…and still more, including new figures for the amount of public subsidy the Yanks would be getting. (And if you’re worried about the technical details being too dry, note that I’m now officially “someone who can write about [stadium finance] … Continue reading
More on the New York Yankees’ latest demands for city-backed bonds… When the rich want to get richer off the public till, one trick is to make the theft so boring that only a trained accountant could understand it without … Continue reading
With the cost of the New York Yankees’s new stadium project running close to $2 billion, the team has asked the city for another $350 million in city-backed tax-exempt bonds to help raise money for the project. I break down … Continue reading
The new stadiums for the Mets and Yankees are a year away from completion, and they’re costing less and creating fewer headaches for local residents than expected. Just kidding! When Mets and Yankees fans arrive for the start of the … Continue reading
Don’t believe anything you read on the front page of the New York Post, no matter how amusing the headline is: Today’s front-page Post “exclusive” reports that the Yankees and Mets are in “secret talks” to buy the remnants of … Continue reading
Just got word that Field of Schemes: The Next Generation (ed. note: not the actual title) is now shipping from Bison Books’ website, notwithstanding the official release date being a month away. This edition has all the stadium-swindley goodness of … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I’ve had an excuse to do a new tally of the public costs of the Yankees and Mets deals, so I was pleased to see New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg put his foot in his … Continue reading
The New York city council debate over whether to continue Madison Square Garden’s $11-million-a-year exemption from property taxes – which was supposed to end in 1992, but somebody forgot to write that into the legislation – has not exactly covered … Continue reading
My latest Metro New York op-ed (at 400 words apiece, they’re really more op-aphorisms) takes a shot at digging beneath the surface of baseball’s steroid scandal, or at least coming up with some new topics of conversation aside from whether … Continue reading
The media frenzy over those Yankees hotel-room aliases continues, as I make two radio appearances tomorrow to discuss the pressing question of why Jorge Posada goes by “Ricky Ricardo”: Peter Greenberg Worldwide, syndicated/XM, 10:50 am Eastern The Roy Green Show, … Continue reading