Good Christmas Week Reading!

• This summer, when the Tampa Port Authority announced plans to buy Channelside Bay Plaza, I warned it was far from a done deal.  The Tampa Tribune reports another round of legal battles stand in the way of progress.
• Major League Baseball is getting richer. According to the Business of Baseball's Maury Brown, MLB finally eclipsed the $8 billion/yr plateau.
• A full year removed from the Miami Marlins' firesale, Field of Schemes wonders if South Florida could possibly consider new stadium subsidies now that David Beckham is in the MLS mix.
• It's kind of hard to draw conclusions about how many wins a new stadium means for teams when just about every team has a new stadium...but Time has a pretty cool chart showing an interpretation of stadium "bang for the buck."
• The Braves aren't happy with just $300 million in stadium subsidies from Cobb Co...Field of Schemes has the wrap of their $60 million taxpayer ask from the state of Georgia so they can relocate Atlanta jobs to the suburbs.
• Finally, if there was any doubts about the robust Braves/Cobb Co. economic impact claims, Politifact tears into them, issuing a "Mostly False" judgement.