The_Admiral

Chawls having the time of his life posting on CCSLC!

I don't see why you couldn't leave the orange in the stick but use silver as the third color everywhere else.

Unpopular logo opinion: I hate team-specific license plates. I generally dislike all specialty plates, but I really don't like the ones for sports teams. To me, it almost says that you're a fan of a sports team first and a resident of your state second. Ironically, the time when this might be appropriate would be a Yankees fan in Boca, or a Bears fan in Kenosha, but that obviously can't happen. Also, why invite cops who like a rival team to pull you over?

This video?

Yeah, that's as much a hockey bowl as there's ever been. The Timberwolves can go eat a wedding cake of crap. I'm glad they'll suck forever now.

It loses some seats in the ends, but it's centered and still seems to seat about 17,000.

It's not ideal, but it's preferable to not having a hockey team at all. The Stars or Jets could have played there if the Timberwolves would have let them.

I don't think an NHL team really belongs in either one. If you want a small market with lots of knowledge-based jobs and a liking for hockey, one could point to the Hartford-New Haven-Springfield area.

Wasn't it true that Bettman and the owners steered Winnipeg & Hartford away from Minneapolis-St. Paul in hopes of landing an expansion team there, which they did with the Wild. Now we're stuck with the endless Coyotes saga and Raleigh seems ok for now but who knows.

No. The Jets were purchased by investors from the Cities, who intended to move the team to Minneapolis but couldn't secure a lease at the Target Center. Bettman steered them to Phoenix, where they eventually sold the team to more Phoenix-based interests. As for the Whalers, Karmanos was interested in Auburn Hills most of all because he's a Detroit guy, and was so enthusiastic about Columbus over Hartford that he volunteered to play in an abandoned aircraft hangar while the city built him an arena. I don't remember Minnesota being involved.

As someone who's job is to implement email (and other electronic communications) retention and archival systems for regulated companies, I sincerely hope that the city council, while maybe not technically regulated, would have some kind of retention system in place that would render deleting emails useless.

It's the government, so it's definitely regulated.

But dude, why don't you just use gmail instead of your government-issued email account? Oh, that's right, because one of these guys doesn't have email here in 2014:

“Manny has no personal e-mail account, that (to delete) was for his benefit I just wanted him to be careful so I just suggested he delete it.

Well then.

"P.S.: this email is illegal. Make sure you delete this illegal email so we don't get in trouble for this illegal email."

Do you think Gary Sherwood's computer passwords are all "password"?

http://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/local/glendale/2014/07/21/12975601/

Pay close attention to the news ticker at the very beginning. It's funnier than the Coyotes report itself.

And council-manager government was created so that elected idiots would have less power!

The part about the out clause and how none of the other 29 cites [sic] in the NHL have one is particularly damning. "oh noes, what if we kicked them out, where would they play, what if in the middle of the season [sic again]?" Dude, you're the city. Whose side are you on? (Psst! It's a rhetorical question.)

Hey, guess which city has council members stupid enough to write "please delete this email after you get it" in an email subject to the Freedom of Information Act?

The top elected official in a jurisdiction of nearly two million people has the twitter handle "bestmom39." I suppose it's better than Rahm's twitter handle, "hey_f_ckface."

But yeah, this is possibly encouraging, though Glendale also had people, including their mayor, express reservations about hockey subsidies before established power came in and put them down. I'm not getting my hopes up. BB&T is a hospitality house for the entire east coast plus Pittsburgh plus Buffalo plus Toronto plus Montreal. If you thought Count fought for the Coyotes, wait until he has to fight for the Panthers.

I have the unpopular opinion that it's time for the Seattle Mariners to move on and try something new.

PhantomDreamer in disguise?

Felix Hernandez will have the time of his life in elastic-band pants!

Nah, I just think the look has run its course thanks to years of irrelevance and fairly progressive uniforms from the Sounders and Seahawks in their fairly progressive city. It's not a bad uniform by any means, and doesn't have to be replaced, but if the right concept came along, I'd be fine with them pulling the trigger.

I have the unpopular opinion that it's time for the Seattle Mariners to move on and try something new.

I'd just like to note that there are numerous offensive and inflammatory comment posted about a year ago in the logos section, for international soccer, by "Rubber Collins" and "Yemenese Babez". For example, see

Is this where I should bring such things to the attention of the Administrators? If not, where can this be done?

http://boards.sportslogos.net/topic/68995-sportslogos-comment-aggregator/

He looks like an actor playing a retarded person.

Hey, what about admiral?

YEAH, REALLY. I should have done better community organizing.

I love the Astros' rainbow jerseys and don't find them ugly. When you are a team based in the city of space launches, having colors of red, orange, and yellow are especially fitting. The gold/blue look just didn't cut it 20 years ago, and it still doesn't now.

The Astros don't play in Cape Canaveral.

You know, the line isn't "Cape Canaveral, we have a problem."

Maybe the Raiders can move to Alameda. Or not. I just want to post one of the best Elliott Smith songs ever.

No, it was going to be in Fremont, which was as close to San Jose as they could build.

This is great news. The Oakland Coliseum is one of my favorite ballparks for the way it deviates from the postage stamps of foul ground most parks have now. I like when parks really change the game. And Oakland gave us Tower of Power, Why?, and ghost-riding the whip. Viva Oakland.

The dark blue/columbia blue thing was played out long before the Rays did it, too. And then there's the whole thing about not calling them the Devil Rays anymore because now they're rays of light, except they still wore a devil ray on their sleeves while telling everyone not to refer to them as the Devil Rays. Whatever you say, laser-fish.

I feel like the Rays' bland identity is 50% running scared from the evangelicals who populate Florida (devils? no! rays of light, like Jesus!) and 50% being owned by New Yorkers with Dodger-related daddy issues. Whatever the equation is, it comes out to 100% crappy. Maybe I could stomach the boring typeset script/monogram if they had maintained dark green as a base color, the old Devil Rays' uniforms having looked pretty sharp with that shade of green. These uniforms just drain my soul.

The Shark Tank was slapped up fairly cheaply, is getting old by wack-ass NHL standards, and lacks some of the raw capacity numbers and luxury boxes that they might want to have in A Gate-Driven League, especially if they can't get out of the lowball TV deal of their own design. Might not be the worst thing in the world to go where the action is and stop marginalizing themselves to a good chunk of the metro. I don't know what their lease is like at the Tank, maybe it's still perfectly lucrative to be there, but all we ever hear about is how the Sharks are barely a break-even operation in spite of strong support. If San Francisco were such a bad business move, why are the Warriors going there and not San Jose?

it sucks that they negotiated themselves a horrific TV deal as we enter the age where TV deals are the be all/end all of sports finances, but they'll be fine.

Sounds like the guy who signed the deal was none other than businessman extraordinaire and superstar of this very thread, Greg Jamison. No, you're supposed to lock up players to long-term contracts with low annual value!

Sharks aren't going anywhere; the Bay Area is way too valuable and too demographically picture-perfect (young, affluent, tech-savvy). I wouldn't be surprised if they wound up in the Warriors' new arena, though. The Shark Tank won't age gracefully.