LMU

On 5/19/2024 at 7:02 AM, JH42XCC said:

The same venue the Arizona Coyotes abandoned?

Looks like someone needs to take a review course in CCSLC lore…

All games would be played in the parking lot of the now Desert Diamond Arena.

30 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

Probably couldn't afford the Moda Center Veterans Coliseum.  

FYP

43 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

Cool.  A couple dozen fans will be thrilled to venture back into that livestock hall.

11 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

I knew this league would be a joke just based on the number of teams it started with.

It’s a lot deeper than that.  Three teams in Kansas, a team in South Dakota, a team in Montana, and the Oregon team in freaking Salem for a supposedly national league. Not to mention the Philly team in Trenton.

BTW, still waiting on word of that California team in Bakersfield…

Something tells me it's not the wisest decision to get yourself suspended for six months for a positive drug test when you're tied for your team's lead in playoff goals.

1 hour ago, NYCdog said:

How do sprinkles relate to Vin Scully or the “It’s Time for Dodgers Baseball” hashtag?

Hence my stating that we need the Nike-speak. I’m sure there’s some three-dimensional chess reasoning for it but right now we have nothing. If it wasn’t for the red I would have thought it was the iconic seat colors.

Ok, definitely needing to wade through the Nike speak on the Dodgers’ leak because as a life-long Angeleno, at first glance I have no idea where they were going with this. Then again, I still don’t get where the black trim on version 1 came from.

45 minutes ago, Silent Wind of Doom said:

 

I feel dumb for trying to make sense of that hashtag and my brain's first pass at it being "It's The in' DiamondBacks" before immediately realizing what it actually is.

 

What's with the birthday cake ice cream speckles?  I'm honestly shocked they just haven't gone the way the Clippers went. 

 

 

Do they have a large segment of the fanbase that would be alienated by such a design?

 

It just seems like Los Angeles has so much culture and the Dodgers are on their way to whiffing again, but there may be references here that go over my head because I'm not a local.  I do like the LAD logo.

The hashtag is the one thing that’s obvious considering it references Vin Scully’s most famous catchphrase.

And, yes, old English look is definitely targeting a certain portion of the fanbase that other portions aren’t thrilled to be grouped with. Especially for the Dodgers since it’s targeting the type that tend to assault people in the parking lots.

And thus spells the end of the Utah Snow Misers dream.

And now Vegas has the whole offseason to diagnose Mark Stone with another LTIR-eligible ailment.  Lupus this time around?

7 minutes ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Under Baker, the AFL's team values were at their highest, as was its players' pay. Most important of all, public awareness of the league was at its peak, with the games on NBC. 

 

Now that MLS has firmly established itself as the fifth major league, we should remember that the AFL, with its array of solid and credible owners, was well ahead of MLS, and appeared to be on the verge of attaining that status. 

 

This was no fairy tale. It was a reasonable gamble, one which for quite a while looked likely to pay off.  The fact that the NFL ultimately did not buy into the Arena League — as most observers believed would eventually happen — is not the fault of Baker, who got the league to its pinnacle.

 

It was a great run.

And lest we forget...

On 3/29/2024 at 9:10 PM, Germanshepherd said:

R.I.P IUPUI, Hello IU-Indianapolis 

What’s worse, having a way-too-long acronym or one that is also a fertility procedure?

I’d love to know who blinked there.  Chicago didn’t have an attendance dip but they were horrid with a bunch of retreads.

2024/25 - Heat Culture in white

2025/26 - Heat Culture in red

2026/27 - Heat Culture in Miami Vice pink

2027/28 - Heat Culture in Miami Vice blue

2028/29 - Heat Culture in Miami Vice white

2029/30 - Heat Culture in ransom note black

2030/31 - Heat Culture in ransom note red

2031/32 - Heat Culture in ransom note white

Congratulations, Arte. Let’s see how much you love baseball now that the best player in your lineup is Logan Freaking O’Hoppe. Ain’t karma a :censored:?

So, if this is how AFL 3.0 is starting, when we get to AFL 5.0 every team’s going to share a lease with a Spirit Halloween Store, aren’t they?

The problem with the Phoenix market that doesn't get mentioned nearly enough... if all the market needed was a great owner to come in on a white horse, you'd think that with the revolving door of owners that the team had and even with the team being sold by the league itself from the clearance rack that somebody with more business acumen than Bob Kazamakis would have put in an offer.  It's not just the market from an infrastructure standpoint.  Nobody wants to buy into it and the only reason Meruelo is still involved at this point is that he needs an anchor for his sports betting grift.

On 4/20/2024 at 6:56 AM, bowld said:

Hopefully the Kings bring out a black version next year and make these primaries

That's the rumor.  They were already testing black jerseys for TV presentation.

https://mayorsmanor.com/2023/12/report-la-kings-exploring-jersey-changes-for-next-season/

Utah Jell-O Moldzz.  Still an option.

59 minutes ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

The NCAA-ification of the NFL is a real drag.

 

And I don't even hate the Texans, especially if they hold tight to actual home and away designations.

 

But all of these uniform combos and billions of helmets; it cheapens the game to me.

It really is an odd change in a league that treats a helmet as a logo in and of itself (and not just in the Cleveland Browns fashion).

Apparently the McNall/Pocklington deal was a satanic blood pact that's come due and the Kings are now destined to wilt to the Oilers in the first round until Gretzky's franchise value has truly been repaid.

If the leaks are true, Houston should have just ran with the horn theme.  The navy one screams generic Sears catalog from 1987 with the team logo as a sleeve patch and no striping.

9 hours ago, habsfan1 said:

Rocky Mountain Xtreme

 

 

Part of the mountain range is in Utah, so the name could work.

Wasatch Mountain Extreme.

It's gold, Jerry!

19 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

RIP to the Coyotes Mascot Howler

Nah, he just went to go live on a farm and play all day with Pucky the Whale, Thrash, and Badaboum.