Sodboy13

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.

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.

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

Hardly. Say hello to your Glendale Diablos! 41 more arena dates filled, just like that.

Those league-owned Devils rumors are bubbling up again.

Wowsers.

Does that make the Jobberdome Section 8 housing?

Goldwater filed suit this morning. Bettman sends Gary Jamison an Edible Arrangement shaped like Shane Doan as a thank-you for clowning it up and guaranteeing another season of house hockey.

Once again, the entire thrust of the argument for keeping the Coyotes appears to be, "Yes, this is a horrible plan, but SPORTS!"

Nope, the Jobber uses Aramark, so this officially makes less than no sense.

2004-2011 Never Forget *head asplode* As for teamdepot.com, the site looks legit. Looks like they specialize in old stock and discontinued styles - so if you buy an Edge replica, it will probably have the old "Rbk" tagging.

Yes, the fact that the lease agreement was approved in an illegal meeting, that the deal itself is illegal, and that the prospective owner still doesn't have his share of the money to buy the goddamn team are mere speedbumps.

Tennis balls. Always with the tennis balls.

GOD HATES HOCKEY

Being outraged at the Phoenix Coyotes is the one true cause that unites us all. #teamjustice

At this point, morbid curiosity makes me want them to approve the whole deal tomorrow morning despite the numerous illegalities involved, and the lack of ownership money.

Well, they've bought themselves another season and another $25 million in debt by drawing it all out this long, regardless. So, what's the endgame here? How far back do the goalposts get pushed? Does Glendale get one more season? Do they get a free pass for 2012-13 because the season gets cancelled, and then a season after that? Or do they continue this farce all the way to 2015 when Quebecor finishes Le Colisee Nouveau, at which point the league will throw up deuces and tear ass down the Loop 101?

I think that's left over from the first alleged Reinsdorf courting in 2010, and it's still every bit as toothless now as it was then. Edit: Sho'nuff! Take a trip with me in the Hockey Ownership Farce Wayback Machine, kids!

When you know none of them are going to buy the team anyway, you don't have to be so particular about names.

Well, you know, with the traffic and all. Plus five more in Saskatoon! Wait, wrong sham owner.

I just had a similar thought... Only replace the NHL with I and owners with wife... And ladies, quadival is stunningly, like the Coyotes, still available.

That's what happening right now. Jamison is Hulsizer. Hulsizer is Jamison. The deep playoff run merely serves to make the timing of the inevitable sale collapse less suspicious looking. The Phoenix Coyotes will exist come October 2012. I'll lay actual money on that, as opposed to whatever Glendale's gambling with nowadays.

I wonder what the Professional Rioters? from last June are up to. Probably making it prohibitively difficult and unpleasant for me to take the train downtown on a nice day. No, don't worry, Metra's taken care of that before any of the brick-wielding anarchists had the chance. Turns out "The Way To Really Fly" may or may not involve a finger in your anus.