The_Admiral

1. Less 1970s hockey wankery please. Surprised you didn't rename the Avalanche the Rockies or the Denver Spurs.

Other than the Cincinnati Stingers, I didn't really spot anything that ill-advised.

On the plus side, internet darling Joyce Clark lost her city council seat. The Vast Mexican Conspiracy claims its victim.

The way I see it, between the tax increase and the escalating CBA talks, this is over, and not in the good way that involves hockey games being contested in places where water freezes outside and the flags have maple leaves and lily flowers. The Coyotes are about to get a three-pronged subsidy:

1) When the union is broken and salaries are clawed back, the expenses of team ownership will be drastically lowered at the expense of labor

2) Presuming that there are no major changes in the eventual CBA's revenue sharing clauses, the revenue sharing model will consist not of any mathematical functions but simply of Gary Bettman and hand-picked ownership foot soldiers divvying up $200 million a year among poor teams any way they see fit.

3) The city successfully raised taxes for the implicit purpose of giving money to billionaires.

So that's what it takes to make this thing work: money from players, money from owners, and money from taxpayers. Nice deal if you can close it, huh?

Glendale voted to keep the tax increase on themselves to fund the Coyotes. You just can't get rid of them, huh.

Ooh, the Chicago Wolves and the Flames' developmental philosophy is like matter and antimatter. RIP entire tri-state area.

Because Calgary takes too much joy in destroying everything its farm team touches?

Okay but the building was as busy or busier than America West before the NHL started "managing" it.

Fired pretty much the entire office staff today.

He says he has but he won't tell the city who they are. The city is totally okay with this.

Say the NHL cancels the full season (looking more and more likely). Does that kill the "we need the Coyotes to stay to save the mall!" argument the pro-Coyotes camp keeps trotting out?

This is what's so fascinating: Coyotes fans have the most hardline pro-owner stance of any fanbase (which is kind of like a homeless person having a hardline pro-food stance), so they're in favor of the lockout that, by their own logic, is actually harming their market more than any other. You see, they need the team to stay because the city will allegedly go bankrupt without hockey at the mall, even though in order to save the team they need to bust the union and thus drastically lower the team's operating costs, which requires a protracted lockout, which means there's no hockey at the mall, which means the city will allegedly go bankrupt. If their hypothesis is true, this season will kill the mall and there will be no mall left for hockey to save; if the season doesn't kill the mall, their hypothesis is demonstrably false.

However, this mall-saving rabblerousing is all predicated on the fallacy that any of them give a damn about the stupid mall or anything greater than just having their hockey team not move. The propaganda behind voting yes on the sales tax increase (or is it voting no on not having the sales tax increase? wtf?), which most ironically is couched in saving the jobs of police and firefighters, is the work of an elderly shut-in from across the Valley who publishes elaborate Vast Mexican Conspiracies on his blog and gets off on being mentioned at city council meetings in a city where he doesn't even live. So you have these people indirectly defending union-busting as necessary for the Coyotes in the abstract while these same union-busting policies damage the local economy they're claiming to defend in reality.

In short, Coyotes fans are not just a pain in the ass with an obnoxious siege mentality but disingenuous and self-involved twerps with an ethical compass that couldn't be more haywire if you wrapped it in a hundred magnets. Please don't like the sport I like.

So here's a thought....

Say the NHL cancels the full season (looking more and more likely). Does that kill the "we need the Coyotes to stay to save the mall!" argument the pro-Coyotes camp keeps trotting out?

Also, I just realized how much that argument sounds like the plot to an 80s movie.

STAN DARSH!!!

Hey let's see what's coming up at the Jobberdome:

Eric Church

Nov 2, 2012, 7:30 PM

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Dec 1, 2012, 3:00 PM

104.7 KISS FM'S Jingle Ball 2012

Dec 2, 2012, 5:30 PM

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band ‘Wrecking Ball’ World Tour

Dec 6, 2012, 7:30 PM

The Who QUADROPHENIA

Feb 6, 2013, 7:30 PM

These are the only events they have scheduled that aren't hockey games. Arena Management Fee!

Drape it over the busload of children Raffi Torres killed.

Then it wouldn't hang anywhere because the team would cease to be. Who cares? What a stupid question to ask.

I thought that plaid phase was just that - a phase - back in 2010. If memory serves, they even had one of their theme roadtrips with everyone wearing double-blue plaid sportcoats. I haven't seen anyone wear those caps around here since that year.

Playing for Joe Maddon seems like it could be psychologically fatiguing. Is this weekend with Baltimore the one where we're supposed to wear bunny slippers on our heads? Well, away we go.

If baseball ever gets two more teams, schedules can work out like so:

Four divisions of eight

12 games against each divisional team, six home, six away - 84 games

9 games against each team in the other division (third series alternates home site every other year) - 72 games

6 games against designated interleague team

162 total.

First and second place teams in each season play in the best-of-seven LDS, so forth from there

Portland and San Antonio for new AL teams, Houston back to whence it came?

Paying teachers or paying for Rafi Torres to sit out games when he inevitably gets suspended for blind-siding another opponent... tough call.

Actually, the plan is for Torres to teach sixth grade science as well as routinely get suspended by the NHL...

Great, now he really is going to kill a busload of children!

Saw on HFboards that someone in Glenderp just admitted that they won't have to make any police/fire/library cuts if the Coyotes leave. And boom goes the dynamite.

Hamilton would've worked in 1993 but not now. Toronto2 will never work, unless, like you said, it really does exist just to fatten up RogeBell on territorial penalties.

I wiped Kansas City off the list when the mayor said they make more money without anchor tenants than they would with them, but then again I'm not an idiot.

oh god

FACT: Councilwoman Alvarez asked that our Mayor and Councilman Lieberman meet with a start-up Latino management company to explore their offer for managing the city-owned arena.

WHY? Could a Latino majority on City Council reject the Jamison Group lease management agreement and replace it with this start-up company with no real experience and at a higher cost with fewer guaranteed event nights?

DEY TUK OUR SUBSIDIES

DURKA DURR

this is the best thing ever

I miss subtitles. Tags aren't nearly as fun.

New arena might look cool. 360-degree open concourse is a good idea, and if the interior is wood-paneled, that cold be cool. Kind of a ski lodge feel.

They're digging the holes now, so now they just need a team.

Yeah, anywhere else you would be flat-out condemned for asking a Mexican--who obviously speaks perfect English--if she understands English. Here, it's just "uh oh, she's losing a little off her fastball lately!" I swear, Arizona is a dumping ground for people.

Everyone's favorite Joyce Clark from the Arizona Republic:

Particularly concerning is her campaign literature’s allegations against a fellow council member.

“Councilwoman Norma Alvarez has endorsed and is solely supporting Latino candidates for mayor and council,” it states. “Is there a hidden agenda to get a Latino majority on Glendale City Council?”

The literature posted on Clark’s campaign website alleges a Latino majority on the council would benefit just one group within Glendale and would reject the arena deal with potential Phoenix Coyotes owner Greg Jamison. The current council is mostly White. Does this mean the City Council benefits “just one group within Glendale”?

When coupled with Clark’s statement at a recent Glendale City Council meeting, we can’t help but wonder if Clark, who we recommend for re-election in the Yucca District, is losing her cool during what has been incredibly tense and difficult times for city leaders.

Alvarez had questioned something Clark said during council discussions about the Tohono O’odham Nation’s proposed casino. Clark responded, “No. I’m sorry you can’t understand English or what I said.” The response drew gasps from the audience in attendance.

Well, now that she doubled down on racism, she's sure to be re-elected in Arizona!

Former Glendale city manager Ed Beasley crafted the deal with White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf

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Two unpopular opinions:The Broncos orange uniforms are terrible and im starting to like the flywire collars.

I'm starting to realize that for the orange Broncos jerseys to work, the blue needs to be royal and not navy.

What if it were a shade between royal and navy? The current navy is too dark on the road whites, but royal and orange might look washed out.