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3 hours ago, infrared41 said:

 

You haven't lived until you watch a baseball game with 3500 other people in a stadium that seats 80,000. 

It's one reason when the A's suck I always recommend people make a trip to the Oakland Coliseum. Won't be too much longer that you'll be able to have that experience. And you're right... there's nothing like it. Don't know if that's a good thing... but it's definitely a thing. 

3 hours ago, TBGKon said:

After seeing highlights of the KBL, it makes me wonder if something like the NC Dinos stadium should be a model for the Rays to follow in Tampa Bay.  It seats 22k as is, but could be configured a little bit differently to allow for a few more, and allows for social gathering spaces.

 

 

And it would need some form of roof I'd think being in Florida. 

On 10/18/2019 at 11:29 AM, McCarthy said:

Other than "they don't want to pay for it themselves" why can't the A's just build the new stadium in the parking lot while they play the next two years at the Coliseum?

Because they don’t own the land?

23 hours ago, GDAWG said:

So Las Vegas will go from 0 major league teams in 2015 to potential 4 (NHL, NFL, MLS and MLB) ten years later.......ridiculous.

Nah. MLS isn’t looking too seriously at Vegas. And I’ll believe MLB when I see it. Vegas was only mentioned to light a fire under Oakland given how raw they are about the Raiders... and it worked as Oakland is considering dropping the suit. We should actually hear more today.

On 10/9/2019 at 8:22 AM, Maroon said:

I don't see it happening, but it would be miserable if it did. Not only is Vegas not even in the top five of cities that would be good fits for an MLB team, but to move such a storied franchise to a city devoid of baseball history would be egregiously bad.

If we were early in this process I’d agree. But the A’s are about to enter year 26 of their new stadium hunt. At some point MLB will run out of patience with the frankly unprofessional environment the A’s are forced to endure. 

7 hours ago, andregunts said:

Ok, so are you going to boycott the World Cup?

 

Its important to call out Qatar for what they are doing with these migrant workers and I have, but im not boycotting a World Cup. I LOVE World Cups too much

Yep. Boycotted the last one and will boycott the next one. Both were ill gotten and morally bankrupt at the very least.

36 minutes ago, neo_prankster said:

 

No one except those who've decided the NFL's rules are too strict.

So like 10 people at this point? The kneeling thing and the Kap van were the only real sticking points and that dried up last season. 

9 minutes ago, mkg74 said:

I’m only trash talking the uniforms and logos. It was decent football still. I mean I could trash talk a lot more about AAF if one wanted too. After what was found out. After believing they were running a good operation saying the money was there for 3 years at least. . Yes one has the right to be bitter and pissed. 

 

American Patriot alliance won’t play a down. Either will the freedom league. 

 This is the last chance for spring ball. 

 

But on the other hand this is a dying sport. It won’t be around 40 yrs from now. 

Spring ball... the thing no one is asking for and no one watches as a result

1 hour ago, buzzcut said:

The Twitterverse seems to hate both the names and logos.

With good reason. They run the gamut from forgettable to downright terrible. When your best offering is a lawsuit resistance Oilers knockoff you’ve got problems.

13 hours ago, 63Bulldogs63 said:

 

In fairness to the Angel's their ballpark is the 4th or 5th oldest in the league. Just cause someone gets a boob job and some lipo in their 50's , doesn't make them younger. 

 

They've had a well know rat problem at the stadium. And while enjoy going to games there. I can see why they really could use a new stadium. A lot of bad awkward sightlines from it being a multipurpose previously in life.

Oh I’m not saying they couldn’t benefit from a new park, nor that they’re wrong to want one. But it’s not like it’s a critical need. An exterminator could solve the rat problem in a week. And they’ve had those same sightline issues since the park opened (long before it was converted for the Rams). If they weren’t a big issue for 50 years prior they’re not a big issue now.

And more importantly they have little leverage. No one believes for a second they’d abandon the second largest market in the US (and more important the TV deal that allows them to command) for any other market. Of all teams wanting a park they’ve got the least leverage in any ballpark negotiation. They’re not moving.

21 minutes ago, pmoehrin said:

The Rays can talk to Montreal all they want, but the city of St. Pete has already announced any potential move like this violates their lease agreement.

 

I doubt the Rays are going anywhere until at least 2027.

The city claiming it violates the lease doesn’t mean it violates the lease. 

2 hours ago, GDAWG said:

Don't the Angels and Diamondbacks have stadium issues themselves?  I am thinking that the Angels will at least remain in the Los Angeles area. 

Diamondback issues are completely fabricated. The BoB is still a great modern park with all the modern bull :censored:. 

Angels aren't leaving LA so they don’t have an issue so much as a desire for a new ballpark.

7 minutes ago, Cardsblues02 said:

Brown and Yellow is hideous. The Padres should’ve left it for dead. Navy/Sand was gorgeous and perfect for the city.

Navy and Orange worked better, but I don't disagree with the thrust of your statement. Brown was always a mistake. It's just trendy to resurrect old things lately which are mis-remembered. I give it 10 years and they'll switch back. 

Hadn't seen these on this thread. The San Diego Gulls broke out these homage jerseys on Willie O'Ree Night honoring the long time Gull and NHL legend back in mid November

The major change from the jerseys of O'Ree/Western Hockey League era was the inclusion of the modern "SD" wordmark on the right shoulder like the Gulls standard home jersey, and the modern Gulls' logo on the left shoulder in place of the typical Duck's logo. 

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Wow I'd missed they switched names to Atlanta. Good call. 

On 8/22/2018 at 3:26 AM, B-mer said:

So this apparently slipped by the board?  I hadn't seen it posted but I guess CCM is doing some new things. 

 

SJ Barracuda apparently showed this new collar a little bit ago as well. 

 

Worcester Sharks was the best. If just because they kept the old Sharks logo alive long after the NHL Sharks had dumped it for the current crap logo. 

On 12/8/2018 at 5:50 AM, BringBackTheVet said:

 

They'll "link" the two, for a minute, till they don't see any WWE references anywhere.  Also, apparently Vince won't even have any facetime and is delegating most - if not all - of this to Luck (I think that's his name).

 

If the wanted to do crossovers, obviously he has the power to make the WWE talent do it, but it's a little more complicated since they'd have to sign... something with Apollo rather than simply have their WWE deal altered or had a promotional appearance added.

Hopefully he's smart enough not to. Part of what took the XFL 1.0 down, among others, is that the WWF at the time tie ins lent it an air of farce and illegitimacy. 

2 hours ago, BeerGuyJordan said:

Let's not forget thet Arizona is tarping their UD corners, this season.

How much longer until the Arizona experiment is ended?

4 hours ago, the admiral said:

 

But the Rays do get good TV ratings, while the Coyotes flirt with losing to infomercials.

Not really surprising. Baseball is number 2 sports wise, Hockey is a distant 4th. 

10 hours ago, the admiral said:

I'm glad San Diego is thriving as an AHL market because it doesn't seem like Stockton and Bakersfield are, and we know San Jose2 isn't. The AHL compromised a lot of competitive integrity to make this California deal work, the least they can get out of it is a major-league city not pissing all over itself.

Stockton and Bakersfield aren't setting the world on fire like San Diego and Ontario, CA, but they're still big improvements over Adirondack and OKC in terms of interest and attendance. Definitely not having issues where it would seem calling the CA move a mistake would be appropriate. And the new addition Tucson has been a wash vs Springfield, MA. San Jose is really the only mistake they made in California, as it was a clear downgrade over Worcester playing in front of crowds that wouldn't fill one section at the Shark Tank.

8 minutes ago, Ice_Cap said:

Are the Kings really a runway success? I mean it became a running joke at how the local media kept usinsg the Sacremento Kings logo during the LA Kings' five year run atop the west. 

I'm not saying the Kings are struggling. Far from it. They're in a perfectly fine position. Just that two teams in LA probably taps what the NHL can get out of Southern California. 

 

They were sitting pretty atop the QMJHL's attendance standings for the 2016-2017 season. They averaged 9,421 a game. 

The SD Gulls were at third in attendance in the AHL, with an average of 8,876 game. They're behind Cleveland (9,055) and Hershey (9,309). 

Not quite the surprise knockout you were expecting at the QC Ramparts' expense in "whatever league" they played in, eh?

 

 

Yes, they have. And it's admirable, certainly. 

I'm just thinking of what happened in Atlanta and Winnipeg. Where a team in an American Sunbelt metropolis was constantly in need of revenue sharing to eek along. And then how that same team went from receiving revenue sharing to contributing to it because it turned out a small Canadian city with a rabid fanbase proved more stable for the league than the beforementioned Sunbelt metropolis. 

Two teams in LA taps what you can get out of LA. Don't equate LA with the rest of SoCal. San Diego in particular is not LA. Believe me, the Chargers have found that out in spades.

12 minutes ago, Ice_Cap said:

Hockey is regional, and one of those regions has a better track record supporting NHL hockey than another. 

 

The LA teams have secured niches for themselves but they aren't runaway successes. Arizona is a joke, as you admitted. And Vegas will have the NFL in due time. Not to mention the NHL team can't even get on tv in their local market due to their own gross mismanagement. So while Vegas is still an unknown? It looks more and more like a Coyotes in making sort of situation. 

 

As far as San Diego goes? Maybe it'll work, but I'm sorry. There's no way San Diego tops Quebec City as a potential NHL market.

 

Of course the NHL will likely choose SD over QC, but the NHL makes bad business decisions on a nearly daily basis. 

How is Quebec City's team doing in whatever league they have currently. Not saying it's indicative of what an NHL team will do, but I am curious. I mean it would stand to reason Quebec would do better than San Diego. But frankly San Diego's attachment to Hockey at the AHL level has taken both the team and league by surprise. They've been second only to Hershey PA now two years in a row in terms of attendance.

As for the other NHL teams not being runaway successes. Anaheim does have a nice niche for itself. The Kings I'd say have been a runaway success.

Just now, the admiral said:

I've never been keen on supersaturating the American Southwest for the frozen-pond game, this is not a revelation to anyone who's read this board

Guess I can understand that feeling. Particularly when the only team to now in the Southwest is the Coyotes, who continue to limp along like some sort of sick joke by Bettman. And as I said the other newbies in Vegas are a completely unknown quantity at this point.

That said, the two other southwestern teams (if you consider California part of the Southwest), have done remarkably well in LA and Anaheim. The California teams have never been an "issue" in the Sunbelt.

40 minutes ago, the admiral said:

 

I don't think they could stop it any more than they could stop Las Vegas (which, come to think of it, L.A./San Diego/Anaheim/Las Vegas is REALLY too much hockey for that corner of America. That's four teams where I'd have one).

 

Also, AHL over NHL helps because NHL price points are ridiculously high in most cities.

Why would you say it's too much in "that corner of America"? I mean that's like saying having teams in Philly, NJ, NY, and Boston is too many in that corner of America...

Admittedly Vegas was an odd choice, and we've no idea if it'll work out or not. But all 4 teams/potential teams serve different markets (or in Anaheim's case a sub-market in greater LA).

7 minutes ago, the admiral said:

That's too much NHL for Southern California. It would be a second Anaheim and the first one isn't setting the world on fire business-wise.

Not sure about that. San Diego is a much different market than OC that so far has proven to be hockey crazy with the Gulls tearing it up the last two seasons. The big issues would be that the Ducks likely consider San Diego part of their extended market, hence they put the AHL Gulls in San Diego. Not sure if they have any exclusivity to that effect but they may object. That and part of why the Gulls have succeeded I suspect is because they're AHL, and not NHL. Many in their fan base, myself included, are fans of other NHL teams but root for the Gulls because they're not a competitor to our NHL sides. That dynamic would change a bit if there were suddenly an NHL team in SD.

But a team in San Diego could do just fine if SD were given a chance I suspect. We're currently a one team town at the top level of sports and a 0 team town for much of the NBA/NHL season.