The_Admiral

Move Dodgers to Brooklyn, move Rays to Los Angeles because the sun there has rays, move a bullet to my head

C's cuts promos on people here like it's Usenet. I half-expect the lines he's fisking to have

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I don't understand why Montreal keeps being mentioned. Not just because it failed once (because as many have stated there were a Lot of factors in play there) but if it never had a ML team, NOBODY would me mentioning it now.

But this is a strange sort of hypothetical situation to me because it's unlikely that there wouldn't have been a team placed in Montreal through all those years when it had a long tradition of baseball support and was the largest and most important city in Canada. Baseball doesn't have "small markets" the way the NBA and NHL do, or anything close to the Packers situation. It's like "what if Pittsburgh never had a team?" Well, why wouldn't it have? What am I supposed to do with that?

But you're right that it's dead, and shame on the Parti Quebecois and Jeff Loria for killing it.

You know what's literally a world away from LA? Mars.

BAHAHAHA

Orange County which is literally a world away from LA.

OH NO NOT AGAIN

IT'S ALL THE SAME

Also, "San Bernadino"?

Really? I thought that was a great update, but then I'm exceedingly minimalist in my sports chyron tastes.

Is it me or is every other spot on NHL Network for JDate?

To be fair about Thursday, I would rather go trick-or-treating on the block that has the Bible pamphlets instead of candy, the caramel tainted with drugs, AND the guy you're pretty sure is a child molester than watch the Coyotes play the Nashville Predators.

Jobing.com Arena dressed as an empty arena tonight.

LOL BACON MEME YOU SIR OWE ME A NEW INTERNET

Well, NOLA is the French state, but how do you mix bee?

Minor league baseball has a lot of original and fun nicknames. Just seems like every logo feels the same.

- Excessive amount of strokes

- Beveled/shadowed fonts

- Mascot combined with letter makes alternate logo (usually seems forced)

Yeah, that's what happens when every damn team uses the same damn design firm.

Kings are doing well but weren't part of the expansion. Sharks are doing well. The Ducks aren't a failure but aren't exactly a success. They just are. But even the most ardent northernist, if we're going to call them that, would concede that Los Angeles and the S.F. Bay Area are indispensable to a league footprint. Those have never been the issue. The issue has been medium-to-small markets with unsustainable population growth and shaky support for professional sports. This league has no business whatsoever puttering around in small southern towns like Raleigh and Nashville, and needed to put more planning into Phoenix and Miami if they were going to make warm-weather transplant suburbias work (and even then...).

GUY BEHIND SOUTHERN EXPANSION DECLARES SOUTHERN EXPANSION A FAILURE

I think what troubles me more than anything is the fact that they're getting every single job in minor-league baseball these days, and it shows. It's like those "sportindude86 redesigns the whole league!" threads in the Concepts folder but in real life.

I DO NOT LIKE BRANDIOSE. I DON'T EVEN LIKE THEIR PORTMANTEAU OF "BRAND" AND "GRANDIOSE."

Wasn't the old Arkansas Travelers logo an alien, the idea being that they were traveling from outer space?

"Sun Dogs" is indeed another name with a modifier in it, part of that bedrock of minor-league sports nomenclature, and with "El Paso" it adds up to four words (bad), but the explanation of the actual sun dog phenomenon helps it a little. Not a lot, but a little.

I understand -- and endorse! -- the idea of Minor-League Whimsy, but I feel as if Triple A calls for a little bit more gravity. Stuff like the Norfolk Tides or Fresno Grizzlies is perfect AAA branding to me: just a little bit more going on than a Major League team would have, but still somewhat serious. If I had to guess from the name, the city size, and the tired-ass Brandiose cartoonishness, I would guess that the "El Paso Chihuahuas" were in the same league as the Eugene Emeralds. I'd be wrong!

The S/W-B Red Barons were another great one, by the way. RIP.

http://islanderspointblank.com/islanders/report-barclays-center-to-pay-isles-millions-per-year-to-relocate-to-brooklyn/#more-43369

The Barclays Center’s owners have guaranteed the Islanders an unspecified annual payment to move them there, according to a report from Standard & Poor’s, which issued ratings on the arena bonds and highlighted the deal as a risk factor.

People familiar with the deal said it runs in the tens of millions of dollars a year.

Oh, it's a Cizikas Management Fee.

Kind of the buried lede here is that the Barclays Center is falling well short of revenue predictions. I guess the good trust fund babies and additionally the people of Brooklyn didn't take to Jay-Z-themed popcorn and artisan urinals like we had hoped!

It's only a matter of time before UMass football is a non-scholarship Patriot League affiliate. Except for hockey, lacrosse, and maybe a handful of basketball programs, the Northeast is a wasteland for college sports... especially football.

And God bless them for it. Maybe they really are our cultural betters.

I'll take a nickel for every zero-reply LadyStanley "Sharks middle manager scratches own ass" thread.

Their policy, as best I can suss it out, is that you're not allowed to hurt a fanbase's collective feelings, but because people in, say, Hamilton and Quebec don't have teams, they can't constitute fanbases, per se, and so they don't have collective feelings to hurt and subsequently manage. It was open season on Winnipeg fans before they had their team, and the mods didn't let them retaliate. So by saying "this commercial sucks" or "there are major rhetorical flaws and errors which I would like to point out," you are flaming an entire fanbase, I guess.

See, here's what I'm talking about, in response to someone wanting to discuss people circumventing the new parking fees. Note that the mod doing the reminding is a Coyotes fan.

Apparently it's "goading" an entire fan base. Those poor little souls.

I felt that because Hamilton begins with an "H", it would be appropriate to resurrect a former NHL team name

This is one of the stupidest things I've ever read here, and I've both read and authored a lot of stupid things here.