If you’re skittish about eating at the ballpark, this video of a sno-cone vendor allegedly using the toilet while his product sits next to him on the bathroom floor probably isn’t going to help. [More]
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Stadium To Encourage Urine-Covered Floors And Walls With ‘Video Game’ Urinals
By 3.26.13
I’ve made no secret of my love for the Philadelphia Phillies organization, but I’m not exactly thrilled with the announcement that one of the team’s minor league affiliates has decided to become a guinea pig for a video game system that uses one’s urine stream as a game controller. [More]
Want Cheap Baseball Tickets? Buying Early Could Make All The Difference This Season
By 3.5.13
We’re still weeks away from the first pitch on Opening Day, but for baseball fans it’s probably a good idea to start thinking now about buying tickets to see your favorite team. We’re sure there’s an early bird catching the worm baseball analogy somewhere here, right? [More]
Which Baseball Stadiums Have The Priciest Beer?
By 4.26.12
Detroit may have some of the nation’s least-expensive real estate, but baseball fans in the Motor City are paying the highest prices in the U.S. (and Toronto) when they buy a beer at a Detroit Tigers game. [More]
DirecTV & Tribune Company Make Nice In Time For Opening Day
By 4.5.12
Today is the day that most Major League Baseball teams begin the 2012 season. And up until Wednesday afternoon, it looked like DirecTV customers in Philadelphia and Chicago wouldn’t be able to watch their hometown teams because of a protracted contract dispute between the satellite provider and the Tribune Company. [More]
Philadelphians With DirecTV Now Have No Way Of Watching Phillies Baseball On TV
By 4.2.12
For years, Philadelphia Phillies fans with DirecTV have found themselves unable to watch most of the team’s games because the satellite provider and Comcast refuse to come to a resolution over the channel that carries those contests. Now another annoying slap-fight between DirecTV and a broadcaster has left its Philadelphia-area subscribers completely in the dark for this upcoming baseball season. [More]
Strip Club Comes To The Rescue Of Cash-Strapped Little Leaguers
By 3.13.12
It looked like there might have been a lot of pint-sized sluggers who wouldn’t get to play baseball in Lennox, CA, because the local Little League was hard up for cash. But thanks in large part to a donation from a local strip club, the kids’ baseball dreams are still alive for one more season. [More]
"Field of Dreams" Will Become Youth Baseball Complex
By 10.31.11
If you were saving up the $5.4 million it was going to take to buy the real Field of Dreams featured in the movie “Field of Dreams,” in hopes of keeping it out of the hands of evil land developers, it’s time to move on. A family from a Chicago suburb has bought the property and plans to open it as a youth baseball and softball complex in 2014. [More]
Beer Company Says It Will Come To Rescue Of Man Who Caught Derek Jeter's 3,000th Hit
By 7.13.11
The saga of the NY Yankees fan who caught — and then gave back — the baseball Derek Jeter knocked out of the park for hit number 3,000 continues. First, the team rewarded the fan with memorabilia and luxury box tickets for the rest of the season. Then came reports that he could be on the hook for thousands of dollars in taxes for the freebies. Today he got some potentially good news, as the folks at Miller High Life say they’ll foot the bill for any potential tax liability the guy might have. [More]
The Potential Tax Perils Of Catching A Historic Baseball
By 7.12.11
If you’re a dreamer who totes a baseball glove to a ballgame and seeks bleacher seats in hopes of catching a home run ball, you may want to consider the tax implications of your whimsy. The man who chased down the home run ball that was Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit — and gave it back to Jeter — may face financial peril because of the windfall of swag the Yankees showered upon him. The IRS may consider the free season tickets and signed merchandise the team gave the man to be taxable income. [More]
Poor Attendance And Online Ticket Sales Are A Baseball Fan's Dream
By 5.29.11
Major League Baseball teams can try to raise their ticket prices to increase revenue, but supply and demand ultimately determine their prices. Seas of empty seats at baseball games and stockpiles of marked-down tickets available on sites such as StubHub can make for ridiculously cheap tickets, especially in cities with bad teams. [More]
Mets To Sell Stake To Hedge Fund Manager For $200 Million
By 5.26.11
New York Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon and Saul Katz will sell a minority stake in the troubled team to hedge fund manager David Einhorn for $200 million. The cash will allow the team to remain solvent, and presumably avoid a Dodgers-style takeover by Major League Baseball. [More]
Tips For Saving Big Bucks On Baseball Tickets
By 4.27.11
Before you can buy me the peanuts and cracker jack, you need to get tickets to the baseball game. There are ways you can snag deals on tickets to even the biggest games, and save some money for beer, food or cheaper seats at future games. [More]
Seattle Mariners Beer Guy Now Taking Orders Over Twitter
By 4.5.11
After five seasons of scaling the steps of Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, selling beers to fans in their seats, one suds vendor is giving customers the chance to notify him directly of their beer needs via Twitter. [More]
If You're A NY Yankees Fan, We Hope You Don't Have DirecTV
By 3.31.11
In spite of the icicles hanging off the eaves, baseball season is upon is, which can mean only one thing: fights between broadcasters and cable companies that threaten to black out games! [More]
No Difference Between Large & Small Beers At Oakland Coliseum?
By 2.17.11
Qwest Field, home of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, recently caught some flack when people pointed out that you could fit an entire large beer into a “small” beer cup. A video shot at the Oakland Athletics’ ballpark is making people wonder how widespread this issue is. [More]
Yankees Cut Me Great Deal: 5 Tickets For The Price Of 6
By 1.14.11
A Yankees fan who is so hardcore that he buys actual tickets to physically go to games, Scott not only has to deal with the failure to land Cliff Lee but also a missing ticket from his six-pack order. The screw-up is thanks to a mailing snafu he can’t seem to get the club to address. [More]
Have You Ever Pulled A Cliff Lee, Choosing Happiness Over Money?
By 12.15.10
Flamethrowing pitcher Cliff Lee spurned the New York Yankees and their bottomless bankroll for his less wealthy former team, the Philadelphia Phillies. [More]
