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  1. DG_ThenNowForever
    I wonder if a Portland/Seattle/Vancouver hockey rivalry would be as successful as the MLS one. I wasn't here then -- did people care when there was the NBA had three Cascadia teams?
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    The Kevin Durant interview on the Bill Simmons podcast is really, really good. A little too much Brady/Boston stuff, but really good. And every time Simmons complained about people, Durant said "it's not about you." Nice.
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    Indeed. ESPN's NBA coverage is terrific. They don't have the TV presence the old NBA on NBC crew had, but if you like to read and listen to podcasts, you can get a lot from ESPN's NBA team. I like to read Woj. I can't stand to listen to or watch him. He's a pretty bad interviewer. If you're interesting in not Sticking to Sports, the Monday TrueHoop pods have been excellent over the past three weeks. Mondays are Black Opinions Matter themed, and Amin Alhassin especially has been a good voice to listen to these past few weeks, especially talking through how he's living as a Sudanese American. For dfwable -- don't you think there's a bit too much Jade these days on TrueHoop?
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    I've seen this episode before. Had the Coyotes moved back in 2012, Seattle would likely have an arena by now. We're still not very close...
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    Yeah. I was definitely there. That was an especially awesome sunset.
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    I think I may have been at that game.
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    I've seen you talk up the Clink before and I'm wondering what sticks out to you. I've been to a billion Sounders games and I'll say that the cantilevered eaves are nice (no view-obstrucing columns), but that's about it for key features. Otherwise it's a pretty perfunctory stadium. What's sticking out to someone across the country?
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    How would you all put odds at the Islanders staying in New York vs moving to a new market? I consider the Islanders to be a cornerstone NHL franchise and would hate to see them move, but am curious how long sentimentality will hold out for them if the market won't.
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    Have we done NFL TE Tony Gonzalez in NBA Summer League yet?
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    When I was a child, all I knew about hockey was informed by NHL 94 on Sega Genesis. We would take turns playing as the Penguins because we knew Lemiux was awesome (and he was in the game -- a 100 rating!), but there was this guy Jagr (that we obviously pronounced "Jagger") would always rack us assists and goals too. It's insane that a dominant athlete from my childhood -- and I'm in my mid-30s -- is still playing at a high level today.
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    That uniform is double wrong because the Cardinals never should have gone monochrome in that set. It was so handsome before Reebok ruined it.
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    More than 5%.
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    That's a bonus rate uniform and rare stadium matchup. That game is from 2000, when the Seahawks played at Husky Stadium in between the Kingdome and Century Link.
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    Katie Nolan is likely to leave FS1 the second she's able to. I wonder why, in the meantime, they don't advertise her program during the NFL games? People know what they're getting with the Bayless and Cowherd takes shows. Nolan at least offers something different. Plus you may entice her not to accept the likely ESPN offer. She's a real talent in an industry generally bereft of it.
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    It just seems like if you're tweaking the fundamentals of the game in OT to make it "more exciting," then you're admitting that the rest of the game is a bore? Not a unique observation, I know, but I just feel like across any niche form of entertainment chasing the casuals never really works.
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    "three-on-three silliness"?? EDIT: I can look it up for myself, but Jesus. I own a handful of NHL jerseys. I've watched a ton of games. I played a lot of NHL 94. I read The Instigator. This league. It's incredible it still exists.
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    I'm being a little bit dilatory (surprise!), but I was left behind by the switch to 4-on-4 OT/shootouts. Every sport changes its rules. The NHL's changes seem to be the most dramatic.
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    I just saw that the NHL TV deal is $200 million/year (through 2021) and the MLS deal is $90 million/year (through 2022). I think a fun game which league has the better deal in the next contract. (Paging @dfwabel to add in context I'm likely missing). MLS has seen its best success when it stopped jerking around and focused its product on its core audience. (That more people people are part of that core audience than before is just gravy.) MLS expansion has also been pretty thoughtful and not outwardly antagonistic toward key markets, which is a nice thing. And MLS franchises can announce team names without tripping over their dicks. "Grow the Game" means something, but it could mean more if the league exercised more care in, well, basically anything. As a one-time fan who could potentially be interested in the product again, I don't see what the NHL has to offer me. Just confusing rules, confusing conferences, confusing playoffs, and the noise around ruining the Olympics. I don't get it.
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    My name is Marcos Flamengo. I don't know how to google. Prepare to die.
  20. DG_ThenNowForever
    I think Luke Walton has coach of the year locked up. At least in the early running. No one else has so drastically exceeded expectations.
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    I gave up on SI.com when they did their major responsive redesign, and I haven't really been back. Everything about the site turned to garbage, and it basically unusable. At this point, ESPN has made the best balance of mobile and desktop design. Most importantly, ESPN's game day box score pages fit all content on one scroll; most other sports sites (Yahoo Sports, SI.com, others) haven't been able to figure that out.
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    I can't find the "crunched the numbers" guy, but I did find "They're focusing on the sole basis of money. I sold cars for 10 years -- not any more, I'm a poker player" guy. ..Nevermind!! Found him! It was a later meeting!
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    So.....do all those numbnuts from that brilliant Glendale council meeting get to publicly eat :censored: or what?
  24. DG_ThenNowForever
    Oh man. And Bill used to be such a fan of his! The TrueHoop team answered my election-related Q on the Friday mailbag podcast. I asked why NBA coaches are commenting on the result and other coaches aren't. It was an interesting discussion that followed. (Side note: Kayleigh is becoming increasingly insufferable.)
  25. DG_ThenNowForever
    I like the Amin/Wos/Ethan TrueHoops pods more than the Windhorst/Pelton pods, but they're all pretty good. What's not good is then Amin brings on Kaileigh Brandt and they all pretend she says anything interested. I finally looked her up on Twitter and now I get it. Plenty of women can meaningfully contribute to a basketball conversation. Ramona Shelburne comes to mind. So does Rachel Nicholas. Kaileigh just laughs at everything while Amin extends far more patience to her than he ought to. Why don't Amin and Windhorst appear on the same podcasts?
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