Cool.

This one, too:

Geoff Propheter reports that while Dems and Reps both back stadium subsidies, the variables that best predict if legislators will back a deal are how close they are to the site, how old they are, if they're male, and if they're less politically experienced. www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/04/04/2...

J.C. Bradbury presents on team move threats, noting that Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf's campaign for a new stadium in the late 1980s shows how they're created out of whole cloth by a combination of team ownership and supportive elected officials. www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/04/04/2...

At the sports economics conference at UMBC: I'm doing math (well, looking at math) so you don't have to.

In case you missed the beginning, it was just the announcement of the starting lineups.

Driscoll was a swing vote who voted yes to the stadium plan in July, then led the charge to delay the bond vote last month, saying, "I think we all need more time. We can save this deal." Make of this what you will.

"Getting politicians to like stadiums is like shooting fish in a barrel," says JC Bradbury: They tend to be male, educated, affluent, and sports fans. Plus, for economic development agencies, "a stadium is a really good opportunity to say 'I did that.'" www.fieldofschemes.com/2024/03/28/2...

"No one travels to go see the NBA" or NHL, says Victor Matheson; MLB and NFL numbers are better but still low. So sure, go ahead and spend public money on new sports facilities if you want — but spend "in the low tens of millions, not the billions." www.fieldofschemes.com/2024/03/28/2...

"Mallparks" author Michael Friedman: "What I think shifted the paradigm is Battery Atlanta," which is now the model for almost every new stadium — "I don't want 15 acres for a stadium, I want 50 acres for a development." www.fieldofschemes.com/2024/03/28/2...

They are extremely not moving to Nashville.