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35 minutes ago, chcarlson23 said:
Absolutely… I mean it doesn’t help that it’s an Oilers navy alternate ripoff.
The Blazers brand has always been so tied into the Oilers because they started as the Kamloops Junior Oilers in 1981 and then kept the colours through the name change after Pocklington sold them off in 1984. They went what I would call "throwback inspired" with their current primary set in 2015, which is essentially just the Oilers navy/copper/red set in navy/orange (and the same jersey template Red Deer has been wearing in black/maroon/silver since 1997), so it makes sense they would look to Edmonton for an alternate.
Back to the point, Kamloops had those River City alts for last year at the very least as well.
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UniWatch posits the Angels might be promoting the 70s throwbacks to a full time alternate because the throwback hat listing on the MLB shop says "on-field".
New Era makes retail versions of whatever hat is worn on-field and these throwback Angels hats were up for sale whenever they have worn them before, but I don't recall what they (or other team's different hats) were designated as before. Is there any truth to that specific wording or designation of hats?
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A Twitter thread continued in the quote underneath
QuoteWhen a lender looks at providing financing for a project they look at MANY variables, but the one that is often the most important is CASH FLOW. Lenders don't want your assets (ie your home, business, car, etc)- they want to get paid back w/ interest.
Cash flow is the money that the business generates that is NOT being used for operating expenses or to service other debt (highly oversimplified). A business that is printing cash will have more financing opportunities and favorable terms than a business showing losses.
Fisher is claiming that the A's lost $40m in 2023. While that figure itself is HIGHLY questionable, if he is accounting in such a way to minimize profits and avoid taxes THOSE are the numbers a lender is going to use to calculate cash flow. Doesn't look good to start.
A lender may overlook negative cash flow if the borrower has significant cash on hand (excluding investments, businesses, or art
). Fisher had to sell a bunch of GAP stock to satisfy his $45m debt on the coliseum; he likely doesn't have a lot of cash on hand.
When lenders are taking on more risk they offer less favorable terms to the borrower. Probably why he is looking at Goldman Sachs rather than a conventional bank. Sachs is an investment bank - they are in the business of taking on greater risk for higher reward.
But even investment banks have their limits and are going to wonder HOW they are going to get repaid by someone who has no cash and a business that is "losing money".
I can guarantee Fisher needs financial support for even Goldman Sachs to consider his loan request
The Fed Funds rate (rate at which banks can borrow from the fed) is approx. 5.5% as a result home mortgage rates are around 7.5% - a high risk loan might be around 10%. For Fisher to finance a $1.5b stadium (minus $380m NV$) he'd need to borrow $1.12b - a big ask.
A $1.12b loan amortized over 30 years would look as follows:
@ 5.5%: $6.4m/month ($1.2b total interest)
@ 10%: $9.8m/month ($2.4b total interest)
If the A's are losing $40m a year and Fisher has no cash, how is he going to service another $1.12b in debt?
Obvious answer (as @VitalVegas has alluded to) is to take on other investors and sell equity in the team. If he has an injection of say $500m in cash AND another owner that has sufficient cash flow the loan request is looking far more palatable - one issue...
No investor is going to invest based on the FUTURE value of the business - they will only look at the CURRENT value - meaning the value of a team that is "losing money" each year playing in a decrepit stadium with fanbase that is actively boycotting. Uh oh.
Also Fisher's desperation means more leverage for a potential investor. Forbes values the A's at $1.2b - to get $500m at that valuation he'd be giving up 42% of the team. Like Shark Tank he's likely asking for $500m for 25% but at a $2b valuation the sharks won't bite.
So as @VitalVegas (a proven accurate source) has stated since the start - he doesn't have financing. Bally's likely can't bail him out with their own financial issues. He needs outside money, wont give up enough equity; and here we are. No renderings and no plan.
With his CBA deadline of 1/15 to get a "Stadium Deal" in place to continue to collect MLB profit sharing he has 2 weeks to get a lot done. If he doesn't his cash flow is EVEN UGLIER and his options will become even more limited.
This is NOT a slam dunk by any means.
The part I don't think I agree with is the part about investors not going to invest based on the future value of the business. People do that all the time. Also, I don't know if the Forbes values are taken into consideration or how actual they are because IIRC, some of the sales related to this most recent Ottawa Senators purchase didn't match the Forbes value.
But Fisher clearly has money issues right now.
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I also do find it funny they specify in the graphic that it's the second blue jersey they've had when the first blue jersey was their primary jersey from the day they started in 2011 up until maybe two years ago.
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I think the outline numbers were a bad choice for a jersey that already has other prominent colours. If it was just a blue and white jersey, fine, but not a jersey with other colours. It looks like someone forgot to use the paint can tool to fill the the numbers in with black.
I do think the shoulder patch is great though, especially for a Royals team that has struggled with them.
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41 minutes ago, infrared41 said:
Considering that this is probably Barstool's "premier" event, I can't say I have high hopes for anything else they do.
It was more so the Penn Gambling Bowl, but Penn was using Barstool as essentially their marketing department while they owned Barstool. I don't think Barstool ever really wanted to do it all that much and definitely don't now. Portnoy has said previously they're getting out of live sports after today with the bowl sponsorship contract being done.
Regardless of it not being their premier event, it's still pretty par for the course for large Barstool production though.
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On 12/14/2023 at 12:53 PM, MJWalker45 said:
Orlando will play Calvary FC, but there are rumors that Calvary's match could get moved to Vancouver to minimize issues with frozen pitches. Would Hamilton get moved to Montreal, or do they have heaters under the turf?
An update to this, the Cavalry game has been moved to Victoria because of the frost concerns with the grass field. McMahon Stadium in Calgary (home of the CFL's Stampeders) doesn't have CONCACAF approved turf and Commonwealth Stadium up in Edmonton is already booked, so Victoria was deemed the best option.
I don't really follow the team but I have seen a little online that the fanbase is understandably not happy about it. I guess Cavalry never acknowledged any potential chance of the game being moved until the move was announced (then disabled replies on social media) and had been using the potential for priority pre-sale tickets to CONCACAF games as part of the season ticket renewal blast.
As for Hamilton, their turf is FIFA approved and the climate is typically warmer than Calgary so I guess they don't have the same concerns.
Sidenote probably more suited for the logos section: The name Cavalry FC bothers me. It's too close to Calgary to not be Calgary and it gets spelt wrong as the place where Jesus was crucified, like you in the post I quoted.
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The Iowa Wild do (did? some photos have them wearing white helmets with these jerseys) have a wheat coloured helmet for their wheat jerseys. which is essentially cream.
and it looks much different in different lighting.
It just doesn't look good and that's with only CCM making all the helmets so at least the colour is consistent. Imagine how much variation we could see in the cream helmet colour across different brands.
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With my recent-ish post about the Saddledome banners, I completely forgot about this one raised last year.
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27 minutes ago, Marlins93 said:
The Yankees should wear academic regalia as their City Connects, based on what I've just learned.
Switch out the Uncle Sam hat on the bat for a mortarboard, ala this logo,
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2 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:
with an inconsistent Fritz Peterson and the occasionally brilliant Mike Kekich (the latter two of whom were involved in a phony "scandal" when aspects of their private lives were reported on and unjustly mocked).
You're just going to drop that in there partway through your manifesto? I also think swapping wives and subsequently families is something that is going to get some level of mocking and questioning.
The two of them were also the ones that made it public in the first place.
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50 minutes ago, GDAWG said:
Aren't they like one of 100 minor league teams owned by Diamond Baseball Holdings?
Yes.
What's Diamond Baseball Holdings' deal? I know they're a subsidy of a private equity firm but is there that much money in buying and then owning a bunch of minor league teams?
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I do miss the Perds blue triangle. Why it was there in the first place, I don't know (potentially worried about a fairly white/light based logo on a white jersey?)
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The Honda Center is 30 years old and the Samueli's are doing a $4 billion project to turn the area around the arena into one of those entertainment districts. The project isn't projected to be be done until 2029 plus they've put a bunch of money into the arena within the last decade or so, so the Honda Center is looking like an arena that'll be around a while as well.
I also think the Samueli's and the Ducks org as a whole are seeing what's happening directly across the freeway with Arte and have decided to be better civic members of Anaheim.
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2 hours ago, Burmy said:
Agreed...save the cerulean tones for whenever Edmonton gets a team again.
(Weren't they supposed to get one the year after the Rush moved to Saskatchewan?)I didn't follow the league as much back then so I don't know about that. However, I don't think there's any interest in Edmonton because the Oilers essentially ran the Rush out of town. So it would be ill-fated, I would think, to have an Edmonton team that wasn't owned by the Oilers and they haven't appeared to want a lacrosse team.
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4 minutes ago, LMU said:
If we learned anything from the Zack Greinke signing, it's that the Dodgers signing a free agent away from the Angels will make Arte go panic mode and ridiculously overpay for a bust.
I think Arte might be on the horn with Greinke's agent right now.
2 minutes ago, Cujo said:He gonna selfishly hold onto Trout until it's too late and they can get nothing in return for him, like they did with Ohtani?
1 minute ago, SFGiants58 said:Mike Trout is already on the back end of his career and very injury-prone. You would never get that much for him now and his legacy is now that the Angels utterly wasted his talent and he was never competitive or brash enough to escape that situation. Complacency means he's an all-time great who only has MVP trophies to show for it.
The Angels have let Trout kind of control his own destiny. He's never made much of issue and seemed to always value, for whatever reason, staying with the team.
The Angels issues are top down and everybody knows it. There was this Athletic article from the end of September that is kind of the most recent comprehensive coverage of the entire situation. Arte runs cheap to make money and now his biggest cash cow is gone.
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Maybe this will be the death blow to Arte's ego and chequebook? One can only hope.
I'm just sad I never got to see him in person with the Angels.
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Not for nothing (but it probably is), the Roughnecks have started using red as an accent colour on their website and social media graphics this season. Since the, sponsorship related, rebrand in 2021 they had been using the teal from the turf.
I'm not expecting the red to come back officially any time soon but it's an improvement over using the teal, even just on principle.
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35 minutes ago, infrared41 said:
To be fair, I'd have a hard time telling these two apart myself. They're very close in age, they're almost the same height, and their resemblance to each other is uncanny.
It's not even that somebody saw a person and mistook them for Shohei. It was college football-esque tail number tracking because someone noticed a private jet chartered from Anaheim to Toronto along with all these "reports" saying Shohei signing with the Jays was a done deal, so it just had to be him. Then later, better, reports said Shohei was still at home outside Anaheim with no decision from him yet and then the plane landed with Mr. Dragon's Den, further confirming that Shohei wasn't signing with the Jays tonight.
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I think the Marlins current colours are great, it's the application that stinks with only thin slivers of colour.
Also, the stitching in the logo is dumb and the placement has made me think the marlin needs to visit a urologist.
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4 hours ago, maxwasson said:
I believe the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (AA) of the Texas League should be getting new uniforms or a brand new logo revealed at 12PM CST today.
I quite like the primary logo and the top left N, but there's too many logos here.
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47 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:
Welp, my town got an ECHL team and the entire venture is already an enormous disaster. They announced the new name yesterday and it’s a travesty.
Dog:censored: name and people are furious. I live about a mile from the new arena and I won’t go to a single game even if offered free tickets. We’re in Sharks territory, this town HATES Vegas, and a group of outsiders with zero connection to the area (including Tim Tebow who’s one of my least favorite people on the planet) picked something that sucks the d**ks of our biggest rival city. Oh, and tickets are like three times the price of most other teams in the league and the new venue has zero parking. What a half brained mess concocted by a group of huge morons. Thankfully this thing will fold mid season because the logistics of housing everyone in Reno and trying to drive to South Lake just for games is lunacy.
There's been discussion on the last two pages of this thread about the team.
I thought the name was already dumb as a concept, see at the top of this page, but I didn't know the local angle of it and didn't really know the absolute lack of connection to the Golden Knights, which makes the name even dumber.
Re the Reno and the lack of parking thing; I've never been to Lake Tahoe, nor know the surrounding areas, but it kind of reads to me like a situation I'm familiar with being from Calgary with the nearby Banff National Park (the arena mockups scream the architecture style of towns like Banff and Canmore). Touristy nature area with towns that don't have a lot of available real estate, including parking, and what real estate is there is legislated by the government? Is it a case where the team isn't able to easily house the players and build an arena.
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Obvious bias, but IMO, the best Teddy Bear Toss jersey was worn yesterday. It's fun, but not garish as still looks like normal jersey and has become a defacto alternate jersey because it's been the same (minus minor template changes and a font update) since about 2010.
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52 minutes ago, GDAWG said:
Another team has changed their logo:
Is this serious? With the visuals and that music choice, it's like a video version of these posts,
Inside you there are two wolves.
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FWIW, Calgary Stampeders GM and head coach Dave Dickenson mentioned in an interview a couple days ago that he feels the shrinking of the UFL from 16 down to 8 has already been better for the CFL because the pool of players is bigger (a thought shared by the vast majority of CFL fans online I've seen).