The_Admiral

Don't call him Son. YOU AIN'T HIS DAD.

Yeah, it's like that with most Metra stations on weekdays. PRO TIP: have someone drop you off at the train station

You can't expect comprehensive public transportation when you live on the moon.

My suspicion is that it was kind of like how Minnesotans will ritually decline something three times before accepting it, but the Brewers cut it short:

"Would you like to be in the NL, Royals?"
"Oh, no! That's fine! YOU do it."
"No! I practically insist that you do."
"Oh, no, no, you know I can't accept that generosity."
"okay"

*Brewers join NL*

"Okay, fine, if you insist, I'd love to take you up on this.

...

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wait.

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crap"

Also, HOLY CRAP ARE YOU KIDDING ME

http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/20130823former-glendale-attorney-hired-by-coyotes.html

Didn't we call this? the Coyotes' allies at City Hall happening to find jobs with the team?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20130822glendale-puts-more-officials-paid-leave.html

Something weird is going on. Glendale is sending all its bureaucrats home, including our guy Horatio "Awwww" Skeete. The crazy part is that this malfeasance might not even have to do with the Coyotes thing.

In a related matter, civil-rights leader the Rev. Jerrett Maupin, City Councilwoman Norma Alvarez and Councilman Ian Hugh held a news conference at City Hall on Thursday to publicly ask the state Attorney General’s Office to expand upon the existing state investigation into the city’s finances.

haha good luck with that. This is a Business-Friendly State.

As you may have heard, as per the Coyotes new arena lease agreement with the City of Glendale, the team will be introducing a parking fee for all Coyotes games at Jobing.com Arena this season beginning Sunday, September 15 when we play our first home preseason game against the Los Angeles Kings.

Under the Coyotes parking plan, full season ticket holders will have an opportunity to purchase permit parking in the Coyotes premium lot located on the east side of Jobing.com Arena (Lot G) for $645 ($15 per game). Full season ticket holders may also opt to purchase permit parking in Lot J for $430 ($10 per game). Both of these permit parking options are specially priced for you as a full season ticket holder, and not available for the general public.

If you choose not to purchase the season permit parking, you may opt to purchase parking on a game-by-game basis either in advance or day of game. Lot G will be available for $20 through advanced purchase via Ticketmaster or $25 on the day of game. Lots J, K, A, B will be available for $12 through advanced purchase via Ticketmaster or $15 on the day of game. There will also be a $10 parking option in Lots X and Y. Valet and Limo parking are available for $30 each game.

hope no one minds

But how do you charge for every parking space if you play at a strip mall?

Never had a good look? That first sweater was a modern classic, and the second one had an appropriately progressive feel for a Silicon Valley team at the turn of the millennium. Even with the little flaws in the 2007-2013 set (the concavity in the shark triangle, the redundant secondary, the two-layer nameplates, the orange), the Sharks still had a unique color and a solid design. This is just a chipaway of a good-if-not-great look with none of the flaws resolved and more flaws added, to say nothing of a justification that insulted everyone's intelligence.

Good write-up, but it needs to have something about how he almost challenged Bear Bryant to a fist fight and would have won if he did.

Pat Hughes is a consummate pro. Yeah, the Cubs force a certain level of schmaltz, but that's fine. I don't need my radio broadcasts to have edge. I've got enough edge for everyone.

Ed Farmer isn't bland. Most broadcasters are bland by training. There's almost a postmodernism to the way that he's a babbling, emptily self-aggrandizing twat. He dispenses with the conventions of baseball play-by-play and the fundamental principle of trying to convey a sense of sports-based excitement, and just sorta says a bunch of crap that may or may not have to do with the game at hand. It's kind of compelling in the abstract, but in real life it's mostly just crappy. I suggest you give them another try. Maybe you'll catch a fascinating story about the time Ed Farmer went golfing with famous stand-up comedian Sinbad and won, he actually beat Sinbad, at golf, yeah, how about that. 1 and 2 the count on Paulie, by the way.

I wonder how McDonough wound up a Sox fan, anyway. He's from one of those far-northwest neighborhoods that ends in "Park." Though he probably is Irish, so yeah. A real Sox fan would have used his position to sabotage the Cubs, though. Hey, maybe that explains it.

I do wonder now if the broadcasts put the idea of Sox games being grim and depressing into people's heads more than misconceptions about Bridgeport (which is really fine enough and largely indistinguishable from swaths of the north side, except that I wore a Cubs hat on a Sox gameday and some random dude called me a fag). The broadcasts are just so joyless. Baseball is supposed to be a celebration of summer and warmth and life. When the lead voice is some grouchy old hayseed who always hates his partner, you start perceiving everything else that way. The Sox' entire marketing presence has always been kind of standoffish, if you think about it. Come to games, or don't, we don't care, but we'll take your money. I was starting to think people liked it like that. Kind of strange for the team that wrote the freaking book on getting people out to the ballpark.

There was idle speculation that McDonough could ascend to NHL commissioner when the Count finally goes away. I don't think that's likely; he doesn't have the requisite legal background. I do, however, think he could end up in the COO role that John Collins (the guy who pushed for the Winter Classic) has. He's absurdly good at what he does, and the NHL could do well to have him in a leadership position for the whole league. Or his hucksterism only works in Chicago and he could fail on a national level. I just wouldn't be surprised to see it happen, is all.

Yeah, the upper deck probably did have to be adjusted.

This phase of the renovation seems best. Should have kept at this point, converted the billboards to television screens, and put something other than green vines in the batter's eye, which is a little too north side. Grey seats instead of dark green would have been good, too, maybe silver scaffolding in the outfield instead of black or white.

http://whitesoxinteractive.com/FixComiskey/Bess/Conversation1.htm

It seems like a little more than a fan concept, though I can't tell how serious it got.

Not a fan of <300 down the lines and some of the weird angles to the seating.

I liked the symmetrical layout of Comiskey better than the neo-retro contrivance with the FUNdamentals fan deck in left. Is this in any way a defensible stance or am I just going to be accused of circumlocutional Sox-hating?

So much more balanced this way, though I'll give you that blue was an odd choice (allegedly a tribute to the Brooklyn Dodgers).

tl;dr, John McDonough is an evil genius. Witness him leaving the Cubs to turn the Blackhawks into a marketing behemoth while the Cubs run commercials with some tattooed simpleton mumbling "my favoritest thing is heckle the pitchers! they sure know when I'm there!"

That's fine. The whole Markham thing was kind of an answer to a question no one asked. I'm glad people are making the Copps comparison.

I hope Chicago similarly comes to its senses about building an arena on the south side for a crappier-than-crappy basketball team from the north side. Nahhh.

Now sure if this board has a thread or topic that discusses about conference realignment concepts made by and based by the fans

Look up at the top.

Marlins Park manages to be huge and cavernous without having a large seating capacity. Way to go, Loria

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Expos died for somebody's sins...

BUT NOT MINE

I'm just saying, is all. It's smaller, and its roads aren't crumbling. Shouldn't have to be a prob!

Between this, the Brewers taking "Milwaukee" off their road jerseys the year they moved into Miller Park, and their sudden push to market themselves in Northern Wisconsin... even going so far as to claim the new park's roof was built to guarantee they could freely commute to games and not have to worry about rainouts... it's not hard to connect the dots to see who they were trying to facilitate.

As for the whole needing to build Miller Park in the valley for tailgating thing.... I've never bought it. The old Park East Freeway was demolished around that time, and that would've been the perfect spot for a new Brewers stadium.

But that is what the roof is for. It's tough, because Milwaukee is the smallest metro in the majors, and so they do need to pick up the pieces from the rest of Wisconsin. They should never have to market themselves as Not Milwaukee, though. You can't change the reality that the Brewers are from Milwaukee, even if they're in a part of it that bumps up against West Allis.

And you know, I did the tailgate thing once, and it was fun, but I don't think it's something to do habitually. It's like ultimately, okay, you're just eating food in a hot parking lot. Even for sports, it gets to be rather déclassé. I'd rather poke around Milwaukee and find cool places to eat. I don't know what the Park East Freeway is, but building the park downtown probably would have been better.

And yeah, Milwaukee is always under construction, but I never found the delays to be too unreasonable. It's just annoying because you demand a certain level of ease from only being in Milwaukee.

I'd like to stick with Tampa Bay because there's not a better option. However, when you have people who swear up and down that they hate going to the Trop because it's ugly and depressing but at the same time say they'd never go to games at an outdoor stadium because omg Florida in the summer are you crazy, it's like, okay, perhaps regular season baseball just isn't meant for you.

So in short, while I do like these "retro ballparks", there is a homogeneity going on and it would be nice if there was still a County Stadium and a few more of those.

As much as I love Miller Park, I still miss County Stadium.

I would love Miller Park much more if it were downtown where it belongs instead of the Valley, away from the rest of Milwaukee because outstate fans are scurred of the big scurry city.

Because it's so very, very far from the city... oh, wait, no, it's in the city, isn't it?

It's within city limits, but right on the edge, and pretty far from downtown. You don't really feel like you're in Milwaukee, just this weird Twilight-Zoney potato salad/beanbag toss containment area. I don't know how much of it was keeping outstaters away from Scary Milwaukee (which isn't scary unless you make a wrong turn around Marquette, or go north to the Koss factory). I think it was more that there wasn't really anywhere else they could afford to build. Also, the whole tailgating thing.

Stade Olympique was no cookie-cutter. That horrible dump was one-of-a-kind.

Yeah, I was in high school once too.