The_Admiral

2 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

I’ve never been to the Atlanta airport, but that’s mostly because the furthest south I’ve been is St. Louis and I never fly Delta.

 

Pn the CCSLC airport rankings, how does Atlanta fare compared to Denver, O’Hare, and Sky Harbor (to name a few I’ve been to on layovers)?

I've connected in Atlanta a few times, never departed. It feels like a sprawlier O'Hare such that you pretty much need to take the people mover anywhere. I had to jog a bit to make a plane home once. O'Hare, for being one of the busiest airports in the world, always seems to get me through check-in and security very quickly. Sometimes you hit a vein of absolute solitude and you're through in almost an instant.

On 4/2/2024 at 11:51 AM, FrutigerAero said:

As a fan of KC sports teams, I've been really impressed with the Royals' downtown stadiums plans.  I think it would be a good thing for the team and would help them be more successful as a small-market team.  Like it or not the suburban stadium they play in is just not very compatible with modern economics.

Is this like how the Bears' extremely downtown stadium isn't compatible with modern economics and need a suburban stadium to be successful?

It's not the Maritimes that are the problem, it's Newfoundland (which pedants will tell you is Atlantic Canada but not Maritime Canada). St. John's is about as far from Halifax as Halifax is from New York City, and Hfx is already for all intents and purposes as far east as a continental sports league can go, what with being an hour ahead of Eastern Time. It doesn't work without travel subsidies, and even then it requires unusual scheduling to make it work.

If anything, the Q is worse for St. John's than any minor league; the Fog Devils made it like two years whereas the St. John's Maple Leafs, albeit in an AHL much more concentrated on New England and the Maritimes, lasted a decade and change. They'll probably get another whack at the Q when one of the far northern teams gives up the ghost but that probably won't last long either.

EDIT: To put the old IceCaps in perspective, St. John's is as close to Dublin as it is to Winnipeg.

I noticed the color change and thought it looked nice. I didn't realize it had anything to do with Hulu. Does this mean I can watch the sad-kitchen-work program now?

20 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

You didn't hear this from me, but that's exactly what it was. Why do you think he flipped out like he did over the pine tar HR? It was butt-roid rage.

He wasn't going to take that sitting down.

Normally I would think the situation was Daryl Boston going up to Kenny Williams's office to talk behind everyone's back but they don't work there anymore, so what gives?

All this is true, however, the Oakland A's have now existed as a discrete brand for as long as the San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals, nearly half the club's existence, where they've won the World Series four times and inspired a movie. If it were the Padres or Royals trying and failing to move to America's worst city and the government tried to pass a leave-your-stuff law like the Twins have, or if it were the Giants finally moving to Florida for some reason, it wouldn't be wholly unjustified, and so it is here, the organization's vagabond nature notwithstanding.

I still don't think the move is going to happen. Too many fragile moving parts.

2 hours ago, GDAWG said:

Qwan'tez Stiggers

4 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

Yup, the false importance and “mystical Americana nature” really bugs me, if that makes sense. I’d rather emphasize what Ball Four or literally any pre-WWI baseball stories do, which is the wackiness and the often-rebellious nature of the players.
 

It’s so much more entertaining than the Norman Rockwell-like garbage.

Baseball is all of those things. It's a constant through the years and it's a wacky carnival with eccentric players. It shaped the English language more than any sport. There's enough bandwidth to honor all the things baseball has been without taking anything away.

I remember Lance Briggs doing that once. Crashed his Lamborghini on the Edens, got out, and walked away. I think he also reported it as stolen, which may have been a tactical error.

1 minute ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Still, a person has a fundamental right to put into his or her own body that which he or she chooses to put there.

Not really.

The Mavericks have one of the worst brands in the league. The logos/uniforms they came with in 2001 weren't great, but they've since been tinkered with into oblivion. I guess they were, broadly speaking, the NBA's preeminent blue team for a while, but the Warriors are now, so there's not even that. You know what the Mavs' brand has really been all these years? Mark Cuban being vaguely annoying. The visuals are secondary.

1983 was the first division championship under Jerry Reinsdorf, and it involved Tony La Russa, so it's no surprise that they keep going back to those and tend to skip over the 1940s-1970s.

Oh, whatever, fashion-forward black guys love acting kind of gay to show how not gay they are. Everyone thought Kanye West was a 'mo for years and years but the depth of his psychotic break over losing Kim Kardashian pretty well cleared that up.

8 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

Please do not pretend that that indefensible law is some kind of moral standard. From the standpoint of morality, laws on "controlled substances" are an abomination.

Yeah, thou shalt not stand in the way of my oxycodone habit.

5 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

All those guys — Palmeiro, McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, and especially Bonds — not only deserve enshrinement, but they also deserve a formal apology.

I'm so sorry that you violated federal law. It was so wrong of me that you did that.

1 minute ago, SFGiants58 said:

He made a bunch of elder millennials angry and the whole Miami-Cleveland Mk II era created a whole host of storylines and drama. You’ve got Dirk’s ring, bringing a title to Cleveland, being the last hoorah of Popovich’s Spurs, forming a worthy rival to the Warriors, and snuffing out the Pacers’ relevancy. That’s shaping the game and being in the center of attention. DG may have more to say on this.

lol he's on the ass end of half of these.

On 3/28/2024 at 8:20 AM, Cujo said:

Football fans are apparently triggered over this image of Caleb Williams.. 

 

I don't get it, what's happening in this picture?

47 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Mike Trout is one of the best ever, but can it really be said that he changed the game or shaped its history in any meaningful way since 2011?

Speaking of him, LeBron didn't really do those things, either. Jordan changed basketball forever. Curry changed basketball forever. LeBron was just really good.

No, of course not, because everything about the Rangers is arriviste and second-rate.

On 3/27/2024 at 7:36 PM, BBTV said:

No new stadium in any northeast or midwest city shoudl be constructed without some kind of Safeco-ish umbrella-ish cover.  Not a full dome, but a cover.  Prices are too high to have to sit or wait through multiple delays or get rained on or have a clinching NLCS game like in 2022 where the field was a complete trainwreck and pitchers could barely grip the ball.

That sounds terrible, no thanks.

Do you think Blumpkin will try to make a play for the Football Team now that the Capitals stayed put? I know Snyder had been exploring a move to Virginia for quite a while.

9 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

It’s gonna be hard to top the time Nike matched the airport carpet for some basketball team.  

Oh, man. The airport carpet jersey debate. That one will live on in the anals of board history. [sic]

On 3/25/2024 at 10:42 AM, GFB said:

Did we ever come to a consensus on the “Canes logo looks better rotated 180°” idea?