I would sum this up as that it’s still a pretty bad deal for Cincinnati residents, but not $213 million bad.

The “counting future money as the same as present money” error is the same one that Calgary officials are using to pretend that taxpayers will get their money back on the new Flames arena deal, btw, when they…

CSL, for those not in the know, is owned by Legends, a joint venture of the Yankees and Cowboys. Best known previously for overstating their own economic impact numbers for DC United by 200% and then sheepishly correcting them:

“Because typically you have staff lawyers from the City Attorney’s office negotiating with very expensive, very experienced big-firm lawyers who work for the owner.”

Yep, exactly that. See:

I wonder if when Jeffrey Goldberg wrote his first book, his publisher said to him, “You know, writing a book is really hard, and you’ve never done it before. But you clearly have potential, so I’ll think about putting you on a pathway to that, maybe.”

(Pause while we all try to picture someone saying that to a…

“The ticket sales and conventions would not exist if not for high quality stadiums (and sports infrastructure) needed for professional teams.”

There are a few exceptions: The Heritage and Cato foundations have consistently criticized stadium subsidies. But yeah, Scott Walker and his ilk have no problem decrying government spending when it’s on anything other than checks for their friends.

I Still Call It Shea.

The crazy thing about Phoenix is they did do polling, and people hated giving money to Sarver, and the response of the city council was “Let’s call a timeout for 30 days so we can have a bunch of hearings to tell the public how this is really a great idea.” Then voted for it regardless.

Thanks — this is a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain. (And I am now going to be inserting the word “greeblies” into conversation at every opportunity.) If you or other rendering professionals reading this would be willing to discuss this stuff more (either on or off the record), please drop me an email at the…

I wrote about that one elsewhere — the roof that appears completely different in shape depending on what direction you’re viewing it from is a nice touch.

That actually explains a lot, and is the same thing going on in a lot of understaffed, overworked industries. (Ahem.)

And yeah, it’s totally a problem in all development renderings. One of my favorite non-sports examples was for a Coney Island amusement park that for some reason featured Batman standing in the middle…

I had to save something for the director’s cut.

Right, I think “rush hour” is the missing factor here.

I have never been to a Rangers game, and yet I learned early at every other NY sporting event that the proper response to that particular organ riff (dunh, dunh, dunh, DUNH-UH) is “Potvin sucks!”

I am extremely skeptical that anyone would move the Islanders out of the NY area, if only because the cable revenues here swamp anything you’d get elsewhere. Yes, even Quebec.

Yeah, absolutely re no trains at the Coliseum. (I well remember the LIRR-to-the-bus trip from going to concerts as a teenager.) Everyone else said better than me why the traffic could be worse at Belmont.

MLB and NFL attendance are down since HDTV was invented, sure. But that doesn’t explain why the Rays’ attendance is down orders of magnitude more.

The NFL does indeed have a program like that, which was put in place when Bob Kraft threatened to move the Patriots from Boston(ish) to Hartford. I imagine that it would take something along those lines for MLB to do anything similar — and even then, the Steinbrenners will scream bloody murder about contributing to a…

Yeah, I probably should have included the weather under the “Florida sucks” theory. Though Houston seems to have no trouble getting people to leave the house for ballgames in the summer, and Houston is basically on the surface of Venus.

Anyway, if you’re right, then baseball itself is probably doomed, because soon…

The thing is, though, you can: Yankees fans have shown that they’ll turn out in large numbers at high ticket prices so long as they have an Aaron Judge to root for and a reasonable shot at the postseason.

Would Machado help them? Of course. Would he help them so much at the box office that, despite revenue sharing and…