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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
I think I read somewhere that baseball is the only sport on which a city could spend tax money and expect a reasonable return. That's because baseball teams play 81 home dates. Compare that with an NFL team, which plays 10-12 home games (depending on whether they make the playoffs). Yet the same sort of infrastructure improvements have to be made for both. It just doesn't make a lot of economic sense for a city to invest millions of dollars to accommodate a business that operates 10-12 days out of the year. |
It's more like billions these days.