A newspaper report claims the Tampa Bay Rays could reap $40 million a year in added revenue from a new stadium. Does it pass the smell test? For those of you who read the Tampa Tribune religiously — and who … Continue reading
It’s Wednesday, so it must be time for the annual speculation about moving a third MLB team to the New York area: Normally, the Tampa Bay Rays complaining that their home stadium is a dump wouldn’t be news here in … Continue reading
More than you ever wanted to know about the fate of Brooklyn’s last surviving big-league ballpark wall: The saga of the last surviving Brooklyn ballpark wall just keeps getting murkier and murkier. The latest news: Con Ed, which since the … Continue reading
Thoughts on tonight’s Game 1 of the World Series: With the World Series starting tonight — if this rain ever stops, and if Jay-Z’s opening act finishes in time for the game to start before midnight — the media is … Continue reading
Yesterday was the third anniversary of the demolition of Macombs Dam Park to make way for the Yankees’ new stadium, and work on replacement parks is still far off in the distance: As anyone who’s been to a game at … Continue reading
What we’re losing in Detroit: After a crazy Friday afternoon that featured a preservationist running onto the field at Tiger Stadium to serve a restraining order against the stadium’s demolition — too late to stop a backhoe from taking several … Continue reading
And still more on empty seats at New York’s new ballparks: Apparently not even the prospect of starring in baseball’s new umpire replay videos is enough to induce New Yorkers to shell out $300 for tickets to the new Yankee … Continue reading
More on what those empty seats at Mets and Yankees games mean: I went to a Mets game last week, and speaking as a Yankee fan, I have to admit that in the battle of the ballparks, the Mets won. … Continue reading
It strikes me as a bit odd that I’m posting my Baseball Prospectus blog item on the Marlins’ stadium deal and not my much more in-depth Field of Schemes item, but I don’t make the rules here — oh wait, … Continue reading
Don’t assume the San Jose A’s are a foregone conclusion by any means, but moving the team there is more likely than it seemed last week: During my chat a couple of weeks back, I wrote of the Oakland A’s … Continue reading