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25 minutes ago, the admiral said:
maybe not now
Yeah I had the same thought. How did the Rockets arena fair anyway?
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3 hours ago, Gothamite said:
The Republic's stadium is privately financed. As they all should be.
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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11 hours ago, LA_Angels said:
I don't think a new stadium will fix the rays problem at all. Based on what happend in Miami, I don't believe a new stadium will always solve attendance problems. I feel like a possible market other than Montreal on the upswing currently would be Sacramento; nice metro area, only the kings to compete with, and a stadium that could be expanded to MLB standards if needed. However i view this as an alternate option to the A's stadium fiasco, because 3 NorCal teams might be pushing it.
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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22 hours ago, vikmurphy said:
That stadium is 19 years old how did it fall into such a spot of disrepair?
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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5 hours ago, Mitch B said:
I support any action that gets the Mets triple-A affiliate out of Vegas and back to the east coast.
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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1 hour ago, Gothamite said:
True, but in converting it to a soccer stadium, Portland was shipping its minor-league baseball team out of town. Tougher to build support for major league baseball when you don't even have minor-league ball in the city.
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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21 hours ago, rams80 said:
They rebuilt the local AAA baseball stadium into a Soccer Specific Stadium, so no, it isn't.
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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On 7/22/2017 at 4:51 PM, Bucfan56 said:
My initial reaction is God I hope not, but if it keeps us from having a future Las Vegas Athletics, I'm cool with it.
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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2 hours ago, Still MIGHTY said:
Still better than: San Jose assigns Cam Gord to San Jose
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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5 hours ago, Cosmic said:
Pretty much my thoughts exactly. And San Jose was below Rochester, as well.
The thing I don't get is they're seemingly putting the screws to everyone involved over this rinky dink AHL arena/team, but the political will was there to give the Bills a football palace, but the Bills have been the ones pumping the brakes on that.
Same owners. Similar situations. I don't get it.
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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1 hour ago, buzzcut said:
The Norfolk Admirals are hinting at a new affiliation to be announced next week. They may also be plotting a return to the AHL. Stay tuned.
Suppose the AHL will need one more team in the near future.
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45 minutes ago, rvrdgsfn said:
Looks like Elmira is done as well....
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.
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On 2/18/2017 at 6:26 PM, rvrdgsfn said:
Alaska Aces may be done after this season
http://www.ktva.com/alaska-aces-ownership-considering-ceasing-operations-727/
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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10 hours ago, Wings said:
As a long time Blazers fan I disliked the Sonics but hated the Lakers.
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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On February 11, 2017 at 8:12 AM, kroywen said:
The Suns have a basketball-only arena, much like Barclays. The Coyotes did play there from 1996 to 2003, while securing an arena deal (and eventually constructing) for their current arena in Glendale. Much like the Isles at Barclays, it was a disaster:
For a team already struggling to draw people, with a dwindling fanbase, the last thing they need is to move into an arena that literally cannot fit a hockey rink.
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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1 hour ago, BeerGuyJordan said:
I reached out to a contact in the organization, who asked that I keep their name out of it. Their answer:
"Less than the media is reporting, but certainly more than the Coyotes are claiming."
Not certain what that means, but they wouldn't say more.
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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30 minutes ago, rams80 said:
That can't be it. The team's been on the brink of financial catastrophe for far longer than that-this goes back to the Checkerdome days.
Shoddy ownership for part of the time seems to have been an issue.
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21 minutes ago, the admiral said:
Someday someone will figure out how to make a dime owning the St. Louis Blues. I know we joke a lot about how teams "lose money" for appearances' sake, but those teams don't skip entire entry drafts because the team was technically out of business, or entertain moving to Saskatoon, or pawn off Peoria-based AHL teams to make payroll. It's the damnedest thing.
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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On 2/1/2017 at 3:19 PM, Brian in Boston said:
This is the problem that I have with the new logo set. Depict the mascot wearing the simplest of the caps - blue with the red L - and call it a day.
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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14 hours ago, rams80 said:
Apparently Kansas City might not be happening now, though. The Blues owner must have demanded a bigger cash infusion from the Hunts that was thought.
Wait, the Blues were moving to KC?
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1 minute ago, Sykotyk said:
Orlando Solar Bears, Houston ThunderBears, Knoxville Ice Bears,... there's something wrong with bears according to sports marketers.
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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1 hour ago, DustDevil61 said:
Coyotes: "We are committed to staying in Arizona."
Glendale Star: "Then why were you looking at arenas in Seattle and Portland?"
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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1 hour ago, Waffles said:
The Islanders' AHL affiliate in Bridgeport will not move to the renovated Nassau Coliseum as previously planned, and Nassau County has a different hockey tenant in mind (emphasis mine):
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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3 hours ago, Marcos Flamengo said:
The St. Louis Blues needs a new AHL affiliate because the Chicago Wolves will become affiliated with the Golden Knights. I think the most probable content would be Hamilton.
Wait, why are the Golden Knights affiliating with the Wolves?
NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator
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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/