Because it’s a huge shock: When they surprised the public with plans for a new ballpark for the minor-league Braves a year ago, Gwinnett County officials said the stadium would cost $40 million and would pay for itself from Day One. Neither statement has come true. So far, county commissioners have committed $31 million in […]

It’s getting to the point where it’s almost no fun to be outraged about the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on Yankee Stadium: More than a quarter of the $370 million in taxpayer financing in the Yankees’ latest demand would go to shiny new toys like giant video screens and upgraded luxury suites, documents show. Nearly […]

Most keen observers realize that you can’t put much stock in the numbers painted on the outfield walls, as “330” in one park can be radically different in another park. The problem is that there really isn’t much uniformity in terms of how the measurements are made, and I’m willing to be that there’s zero […]

Evidence that the Yankees have not turned a deaf ear (blind eye?) to the complaints over the cost of their stadium, the way in which it is being paid for, and what it has done to the price of tickets in New York: The price of a bleacher seat for the exhibition openers at the […]

We’ve long known that the Bloomberg Administration bent over to deliver all manner of financial favors to the Yankees, but now the emails are out, and it’s pretty ugly: Mayor Bloomberg’s aides secretly pressured city tax assessors to inflate the value of land under the new Yankee Stadium so the team could qualify for nearly […]

The Rangers are spending a few million bucks for upgrades at The Ballpark. One of them makes sense: The Rangers also announced they are widening the home-plate screen an extra 50 feet so that it will run from one photo well to another next to the dugouts. “We want to make sure that fans sitting […]

They’re playing a bowl game at Tropicana Field this weekend. As soon as I read this, a question popped into my head. Thankfully, the article answers it: Could a football hit the catwalks at the Trop? The highest catwalks — the A and B rings — are at least 142 feet above the field, far […]

Mark Anderson of the Las Vegas Review-Journal polled a handful of Winter Meetings attendees about the viability of major league baseball in Sin City: But even though Major League Baseball isn’t coming to the valley anytime soon, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be here. Boston Globe writer Nick Cafardo, who was in town this week […]

It’s been a few years since I’ve watched the Simpsons regularly. Like a lot of people have noted, it lost its fastball years ago. But it’s still crafty and knows how to get people out. Like the one from last Sunday, in which the idea of publicly funded stadiums was caught looking. Quoteable moment at […]

As was mentioned the other day, the A’s still might move to San Jose, but if they do, they’d better not be expecting any handouts: Amid all the talk this week that new challenges in Fremont could be thawing San Jose’s long-frozen hopes for landing a showpiece A’s stadium, city officials Wednesday were cool to […]