The_Admiral

Isn't the Milwaukee market even smaller than Pittsburgh, and losing jobs rapidly? Is Milwaukee even really a good 3-sport town anymore let alone 4-sports?

Packers/Brewers seems to be about the right balance for Milwaukee, just like Cardinals/Blues is for St. Louis. I wish there was an NHL team in Milwaukee, though. Wish there was one in St. Louis, too!

Milwaukee . . . came close to getting a team in the '80s when the Blackhawks nearly moved there.

What? This never happened. You're confusing the Blackhawks with the Blues, and Milwaukee with Saskatoon, and I'd rather prefer that you did neither.

What happened was Lloyd Pettit, who used to do Blackhawks pbp, married into the Allen-Bradley fortune and wanted to bring an NHL team to Milwaukee. However, he was stymied by celebrated bastard Bill Wirtz, who claimed that Milwaukee was part of the Blackhawks' territory, even though the only presence they had in the market was that their radio coverage was on an AM station that reaches southern Wisconsin clearly. It was a really crappy move that salted the NHL earth in what by rights would've been a better piece of the puzzle than most of the mickey mouse operations that joined the league in the '90s.

I think the Hawks played a few games at the Bradley Center, but there was never any plan for Chicago's liquor/real estate baron to move the team to another, much smaller city.

It's getting that bad up in Quebec? Can't say I blame 'em; building a sports facility on spec is a bad idea. Maybe actually knowing the team is coming would help, or maybe Quebecor could chip in more than they are. I'm not ready to 100% strike QC from the list; there are still too many positives associated with it that don't exist in, say, Hamilton or Kansas City or whatever. The others, yeah, forget it.

No, silly, this thread isn't about Doug Gilmour! It's about the Phoenix Coyotes. With the Manitobification of the old rolling thread and "Back in the Game" lost to history, we need a new one.

Matt Hulsizer gave up on trying to buy the team, if he ever started in the first place, which I contend that he did not.

http://www.bizjourna...bid-to-buy.html

The buried lede here is that apparently Jerry Reinsdorf is poking around again. If I had to guess, it's probably to buy the team for his son.

Haven't heard much from Quebecor, which is just the way the league likes it.

Legality is no concern for the big swangin' dick of THE Ohio State.

The Blue Jackets tried. Gordon Gee and OSU were the uncooperative ones. Like we said, OSU. Not everyone in this city is gaga for the Buckeyes. Some of us are actually quite sick of that massive agricultural institution.

Yeah, but we're talking about, like, one of the most monolithic forces in townie goober sports fandom. For every one of you, there are ten of them. It was a stupid, stupid idea for the league to go toe-to-toe with, of all the state schools anywhere, the one that so thoroughly owns its city and state. I'm sure the Arena District or whatever (next to the Hammock District, on 3rd) is nice and all, but the whole thing is ultimately doomed if Ohio State has a virtually identical arena down the street.

The Blues are going to destroy the love of hockey in Blues fans more than the Blackhawks will if they keep this up.

Columbus is going to the East so that we don't need to do another conference flip when they're sold to Quebec City interests, unless I missed something and Columbus and/or Ohio has the money to bail Nationwide Insurance out of its failing arena.

Can't realign till we know if the death rattles of the Coyotes and Blue Jackets have concluded.

The NBA has the weakest regional rivalries. I guess the league is too hip for such tribalism.

I think we have another delicate case on our hands like with netsjazz.

Rex Ryan in an Islanders sweater is too perfect. He looks like some guy from Queens who calls the Fan twice a day.

Nice to see an NCAA banner before it gets taken down because someone finds out a player got a free sandwich five years ago.

Colleges are still institutions of education

Not for NBA prospects they're not!

Oh. Well, do you think it would be interesting if, say, the NBA drafted its players straight out of high school and then assigned them to the affiliated colleges for one to four years?

So are you positing that the corresponding schools would become dedicated developmental affiliates for their nearest NBA teams, or are you just pointing out that Memphis and Knoxville are in the same state? Oh, and I guess St. Bonnie's would be the Raptors' college counterpart.

six Arkansas schools

Who knew?

So every American team is at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to winning the Stanley Cup?

Yeah, I don't think so.

Canada doesn't NEED a yearly participant. They EARN it just like everybody else.

I think TxRangers has said before that his realignment proposals are intentionally absurd. His avatar is that aborted Chargers mascot, so I think he likes to traffic in absurdity like I do.

Dynamite way to sell tickets to half the league in a league that relies on selling tickets, call them the opposite of contenders.

The Dodgers don't wear navy.

The only two team I could change there are the Indians (brown and red) and the Phillies (maroon, light blue optional). Everyone else is fine by me.

Yes, they got their colors from the Pilots. So what? It's an improvement.

The script is okay, pretty Schlitzy, but why aren't there serifs on the WAU?

Funny, I thought people agreed there were too many red and blue teams already. I love the Brewers in royal blue and athletic gold. It's such a solid, no-nonsense pair of sports team colors. Flashy without being gaudy or overly complex, simple without being boring and overdone. The only other color combo I could entertain for the Brewers would be a German-inspired black/red/gold, and even that's not as cool as good old blue/yellow.

Oh what the hell, I'll respond to The Admiral's challenge as well.

Let's do the following...

Major League Baseball: Portland, Oregon and Sacramento, California

AAA Pacific Coast League: Southern California/Tucson, Arizona and Vancouver, British Columbia

AA Texas League: El Paso, Texas and Wichita, Kansas

A-Adv California League: Los Angeles Area and San Francisco Bay Area

A Midwest League: Duluth, Minnesota and Green Bay, Wisconsin

SSA New York-Penn League: St. Catharines, Ontario and Kitchener, Ontario

Rookie Pioneer League: Walla Walla, Washington and Logan, Utah

Just an idea.

If you're expanding to Sacramento at the AL level, then you lose the PCL RiverCats and need to account for that, too.

Using alternating colors delineates the elements of the uniform while providing a simple and eye-pleasing pattern. To wit: the Raiders wearing silver helmets, black shirts, silver pants, black socks; or the Packers wearing yellow helmets, green shirts, yellow pants, green socks. Everything is set apart, but at the same time, it matches. The Buccaneers' occasional pewter helmet, red jersey, white pants, black socks sequence; or the Giants' blue/white/grey/red, are just as mismatched as any monochrome.

What if the NFL did the whole East-West thing?

Then you would break up a multitude of 50-year-old rivalries in a league where travel problems are nonexistent.