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  1. Dear NY Mets, Please make this jersey an alternate preferably replacing that atrocity of a black jersey. This is fun, vibrant, different, and above all uses the actual Mets colors.
  2. The arena operators don't want it. They make plenty off of all the events the arena gets currently and they don't believe an NHL team would draw enough to warrant it for the number of dates a team would require.
  3. The In N Out in question along with the two gas stations mentioned are on the other side of 880 from the Coliseum all use the same exit. Makes me wonder if the "smash and grab spree" doesn't extend to the Coliseum parking lot on game days.
  4. You'd be correct, the City of Las Vegas includes none of The Strip as the city line starts at Sahara Avenue. -------------------- I'd care more about the mayor's opinion if the Tropicana site was in the city limits where she would have some control, and if she wasn't in her last year in office.
  5. Back in the 80's RC Cola was served at Shea Stadium.
  6. In what might be a first I like the majority of these and would consider buying the 10-15 I have my eye on. I'd just really like a patchless version.
  7. It'd at least be fun if the Isles wore orange helmets but it's the Isles a special one-off helmet is probably not in the budget.
  8. The Marlins should make the blue jersey their home. When I toured Marlins Park two weeks ago I was saying to the guide that they should do exactly what they did to the blue jersey. Now I know why I got the look I did.
  9. While not as bad as either of the black monstrosities the Islanders used years ago these Stadium Series jerseys are . Straight trash.
  10. The easiest way to "improve" the Mets black jersey other than unleashing Chris Sale or a serial arsonist on them would be to reverse the orange and blue on the script and numbers. But the Mets should have left these in 1998 when they were introduced.
  11. Patrick Roy returns to the NHL as head coach of the...New York Islanders.
  12. You must not have Spectrum as your provider. I wanted to watch but Spectrum and ESPN had other thoughts.
  13. Sure he will. Someone will have to replace Angel Hernandez when he's either fired or retired.
  14. I hope he has a great internist.
  15. Agreed, add Kansas City to this list too. The arena owners have said on multiple occasions they make more money without an NBA or NHL team than they would with.
  16. You're talking about a team that hasn't drawn over 2 million since 2005, hasn't drawn over the league average since 2003, and has clearly demonstrated they don't care about attendance in a sport where the gate is maybe the third most important revenue source. To Fisher another year at the Coliseum isn't a big deal. It's especially not a big deal when I'm sure he doesn't want to pay ALCO a $45 million lump sum if they leave in 2024 because of conditions in the purchase agreement for the county's portion of the Coliseum site. If they leave at the end of 2024 they'll still be on the hook for a $30 million lump sum payment to the county. I'd venture to guess that's at least 15 million reasons why they'll play in Oakland next season. MLB doesn't care either because Selig cleared them to move out of Oakland prior to signing the lease they're in now.
  17. First, I want to say you did a very impressive job with the research and grabbing the documents here. I would point a couple of things out for purposes of context that are important regarding the territorial rights issue. The biggest thing is that the issue over territorial rights was never considered because they did not survive the initial motion to dismiss by the defendants. (See paragraph 31 of Defendants' Answer to Plaintiffs' Complaint, document 46 on the docket and 46.pdf in the folder, referencing the dismissal of the allegations pertaining to paragraphs 62 and 63 of Plaintiffs' Complaint). Is anyone still awake after that? Then just like nearly every federal district court I've ever dealt with likes to do, once the federal claims were gone, they declined jurisdiction over the state law claims and kicked it over to Santa Clara Superior Court. That's your Civil Procedure lesson for the decade. But from what I gleaned from the Complaint is that the territorial rights agreement was never reduced to a writing and was a "gentleman's agreement". Mind blown on that one. Here is an article from the SF Chronicle detailing more of the territorial rights issues between the A's and Giants with some good legal analysis from the lead attorney for the A's in the above-mentioned case and other prominent Bay Area attorneys.
  18. Did your research uncover the alleged conditional rights agreement between the A's and Giants from 1990ish? I use the term alleged because whether the transfer of rights to San Jose was conditional would have been at issue there. I wonder since it was contested, whether it was an exhibit in any of the pleadings or other documents in either the federal or state case. If so, is it contained with the files mentioned in the link in your post?
  19. If they don't go straight to the Las Vegas Ballpark in the interim then yes I do. We've seen that ownership either isn't embarrassed by or cares about the low attendance figures. Considering that the River Cats couldn't wait to dump the A's for the Giants when the franchise agreement came up I don't think they would have any interest in hosting the "couch surfing" A's. I understand that the Kings now own the River Cats but it wouldn't make much business sense for them to let the A's play at Sutter Health Park. Thus, it'll either be Las Vegas or Oakland.
  20. And as I said somewhere earlier in this thread just because Darrell Steinberg said something doesn't mean it's in play. The River Cats don't play in his city or even in Sacramento County (West Sacramento and Yolo County respectively). The reason as that article states Steinberg was being coy about things, is because like 99.9% of what he says this is coming out of his rear end. Take what he says with a gigantic grain of salt because nothing Darrell's said over his tenure as mayor came to fruition. Unless something is coming from the mayor of West Sacramento or Yolo County officials you can safely ignore Darrell. This is even before we broach the issue of what corporate sponsorships they would be able to get locally because as a government town Sacramento is devoid of major corporations. I'm also not certain they'd draw very well in Sacramento either as over the last decade-plus Sacramento's become a far more solidly Giants town. My prediction is they'll either play those two years out in Las Vegas with a very small possibility of a split with Reno to try and drum up some interest statewide or stay in Oakland barring the city terminating the lease early. Of course IIRC most baseball fans in Reno are Giants fans and they'd run into the same issue with sharing a ballpark with a minor league team. tl/dr: No chance the A's use Sacramento as a temporary home.
  21. Are you serious? I might buy that take if Mayor Thao assumed office with no experience in Oakland government. Fact is she's been on the City Council since 2018. She knew or should have known what was happening regarding negotiations with the A's. Even if she was blindsided by the A's announcement, when negotiating deals, the worst-case scenario is always in your mind and a strong possibility until the contract is signed and you always, always have a contingency plan. The A's have been trying to get a stadium deal done in some form since at least when Jerry Brown was mayor covering the administrations of Brown, Dellums, Quan, Schaff and now Thao. While there's fault on ownership's side there's plenty of fault to go around on the side of the City of Oakland and now more like when they leave with the Nevada legislature passing the funding bill, the Oakland government shoulders blame too. We can debate the degree but they do have blame.
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