BATTLE BETWEEN THE FOURTH ESTATE AND REAL ESTATE: As sports teams look for new avenues to squeeze out more revenue, one casualty has been the stadium press box:

The NEW YORK TIMES reports that more ballparks and arenas are shooing away beat writers from prime spots in favor of luxury boxes and $1,000 courtside seats.

For example, the Chicago White Sox converted their former press box behind home plate into the Jim Beam Club, with theater seats and barstools going for over $300 a fanny. The new digs could add more than $4 million into the team’s coffers. Meanwhile, scribes for the Tribune and Sun-Times now sit two levels higher and a few sections farther down the first base line.

Eventually, sports reporters may end up in the Uecker Seats after all.