’s back in the news. Who’s trying to get what out of whom this time? This time, it seems, it started with Ken Rosenthal. Two days after … Continue reading
The New York Post has revealed what it claims are the front-runners to buy a share of the New York Mets, but doesn’t tell us anything interesting about them. Armed with Google, I set out to rectify this: This morning’s … Continue reading
This week at Baseball Prospectus, I take a look at Bud Selig’s plans to add extra wild-card teams, and whether this will make baseball’s postseason any fairer, and its regular season any more meaningful: Somewhere among the piles of spiral-bound … Continue reading
Trying to make sense of what the Mets owners’ money woes could mean for the finances behind their new stadium: If the last ten days in the life of Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon were a baseball game, they … Continue reading
For the latest installment of my Baseball Prospectus column “Payoff Pitch” (free to non-subscribers this week!), a brief history of baseball revenue sharing, and why it’s neither evil socialism nor, um, good socialism: A little over a week ago, Yankees … Continue reading
My first biweekly (semiweekly? I can never remember which is which) column for Baseball Prospectus is up. The column is titled “Payoff Pitch,” and will cover all things baseball and economic; today’s is about the never-ending saga of the Oakland … Continue reading
If you can’t be bothered to read Atlantic Yards Report’s crazy-long FAQ on its even crazier-long series on Bruce Ratner’s still crazier green-cards-for-financing schemes, you can now read my Cliff Notes version instead. (Not nearly so crazy, but with more … Continue reading
I’ve been mostly on vacation this month, but tonight at 8:25 pm Eastern I return to the media fray with an appearance on Brian Kenny’s ESPN Radio show to talk about sports ticket prices. You can listen in, hm, looks … Continue reading