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Friday roundup: A’s charging $200 each for Sacramento tickets, DC hires NFL-linked firm to study building NFL stadium

access_time personNeil deMause

How much additional stadium news was there this week? So much so that I skipped posting anything yesterday, just so I could start on the bullet points for this roundup. That’s just how much I care about you, the readers of this site. (Also I couldn’t bear to write entire posts for any of these, they were all either too silly or too depressing or both.)

On with the news:

  • There were rumors that Oakland A’s management was going to force fans to also buy Sacramento River Cats season tickets if they wanted A’s season tickets in Sacramento next year, but it turns out that’s not true. What is true: A’s fans wanting season tickets will have to commit to buying them for the “duration” of the team’s stay in Sacramento, and tickets will run between $185 and $250 per seat per game. (UPDATE: The Sacramento Bee reports that that’s only for “premium” season tickets; it’s unclear if there will be non-premium season plans, or if so what they will cost.) At least A’s players won’t have to suddenly acclimate themselves to playing in front of crowds bigger than the intimate affairs they’ve grown used to since owner John Fisher alienated all his fans in the Bay Area.
  • Washington, D.C. is exploring building a new Commanders stadium by agreed to pay $565,000 for a feasibility study to ASM Global, which Fox5DC describes as “a company with extensive experience managing NFL stadiums,” but which is more accurately described as a subsidiary of Legends Entertainment, which is co-owned by the New York Yankees and Dallas Cowboys. Surely they will deliver an unbiased and comprehensively researched cost-benefit analysis of building an NFL stadium in D.C., why would you ever think otherwise?
  • Not only is the city of St. Petersburg forcing its top employees to pay back $250,000 in bonus checks it sent out for overtime work on the new Tampa Bay Rays stadium project, now city administrator Rob Gerdes has suspended city HR director Christopher Guella for a week as punishment, despite Mayor Ken Welch having defended the bonuses as “within budget and my administrative authority.” Gerdes says this is because the bonuses actually turned out to be illegal; Welch insists it’s just because he wanted to avoid a bad look, though if so he really should have checked first with Barbra Streisand about how well that works.
  • Illinois labor leaders are pushing for the state to fund sports stadiums for the Chicago Bears and White Sox and Red Stars, because “unions want to build,” according to AFL-CIO president Tim Drea. And they don’t like building the things that won’t get built if the state saves a few billion dollars by not building stadiums? Somebody get them on the phone with the Nevada teachers union, they have a lot to talk about.
  • Two Cleveland city councilmembers walked around the Browns stadium during an exhibition game and asked more than 3,000 fans if they’d rather the team stay at the lakefront or move to Brook Park, and most said they prefer the lakefront. Of course, since these were people at a game at the lakefront, you’d expect them to skew more toward wanting to see games there, since people who skip going to games because they’re at the lakefront wouldn’t be at a game at the lakefront. Anyway, what did the fans say about how much they want the city government to spend on a new or renovated Browns stadium? Oh, they didn’t ask about that? Opening day is two weeks from Sunday, plenty of time for the councilmembers to plan a new round of canvassing.
  • The Dome at America’s Center, former home of the St. Louis Rams, needs $150 million in upgrades, according to the stadium authority that runs it and surely would never lie about something just to get a nicer space to rent out at public expense. The dome is currently rented out for “assemblies for large conventions, Metallica and Beyoncé concerts, and even some lower-level professional football games,” which surely will make it easy to earn back $150 million, so long as Metallica never stops touring.
  • Saskatoon needs to come up with $400 million in public money toward a $1.22 billion development to include a new arena for the Saskatoon Blades, and it plans on raising the money via a long list of uhhhh, we’ll get back to you: maybe hotel taxes, maybe TIF property tax kickbacks, maybe money from the province, who knows? “What would the city look like without SaskTel Center or without TCU Place?” asked Saskatoon director of technical services Dan Willems. “Would we be able to attract newcomers and help major employers attract talent to our city without these types of amenities?” Shh, don’t tell him.
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Friday roundup: Tempe faces probe for spying on arena opponents, WI trims Brewers subsidy ask to mere $557m, plus new adventures in logical fallacies

access_time personNeil deMause

 

 

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Friday roundup: Half-price books make great holiday presents for elected officials who can’t math

access_time personNeil deMause

For those of you who actually spend your Thanksgiving Fridays reading Field of Schemes, here’s a special bonus: If Rob Neyer’s Facebook page can be believed (and it’s never lied to me before), University of Nebraska Press is having a 50% off sale through the end of the year. That means that by entering the discount code 6HLW22 you can get Field of Schemes the book for just $11.48, or lots of other great sports (and non-sports) books for yourself, your family and friends, or that special city councilmember in your life. Buy now and buy often!

And if you just want the usual free weekly content, there’s plenty of that as well:

  • Nashville held its first of four public hearings on the Tennessee Titans‘ proposed $2.1 billion stadium deal on Monday, with the Tennessean reporting that speakers were about evenly split on whether they were opposed or in favor. (Advocates on both sides called for residents to come out and testify, so it was hardly an unscientific poll.) Also, according to WZTV-TV, Metro Nashville councilmember Courtney Johnston said the team owners still haven’t revealed how much it would cost for the city to maintain the current stadium to the terms of its lease instead of building new, but “it’s time to move forward” and “I’m not going to waste any more energy trying to find out what are we obligated to because we can’t afford it.” Just to be clear: Yes, she’s saying Nashville can’t afford renovation expenses that could be around $350 million, so instead must spend $1.2 billion for a new stadium. And no, cannabis isn’t legal yet in Tennessee, that can’t be the explanation.
  • In related news, let’s enjoy this guy taking to the smoking ruins of Twitter to attack sports economist J.C. Bradbury for critiquing the Titans deal without revealing his “sources of funding” and “the masters you serve that hate all Stadium deals.” Then let’s enjoy that said guy doesn’t mention that his school sports funding nonprofit gets money from the Titans. It’s not irony, it’s the other one.
  • With Pawtucket running short of local tax money to pay for its proposed USL soccer stadium as construction costs rise, local elected officials have come up with a new idea: use federal COVID relief money instead. Dylan Zelazo, the city’s chief of director of administration, told the Pawtucket city council on Tuesday that using American Rescue Plan Act and Community Development Block Grant funds to pay for $10 million in new public costs would allow stadium taxes to instead be used for the money from the stadium taxes can go directly into the city’s general fund to be spent on “relief for taxpayers [or] other city services,” which, uh, couldn’t the federal money have been used for that otherwise? Or been used to pay for other things that the city then wouldn’t have to spend local tax dollars on, which it could then use for tax cuts or city services? Anyway, expect lots more cities to take their federal windfall dollars and pour them into private sports projects so long as the feds don’t pay too close attention to how they spend it, and it sure seems like the feds aren’t keeping too close a watch.
  • Kansas City Chiefs president Mark Donovan says the team hasn’t yet decided how the Royals moving to a new downtown stadium would affect his team’s stadium plans for when their lease expires in 2031, but did say he’ll be “starting work [on stadium plans] in ‘24, if not before,” so there’s something to look forward to.
  • Pat Garofalo has collected a set of dumb headlines about how much the World Cup helps the economies of host cities and the economic evidence that those headlines are dumb so we don’t have to, thanks, Pat!
  • St. Louis area government bodies have agreed on how to split the $790 million from Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke and the NFL for skipping town with the Rams without going through the required league relocation process: The city will get $250 million, the county will get $169 million, the local sports authority will get $70 million, and the convention board will get $30 million. No, you are correct, that’s not $790 million, but it’s what’s left after $275 million in attorney’s fees, file this under “a lot better than nothing.”
  • The former Meadowlands Arena, driven out of business by arena glut in the New York-New Jersey area, has apparently found a second life as a film production studio. That’s encouraging that it can be reused without anyone demanding more public subsidies — or would be if New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy didn’t just provide a huge pile of new tax kickbacks for film production, sigh. Did New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority president Vincent Prieto argue that it’s worth it because the film production “really helps the economy with the local businesses” around an arena literally named for being built in the middle of a swamp? Do you even have to ask?
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Friday roundup: Calgary hires wolf to guard its Flames arena chicken coop, and Stan Kroenke’s no good very bad day

access_time personNeil deMause

Before we get to our weekly cavalcade of doom, some actual good news this week: Tom Scocca, the longtime sports-and-everything-else writer who last got mention here for his excellent newsletter Hmm Daily, which later transmogrified into the excellent newsletter Indignity, announced that he and his longtime running partner Joe MacLeod will be taking the reigns at the online publication Popula, formerly part of the same Civil network of news sites as Hmm Daily. If that was way too many obscure web/email publications for you in one sentence, here’s the tl;dr: Tom Scocca is one of the funniest and most insightful writers out there, and now he’s going to be not only easier to find an link to but he’s going to have a freelance budget to assign more articles by other (hopefully funny and insightful) writers as well. For starters, here’s a column about whether it’s okay to take advantage of the other team not having enough players to run up the score in a flag football game for 9-year-olds. This is the kind of insightful (and funny!) writing that America needs to heal its wounds.

Cavalcade of doom time!

  • The city of Calgary and the Flames owners have officially restarted talks on a new arena, nine months after team officials walked away from a previous deal because they were mad they would have to pay too much money. (This seems kinda like city officials are engaging in bad parenting to me, but okay.) Negotiating on behalf of the city will be consultants CAA ICON, best remembered around here for their terrible Buffalo Bills economic impact study; it’s tempting to say better to have them working for the city than against it, but you also have to wonder if they could have found a consultant without both feet planted quite so firmly in the “new venues are the bomb” world.
  • Stan Kroenke is reportedly going to be required to pay the NFL $571 million toward its $790 million settlement with the city of St. Louis for yanking the Rams out of town in violation of its own league bylaws. Add in the $3 billion in cost overruns he had to pay for his new L.A. stadium and it’s tempting to see Kroenke as the big loser in the Rams-return-to-L.A. saga, but it’s also hard to see exactly who the winner is — St. Louis got a pile of cash and doesn’t have to spend money on building another stadium, so I guess that’s a kind of win, at least until somebody decides the city needs the NFL back and they spend even more than that on luring an expansion team.
  • A giant tranche of public information about the Buffalo Bills stadium project just dropped, though it doesn’t appear to include that Erie County study of the projected cost of renovating the team’s old stadium that the county keeps releasing with all the important bits blacked out. (There is an “alternatives analysis” that rules out renovation on the grounds that “a renovation project of the type that would likely be necessary to encourage a long-term lease renewal would be extensive,” which is studyspeak for “the Bills owners want something real shiny.”) I haven’t dug through it all yet, but feel free to do so yourself, or just enjoy the opportunity to go around saying “tranche” a lot, I sure am.
  • Tennessee Titans fans who paid for personal seat licenses for the right to buy season tickets at the team’s current stadium are pissed that they’ll have to pay for new personal seat licenses for the right to buy season tickets at a new one. The Titans say they’ll credit current PSL holders with however much they spent for the old ones, but given that the choice is “give us more money now or else see your entire investment go up in smoke,” I’d be pissed, too.
  • St. Louis S.C.‘s new $461 million stadium may not be ready by the team’s MLS debut next spring because some workers broke an electric line, and then it rained. I would make a “time to tear it down and build a new one” joke, but I’m kind of afraid someone would take it seriously.
  • Illinois voters are split on whether they want the Chicago Bears to stay in Chicago or move to suburban Arlington Heights, but only 12% are okay with spending tax money on building a new stadium, and only another 28% are okay with devoting public funds to infrastructure for one. None of this should be surprising, given that that’s what polls pretty much always say, though elected officials also pretty much always ignore what the public thinks.
  • This excellent Kathryn Schulz article about the history of public lotteries has nothing to do with stadium scams per se, but given that it’s about how government have ended up extracting money from people who can least afford it in order to support a giant private industry while pretending it lets them cut taxes, it at least rhymes.
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Friday roundup: A’s owner wants public to fund “some” of $1B Vegas stadium, Coyotes swear they’re not moving to Houston, and more

access_time personNeil deMause

Happy December! I was up real late last night, so let’s get straight to the remaining news of the week:

  • Nevada Gov.  says he’s “not inclined” to call a special session of the state legislature to figure out how to fund an Oakland A’s stadium in Las Vegas, says A’s owner John Fisher is looking for a $1 billion retractable-roofed ballpark, and indicated, “They wanted some public money. In what form, they didn’t really specify.” He also said that he wouldn’t further raise hotel taxes, the revenue source that paid for the Las Vegas Raiders stadium, and “I explained to them that I didn’t want to be a stalking horse. They said they weren’t doing that, and they were serious about this.” That’s what everyone says, even those proposing stalking horses! At least we know now that Fisher wants “some” public money toward a $1 billion Vegas stadium, if he’s serious about building one; admittedly it’s not much, but in 2021 we have to be happy with any morsel of facts we can come by.
  • The Arizona Coyotes front office has issued a statement that no matter what Forbes’ Mike Ozanian says, they’re not selling the team to someone who’ll move it to Houston. Either this is going to be hilariously awkward to walk back if the rumor turns out to be true, or Ozanian doesn’t know what he’s talking about again.
  • David Gilbert, president and CEO of Destination Cleveland, on the Guardians‘ freshly approved $285-million-or-more stadium renovation subsidy: “Economically, people can talk about whether or not it’s right for public funding to be part of professional sports facilities, but in our country, it is a reality.” I have misplaced my tourism-official-to-English dictionary, but I’m pretty sure that translates as “Yeah yeah, right and wrong, this is just standard business procedure, that’s all America has ever cared about.”
  • Now that the St. Louis Rams lawsuit is all over but for the shouting about how the NFL and Rams owner Stan Kroenke will split the $790 million settlement cost, it’s also time for the city and county of St. Louis and the local stadium authority to fight about how they will split the proceeds.
  • Buffalo’s Investigative Post is suing the state of New York to force the release of two studies commissioned by the Bills owners that looked into the relative feasibility of building a new stadium or renovating the existing one, and evaluated the economic impact of the Bills’ presence in the state. Please note that this is not the study of stadium renovation costs that Erie County is refusing to release without blacking out almost all of it; rather, these are two other studies that Gov. Kathy Hochul is refusing to release at all, though her administration admits it has copies. The odds on the suit forcing the documents’ release before Hochul puts a new stadium in the 2022 state budget seem slim, but at least maybe it will let us point and laugh after the fact.
  • The New York Islanders‘ new arena is causing a traffic nightmare for its neighbors in Elmont, with fans “parking anywhere they want, urinating and cursing,” according to WCBS-TV. Things may improve once a new arena parking garage is complete, but it’s probably best not to hope that a lot more fans will start taking the train instead.
  • “Last year, a report out of central Florida showed that only 23.9 percent of NFL senior executives are anything but white men. All of that whiteness has manifested itself, disproportionately, in the stands and in luxury boxes, where white NFL owners get brandished on every telecast as their team’s No. 1 fan. Those owners have endeavored to remake the front-facing part of their customer base in their image, and they are succeeding. Money is their foremost tool to accomplish this task.” That all is some pretty solid structural political analysis, especially from a column titled Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo.
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Friday roundup: St. Louis to get $790m Rams payoff from NFL or Kroenke or both, MSG deemed too pricey to move

access_time personNeil deMause

Not even sure how many people are out there reading this rather than still Thanksgivinging (Canadians, right?), but the news sure hasn’t taken a break for the short holiday week:

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Friday roundup: NFL owner throwdown over St. Louis Rams lawsuit, and other prospective miniseries pilots

access_time personNeil deMause

Sorry for the lateness of today’s roundup, but I had to get a haircut in advance of an interview about the Buffalo Bills stadium plans. (I mean, I needed a haircut anyway, but this made it important to do so on Roundup Friday. This is probably more than you wanted to know about my haircut.) Lots of news this week, let’s get to it!

  • ESPN did what it does best yesterday, publishing a long fly-in-the-wall report on this week’s NFL meetings based on, you know what, who cares who its sources are when the resulting story includes Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke threatening to sue to get out of his promise to indemnify the NFL against lawsuits from St. Louis over the team’s move out of that city, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft griping that he wouldn’t have sat on the L.A. relocation committee if he’d known all the shit that would come with it, and Jerry Jones defending his pal (and stadium business partner) Kroenke and blaming the mess on one unnamed owner who gave a “shaky” deposition. This is way better than whatever that HBO show is about rich people that I won’t watch because it looks awful! Somebody greenlight Sunday Night Kroenke already, I’m out of stuff to hate-watch.
  • The Cleveland Guardians owners are being sued by a men’s roller derby team that, whoops, is also called the Cleveland Guardians and has been since before the baseball team changed its name, maybe somebody should have checked that? You would think that the baseball team owners would have simply paid off the derby team, and it appears that’s what the derby team wanted, but the baseball team made an offer that was “four figures” and then “surreptitiously filed” a trademark application for the name in Mauritius. Actually, forget the Kroenke show, I want to watch Cleveland Trademark Law.
  • The owners of the new KC NWSL women’s soccer team (catchy name) say they plan to build a “privately financed” $70 million, 11,000-seat stadium in downtown Kansas City, which sounds very promising, but we’ve certainly heard that before about stadiums that turned out to get tax breaks or free land or other under-the-table subsidies. So what’s the deal here? How much is KC NWSL paying to lease the land from Port KC, the local port authority? There are roughly a billion articles on the announcement, but none bother to go into specifics, so let’s file this one under TBD for the moment; in the meantime, here’s your requisite vaportecture of soccer fans watching, naturally, fireworks.
  • Bronx businesses are less and less thrilled with NYC F.C.‘s proposed soccer stadium, and more and more interested in getting the New York Yankees to actually start paying property taxes. I wouldn’t count on the latter anytime soon since the whole Yankees deal was structured to allow the team owners to pay off their stadium bonds with fake property taxes, and having to pay real property taxes would mess that up, plus the Steinbrenners are not going to want to pay more taxes nohow; but also it doesn’t look real likely that the NYC F.C. stadium is getting built either, so glass half-full, maybe?
  • There’s a new snag for the proposed Arizona Coyotes arena in Tempe, as the Phoenix Aviation Advisory Board has determined that arriving planes at nearby Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport would only pass “maybe 400 feet” above its roof when approaching to land. There are other airports with less headroom, but still the board’s deputy aviation manager noted that other projects have had to address issues around “the various building materials — the glare, the lighting, the way navigator equipment kind of would bound off surfaces. So it’s not as easy to just say, ‘Well, tell us your height and as long as you keep it under that we should be OK.'”
  • Not really stadium news except the team in question just got a ton of public money for one, but MLB commissioner Rob Manfred came out in favor of the Atlanta Braves‘ name and fan practice of chanting vaguely Native American things while waving their hands in imitation of chopping someone with a tomahawk, justifying it by saying: “The Native American community in that region is wholly supportive of the Braves program, including the Chop. For me, that’s kind of the end of the story.” The National Congress of American Indians begs to differ, as do some members of the same local tribe the team owners cite as supporting the name and the chop. Game 3 of the World Series is in Atlanta tonight, you can just feel the excitement!

 

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Friday roundup: Sports team owners saying stuff, and the journalists who love to reprint it, Episode #736

access_time personNeil deMause

That wasn’t a swing, was it? It sure didn’t look like a swing to me.

Sorry, right, enough about actual sports, back to the business of sports business:

  • The owners of the new St. Louis City SC MLS team want a new parking garage built next to their new stadium, arguing that the stadium “will have a magnetic quality that draws people to the district 365 days a year,” according to the garage’s lead architect. Team officials already demolished several century-old mixed-use buildings to make way for the garage, which would seem to be a lost opportunity for things like stores and restaurants that might more likely be in use year-round, but far be it from me to argue with an expert in economagnetism.
  • Albuquerque city officials say they won’t decide where to build a New Mexico United USL soccer stadium until voters approve the money for it — which makes total sense, because the cost of a project doesn’t depend at all on what land needs to be acquired, and also no landowner would ever jack up the price of property knowing that the city needs it for an already-approved project. Today is Opposite Day, right?
  • Arash Markazi no longer works for the L.A. Times after being exposed for promoting friends’ projects in his columns and reprinting press releases almost verbatim, but Substack and Twitter don’t care if you’re ethical so long as you get eyeballs, so we have Markazi announcing, unsourced, that “The Oakland Athletics are expected to announce a handful of finalists for a potential $1 billion stadium in Las Vegas after the World Series,” and that getting turned into entire news articles elsewhere. Never mind that A’s exec Dave Kaval already said as much last month, or that “narrows down sites for stadium that nobody has proposed to pay for” isn’t really breaking news anyway, a famous reporter guy said a thing about famous business guys maybe saying a thing, everybody quick post updates at once!
  • Tennessee Smokies owner Randy Boyd says he’ll pay stadium construction workers at least $15.50 an hour but won’t sign anything making that promise enforceable, and won’t promise to pay concessions and other stadium workers anything above the cheapest the labor market will let him get away with. The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Boyd says since he’s “a longtime community member, a community benefits agreement won’t be necessary,” a sentence that it’s amazing the News Sentinel production staff could type without busting out in visible lolsobs.
  • Pawtucket’s McCoy Stadium is in bad shape after the Pawtucket Red Sox left for Worcester and took all the kitchen equipment and office chairs with them. The city is considering whether to rehab the stadium for an indie-league team, but the two that kicked the tires said that at 10,000 seats it’s too big for them; or to redevelop the site for something else, but there are worries it will sink into the swamp.
  • Charlotte officials have noticed that they’re paying city police officers to provide security at Carolina Panthers games instead of having the team hire off-duty officers, because no off-duty officers want to work for the $42-an-hour rate that the team offers. I spent a bunch of time reading local articles to try to figure out if it’s the Panthers or the city or someone else chintzing on security wages, and felt bad that I couldn’t figure it out until I saw a quote from Charlotte’s police chief saying, “Listen Panthers or whoever, enough is enough?” and decided that if he doesn’t know, I shouldn’t be expected to either.
  • Do you really want to read NFL uber-insider Mike Florio speculating about whether the NFL will settle the city of St. Louis’s lawsuit against the league for moving the Rams by offering the city an expansion team? Even though Rams owner Stan Kroenke has promised to cover any losses the league is stuck with, and Florio doesn’t provide any sources at all other than “an acknowledgment in league circles of the possibility”? Probably not, but you’re a grownup, make your own decisions.
  • The Tampa Bay Rays may have been eliminated from the postseason, but that’s not going to stop the Tampa Bay Times editorial board from taking the opportunity to stump for a new stadium on the grounds that, um, let’s see, “far too few people will buy tickets to watch them play at their current stadium” and “the hard work needs to be done now to ensure the team stays in the Tampa Bay area, even if it’s part time.” One could point out that there’s no solid evidence that significantly more people would buy tickets at a new stadium, especially for a team that would disappear to Canada all summer, but the Times also says that “this is not the time to clam up or for grandstanding or unhelpful posturing,” so I guess they wouldn’t want lots of people writing them about this, huh?
  • Did you know that the USL is creating a new women’s soccer league, to be an adjunct to/compete with the NWSL, currently reeling under a sexual harassment scandal that has already brought down its commissioner and forced the relocation of its championship game? I had not, but more women’s pro teams can only be a good thing both in terms of growing the women’s game and providing more teams so that cities don’t have to outbid each other for them, though also more opportunities for teams to demand that cities outbid each other for them, because city officials are pretty much morons when it comes to this stuff.
  • Lots of times sports team owners argue that there’s no way to fund venue construction and repairs without public subsidies, but did they ever consider growing and selling soybeans? On free public land, oh, Canada, you just had to ruin this feel-good story, didn’t you?
  • Tokyo’s Olympic white-elephant stadiums are facing increased maintenance costs because they’re under attack by oysters. That is all.
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Friday roundup: A’s stadium goes lopsided, another Cali soccer stadium stalls, plus how to skip rent payments and use them to fix up your own home

access_time personNeil deMause

I’m very busy this morning, busy enough that one entire news item will have to wait till Monday when I can give it its due, but that means an extra post on Monday, so what are you complaining about, really? Anyway, there’s still plenty of stadium and arena news from this week, let’s have at it:

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Friday roundup: Miami ripped off again by Loria, Rays roof removal proposed, America’s journalists snookered

access_time personNeil deMause

I’ll keep this short today, in deference to any Texas readers who may be trying to save battery life thanks to that state’s power outages. Once your bandwidth is back, here’s a good reminder from the New York Times that climate change is expected to cause unseasonable cold snaps and winter storms as well as insane summer heat, so you have lots more of both to look forward to. Or, if you prefer, here’s an article on a similar theme from the Village Voice a few years back that I wrote a much snappier headline for.

Stadiums, right, that’s what you came here to read about! Let’s see what we’ve got:

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