The_Admiral

Did we talk about what ever happened to George Gosbee, the person who first bought the Coyotes out of league ownership? https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/corbella-gosbee I'm sorry I asked. The domestic abuse is appalling, but "my undoing was my addiction to counterfeit luxury watches" is platonic-ideal OITGDNHL.

Not on this board, no, but the ass-grabbers on reddit are all holding each other and weeping about how Phoenix is really a great market that was done wrong by a horrible league that just gave up too soon. I get annoyed but then it's possible some of them are 14 years old and literally were not alive when Jerry Moyes first :censored:ed off.

Yeah, that's the other one. Arlington Heights will be worth it in the end because we'll get a WrestleMania. Maybe ours will set the record with 50 run-ins in a single match.

THE UTAH SANDWORMS! THE SPICE MUST FLOW!

At that point they're halfway to a Charlotte Hornets retcon where they could reunify the NHL Winnipeg histories and declare the 1996-2024 franchise to be something new to be resumed. I'm still waiting on the Seattle Supersonics that the Thunder have just been hanging onto in the meantime, by the way.

How many March Madnesseseseseseses are there that every Hooterville in America thinks they can justify building a domed stadium by getting one? I might argue that it's unwise to create a race to the bottom that Indianapolis and New Orleans will generally win anyway.

Man. Salt Lake City. The league is a Portland/Austin expansion away from an in-season tournament for smug transplant cities.

Lest you think that the good guys won in any way here, Alex Meruelo is being rewarded with a billion dollars for not paying his taxes. Somewhere in Scottsdale, Jerry Reinsdorf is like "this guy is stealing my ideas!"

I almost wonder if the league just voted to move Bettman.

Friedman deleted that tweet but added a new one saying roughly the same thing. Let's not forget that the Coyotes once came 15 minutes away from death and escaped, but this really might be it.

"Oh, sure, but what about the social media managers who will be out of a job?" The social media managers who will be out of a job:

I wonder if Shane Doan's kid is going to copy his old man and say he won't report to Utah because he has a no-move clause.

I'm not sure it helps, but separate ownership would have doomed them. I think this team's fanbase will have a very similar profile to that of the Hurricanes fanbase. They will be the team of the "Ride the SLUT" set. Does Salt Lake City have low-key amazing craft breweries???

Think of how many of this message board's boutique issues in this vein have rapidly gone mainstream. "Why do these official uniforms look like cheap Chinese counterfeits that fall apart?" "Why does this sports team need a new building already?" "How do they charge me THIS MUCH for parking and still claim that they lose money?" Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.

I have no excitement for this. I have major reservations about a market of 2.5 million with heavily directional sprawl where the only other team in the market runs concurrently and is almost as established as the Church of England, where hockey does not have a long history of success, where the arena has the same NBA-first sightlines that doomed Phoenix in the first place. The only advantage Salt Lake City has over Quebec City is staying on Mountain Time. But the Coyotes have been on life support for 15 years, the league has cockteased four or five different cities now only to keep doubling down on stupid, and every owner since the days of league control has run out of money, not paid taxes, or both. Enough already. I'm old and tired. Just let this end.

You're describing anything the Phoenix Coyotes have done or will ever do as a victory for private enterprise and the free market? Do you ever get tired of carrying your balls around in a wheelbarrow?

Everything around us is getting crappier, meaner, dumber, and more expensive, and I think we're seeing that more than ever in baseball this year. Five years ago, the idea of teams just not having uniform stock would have been unthinkable. So too would have been "I dunno the Sacramento Athletics for a while I guess and then Las Vegas I hope maybe." Everything sucks so bad.

I'd like to see a team use "Salt Lake City" instead of Utah. Not a lot of three-word city names out there, and I think it could prove important to differentiate a more gentile-based following from the very Mormon-based Jazz fanbase: Salt Lake City is now more than just the Mormons (at the expense of becoming Second Denver; the first one is mediocre enough as it is), whereas "Utah," well, less so. Basketball is part of Mormon culture and hockey isn't.

Before Mike Marshall died, I wish more pitchers had taken him up on his unconventional pitching mechanics. I wanted to see if it would work.

Purple is a hard color to get consistent and the Rockies have always seemed to struggle more than most. I know many of us here have advocated for a more desaturated "purple mountains majesty" shade so that it would be a little harder to shift into blue.

Vudu Fandango sounds like a co-conspirator of Ron Mexico and Pierre Delecto. Hope you're doing well, eriqjaffe.

Arlington Park, where the Bears want to build a stadium, isn't really in the middle of Arlington Heights proper; it's a little peninsula jutting into Rolling Meadows and Palatine. You're not gonna believe this, dude: the governments of Rolling Meadows and Palatine had concerns regarding construction.

There are now teenagers who undergo Tommy John surgery, so it's preemptive in the sense that it happens before they've ever been signed to a major-league contract. We're doing something wrong if we're making kids throw so hard and so often that they need to switch out a tendon by age 17.

[to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic] stop developing a desert, stop developing a desert, stop developing a desert, the water is all gone