The_Admiral

Because they thought Boston could be a two-league town again. Obviously, this never went too far.

I think the province is chipping in a little on the new QC rink, and very begrudgingly. I don't see them underwriting two sports projects at once. As a lover of all things French-Canadian except gravy fries, I would love to see baseball back in Montreal, but I fear that Loi 101 and the Loria/Selig conspiracy have ruined baseball there forever. Shame.

You can get the gist of it in about ten minutes if there are clips on youtube.

Has there ever been an MLB stadium that supported two teams simultaneously? I wonder if someplace like DC, Atlanta or LA could add the Rays in an extant park. There many obvious obstacles to any of those cities, and scheduling would be a nightmare, but I'm just wondering if there's precedence to that kind of arrangement. The Yankees shared Shea while Yankee Stadium was being rebuilt. There was talk of the Expos playing out of Fenway as a contingency plan if Washington didn't get its crap together after baseball pulled the plug on Montreal. That actually happened, with the DC city council saying "wait a minute we didn't agree to this," but I think the contingency plan was changed to Norfolk. Didn't the Phillies and A's share a park?

http://www.dispatch....-buy-arena.html I don't think he's wrong. I don't think he's wrong either. This is basically Glendale Redux. "Our entire raison d'etre is contained within this hockey rink and if it closes it will wreak economic havoc so we're going to ramrod this bailout through."

Isn't Quebec owned lock/stock/barrel by organized crime? That would explain how they were able to ramrod all these construction deals through the legislature the way they did.

How are construction costs lower than they were five years ago when China is buying up all the steel and concrete? Not sure how I feel about the tax on football/baseball players (and I'd love to know what their commissioners and union heads think). I'd like to see the NHL in SeaTac, always have, but Quebec City already has their wheels in motion. It's happening. The only question is whether they get the Coyotes or Bettman sacrifices another team.

Big fan of that jersey too. Too bad they avoid it as if they're the Dallas Cowboys. The blue jersey never looks right on them, either. The way silver, electric blue, and white all leap off a black base is pretty neat. Guess it's not so unpopular after all!

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/48060--canada-s-team-i-the-phoenix-coyotes-i--page1 End this silliness.

There's no arena in Seattle. Case closed. You might as well move them to Max Yasgur's farm. Paul Allen hasn't offered to buy the team because he clearly doesn't want the team. The only person who is offering real money for this team without subsidies or TIF districts is P-K Peladeau, and we have to pretend that's not happening for a while because the fact that his money literally has hockey games on it does not augur well for staying in Arizona.

In related troubled-asset news (neutral zone TARP?), a minority owner of the Devils sold his share to Jeffrey Vanderbeek for -$25 million. He paid to divest himself of the Devils. Is this an uh-oh?

Actually, if the last two years are any indication, Glendale's insistence on sneaking Reinsdorf back into negotiations with a big fat sweetheart deal will alienate the other bidder, then Reinsdorf will get cold feet again when he realizes what a toxic asset the team is. Then our favorite suburban bureaucrats are sitting around playing with their dicks yet again wondering how it could all go so wrong. I'm all but certain that the Coyotes now have no real worth beyond the resale value of their tangible assets: hockey equipment, office supplies, company cars, stuff like that. They play in a foreclosed strip mall and their landlord pays their rent + covers their losses. Matt Hulsizer tried to buy this team for like -$15 million and he couldn't swing it. What does that say. There's no reason to buy this team but to move it.

Not true on either point in certain cases. While football controls the discussion in college athletics, men's basketball and academics both are a decent part of it for certain conferences (ACC for both, Big Ten for academics only, etc). Academics, pfft. You know, as much crap as SEC fans rightfully get for that S-E-C-S-E-C "I hope our rivals win because somehow it makes us better" chanting, the Big Ten is the most masturbatory conference in college sports. At least all that South-will-rise-again stuff terminates at the end of football season; Big Ten circle-jerking permeates every aspect of everything. That's because the Big Ten is the best everything! How dare you make a mockery of it. They have the best academics, the top basketball teams, and REAL football is play there. Why do you think the Big Ten is the only conference that's stay quiet through all this realignment talk this go around? It's because NONE of the teams available are to the caliber of the Big Ten. They don't have the tradition or the grit Big Ten teams have. You forgot that they excel in the ways of drinking. Truly the Big Ten is all things to all people.

Not true on either point in certain cases. While football controls the discussion in college athletics, men's basketball and academics both are a decent part of it for certain conferences (ACC for both, Big Ten for academics only, etc). Academics, pfft. You know, as much crap as SEC fans rightfully get for that S-E-C-S-E-C "I hope our rivals win because somehow it makes us better" chanting, the Big Ten is the most masturbatory conference in college sports. At least all that South-will-rise-again stuff terminates at the end of football season; Big Ten circle-jerking permeates every aspect of everything.

Bet this is about Reinsdorf getting the strip mall for free or dirt-cheap. I'm surprised these two parties are even negotiating, because that Camelback Ranch development that was supposed to change the way we thought about spring training baseball villages has been a total money pit and hasn't come close to delivering the growth it promised. Jobing.com Field.

Pretty silly to act like academics matter when this is only about football. I mean, it's not even about basketball, and basketball makes like a billion dollars a year in rights fees!

Depends where you are in the state. You get west of Eureka and you can practically hear the banjo music wafting into your car. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing! You can make the best of it and pretend that John Law's comin' for ya. Game over, man, game over.

The Untouchables and Ordinary People have to be up there, the former being about one of the city's most famous personages and the latter so deftly capturing the distinct repression and insularity of the North Shore that it's practically a fourth principal character. Also, show me where Rookie of the Year won Best Picture.

I don't know what an enormous lifestyle strip mall costs in the rest of the country, but I'd have to imagine it would go for more than $40 million. If "the real estate bubble" were a Pictionary clue, all you'd have to draw is the state of Arizona. You guys are all even more dicked than the rest of us.

http://www.azcentral...epossessed.html

I will think less of Stanford as an academic institution if they play football games against Boise State University on a semi-regular basis. This is big.

Why don't they just admit them as an athletic member and not an academic member, then? This is not, nor was it ever, about academics. It's about grey-market pro football.

For the most part, I feel that that's really stupid, but then I look at the roster of the Montreal Canadiens and I see names like Spacek, Plakanec, Markov, Kostitsyn, and something doesn't feel right.

THE SCHOOL IS A GLORIFIED COMMUNITY COLLEGE. That's the problem, and no amount of population growth or football skill can correct that. "You don't have enough graduate programs to play grey-market-pro sports against us"

Not really. Uh oh.