Sodboy13

If Wide Latin shows up for real I'm disavowing this whole league.

With an absolute banger of a uniform to boot. You know, the more I think about it, the more I wonder if this is less of an issue from the Utah ownership and/or the NHL, and more of a case of Fanatics going "You want us to do what in how long of a timeframe? Have you ever ordered, like, anything from us?"

Okay, that's more tolerable then. Survivable in the short term. Like America West Arena. Oh. Look, I get that the Winnipeg owners had the advantage of two names, one of which already had a full identity, at the ready. But that sale happened a month later in the calendar than this one and they were still suited up and ready to sell all types of merch by October. This is asinine.

And it's official. NHL approves moving the Coyotes to a nice farm upstate where they can run around with Chivas USA and come back to the league someday, honest, and welcomes its brand new franchise in Utah that will just happen to be stocked with every player and hockey ops staffer from Arizona. There are far too many examples in American society of people failing upward to the point of immunity from consequence, but this dude ran a hockey team so badly that his fellow owners just paid him a billion dollars to go away forever, with the full knowledge that no one could build a suitable arena in a good location in 25 years, and this twerp sure ain't about to do it in five. Also apparently the Delta Center only holds 11,000 for hockey, so I wouldn't declare us out of the woods on this just yet.

That's it. It's over. It's all over.

"Watch party? Get the hell off our property, why would you want to watch this?" https://bsky.app/profile/five4howling.bsky.social/post/3kqesacyr2k2q

Watching the broadcast from the start and this is all so stupid, and not just in the usual way of Tyson Nash attempting to produce words. Everything's being presented in "if" and "maybe" because the only people who refuse to admit this team is hauling ass north to Salt Lake tomorrow are its current owner and the people in charge of the league. At least Whalers fans got their Sunday wake. This time they've assembled all the mourners and are pretending there's not a body on display.

We're approaching an all-time ignominious end here. We're in Cleveland Barons territory. Yeah, I'm sure this is the guy who's going to close the magical arena deal in Scottsdale that no one else was able to for a quarter-century.

Diamondbacks' City Connects are certifiably banana yellow.

Looks more like the Orlando Predators with royal blue swapped in for black.

We'll know for sure if the Texans promise "more music mornings with less talk" at their uniform unveiling.

First off, MLS is totally doing that, and secondly, I don't think it's just them and it's certainly not just sports. A lot of our nation's Big Business Thinkers are getting doompilled by nonsense inside their bubbles and think the end is nigh, so they're in Get Mine Now Mode even more than they have been previously, and this is not a group renowned for their ability to look past their own noses to next quarter. Claw it all in from the suckers now, because any day now that AI which can't reliably tell you what two plus five divided by four is will become Skynet somehow and they'll have to be at the ready with their bunkers in New Zealand and/or on Mars, where they can eventually get down to the important business of repopulating humanity in their own images.

Well, it takes a lot to make a stew.

When you do that much focus grouping on anything, it is far more likely that either the groups keep telling the group paying for them what they don't want to hear, or that the group paying for them has no idea what they want to hear, or can recognize good ideas when they hear them. Please refrain from tasting the knob.

"This bold reinvention of a classic logo reflects the consistent organizational direction over the last half-century, and our commitment to it in the future."

You all like the Jets' new uniforms now. Come back to me after the sixth consecutive week of them wearing the black pants and black socks. The uniform tops out at "acceptable," the devotion to accuracy on the fonts is nice but the fonts themselves are nothing to write home about, the finish on the helmet seems way out of place on a straight retro look, and the alternate is more BFBS than ever now that the black trim has been stripped out of the primaries. The Keyshawn/Kotite era is the best the Jets have ever dressed, but everything outside of the aesthetics is why we'll never see that revived.

He also intentionally renovated Key Arena so it held only 11,000 of the worst-placed seats possible for hockey, as a means of keeping out any would-be "competition." It was passable for the Thunderbirds and that was about the limit, which is why the Seattle Supersonics continue thriving in the Emerald City to this very day.

Based on some recent reminiscing in another thread, I shall note that this was basically the Arena League's plan circa 2003. If attendance was not a concern, they could have just run all the games out of Birmingham and/or Arlington.

Sgt. Bettman's Lonely Mall Rink Band

One of the big reveals is when we find out Logan Wade was at January 6th.

As a mortgage predator, I would not expect Mat Ishbia to unduly lavish his own money on something so itinerant with a lousy credit history.

Between this, the MS Word screencap, and the long runs of unpaid taxes and hotel bills, I think we're getting some valuable insight into how Alex Mereulo conducts business, and I look forward to his federal prison problems.

The Seattle expansion fee was $650MM, and the reported way this plays out is the league paying $1B to Alex Mereulo to eff off, then collecting $1.3B from Ryan Smith. So basic math says "yes," but the league line I've seen is "we're getting twice as much as the expansion fee this way," which explains a good bit about this league's business savvy. The mitigating factor I'm willing to consider is that Mereulo may be quietly in hock to the league a fair bit, and this "billion" he gets involves a good bit taken off the top to make his creditors whole.

There is a certain poetry in the Coyotes getting Chivas USA'd in the end.

Yeah, but now what do I do with my life?