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  1. The_Admiral
    There's a lot to like here, for sure, but I would have preferred royal blue, and I don't think the clipper ship (that is also a basketball) reads much like any kind of ship. To me, it looks a little like a beehive.
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    The NBA is a popular television show and social-media content mill that is basically the Kardashians for men. Major League Baseball is just some abstract concept that won't let you do stuff without express written consent. It's about the teams, the teams, the teams. The NL/AL logos deserve more play than the MLB logo.
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    I would have put the MLB logo above the cuff on the non-logo sleeve. I don't understand why it needs to be that prominent. MLB isn't really A Brand the way other leagues or its own teams are. NHL, same deal.
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    Purple and light blue seems like the best way to be distinct but mass-appeal: navy is overdone, and prioritizing pink might get accusation of trying too hard to be girly.
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    Not to mention dishonest. I agree, what an odd move. I wonder if Billings will ever get another whack at the WHL.
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    I think homelessness has become a bigger problem in the major cities than it had before, especially in Vancouver, but the issues are with cost of living, not quality of life. Every house in Brampton is like 30 guys named Padjit living cheek-by-jowl, their quality of life probably isn't exceptional, but mostly it's just that everything is prohibitively expensive. Canada has a reputation of crapping out publicly funded sitcoms about handicapped Muslim lesbians but underneath that veneer is capitalism as ruthless as any we have here.
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    Good stuff, but there is a cost-of-living crisis going on in Canada even worse than ours. They're dealing with the same price-gouging at the grocery stores and gas stations plus a massive real estate bubble. You can't buy a house, you can't pay the mortgage, you can barely pay rent, it's insane what's going on up there. It's going to hurt a lot of Canadian cities, and the solution won't be to move the Calgary Flames to an office park in Alpharetta. That being said, the Jets aren't off the hook for all this. By their own admission, they took advantage of ridiculous demand at the outset and did f-ck-all with it for the better part of a decade, and now that their sales reps have to be more than just passive order-takers, they realized no one knows how to sell a product. And what product? Kevin Cheveldayoff has been overseeing a rebuild that's been going on since the release of the iPad and has failed to build a team that's reliably in the conversation every single year nor a team that picks a few years to go all-in. I don't think that's because Winnipeg is scary, it's just years' worth of insufficient drafting/development, which, under guaranteed payouts and a hard cap, any organization anywhere needs to get right. I don't think this means Winnipeg fans are bad. Frankly, that they went this long with TNSE running on autopilot is impressive. Loosening up on shared season tickets and getting more corporate sales can help. More than that, so will lowering prices. TNSE has basically captured most of downtown Winnipeg at this point; they're sucking up everyone's money one way or the other.
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    I don't know, I just don't see the support at the city or state level for giving Jerry everything he wants. I can't imagine Brandon Johnson speaking in favor of this plan, but then he's drowning so badly already that he may grab onto any life preserver he can.
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    Aren't all the other Sox owners a bunch of octogenarian Jews from the Old Neighborhood? They're not gonna kill their team.
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    I think back to when he and Einhorn first bought the team in the '80s and looked on in abject horror at Andy the Clown and shirtless Harry in the bleachers and cheap seats and cheap beer and all the general weirdness of the Sox back then and immediately went about getting rid of all of it. This is a guy who for 40 years has hated the fans of his team. I wouldn't be scared of his partners buying him out because to move the team to Nashville would be the one final screw-you only Jerry could give.
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    It's time to realize the third jersey Mike Keenan scrapped on sight. It's just another Chicago Winter Classic, it's an automatic win for the road team, have fun with it.
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    I've given Reinsdorf credit for knowing how to work the government better than the McCaskeys--the bar is the floor on that one--but JB Pritzker and his quiet-but-not-that-quiet presidential aspirations may make him a worthier adversary than Madigan or Big Gay Jim or whoever else Jerry could buy off.
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    WE DON'T GET CONVENTIONS ANYMORE. NO ONE TRAVELS FOR BUSINESS ANYMORE. The hotel tax is not some pot of infinite money. We're not even done using hotel taxes to pay for New Comiskey, which is 34 years old and in fine condition. There's not a billion dollars lying around to let 12,000 people look at the Sears Tower while complaining that A.J. Pierzynski should be the manager. There's our old friend, the TIF district. Longtime readers of the NHL Anti-Thread remember that Jerry Reinsdorf's plan to buy the Coyotes was to pay for it in installments from TIF district revenues, thereby making the taxpayers buy the team for him. Good thing Chicago doesn't need money for literally anything else right now [next Blue Line train to O'Hare departs in 35 minutes]
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    To what extent was the players' union consulted on these new uniforms? They're the ones who have to wear them. We're not talking about player input for aesthetic purposes, but more like "will your pants split."
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    I don't think there's that much conviction behind it. The Islanders are often "Long Island" instead of "New York" in similar situations. You hear it a little with the Texas Rangers and Arlington. I think it's useful to refer to them as Anaheim casually (I'm a firm believer that the park name should have reverted to "Anaheim Stadium") while still being the Los Angeles Angels.
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    The NHL was used to get a new arena for the third-best basketball program in Raleigh-Durham, why not volleyball, too.
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    The Bay Area has to have some of the weirdest, clunkiest geography in America. It's probably a big reason why San Francisco became an urban theme park: it had to become an attraction for people reverse-commuting to all the tech campuses 40 miles south. Nothing can make sense when the population horseshoes a giant bay. Do you remember the brief but intriguing noise about the Expos moving to Boston? I think it got the same cursory attention as Norfolk did.
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    If the Nashville Predators fanbase could successfully mount a "don't take our toy away" push and get serious about the team after an existential crisis, so too can the fans of the Oakland A's, one would hope.
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    I'm sure it was an easy mistake for FC Vilnius to make.
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    Manfred is a gentile but every photograph I see of him looks like an antisemitic caricature. Like, I don't like making this observation, but I see this photo and immediately slip into Jerry Lewis voice going "pehaps the Joyants I could interest you in?"
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    "Comrades! We have designed our glorious flag of the revolution! Are you ready to bear this standard?" "lol did somebody say mcdonalds :)"
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    Billy Joel wrote a song about her.
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    Bears lost their property tax appeal. Feel like this one's about over.
  24. The_Admiral
    One Property Brother turns to the other and says "you know we have a lot of fun here but I think it would be irresponsible of us if we didn't talk about race in America" while Charles looks on dumbfoundedly
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    he's invited to the cookout!
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