We miss stadiums! So much so that we dedicated an entire episode to them. The retro stadium boom was in full bloom in 2001, highlighted by the opening of PNC Park in Pittsburgh -- a really great place to watch really bad baseball. Journalist and author Neil deMause, one of the foremost experts on how stadiums get built, joins the podcast to shed new light on the dark side of public financing  for these facilities. Neil's book, "Field of Schemes," exposes how team owners get all the benefits from this arrangement, while tax payers get stuck with the bill. 

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