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Now taking the field… the FIGHTIN’ FLORENCE PuGHS!

Going back to the possibility of the Pels moving to Seattle... could there possibly be a more unnecessarily convoluted franchise lineage?

The Seattle SuperSonics, not to be confused with the original Seattle SuperSonics who relocated to Oklahoma City, form as the former New Orleans Pelicans, formerly the Hornets who split off their pre-2002 history and sent it back to Charlotte where the Bobcats reassumed the Hornets moniker and who themselves played two seasons in Oklahoma City.

6 minutes ago, IceCap said:

How about this- the Yeti is a mythological creature from the Himalayas.

 

And yes it was dumb when the Avs used it too. Thankfully they've fixed the situation. 

 

Anyway Utah doesn't even have a NHL caliber arena.  

Don’t kill the dream of Honky the Honda’s cousin Mormon the Mazda.

9 minutes ago, kimball said:

 

I don't see the A's changing based off team history as stated above. But, if this was an expansion team we were talking about ... the Las Vegas Flamingos would be a name I could support. The visual identity could be uniquely Vegas.

 

With that said, Vegas should put a spin on the A's identity, either with a flamingo mascot or different color scheme. Something just a little different.

There's no way that Bally will let a team play on its land and brand itself after a Caesars property.

9 minutes ago, tigerslionspistonshabs said:

 

I always thought the NHL could work in San Diego. It's a 3 million metro and they always seem to support their minor teams fairly well.  Also, with no fall/winter sports anymore, sports fans may love another ticket in town.

The Samuelis would have to be cut a nice check though as the Ducks have essentially assumed it being part of their territorial rights.

Vegas wins the Cup, which means that the Coyotes are finally done.

3 minutes ago, Seadragon76 said:

That was pure domination on the part of Vegas in that game.

 

Congrats to them and their fans. They now have a championship to call their own.

Long suffering Knight fans rejoice, your ceaseless nightmare is finally over.

1 minute ago, the admiral said:

It's been fifteen years since the Lakers went off KCAL? I thought it was more recent than that.

 

The idea that a sports team in Los Angeles can't find a media outlet is preposterous, though. It's like being in Detroit and saying you can't find a place to buy a car. This just sounds like cutting costs under the guise of "pfffft we have no way of even knowing if the Los Angeles Kings will even BE on television anymore!" You probably will!

Correction: 11 years.  But they were split between KCAL and FSN for a while.

I'm not saying that the Kings can't find a home.  I'm saying that the channels that will take them aren't really in a position to be cutting a big check for it since two of them are dumping grounds for the Peoples' Court and odd-hour newscasts and the third has been bouncing between ownerships with its own failed Sinclair deal in the middle.

2 hours ago, Marcos Flamengo said:

About Alex Faust's firing, that's a bad decision made by the Kings. Faust is so good in his job. I hope he gets another sports broadcasting job soon.

The Kings didn't have a choice.

Faust is good and has been getting a lot of national notice as he called playoff games for Turner and is also calling Apple TV MLB games this year.  The problem for the Kings is that they don't have a TV deal for next year, their long-time TV home is in bankruptcy, and there really aren't that many other options for them to turn to so instead of forcing Faust to wait out the TV situation getting settled in order to find out how much would be on his checks they let him go now out of fairness to him.

The only decent option they have would be to get onto one of the Spectrum channels but there they'd be second fiddle to the Lakers or the Dodgers and would potentially have to buy their airtime.  Other than that, the only real options are the B-tier broadcast stations: KTLA 5 (CW), KCAL 9 (CBS, syndication/news), or KCOP 13 (FOX Plus, syndication/news).  They've aired the occasional one-off game on KCOP but that network for all intents and purposes is dead and has been since it stopped airing new episodes of Enterprise.  KTLA showed a handful of Clipper games this year and KCAL hasn't had sports in more than fifteen years but were the Kings' home in the 80s and early 90s before Disney acquired the station and switched to the Mighty Ducks.

11 hours ago, Cosmic said:

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a German company what they were doing in the 1930s and 40s.

Lee is running for Senate so take the campaign fodder for what it is.

LIV: the Michael Scott Paper Company™ of golf.

1 minute ago, Cujo said:

 

Fox and Evans still appear to be onboard. But maybe they move Fox into a pregame/intermission type role ?

Fox remains the color guy and will join Nick Nickson, who's been doing the radio call since 1981 for both TV and radio.  Evans is transitioning to a yet-to-be-defined on-air personality role, hopefully playing the role of Mean Gene with his eclectic tuxedo collection.

The Kings reunite with trading buddies Philly and C-Bus.

Another Bally/Diamond casualty:

Bettman must have dealt with a rude waiter in a French restaurant once which has turned his entire life’s mission to exerting revenge on the Francophone community. 
 

He got a free dessert in Montreal once which has given them a pass.

1 hour ago, IceCap said:

Funny thing is unless they go to Quebec City and are the Nordiques any relocation is going to result in the first identity designed from the ground up by Fanatics. 

They might as well skip a step and design the logo already falling apart.