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    Possibly interesting news out of San Diego this morning. The local sports talk station 1090 broke that later this week there's going to be an announcement of a new NBA/NHL ready arena going up in San Diego's east village. The privately financed arena on 80 acres of already acquired land will initially house an expansion NLL team (and possibly one or both of the current tenants of San Diego's existing 51 year old public arena the Gulls of the AHL and Sockers of the MASL). But the long term goal by the owner of the arena will be to acquire an NBA team and possibly an NHL team (given San Diego's runaway success in the AHL). Joseph Tsai, founder of Alibaba.com and La Jolla resident is the money and drive behind the project. http://www.mighty1090.com/episode/dan-sileo-a-new-arena-lacrosse-team-and-possible-nba-team-in-san-diego/
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    Yeah I had the same thought. How did the Rockets arena fair anyway?
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    Stadium is true, but there are infrastructure items around the stadium the city will be footing. They weren't the bulk of the "wad blowing" I was referring to earlier though, the Kings were the majority of that. But there certainly isn't enough left to build a new MLB park. And unlike what was suggested, there is no park that can be upgraded to MLB standards (for some reason there's this myth that has persisted for over a decade that Raley Field across the river in West Sacramento can somehow be upgraded to MLB standards)
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    Sacramento doesn't have a stadium that can be expanded to MLB standards Not to mention they blew their public funding wad on the Kings and Republic.
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    It's not. Just typical maintenance issues any stadium is going to have as it nears 20 years old. But neither side wants to be the ones to pay for it. And the D-Backs won't leave the bigger Phoenix market to go slum in Vegas. They're just posturing trying to scare the city into paying for their desired upgrades.
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    Well Cashman Field is going to be converted into a Soccer Stadium here shortly for the new USL team. So they may be homeless before long.
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    Well it's not like they don't have MiLB in town still. HIllsboro is a Portland suburb only 12 miles west, and the Hops supposedly do pretty well.
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    To be fair, PGE Park was never going to host MLB. So what's happened with it today has little bearing on Portland's ability to host or not host MLB. They'd have needed an MLB sized ballpark regardless.
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    The A's are announcing their plans for their private ballpark, in Oakland, in a few months. With Wolff gone the A's aren't going anywhere. As for Vegas, I'll believe it when I see it. Baseball is so anti-gambling that I just don't see it happening.
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    Indeed. At least they're in different cities. From what I understand the Sharks and Barracuda aren't even in different hallways at the Shark Tank.
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    San Jose was dead last in the AHL... if we're being realistic. They were averaging somewhere around 1000 actual fans a game.
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    Suppose the AHL will need one more team in the near future.
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    Well I won't be surprised if Portland, ME lands a team now that's for sure. The Aces made it official they're folding after this season. http://arenadigest.com/2017/02/27/alaska-aces-fold-shop/
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    That would be a damned shame. But it sounds like the low oil prices are hitting everyone up there if University of Alaska was considering ditching their hockey program as well. Frankly given the demise of the ECHL's western division after the AHL moved west in 2016 I'm surprised the Aces fielded a team the last two years. The ECHL is supposed to be a bus league, and travel to Alaska isn't cheap, or easy given the distances and time zone issues. Basically the Aces are a latter day Alaska version of the old Hawaii Islanders of the PCL. And are no doubt suffering many of the same problems. And with eastern cities like Portland, ME waiting for replacement teams for lost AHL squads there's got to be enormous pressure to sell at a hefty profit. I hope they can work it out though. The Aces shouldn't have to fold just because the AHL gutted their former division.
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    Everybody on the west coast hated the Lakers. When I was a Kings fan they were seen as the biggest rival due to the playoff series the better part of two decades ago. The Warriors saw them as a huge rival, back before the Cavs became enemy No. 1. The Clippers have always hated their roommates.
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    I don't think they'd consider moving into the current downtown arena. A rather they were considering a theoretical new one.
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    They're probably just doing some preliminary vetting in case they exhaust all options in Phoenix. I mean they've still got Scottsdale and downtown to work through. And in Seattle at least they've still got to lock their arena down be it renovated Key or the Sodo one. So we're not anywhere near the Mayflower truck phase yet.
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    Shoddy ownership for part of the time seems to have been an issue.
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    Especially in a town where there is no competition during the winter, and only one baseball team for competition for the pro sports dollar.
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    That new L primary cap is pretty sharp. As for the primary logo, I get why they did it. Lowell is known for it's mills so they wanted to include that in the logo for those ignorant of history and don't understand the Spinners name.
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    Wait, the Blues were moving to KC?
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    Well the Hershey Bears kind of have the Bears name locked up in minor league hockey. Seeing as they've been sitting on it since 1938.
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    Knew it was only a matter of time after the Tempe arena started to derail. It was only the hope of something in the east valley that was keeping the Coyotes in town. Because presumably the Suns aren't too keen for them to be involved downtown.
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    Makes sense. Even the renovated and slightly shrunk Nassau is a better situation than they have now at Barclay's Center, long or short term. And it gives them time to work out a new arena somewhere else on the Island.
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    Wait, why are the Golden Knights affiliating with the Wolves?
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