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    Yeah, it doesn't appear to be a best-of-seven series, either, or they'd have lost that, too. It's more like that time the Bolts ran a 1-3-1 against the Flyers so the Flyers just stood there not doing anything, except instead of lasting a minute it lasted 15 years.
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    Hey, this pony is gonna do a trick. I wonder which.
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    Julie DiCaro needed her comeuppance wherever it came from.
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    Chiefs Kid must go! Who must go? https://nypost.com/2024/03/11/media/g-o-media-sells-deadspin-lays-off-entire-editorial-staff-with-barely-any-notice/
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    Correct. Seems like we're seeing a move away from fully dual arenas lately, with the majority of new NBA arenas since 2000 being basketball-only, per se. The only two I can think of that aren't are Houston, which could have an NHL team but won't, God willing, and Detroit, which the Red Wings built for themselves and then let the Pistons in on at the last minute. Everyone else has the not-quite-wraparound bowl if they even have an ice plant. The Warriors, as they would, seemed to take it to a new level of opulence with their VIP sections. The 76ers are probably trying to do the same. I think that Chicago/Philly/DC/Dallas era of buildings that necessarily put the NHL first is over. I wish it weren't, though, because I'd rather have a versatile arena for the Warriors and Sharks to share than a 1% palace for one and a rapidly aging big metal box for the other.
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    Youngkin when he can't give a billionaire a taxpayer bailout: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/insider-alexandria-texts-discuss-arena-plan-to-tax-the-crap-out-of-users/3562145/ I'm so delighted to see this fail.
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    There's something kind of grounding about Kroger and Procter & Gamble being headquartered in li'l ol' Cincinnati and not somewhere back east, but also, Kroger is terrible. Doubt it, but I doubt the Sharks ever looked into it, either. It would have been pretty cool, though. So too would have been a new 49ers stadium at Candlestick, a new Raiders stadium on the Coliseum site, and the A's, I dunno, somewhere around there.
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    Warriors and Sharks should have both gone in on San Francisco. Surveying the NHL cities that lost their teams by refusing to be held hostage, it's actually kind of a split decision. The Twin Cities didn't miss a beat financially with the loss of the North Stars/Met Center; they had a new arena and just built out the Mall of America even more. Everyone felt really bad about it but I don't think it had a devastating economic impact. I don't think losing the Nordiques helped Quebec City but probably didn't hurt it materially. Winnipeg is a rare case where getting the team back did seem to spur on economic development because TNSE captured pretty much all of downtown on the cheap, which wouldn't have happened without bringing the Jets back, so you can say that they were better off with hockey. Downtown Hartford was dying then and dead now; I think the causal relationship between that and the Whalers leaving is pretty solid but it's highly debatable whether Karmanos even held Hartford at ransom or was always going to try for Michigan anyway. Atlanta lost the Thrashers and hasn't felt a thing, but the situation never even progressed to tax-money-or-else. So basically, if you're a moribund, borderline major-league market with very little else going for you but a desperate last gasp of civic pride, you might want to invest in pro sports at almost any cost, but if that's your situation, you may not even be presented with the option to begin with.
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    the vibes they are a-shiftin'
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    They should have been Nordiques 2.0 13 years ago.
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    Bad news: they do, generally for the Rangers and Flyers
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    Topped my joke with an actual anecdote. What a great idea that city was.
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    "Houston has 8 million people" yeah and like 5 million of them are just stumbling around strung out on codeine soda so who cares. Every relocation can be argued away. One man's Norm Green or Peter Karmanos is another man's, uh, Pissed About Joe Johnson's Contract Guy. I think replicating the Phoenix Coyotes situation, right down to a 17,000-seat arena 20 miles from the downtown arena in a transplant-heavy region and crowded live-venue market, is harder to handwave. Incidentally, the Coyotes are the one relocation that no one can argue away because they won't let it f-cking happen.
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    Marta is more of a big X, and I'm not sure what you'd call the Metro. Chicago has pretty much every railroad converging upon one square mile, and every plan to come up with a line that doesn't pretty much dies on the vine.
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    I didn't even think Phoenix could have a light rail without someone shooting it and yelling "GET OFF MY PROPERTY"
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    I could be wrong, but the vibe I get, at least from the Venn diagram of New York transplants and haughty Hurricanes fans, is that Raleigh is starting to see itself as the southernmost point of the Northeast whereas Charlotte is much more firmly in the South. I think they're wrong, of course, but I can see their ill-founded argument for breaking out of Braves Country. I still don't see expansion or relocation anywhere on this map. One team is trying to relocate and it's not even working. There are no good options. Also, I need to find that article I read years ago about how the MARTA lines were all designed to be the biggest failure possible. Well, in the meantime, enjoy this ridiculous video.
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    I mentioned DC. The thing about the Metro's ridership numbers is that it acts as a de facto hybrid rapid transit/commuter-rail operation, with lines venturing out into suburbs where the Subway and L never would. MARC and VRE are relative afterthoughts compared with the enormous park-and-ride stations on the periphery. The Electric Line in Chicago has the opposite problem where it's a high-frequency line that primarily serves the city but is classified under commuter rail. If you count the L and Metra together, I think they'd have higher ridership than the DC Metro plus its semi-related commuter lines.
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    There are six actual transit cities in America: New York, Chicago, DC, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia. A seventh, Los Angeles, has deceptively high ridership numbers but would never cross anyone's mind as a transit-oriented city. Everything else is just "we actually have a surprisingly good light rail system." That goes for Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas, Minneapolis, Denver, Miami, Seattle, apparently now Milwaukee for some reason, and yes, Salt Lake City.
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    WASP exceptionalism predates America. There was an old boutique belief that the English are the lost tribes of Israel, best encapsulated by the old hymn "Jerusalem." Utah, ethnically the most English state in America, has kind of kept that going through Mormonism, which I think has more in common with Judaism and Islam than with trinitarian Christianity. Indigenous American Christianity is fascinating stuff, though, for real. Mormons and Christian Scientists both did some neat stuff architecturally for a while there.
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    Population doesn't really matter for the third-tier hockey league. Do you have an arena that you can get a good lease on? Were you unable to get into the AHL? Okay sure fine.
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    Jason Kelce is the less annoying Kelce and is still fairly annoying.
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    Kevin "He's Here To Get the Stadium Deal Done" Warren has been taken off the get-the-stadium-deal-done beat. Apparently waking up at 5 in the morning to engage in quiet contemplation didn't prepare him for a county government that wasn't as amazed by him as he is by himself. Longtime Bears observers will note that this feels a lot like the time Michael McCaskey tried to move the Bears to Gary, Indiana and even failed at that, generally being so odious that the Bears had to pull random-ass Ted Phillips out of the back office and make him the new point man. Phillips then earned a job for life as team president by getting [checks notes] a hideous 61,000-seat stadium that everyone hates and is already in the process of being replaced.
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    They have this one really really big corporation with a diversified portfolio of retail, agriculture, broadcasting, and investment funds. The problem is that the corporation thinks it's a church.
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    A counterpoint might be that the Jacksonville Jaguars basically modified their color palette to black, metallic gold, and a vague suggestion of teal, and these "darker, more intimidating" colors at the low point of their franchise made a bad situation even worse. Loser stink comes for bright and dark palettes in equal measure; only a few timeless teams seem able to avoid it.
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