Archive for Business

We all know that making the postseason = $$$. Maury Brown has decided to measure how much $$$.

The Yankees, unlike every other business in the world, are not having trouble securing credit: The New York Yankees earlier this month borrowed $105 million from a group of banks led by Goldman Sachs to cover final cost overruns at the new Yankee Stadium, sources said. The loan brings the total debt on the stadium, […]

Maybe it’s crazy to look for hidden benefits in all of the recent economic strife, but I try to do it anyway. One of them — and I realize that it may be pie in the sky as opposed to a silver-lined cloud — is the possibility that the bad times may lead to an […]

No longer A-Rod free, but STILL every Thursday!

Sal reports back from the conference, where top officials from across US pro sports shared insights on everything from statistical analysis to the fan experience.

I missed this the other day, but in light of the problems in the Dominican, the chatter about a potential worldwide draft is increasing: Recent cases of fraud and potential corruption involving the signing of baseball players in Latin America have cast new attention to the possibility of a worldwide draft in major league baseball. […]

Friend of ShysterBall Pete Toms has an article up over at the Biz of Baseball about sports marketing in the wake of Depression v2.0. It’s a comprehensive cataloging of thr furor over banks using TARP dollars — or not using TARP dollars if you deny the fungibility of money — for sports sponsorships. Read to […]

Building a model to explain the money players make.

Like white people all over this country, I really love the idea of soccer. So do folks in Seattle: The Seattle Sounders FC may be the upstarts on the local sports scene, but the new pro soccer team appears to be having little trouble attracting sponsors and ticket buyers . . . The Sounders have […]

Neyer today shoots down the contraction whispers re: the A’s and Marlins. His basis: lack of necessity and politics: What’s more, even if both franchises were utter wrecks they still wouldn’t be serious candidates for contraction. No franchise would be. It was, what, eight years ago when this spectre was first raised, regarding the Twins […]