Sodboy13

http://m.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2012/12/27/glendale-signs-arena-management-deal.html?r=full

Glendale's signed the lease with Invisible Moneybags Jamison and his investment group of leprechauns, even though Jamison still hasn't bought the team, nor shown he has the money to do so. This is going to be ever-so-delightful when the new regime takes over in two-and-a-half weeks and Jamison still isn't the owner.

It's amazing how ardently counterfeit buyers defend their purchases and lavish praise on their alleged quality, yet are almost always unwilling to post photos of them. Put up or shut up.

Well, it looks like one of Glendale's cornerstone issues will be addressed, as reports floating around tonight say the team will change its name to "Arizona Coyotes".

Pat yourselves on your backs, Glendale City Council. All it took was $400 million in taxpayer money, but you finally got the team to name itself after the state instead of the major city that gave your hilljack exurb such an inferiority complex, it had to leverage its future on questionable real estate developments at the apex of the bubble in a foolhardy attempt to overcompensate. Bravo!

Glendale was in some trouble, what a sad sad story

Needed a new owner to retain false hopes of glory

Where, oh where was he? Where could that man be?

We looked around, and then we found, the man for you and me

And... now... it's...

Springtime, for Bettman, and Jamison

Outlet, mall hockey, is saved

Mortgage, our future, to save some face

Guaranteed, plenty, of parking space

Springtime, for Bettman, and Jamison

Piss on, Columbus, they're done

Springtime, for Bettman, and Jamison

Hey Arizona, bend over, we won!

There has to be some sort of dire reckoning in Glendale before that full 10 years is up. Remember the frightening numbers from the Camelback Ranch fiasco.

The good news is that, though the league's going to have to own a team for another 10 years, it'll probably only play hockey for 6 or 7 of those years.

Allegedly, there is a "real" deadline, Glendale to Yotes: Get your crud together by Jan 15th or that's it.

And by "it", we mean another 30-day extension, but that's it!

(That last "it" will also be a 30-day extension.)

I read that as Applebee's City of Glendale at first glance. Not sure if that says more about me or what I think about Glendale. I'm sure a city sponsorship can't be too far down the road.

Jobing.com Arena has such bold flavors, you guys.

The latest...looks like Jamison finally secured funding.

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/8338670/source-says-phoenix-coyotes-suitor-greg-jamison-secures-financing

Among the investors, who have to this point remained unidentified, are some members of the Ice Edge Group, a collection of Canadian and American businessmen who at one point were front-runners to buy the team themselves, the source told ESPN.com.

Ice Edge head Anthony LeBlanc has been in discussions with Jamison throughout the summer in putting a deal together to buy the team although it's not known exactly what role the group will play in the new ownership structure.

*stares at screen*

*takes long, slow drink*

*spits drink across room*

BAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

Troll hard, son, troll hard.

Not that it's unexpected or anything, but Glendale approved another 30-day lease extension with the league today.

When it comes to the Coyotes, if deadline extensions were fans, this team would have a season ticket waiting list.

Pics or it doesn't count.

He's gonna have until August 2013 to get the scratch together.

Jamison's partners could be a sock puppet and a crack addicted hooker and Bettman would still try to pass it through.

Now that's insulting to the sock puppet and hooker!

Jamison's mystery partners DISCOVERED

SUCKERS

I feel like I've waited 9 years for a Sifl & Olly reference to drop on these boards. This completes me. Nominatin'.

I feel like IceCap's version in Comic Sans really captures the spirit of the thing.

So what you're saying is, we need the mother of all haboobs to hit Glendale, and have the Coyotes hang a shingle at Sprint Center for a season.

FWIW the Avalanche will host the Rangers in Kansas City on October 6th in the "we're going to gauge interest on a team here but it really means nothing and nothing will come of it" annual pre-season game there.

And, as is the tradition, the fans of Kansas City will manage to make the fans of Phoenix look spectacular by comparison. I pity any team that would actually move there.

Not turning up to a meaningless preseason game between two teams who have no historical basis in the city ≠ not turning up if there was a team based in the city, playing full on competetive hockey

The counter-argument is that if a market won't show up to exhibitions which are being staged as trial balloons to gauge fan interest, why plunk down a couple hundred million dollars on the hope they actually will show once there's a hometown team?

Averaging 5,500 a game for top-tier minors 12 years ago is not a suitable exhibit to prove current major-league market interest, either.

Except that there's debate as to how many signatures they needed, and the actual deadline, according to how the laws are laid out regarding this sort of thing. So it's all probably going to the courts. Again.

Though, if the opposition can't even muster up the support of 1,500 voters for an anti-tax referendum deep in the heart of Teabaggerland, 'em. Let the whole city destroy itself in the most cataclysmic endgame possible while 12,000 a night look on.

This whole thread, and the two preceding it, comprise one long piece of OITGDNHL performance art.

Folding a team during CBA negotiations with the players' union is a great way to ensure we won't be watching NHL hockey for a long, long time.

Well, one more year of this has been inevitable ever since Bettman trotted out Greg Jamison as the latest stooge owner during the playoffs. But if the voters reject the tax hike, and they vote in a new council that cuts off the public funding pipeline, then one more year is all they get.

So, uh, hey, Goldwater got their asses handed to them today.

Guess that means it's up to the voters of Glendale now. Otherwise, we've got a lot more of these annual threads to look forward to, instead of just one more.

At least one culturally bankrupt gimp has gone to the Jimmy Buffett restaurant.

If it's anything like Cheeseburger in Paradise in Downers Grove, it has really good burgers and great drinks. Is that merely sustenance for the proletariat?

There are dozens of places throughout the city and suburbs where one can get a really good burger and a really good drink without being subjected to the Coral Reefer aesthetic. We are not in an area short on great meat.

Jimmy Buffett concerts strike me as a place where the uptight pretend to be laid-back. I think of his restaurants and home beverage systems as an extension of that lifestyle.

Oooh. They should trot out Kevin Costner as the new Coyotes owner.

Absurdist municipal sports mismanagement crossover! This is truly a chocolate-meets-peanut-butter moment.