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When can Glendale have a recall?

Jamison Group to be given $15 Million a year to run Jobbing.com for 20 yrs or $300,000,000 over the life of the deal.

From the article...

Meanwhile, the team will pay the city approximately $13 million in rent over the duration of the agreement. The city also expects to make $60 million in ticket surcharges and between $4 million and $10 million in fees from naming rights.

The deal also includes a non-relocation agreement, stating the team will be liable for $250 million to $350 million in damages if it tries to move over the course of the lease.

http://www.glendaleaz.com/documents/ArenaLeaseandManagementAgreement--SubstantialFinalDraft.pdf

Team is changing. 'Arizona' Coyotes coming soon.

Weren't the supposed to eventually be called Glendale Coyotes according to a rumor from last year or so?

For the sake of curiosity, is it the angle of the picture or is he missing his right hand? If so, does he bat with a prosthetic and how effective is that for him? I have always been amazed by those that compete with them. I was at a Dunhams sports a few weeks back and met an Iraq War veteran that lost both legs just above the knee and both arms above the elbow and he was fitted with the blade prosthetic (the upside down question mark) for a marathon he was competing for. Just wondering.

How does that make them likable? Not that it has the opposite effect but I don't think a team playing dress up to fly to away games makes them any more likable than any other team

Shows a human/fun side of them. The more people (customers) get to know these athletes the more willing they are to like them then in turn spend $$$ on the Mets.

Yeah, I actually agree with that. People are that stupid.

Yeah, just look at the signature and avatars around here.

How does that make them likable? Not that it has the opposite effect but I don't think a team playing dress up to fly to away games makes them any more likable than any other team

Shows a human/fun side of them. The more people (customers) get to know these athletes the more willing they are to like them then in turn spend $$$ on the Mets.

Just curious - when a major arena is built in a suburb (like Landover MD, Glendale, Pontiac, etc.), does the anchor city contribute anything since its name generally gets associated with the team and they probably benefit from hotel taxes, or is it the suburb who assumes all the risk for the project? Or would each case be totally different?

In Michigan Pontiac paid for the Silverdome. I didn't know this until recently, but Pontiac also tried to lure the Red Wings in pre-Joe Louis era.

I think some/most NBA banners say World Champions.

Really? Haha, that's funny to me.

To me, a world champion would be a team or group that beat the best in the world. Like the World Cup in soccer. Not winning a Super Bowl or NBA Title. Just because the NFL and NBA are the most popular sports.

with easily the best players in their sports. That's why they say World Champions. I've seen it used for MLB and NHL teams too.

I have not seen a Stanley Cup champion refer to themselves as world champions aside from the Senators and Canadiens of the early 1900s. Montreal had that special globe logo and Ottawa had a "world champion" patch. I remember seeing a Leafs silver serving tray from the early 1960s but thats about it.

I think some/most NBA banners say World Champions.

Really?

Yep, here are just a few examples:

I think some/most NBA banners say World Champions.

I think that these are the best jerseys in Blue Jays history:

I wouldn't say best, but I would say underrated.

If I saw someone wearing this, I would compliment them on being as ass.

No you wouldn't. You would get all internally angry and riled up over nothing, and then come on this site and vent about it.

Keep trollin the thread, you're clearly winning people over to your side.

The pre-Edge version of that jersey was way better.

Nope, not directed you you, sorry for the confusion.

Has anybody else noticed that only one person here is touting the counterfiet Seahawks jersey? Troll much?

The botched spacing on Lynch is pretty bad too.

And you know me I am very critical of Gary Betman but the Coyotes run is well deserved and if it saves the franchise and gets fans in Arizona interested than so be it.

At what cost? The Coyotes have been good for the past three years, playing playoff hockey, and still they can't draw flies in the desert. They're still losing tens of millions of dollars a year, money that the city of Glendale has to funnel from legitimate city services like libraries to cover the team's losses.

Even under the rosiest scenarios now being floated, the city will have to pay $17,000,000 per year to subsidize a failing private industry. Tank, forgive me for introducing a personal comment, but I thought you were a conservative.

By saving the franchise I assume he meant on ice and financially.

Arizona seems like a pretty conservative state all things considered, yet Glendale's on track to have one of the highest municipal tax rates in the country, simply to subsidize a failing private business.

But even conservative states have liberal pockets and vice versa.

He's on the Indians now? Shows how much I pay attention.

Now its Dr. Shaq, does this trump all uniforms?

How does that differ from Nike's offshore factories or 90% of the Chinese crap we buy from local srores every day?

I am asking if anyone ever ordered a custom from this source, not to start a morals debate.

Your are going to get a crap jersey.

Please post the picture of the one you got from them.

Don't own one myself but have a friend that has pruchased from them in the last few months and they came back looking like most knockoffs.

How does that differ from Nike's offshore factories or 90% of the Chinese crap we buy from local srores every day?

I am asking if anyone ever ordered a custom from this source, not to start a morals debate.

Your are going to get a crap jersey.

FWIW, it will still be a counterfeit and will likely be of very noticeably poor quality.

when will we be finding out if the coyotes are moving or not.

When somebody purchases the team and decides to relocate them.

I wonder if the Coyotes either win or go deep in the playoffs is the league will turn down a legit offer to keep them around another year.

the haters.

Mike Smith was a godsend. He may have saved the team. Can you really move them, after all this success?

Yes. It is simply a financial decision. The other 29 NHL owners do not want the league owning the team, Glendale can't afford to foot the bill and a buyer that wants to keep them in Glendale has not emerged yet.

Success or not, that is a recipe for relocation.

I believe the Red Wings require Hall of Fame as well. That is why 6 is not retired but it has not been worn in ages. Yzerman had the HoF stip waived for him.

Maybe #6 is retired...

Its not "officially" retired as he does not have a banner at JLA.