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Because the arena is across the street from Scottsdale and the site, being a vacant patch of sand, will need to have nearly two mile-long sewers and water mains built as a result, plus the team will still be on the hook for completely reconfiguring a highway offramp that serves Scottsdale being as how the whole complex is right across the street.

I'll also go mod here and state this: there's a multiquote feature. Stop flooding these threads with 7 rapid fire posts in a row. You can get your irrational hatred out just as easily in a single reply.

Points like this get lost in the A's/Coyotes comparisons. The Coyotes had to downgrade to a gimmicky arena meant for college kids that they had to build a temporary annex to bring up to code. The A's get an immense upgrade in atmosphere combined with functioning plumbing.

It’s also a product of early specialization. Kids no longer are jumping from baseball to basketball to soccer. Now they jump from high school season to travel ball season.

Blizzards meets the quota of Zees/Zeds in a Utah team name so that checks. Although, something to be said for the southwest and teams naming themselves after a lower-ranked version of their closest rival. Already Kings? Throw in the Knights next door. Already a team named for snow rolling down a hill? Name the team after snow falling from the sky.

130 MPH with a spin rate of 56,789 rotations per millisecond.

The only thing that this has over the UFL 1.0 is that the teams at least have their own colors and not all variations of gray/blue/neon green.

The ghost of Dollar Bill Wirtz paying a visit to Guaranteed Rate.

Moving screen + thrown elbow =/= ticky tack horrible call by paid off referees

Nothing says “unapologetically Philly” like wearing black and blue, the colors your skin turns after getting in a fist fight in the stands at the Vet in 1987.

Cool, so now both California AL teams, both of which beginning with A, are going to be downplaying their location.

For the record, the chef’s kiss of the Iowa/LSU game was that the PA announcer sounded like the reincarnation of Howard Finkel.

Agreed. This is apples and oranges to the Cleveland deal. The Browns were born in Cleveland and were a symbol of Cleveland when the deal was made. The A's are in their third stop. Oakland demanding the name stay there is ignoring the history in KC and Philly and demanding that the colors stay is ignoring that the colors, granted starting out much brighter, were a KC product before the team moved into the Coliseum.

Most of us civilians aren't aspiring to enter the halls of fame of our respective professions so yes, that's perfectly fine.

Banks and Trout are apples and oranges. One was forced to remain on the same team, the other clearly saw how inept ownership was and still took a hometown discount to stay. If you go era by era, you can’t fault Banks but you certainly can fault Trout. And sure, enjoy the lifestyle and lack of interesting meteorological phenomena that pique your interest but don’t expect that to help your legacy as a player.

I'd be honesty shocked if they don't postpone at least one Dodger game this weekend as rare as postponements are here. Imagine people trying to navigate that parking lot in a downpour.

The swooping gradient pants stripe represents the grace and steadfast courage of the Casa Bonita cliff divers.

Nah, knowing the pace of these things the Pirates will be eliminated far before then.

Here’s the best explanation I’ve seen:

Ohtani statement was exactly what I’ve been saying. Ippei hacked his bank account and lied to Shohei’s reps while in Korea, Shohei didn’t personally pay off anyone and doesn’t gamble. Let’s move on.

Looks like the pendulum is starting to swing back from Pete Rose 2.0 to con artist. Also, the whole ShOhEi ChAnGeD hIs StOrY narrative needs to die. Ippei was the sole source of information and the story only changed after Ohtani’s lawyers debunked the first version.

Are we really in a world where the WAC is going to outlive the Pac 12?

So, Ohtani apparently didn’t even realize that Ippei had a gambling problem until the clubhouse announcement in Seoul and Ohtani wouldn’t have had any idea what he was doing if he gambled on other sports anyway.

Considering that Ohtani's team has contacted law enforcement and is calling for a full probe into the theft, unless they're setting themselves up for what may in fact be the most significant self own in the history of professional sports it would appear that the theft angle would be likely what transpired in the same vein as the take old as time of associate of millionaire athlete getting greedy. The shifting stories probably had a lot to do with them being overseas and not being in the most convenient situation to kick the guy to the curb when he still has tickets reserved on the team charter. Of course, the hot takes about Ohtani not talking to anyone are hilarious considering that he's probably taking legal advice on that front.

Theoretically all Ryan Smith has to do is make a higher bid and pledge to build a community park there and off the 'Yotes go to SLC.