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  1. I think the NIMBY groups in Arlington Heights were gearing up to pitch the hissy fit to end all hissy fits, and the Bears simply noped out before it got to that point. So, after all that, they're content to move across the street.
  2. I'd just like to know the names of the people behind the group. I want to call amateur hour on some of the data and wording they've used, but I've seen well that stuff plays when you're telling people what they want to hear. But I would have zero faith in any nameless group. There's a reason they don't want you to know who they are.
  3. The odd thing is I would actually agree with viewing potential market data for a low-level minor league team on a local level because you're not going to get more than a few dozen people a night traveling an hour to see ECHL hockey. But if you want to know why nobody up until now has had the bright idea to build a 6-8k arena outside of the capital district in suburban Maryland, these figures start getting into why. There's a reason why arenas outside of college venues tend to be built almost exclusively in population centers. People generally don't like getting in a car and driving 45 minutes at night to get to or from wherever they're going. And that's about how far you have to drive from Frederick to reach another significant population base. Frederick County ranks around 260th among the most populated counties in the US, and it ranks about the same by population density. What other areas are like that? Asheville, Poughkeepsie, Green Bay, Southeastern Connecticut, Tallahassee. And it's a mixed bag when it comes to arena quality or even existence in those areas. But you don't preach caution when you want something. If it were me, I would be looking to go in and around Rockville before Frederick, but that would also be a lot more expensive, and maybe outside the budget range of whoever these people are.
  4. For “market data” they’re clearly using city population data for the top four. And by that metric El Paso is just as good of a market as Boston. However, Worcester’s population is around 200k, and they have an ECHL team, so I don’t know why they’re not listed. But for Frederick, they’re using their county population, so it’s not even an apples-to-apples comparison. Just blatantly using different metrics here.
  5. There is a clear difference between what the two regions do. Raleigh is a traditional, modern American city. Office-centric and with numerous research hubs in the surrounding area, just like Charlotte. Durham is a clear manufacturing hub that also specializes in pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Duke has a medical school, NC State does not. But even these tend to bring in a lot of blue-collar jobs. You still need people to mop the floors of the hospitals and labs and provide cafeteria food. There is a clear difference there, but the same dynamic exists in many other places where the metro areas aren't split. That's why I'm curious as to why here but not there. They're in the same state, share the same airport, and I don't see a natural geographic border. 540 appears to be the effective border between the two cities.
  6. I could understand splitting San Jose off from San Francisco because it's served by its own airport, and it's almost 60 miles between San Francisco and San Jose. That's not really that close, but there's definitely a connection between the two cities, hence the CSA designation, which I 100% agree with. In the Northeast, it's pretty much like pulling teeth to get people to travel more than 25 miles from their home. Obviously, I'm generalizing here. But once you get west of the Mississippi, people won't give a second thought to driving 70 minutes to the grocery store. So, I can 100% believe that in a state like Louisiana, a two-hour drive from Acadiana to New Orleans is seen as nothing. How willing people are to commute is usually inversely correlated to how much money they make, and once you get north of I-10, you go from below-average incomes to some of the dirt poorest regions in the country.
  7. I agree with most of what the Census Bureau does, but I don't know why Raleigh and Durham would be considered two separate metro areas. They share an airport, it's less than 30 miles between the two cities, and there's no natural or state border diving the two cities. Chatman County is considered part of the Durham metro area, but it's no further to get to Durham than to get to Raleigh from there. They don't separate Tacoma from Seattle on a metro level, and they're just as far apart from each other. Maybe someone from the area can explain because I don't get it.
  8. Utah is an odd case because even though Salt Lake City is barely a top 50 US metro area, the Salt Lake City media market covers the entire state and bleeds into parts of Nevada and Wyoming. So even though it would be the smallest metro area with an MLB team, in terms of media market, they would be ahead of several MLB clubs, whereas Vegas would be ahead of several MLB clubs when it came to metro size but dead last when it came to media market size. It's also a state that's experienced 20% percentage growth in population almost every decade since the first census data was taken in 1850. The population of the state and the SLC metro area have both doubled since the Jazz moved there in '79, so I think its far more of a matter of when not if Utah gets an MLB team now that the financing aspect is set. It's just too big of a TV market for MLB to refuse.
  9. I would assume none outside of football. The A10 regularly sends two teams to the tourney. Usually three. The MAC has never sent more than two teams to the tourney, and even that feat hasn't been accomplished in over 20 years. They've only had one team finish in the top 25 since 1990. I don't think it will do anything to help the football team out, but it sure will hurt the basketball team by sending them from one of the best conferences in D1 to one of the worst. Might as well drop down to America East. At least Albany, Maine, and UNH are fairly close by. But again, every sport has to suffer because nothing gets in the way of giving the football program what it wants.
  10. The Meadowlands is just an undeveloped piece of land north of Newark. You could easily build 3-4 MLB ballparks there, no problem if you wanted to. That's not the issue. The issue with putting a ballpark in the Meadowlands is that there's nothing to do around there. You'd be coming for the game and going straight home as soon as it's over unless you want to check out that overpriced white elephant of a mall that finally opened after a decade. I wouldn't view that as a dealbreaker, but it's not what MLB teams want anymore. They want the ballpark to be connected to the surrounding area in some way. Not a standalone in a sea of parking like Kauffman Stadium, or Citi Field. The problem is there's nothing on the North Jersey map that screams BUILD HERE!!!! There's always some kind of tradeoff between accessibility, the quality of the surrounding neighborhood, and the inherent issue of there being no geographic population center for that part of the state. I don't expect ever to see a Jersey-based MLB team in my lifetime, but if they ever came, my advice for a ballpark location would be to build wherever you can.
  11. You could 100% put an MLB team in New Jersey, but it would never go in Trenton. Besides being the effective northeast border of the Philly metro area, Trenton is very isolated from the rest of the state. No major highway goes through the city. You have to take 95 and get off onto either 195 or 295. There's no other way of getting there by car unless you're already on 195, which means you're coming from the shore. You're an hour's drive from any international airport, and train service is limited to one station. Any Jersey team would have to be based in or around Newark. You couldn't go any further west or south than where 287 runs.
  12. The White Sox had a historic ballpark that Jerry couldn't tear down fast enough, and they also had a deal with WGN to carry all the games that Reisndorf couldn't get out of fast enough because he wanted his games to be exclusively on cable. The Cubs thought big; he thought small. That's always been the difference.
  13. What I find interesting about Jerry Reinsdorf trying to move to the Loop in a clear effort to get the White Sox out of stepchild status is that the whole dynamic with the Cubs being the clear-cut number-one baseball team in Chicago didn't start until Reinsdorf bought the team. All through the 50s and 60s, the White Sox outdrew the Cubs virtually every year, and even into the early/mid-80s, the teams were pretty much neck and neck with attendance figures. The last year the White Sox outdrew the Cubs at the gate was 1992, and it's not even close most years. The Cubs outdrew the White Sox by over a million fans yearly from 2014 to 2019. In 2017 and 2018, the difference was almost 1.6 million. And it's not like the Cubs have had fantastic ownership at this timespan, either. Just one World Series appearance and win. Same as the White Sox. That shows how much people dislike what Reisndorf has done with the franchise since taking from Bill Veeck before the '81 season for the paltry sum of $19 million, or about $65 million in today's money. Don't let anyone tell you money doesn't grow on trees. It absolutely does.
  14. It's basically four metro areas in one. San Francisco, Oakland, and Silicon Valley/San Jose are the big three, but even wine country, aka the North Bay, has multiple cities with over 100k+ people living there, and as a whole, the region is home to around 1.5 million people. That area is not considered part of the San Francisco metro, but it definitely falls within the Bay Area ticket base. That's why you can't look at the metro area as the be-all-end-all when it comes to evaluating markets. The simple answer would be to have the A's move to San Jose/Silicon Valley and call it a day, but nothing can be that simple. The original sin of the Oakland A's was Charles Finley agreeing to be the stepchild franchise because he was that desperate to get out of Kansas City. Every issue the A's have ever had with trying to leave the Coliseum stems from the original agreement that said the A's would never consider moving to Santa Clara County.
  15. Pat lost some capital with me with how he handled this. Not that I had a strong opinion of him either way before any of this went down, but he could and should have shut this before effectively being told to. I still don't hate him, but I did lose some respect for him. If you want Aaron Rodgers to talk sports on the show, that's fine. ESPN is a sports network, and that's what they should be focused on. They shouldn't be discriminating against who they have on their network based on political beliefs. But when you start moving outside that lane, and it's not contributing to any meaningful conversation in a constructive way. And you're a national television network? Regardless of whether I'm watching that show or not, I got a problem with that. I'm not saying ESPN couldn't or shouldn't ever talk about social issues. It's inherently engrained into everything. But it should be through the lens of sports. Jimmy Kimmel and what's going on with the fallout over Jeffrey Epstein has nothing to do with anything sports-related. At all. And that's not the only issue at play here. I have family members who took demonstrably false information at face value, and it cost them their lives. That's why it's personal for me. That's where my anger over this comes from, and I direct as much of it as I can at the people I hold responsible for spreading that garbage. Aaron Rodgers is one of the names on that list. He ain't at the top, but he's there. With McAfee, I hope that he learned some lessons here and that this is the worst thing that ever comes out of his show during his tenure at ESPN. I still don't have any ill will towards him. I'm just disappointed because I thought he was better than this.
  16. I don't know. My experience has been if you call out an executive at your company for having it in for you, you might as well start packing up your desk right then and there. Especially if it's someone who's been there for over 30 years, and you've been there all of five minutes by comparison. Even if they weren't actively looking for a reason to get rid of you before, they sure are now. Maybe McAfee thinks he's untouchable. Maybe he is. But we're still in the F around part. The find out part will be coming in the next week or so, I'm sure.
  17. They've been in the Big Ten for 30+ years now, so they've definitely made some inroads in terms of establishing long-term rivalries, especially when it comes to football. But they were the most geographically isolated team in that conference until Rutgers and Maryland came aboard. Hindsight being 20/20, they should have been admitted to the Big East when they applied, and instead, they got big-leagued, and that wound up being the original sin of Big East football. If Penn State had joined that conference from the start, the Big East would probably still be fielding football today. In the grand scheme of things, I can think of far more egregious conference alignments than having Penn State in the Big Ten. The more I think about it, I think what should happen is football should be allowed to do its own thing, much like ice hockey is, and every other sport can make sense. 14 college teams in a conference is insane. You can barely play half the conference in football. Any larger, and you might as well split it into two conferences again. The only reason not to would be for conference title game money. But I digress. All these schools bought the ticket for all these crazy realignments, now they have to get on the ride. And it's not going to go how any of them expect it will, because I'm still hearing music playing, which means the game of musical chairs is still on.
  18. Hello all. So, this is probably the longest post I've ever done here, and it's because it covers an entire realignment of Division 1 conferences. If you want to see my thoughts on the current situation of college conference realignment, click the spoilers button below. One thing I will say is that I kept the maximum number schools of every conference at twelve for reasons mentioned in the comments below. I would also estimate each college saving about 200 miles round trip per road trip with these proposed conference alignments. Conference USA, the American Athletic, the Big XII, and the Big East would see the biggest differences. FBS Conferences ACC North Division South Division Duke Clemson Maryland Georgia Tech Penn State Miami (FL) Virginia North Carolina Wake Forest NC State West Virginia South Carolina Adds: Maryland, Penn State, South Carolina, West Virginia Subtractions: Boston College, Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame (non-football), Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia Tech American Athletic Houston Memphis North Texas Rice SMU Southern Miss Texas State Tulane Tulsa UTSA Wichita State (non-football) Adds: Houston, Southern Miss, Texas State Subtractions: Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, Navy (football only), Temple, UAB Big XII North Division South Division Arkansas Baylor Colorado Oklahoma Kansas TCU Kansas State Texas Nebraska Texas A&M Oklahoma State Texas Tech Adds: Arkansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Texas A&M Subtractions: BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa State, UCF, West Virginia Big East Basketball Football Boston College Boston College Cincinnati Cincinnati UConn UConn Dayton Pittsburgh Georgetown Rutgers Notre Dame Syracuse Pittsburgh Temple Providence Virginia Tech Seton Hall St. John's Syracuse Villanova Adds: Boston College, Cincinnati, Dayton, Notre Dame (non-football), Pittsburgh, Rutgers (football only), Syracuse, Temple (football only), Virginia Tech (football only) Subtractions: Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Marquette, Xavier Big Ten East Division West Division Indiana Illinois Michigan Iowa Michigan State Iowa State Northwestern Minnesota Ohio State Missouri Purdue Wisconsin Adds: Iowa State, Missouri Subtractions: Maryland, Nebraska, Penn State, Rutgers Conference USA Basketball Football Charlotte North Division South Division Davidson Appalachian State Charlotte East Carolina James Madison East Carolina Florida Atlantic Liberty Florida Atlantic Marshall Marshall South Florida Old Dominion Old Dominion UAB South Florida Western Kentucky UCF UAB UCF VCU Western Kentucky Xavier Adds: Everyone but Western Kentucky Subtractions: FIU, Jacksonville State, Liberty (non-football), Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, New Mexico State, Sam Houston, UTEP Independents Army Navy Notre Dame Adds: Navy Subtractions: UConn, UMass MAC East Division West Division Akron Ball State Bowling Green Central Michigan Buffalo Eastern Michigan Kent State Northern Illinois Miami (OH) Toledo Ohio Western Michigan Adds/subtractions: None Mountain West Air Force BYU Colorado State New Mexico New Mexico State Utah UTEP Wyoming Adds: BYU, New Mexico State, Utah, UTEP Subtractions: Boise State, Fresno State, Nevada, San Diego State, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State Pac-10 Arizona Arizona State California Oregon Oregon State Stanford UCLA USC Washington Washington State Subtractions: Colorado, Utah SEC East Division West Division Auburn Alabama Florida Louisville Florida State LSU Georgia Ole Miss Kentucky Mississippi State Tennessee Vanderbilt Adds: Florida State, Louisville Subtractions: Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas A&M Sun Belt Arkansas State Coastal Carolina FIU (football only) Georgia Southern Georgia State Little Rock (non-football) Louisiana Louisiana Tech Louisiana-Monroe Middle Tennessee New Orleans (non-football) South Alabama Troy Adds: FIU (football only), Little Rock, Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee, New Orleans Subtractions: Appalachian State, James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion, Southern Miss, Texas State WAC Boise State Fresno State Hawaii Nevada San Diego State San Jose State UNLV Utah State Adds/Subtractions: Everyone (effectively a new conference) Non-FBS Conferences Mid-Majors Atlantic 10 Duquesne George Washington La Salle UMass Rhode Island Rutgers Saint Joseph's St. Bonaventure Temple Virginia Tech Adds: Rutgers, Temple, Virginia Tech Subtractions: Davidson, Dayton, Fordham, George Mason, Loyola (IL), Richmond, Saint Louis, VCU Big Sky Basketball Football Eastern Washington Cal Poly Gonzaga Eastern Washington Idaho Idaho Idaho State Idaho State Montana Montana Montana State Montana State Portland Portland State Portland State Sacramento State Seattle UC Davis Weber State Weber State Adds: Gonzaga, Portland, Seattle (all non-football) Subtractions: Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Sacramento State (non-football) Missouri Valley Basketball Football Bradley Indiana State Butler Missouri State Creighton North Dakota DePaul North Dakota State Drake Northern Iowa Illinois State South Dakota Loyola (IL) South Dakota State Marquette Southern Illinois Missouri State Western Illinois Saint Louis Southern Illinois Adds: Butler, Creighton, DePaul, Loyola (IL), Marquette, Saint Louis Subtractions: Belmont, Evansville, Indiana State (non-football), Murray State, Northern Iowa, UIC, Valparaiso (non-football), Youngstown State (football only) West Coast California Baptist Loyola Marymount Pacific Pepperdine Saint Mary's San Diego San Francisco Santa Clara Adds: California Baptist Subtractions: Gonzaga, Portland Small Conferences America East Albany Binghamton Bryant Hofstra Maine UMass Lowell New Hampshire NJIT Northeastern Stony Brook Vermont Adds: Hofstra, Northeastern, Stony Brook Subtractions: UMBC Atlantic Sun Belmont FIU (non-football) Florida Gulf Coast Jacksonville Jacksonville State Kennesaw State Lipscomb Mercer North Alabama North Florida Queens Stetson Adds: Belmont, FIU (non-football), Jacksonville State, Mercer Subtractions: Austin Peay, Bellarmine, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky Big South/Ohio Valley Big South Football Campbell Austin Peay Charleston Southern Campbell Gardner-Webb Charleston Southern High Point Eastern Illinois Liberty Eastern Kentucky Longwood Gardner-Webb Morehead State Lindenwood Presbyterian Murray State Radford Southeast Missouri State UNC Asheville Tennessee State USC Upstate Tennessee Tech Winthrop UT Martin Ohio Valley Austin Peay Bellarmine Eastern Illinois Eastern Kentucky Lindenwood Morehead State Murray State SIU Edwardsville Southeast Missouri State Southern Indiana Tennessee State Tennessee Tech UT Martin Adds: Big South: Campbell, Liberty (non-football), Morehead State Ohio Valley: Austin Peavy, Bellarmine, Eastern Kentucky, Murray State Subtractions Ohio Valley: Morehead State, Little Rock, Western Illinois Big West Cal Poly Cal State Bakersfield Cal State Fullerton Cal State Northridge Long Beach State Sacramento State UC Davis UC Irvine UC Riverside UC San Diego UC Santa Barbara Adds: Sacramento State Subtractions: Hawaii CAA Basketball Football Delaware Delaware Drexel Duquesne George Mason UMass James Madison Monmouth Richmond Rhode Island Robert Morris Richmond Saint Francis (PA) Robert Morris Towson Saint Francis (PA) UNC Wilmington Towson William & Mary William & Mary Youngstown State Youngstown State Adds: Duquesne (football only), George Mason, James Madison, UMass (football only), Richmond (football only), Robert Morris, Saint Francis (PA), Youngstown State Subtractions: Albany (football only), Campbell, Charleston, Elon, Hampton, Hofstra, Maine (football only), Monmouth (non-football), New Hampshire (football only), North Carolina A&T, Northeastern, Richmond (football only), Stony Brook, Villanova (football only) Horizon League Cleveland State Detroit Mercy Evansville Indiana State IUPUI Northern Kentucky Oakland Purdue Fort Wayne UIC Valparaiso Wright State Adds: Evansville, Indiana State, UIC, Valparaiso Subtractions: Robert Morris, Youngstown State Ivy League Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale Adds/subtractions: None MAAC Canisius Fairfield Iona Manhattan Marist Monmouth Niagara Rider Saint Peter's Siena Adds: Monmouth Subtractions: Mount St. Mary's, Quinnipiac MEAC Bethune-Cookman Coppin State (non-football) Delaware State Hampton Howard Maryland Eastern Shore (non-football) Morgan State Norfolk State North Carolina A&T North Carolina Central South Carolina State Adds: Bethune-Cookman, Hampton, North Carolina A&T Subtractions: None Northeast Basketball Football Central Connecticut Albany Fairleigh Dickinson Bryant Le Moyne Central Connecticut LIU LIU Loyola (MD) Maine Merrimack Merrimack Mount St. Mary's New Hampshire Quinnipiac Sacred Heart Sacred Heart Stonehill Stonehill Stony Brook UMBC Wagner Wagner Adds: Albany (football only), Bryant (football only), Loyola (MD), Maine (football only), Mount St. Mary's, New Hampshire (football only), Quinnipiac, Stony Brook (football only), UMBC Subtractions: Duquesne (football only), Saint Francis (PA) Patriot League Basketball Football American Bucknell Army Colgate Boston University Fordham Bucknell Georgetown Colgate Holy Cross Fordham Lafayette Holy Cross Lehigh Lafayette Villanova Lehigh Navy Adds: Fordham, Villanova (football only) Subtractions: Loyola (MD) Pioneer Football League Butler Davidson Dayton Drake Marist Morehead State Presbyterian San Diego St. Thomas (MN) Stetson Valparaiso Adds/subtractions: None SoCon Appalachian State (non-football) Charleston (non-football) Chattanooga East Tennessee State Elon Furman Samford The Citadel UNC Greensboro (non-football) VMI Western Carolina Wofford Adds: Appalachian State (non-football), Charleston, Elon Subtractions: Mercer Southland Central Arkansas Houston Christian Incarnate Word Lamar McNeese State Nicholls Northwestern State Sam Houston Southeastern Louisiana Stephen F. Austin Texas A&M-Commerce Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (non-football) Adds: Central Arkansas, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin Subtractions: New Orleans Summit League Chicago State Green Bay Kansas City Milwaukee North Dakota North Dakota State Northern Iowa Omaha South Dakota South Dakota State St. Thomas (MN) Western Illinois Adds: Chicago State, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Northern Iowa, Western Illinois Subtractions: Denver, Oral Roberts SWAC Alabama A&M Alabama State Alcorn State Arkansas-Pine Bluff Florida A&M Grambling State Jackson State Mississippi Valley State Prairie View A&M Southern Texas Southern Adds: None Subtractions: Bethune-Cookman United Athletic Basketball Football Abilene Christian Abilene Christian Denver Jacksonville State Grand Canyon Kennesaw State Northern Arizona Mercer Northern Colorado North Alabama Oral Roberts Northern Arizona Southern Utah Northern Colorado Tarleton State Southern Utah UT Arlington Tarleton State UT Rio Grande Valley Utah Tech Utah Tech Utah Valley Adds: Denver, Jacksonville State (football only), Kennesaw State (football only), Mercer (football only), Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Oral Roberts Subtractions: Austin Peay (football only), California Baptist, Central Arkansas (football only), Eastern Kentucky (football only), Seattle, Stephen F. Austin
  19. The baseball fan in me would love it if Comiskey, Tiger, and Old Yankee Stadium were all still standing, but I don't think that's the main issue with the White Sox. The main issue is their owner. Before Reinsdorf took over the team, there wasn't much of a difference in terms of popularity between the Cubs and White Sox. The dynamic of the Cubs being the clear-cut #1 team in Chicago and the White Sox being the #2 doesn't start until the late 90s. The last year the White Sox outdrew the Cubs was 1994, and there were several years in the 90s and 80s when the Sox outdrew the Cubs for the year as well. But we're coming up on 30 years since that last happened. And what's been the only consistent during that time span? It's Jerry Reinsdorf owning the White Sox. Do you know how I know Jerry Reinsdorf sucks as an owner? Because he makes the Cubs ownership group look good by comparison. His greatest accomplishment as a sports owner was lucking into Michael Jordan in the draft. If he owned the Cubs, I have no doubt they would be playing in Rosemont right now, drawing around 20k a game, and probably doing the same fiddling with .500 act the White Sox have been doing for the past 30 years. Just competitive enough to maintain fan interest but not so good that you have to start paying big bucks for star players. They've only gotten to the LCS round three times in the 40+ years Reinsdorf has owned the club and hasn't gotten that far in nearly 20 years. And that's because for the White Sox to make the playoffs in any given year, everything has to break just right for them because when it comes to spending money in free agency or making a big deadline deal, Reisndorf doesn't go for spit. They've only had one player (James Shields) have a season where they made at least $20 million a year. Do you know how many players the Milwaukee Brewers have had? Two. And the fans know it because they've been watching this act play out for over 40 years now. What have the Bulls done since Jordan left? Aside from their little run when Derrick Rose was healthy, the answer is notta. I feel for White Sox fans. They say only the good die young, and by my count, Reinsdorf is one of only four owners in MLB history to own a club for at least 40 years. The other three are Horace Stoneham, Tom Yawkey, and Phillip K. Wrigley. Between the four of them, it's over 170 years of ownership experience and two World Series rings.
  20. Good for you. Keep doing the sunglasses emoji. You look so cool every time you do it. What do they say about the cry-face laugh emoji? Every time you see, it means the person is madder than they've ever been in their life. I must have really done something to tick you off at some point.
  21. Part of me is hoping this sticks around just for the online clips. It's one thing to call something the dumbest sport you've ever seen, but this might actually be it. It's not just because it's dangerous as hell but also because it only pays a few grand. How desperate are you for money? Go sell drugs if it's that bad. Consider robbing a cash-friendly business at gunpoint. Both of those options have to be less dangerous than this if done correctly. Is being on TV really that big of a deal to people? I've been on TV before. It's alright, but nowhere near worth it for that. This thing makes those Barstool Rough N'Rowdy events look like a night at the opera. Is there anyone out there at all watching for any reason other than morbid curiosity? I'm trying to understand what other appeal there could be besides that for anyone either watching or participating, and I'm drawing a blank.
  22. Of course, it was big in Russia. It's Russia. At any given time, at least 1/4th of the country is drunk. What this sport needs to succeed here is for celebrities to get involved. Nobody here wants to watch two jacked-up guys give each other brain damage. But if it's Chaz Bono and Ted Nugent slapping the taste out of each other's mouth, people will tune in.
  23. Was it really that bad? AAA seems like right where New Orleans should be. From what I can tell, the team was drawing decently for a AAA team. But then the name change happened and within two years, attendance fell off a cliff to the point where the club left. Now, it's right there with Providence for being the most underserved baseball market in the country, and the stadium they have is decent enough. I can't say I get it.
  24. Silly exercise I decided to do, but I aligned the American & National Leagues with the AFC & NFC Conferences. American Division National Division Baltimore Orioles East New York Mets East Boston Red Sox East Philadelphia Phillies East Miami Marlins East Pittsburgh Pirates East New York Yankees East Tampa Bay Rays East Toronto Blue Jays East Washington Nationals East Chicago White Sox Central Atlanta Braves Central Cleveland Guardians Central Chicago Cubs Central Detroit Tigers Central Cincinnati Reds Central Kansas City Royals Central Milwaukee Brewers Central Minnesota Twins Central St. Louis Cardinals Central Colorado Rockies West Arizona Diamondbacks West Houston Astros West Los Angeles Dodgers West Los Angeles Angels West San Diego Padres West Oakland Athletics West San Francisco Giants West Seattle Mariners West Texas Rangers West AFC Division NFC Division Buffalo Bills East New York Giants East Miami Dolphins East Philadelphia Eagles East New England Patriots East Pittsburgh Steelers East New York Jets East Washington Commanders East Baltimore Ravens North Chicago Bears North Cleveland Browns North Cincinnati Bengals North Detroit Lions North Green Bay Packers North Minnesota Vikings North Indianapolis Colts North Houston Texans South Atlanta Falcons South Jacksonville Jaguars South Carolina Panthers South Kansas City Chiefs South New Orleans Saints South Tennessee Titans South Tampa Bay Buccaneers South Denver Broncos West Arizona Cardinals West Las Vegas Raiders West Dallas Cowboys West Los Angeles Chargers West Los Angeles Rams West Seattle Seahawks West San Francisco 49ers West
  25. I thought the US played pretty well for the most part. If not for that one foul in the penalty box, they would have won 1-0. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a soccer expert, but they strike me as a team learning how to play together and win. I don't expect much out of them this time around. I'd take getting out of the group stage as a win. But I think they'll be a force to be reckoned with in four years when the World Cup comes to North America. I did get a kick out of Gregg Berhalter's working-from-home attire. Just swap out the khakis for a pair of basketball shorts, and you basically have the same outfit I wear almost every day.
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