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1 hour ago, MCM0313 said:

What’s funny is, friends and family and neighbors have all given my parents’ bathroom rave reviews, often asking who they hired for it. It looks chic and modern without being garish. A couple details can make all the difference. 

You simply must tell me who cut into your I-beams.

8 hours ago, Cujo said:

To each their own. But I've gotta believe these fans probably have orange shag carpet and pea green appliances in their homes.

Yeah, and paneling. Good! I respect that more than grey laminate on the floors and also the walls.

It reminds me of my old elementary school gym with the vinyl-coated floor.

And today's a Freebie Friday, so you don't have to have lunch with your homeroom!

Just now, Sec19Row53 said:

The title of this thread threw me off. Isn't in the Business/Emotion of Baseball, not the Business of Emotion/Baseball?

Gentlemen, we are in...the business...of emotion.

You gotta be careful not to put the cart before the horse with athlete endorsements. I still remember Geico commercials with the line "after all, you ARE Brian Orakpo." Having to be like "isn't that right, all-star third baseman Alex Bregman?" is a Krusty the Clown bit. (They're doing it again on Thursday nights with Andrew Whitworth, by the way, who I had never thought about and for all I know is just your office's cool in-house software developer who you wouldn't guess is a software developer.)

1 hour ago, FiddySicks said:

And there have been rumors that they may look to go elsewhere if SJ doesn’t publicly fund a new arena for them and the city is just like lol please leave! 
 

I’m not sure what the future of this team really is, but I’d have to assume it’ll be as a tenant at the Chase Center at some point in the not too distant future. 

The Sharks and Warriors should have gotten on the same page decades ago, preferably with one arena in or close to San Francisco. Rehabbing the Oakland Arena was never going to be enough, the Shark Tank was hastily drawn up without luxury boxes, and no professional team should ever have to use the stinky Cow Palace. I think the Chase Center is basically Barclays West in terms of the seating bowl and general one-percentiness. Not ideal. 

Hey, looks like the Wiz are on board with my idea for DC statehood contingent on reannexing Arlington County and Alexandria. Nice!

1 hour ago, SFGiants58 said:

Being a Sharks fan is like being a BJ Penn fan. The glory days, which weren’t that good to begin with, are long gone. Meanwhile, the present is a continued and confounding embarrassment, one that gets funnier every year.

I remember saying in 2010 that the Sharks were mortgaging their future to a dangerous extent. They must have been able to keep kicking the can down a few additional roads to get to this place, but this was always their fate.

15 hours ago, Sodboy13 said:

And this is part of the problem, right? The seeming lack of interest on MLB's part to develop a national fanbase outside of NYY/BOS/CHC/LAD, and instead be content with a bunch of fans who aren't interested unless it's their team that's playing. (And if it is their team playing, blackout restrictions may apply, but that's another part of the decline to address.) Put it this way, no one's going to look at the numbers and spot loads for, like, a Kings-Bucks Final and say, "Well, you can't expect that to draw and sell, it's Sacramento and Milwaukee."

Hasn't this been a longtime problem for MLB, though? like, pre-cable? The old NBC Game of the Week was usually whatever involved New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, maybe Detroit. I think we had a golden age of national baseball with ESPN in the '90s and 2000s just because of the sheer amount of baseball they covered relative to the networks, but it seems like that was an outlier. 

I don't have a solution. It's not the NFL, where fantasy and betting are so big that everyone can't help but be conversant with the whole league on some basic level. It's can't be the NBA, either, because people actually like their baseball teams and usually have it passed down across generations; we all log too many hours with our teams to sit and objectively "behold greatness" or think deeply about what it means to be Mike Trout. 

My mom used to do traffic & continuity. I am fully in my element listening to talk about clocks and avails, bump sheets and affidavits. A computer in the guest bedroom that had DOS without Windows and only ran CBSI. Those were the days. Anyway, I hope next year Fox can sell some inventory before they have to resort to spots about why your business should buy spots.

Thinking about the story of how McDaniels supposedly didn't go to the Colts because Jim Irsay was in his bathroom too long, either for a massive bump or a massive dump. Either way, Jim Irsay is still the better person in this anecdote.

Truly one of the worst head coaches of all time. He didn't crack the Urban Petrino level, but not for lack of trying. Not for lack of trying.

Before teams started whoring out the space, helmets were an ideal space for team wordmarks, an often-overlooked part of a hockey team identity. The Red Wings did it best, but the Blackhawks used to do it for a while in the '90s, I believe, and the Devils under Lamoriello of course just had "DEVILS" in black or white Impact.

The Canadiens are a team you would think would have some timeless script like the New York Yankees but they don't at all.

5 minutes ago, TaylorMade said:

 

What the  does this have to do with anything?

It means a lot to Kyrie Irving.

1 hour ago, Sport said:

 They look good more often than they don't and if they were given to the league office to redesign I can only imagine what Titans-like BS we'd get - I'm picturing a Texas flag that covers both shoulders and stars down the pants leg. 

I've warned everyone already: "horn devices"

Rice has plausible deniability but you and I both know UH was tampering in God's (or Goodell's) domain with that stunt.

10 minutes ago, Ted Cunningham said:

Not to kickstart an "intellectual dishonesty"/Browns & Ravens debate, but a hypothetical: If the impossible came to pass and the city of Houston/Texans ownership got a hold of the Oilers IP, would anyone miss the Texans or their identity if the NFL/Texans did an NBA-Bobcats/Hornets switch, in which the Oilers history ends in 1996, and restarts in 2002 (or even go farther and just say the Texas were a separate team that ceased to exist)?

Not really. And that's no knock on the Texans identity, which I thought was clever and built to stand the test of time, it's just that NFL brands mean too much to too many people for them to be discarded the way the Oilers were. There should be no relocations under antitrust exemptions.

One of those '90s Dolphins iterations had names in Helvetica and it looked like an early 2000s Madden game in real life.

Put me down for the '82/'84 Super Bowl-losing Dolphins uniforms: they're nice and stripey but have aqua facemasks. I like the idea of Art Deco numbers but I think it would be too foofy in practice. Add aqua pants as an option for white jerseys and punch up the logo and I think you can arrive at a canonical Fins uniform and never have to touch them again.

33 minutes ago, fouhy12 said:

The Dolphins are interesting to me because they're an old team with the vibes of an expansion one. They're in a fun, young city with vibrant colors and known for flashy offensive weapons like Dan Marino and Tyreek Hill. I think you need to have an identity that caters to both the history and the modernity, which is definitely threading a needle. 

I don't think the Dolphins have expansion vibes at all. They're known for high-flying offense. So are the Packers, 49ers, Raiders, and Chiefs. By having an unorthodox color scheme on otherwise traditional uniforms, they threaded the needle just fine (see also: Sharks). No shame in having some kitschy Old Florida vibes.

I agree about the aqua facemasks and (optional) aqua pants. The helmet dolphin could use some cleanup, like that one guy in that one thread used to do, but such a cleanup would be nautical miles ahead of the toothpaste dolphin. Death to the Luxury Brand.

Just now, fouhy12 said:

I love the Dolphins throwbacks, but that logo is definitely dated, and the sleeve striping, grey facemask, and black cleats feel too old school for a team with such vibrant colors and a flashy, modern NFL offense. I think a mashup of the throwback and modern uniforms keeping the overall identity of the older look with a modern feel is the way to go. I also think wearing the right combinations (all white with aqua socks, white over aqua with white socks, and aqua over white with aqua socks) would do wonders. 

Well put. I always thought of the Fins as a white-cleats team. I still think my Old NFL black, Old AFL white,  post-merger wacky colors idea is a good one.

I think from now on, if they weren't before, any no-trade list should have to be on file with the league office. Call it a learning opportunity; Sens didn't really commit a punishable offense here.

Shouldn't any of those contract provisions be with the central registry? Sounds like more of a league problem than an Ottawa problem.

25 minutes ago, Digby said:

The other factor is the push to turn sport into Streaming TV Content, with the actual tickets to games becoming so expensive that it's only really tenable as an expense-account thing for city socialites. There's been no real consequence for that.

I said one time that going to an NBA game was becoming more like attending a performance of Hamilton than a sporting event and people got mad at me. If it wasn't true a year or two ago, it has to be true by now.

36 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

This may just be me, but I really think this “NBA turning point” was the 2011 lockout. That’s when the “weird” started, for lack of a better term.

I think this is correct. 2012, the turning point at which more people had smartphones than didn't, was the beginning of a lot of weirdness beyond the NBA, but certainly including it.