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2 days ago | fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause

Hey, remember way back yesterday morning when a Missouri state senator was trying to sneak through a last-minute bill to provide Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman with $200 million toward a new stadium? Well, forget all that, because yesterday afternoon, Missouri Gov.

3 days ago | fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause

The Denver city council voted 11-1 yesterday to approve spending $70 million on land for a stadium for an NWSL women’s soccer team … sort of. The land purchase will move forward, but the stadium itself will face several additional votes in the fall after the council gets more details about the plans and about whether the economy has gone in the crapper by then:“It’s a dicey time,” said Councilman Paul Kashmann, who voted yes.

3 days ago | fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause

The Missouri state legislature is “facing a Friday deadline to approve a plan to keep the Kansas City Royals’ new ballpark on the Missouri side,” reports KMBC, and wait, what? Last we heard, Royals owner John Sherman was still kicking the tires on whether to look at a stadium site in North Kansas City or one in downtown Kansas City that the giant QR code wants or maybe something across the state line in Kansas somewhere, and now there’s suddenly a deadline this Friday? For what, exactly?

4 days ago | fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause

I had a long chat with University of Colorado Denver economist Geoffrey Propheter on Friday to try to nail down exactly how much the total subsidy — in government cash, discounted land, and tax breaks — would be for D.C.’s proposed Washington Commanders stadium.

1 week ago | fieldofschemes.com | Neil deMause |personNeil deMause

It’s been another long week in what feels like an endless series of long weeks, complete with the most expensive stadium subsidy demand ever and whatever the hell this was and a new pope, so let’s all take a moment to relax by watching a major league baseball player get hit on the head with a pop fly. I watched it four times in a row before writing this post, there’s something remarkably soothing about it, provided you’re not Chase Meidroth or his team physician.