So while up in the Bronx the other day, I was looking at the Yankees’ side-by-side old and new stadiums, and realized one needed to go soon to make way for public parks to replace those destroyed by the new … Continue reading
More on the Great Yankees Ticket Kerfuffle: Give the Yanks credit for trying: It may not have pushed A-Roid off the front pages, but Ticketgate is certainly starting to give him a run for his money. More tales of fan … Continue reading
With the opening of the new Yankees stadium just weeks away, there’s growing discontent among fans about where the team expects them to sit this year, and how much they’re being asked to pay. I take a look at one … Continue reading
To go along with my essay in Baseball Prospectus 2009 – now in stores, and available via the interweb – I provide some updates on the latest in baseball stadium goings-on (subscribers-only, sorry): If you’ve received your brand-new copy of … Continue reading
After sorta kinda liveblogging the Florida Marlins stadium vote for fieldofschemes.com, I recapped the mayhem for BP’s blog: The Miami city and county commissions both had hearings scheduled today to vote on approving the Florida Marlins stadium deal, but that’s … Continue reading
The yammering about Citigroup’s naming-rights deal with the Mets has gotten so loud, I needed to take a crack at sifting through the remaining options: Given that construction of the Mets’ new stadium began under a cloud of controversy about … Continue reading
Today it’s the city Industrial Development Agency’s turn to hold hearings on New York’s baseball stadium projects, and the shoes are on the other feet: Politicians being members of the public, too, and city development chief Seth Pinsky, co-star of … Continue reading
A two-parter in honor of state assemblymember Richard Brodsky’s last-second hearings on new public funding for the Yanks and Mets stadium deals, which get voted on this Friday. From part one: 10:57: Levine and Pinsky are finally seated at the … Continue reading
With hearings and a vote coming up this week on the latest round of Yanks and Mets stadium subsidies, I provide a stadium shenanigans FAQ: This will be, with any luck, the last time I have to write about Yankee … Continue reading
There’s nothing like having to read a 116-page collection of economic mumbo-jumbo at 11 pm to put me in a fine fettle: Amid today’s hoopla over the Bloomberg administration’s decision to give back its free luxury boxes at the Mets’ … Continue reading