I have an article in the February issue of Extra! on how the U.S. news media largely ignored Republicans’ climate-change-denial rhetoric in the runup to last November’s elections, despite the fact that it could have huge consequences for the fate … 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
Next up fo New York City after the defeat of a paid sick leave bill: a proposal to require decent wages for employees at development projects that get city subsidies. The battle lines are all too familiar: A worker-rights bill … 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
The 1099 tax form mess continues, with both the House and Senate moving to pass repeal bills. Unfortunately, the Senate’s solution for filling the resulting revenue gap is to promise vaguely to find unneeded spending it can cut; the House’s … 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
From today’s Washington Post political blog: Republican leaders will soon be walking a tightrope when it comes to the looming spending debate. But at least it looks like the public is on their side. In addition to being a very … 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