The Payoff Pitch

The Payoff Pitch: How the Mets Were Lost

Is Mets owner Fred Wilpon really prepared to cut off his nose to spite the Madoff trustee's face?

Does inviting more also-ran teams to playoff ball REALLY provoke higher player spending?

Are April's record-low attendance marks a sign that the ticket bubble has burst?

What the magazine's annual team financial estimates can tell us about the value of a World Series appearance, and the fate of the Dodgers and Mets.

Will MLB.tv ever make your home team's games available for web viewing?

Mix one Hank Steinbrenner comment, the Mets' money woes, and the A's and Rays' stadium situations, and suddenly it's 2001 all over again.

Could Bud Selig's plan to cram in more playoff teams have a silver lining?

A brief history of revenue sharing, from Bill Veeck to Randy Levine.

Efforts to move the A's to San Jose are stalled, but will Commissioner Selig set his sights on a new landing spot?