So I went to buy Mets tickets today, and got a hard lesson in cognitive dissonant post-crash economics: Mets tickets for April and May went on “presale” today to the lucky few — that is, anyone on the Mets email … Continue reading
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
The new edition of Baseball Prospectus is out, with my essay on the last year in baseball stadium developments, and I’ll be hitting the road – okay, the keyboard and the subway – to help promote it. This Thursday, I’ll … 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
In which I learn from the comment thread that metric jokes don’t go over very well in the U.S.: While CC (or as I prefer to think of him, mL) Sabathia was raising eyebrows with the figure $160 million, even … Continue reading
The Florida Marlins put off their new stadium for a year, after previously saying that they couldn’t wait another second, as they were being evicted: It’s hard to get too excited about given that the thing was originally supposed to … Continue reading