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I'm very happy to see another MLB series and you're doing excellent work thus far! The subtle modernizations look fantastic on Boston.

Exactly - the whole point is getting rid of the NHL in the Phoenix metro area, no matter the cost or destination.

Utah Coyotes has a nice ring to it. However, the Kachina would probably have to go and at that point they might as well rebrand entirely. You can’t do the Coyotes identity properly if it isn’t Kachina.

I’d just copy Total Drama for the Utah Owls.

Somehow the kids’ cartoon has decent hockey sweater designs.

45 minutes ago, Unocal said:

UConn's second straight national title comes in dominant style, cementing the Huskies as a modern dynasty - CBSSports.com

 

Dynasty? Yeah right. More like the best of a watered down era of CBB

 

UConn is nothing but a classless bully who runs it up and acts like they are hot stuff

 

Good riddance to Clingan and Newton and all the others that made March Madness a waste of time 2 years in a row.

 

At least when Florida went B2B, they actually were tested here and there. 

Just leaving this here.

I’m just happy I finally picked the correct champ in my bracket! Granted, it was about as obvious as Oppenheimer winning best picture, but it was still fun.

7 hours ago, Unocal said:

 

Oh please

 

Never having to play from behind or overcome any adversity = "coaching masterclass"

Well, guess who didn’t listen to his moderator warning and came back to waste his last strike!

35 minutes ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

Yeah, that’s too dark of a plot line/art history to reference. Is this horse reference better?

“Peetah, the horse is here.”

2 hours ago, MCM0313 said:

Is BoJack off the wagon again?!

The Broncos franchise, post-SB50, is more dilapidated than Sarah Lynn at her most messy.

54 minutes ago, rfraser85 said:

The Browns have made it official with the white facemasks. The erasure of the 2015 elements of the Browns uniforms is now complete.

 

Sources: Cleveland Browns Returning To White Facemasks, Unveiling Updated Logo On April 17 – SportsLogos.Net News

Aren’t they still wearing their 2015 orange shade and wordmarks? If so, the erasure isn’t complete yet.

The best flag on the continental United States is this:

/s

1 hour ago, MDGP said:

 

Damn dude, that's some serious cope over two people saying they don't like the state flag.

I mean, I think it’s a good flag. I just like Denver’s flag way more and I go out of my way to avoid looking like a “transplant” with tacky flag merch. I did the same when I lived in Milwaukee, as I never owned merch of the People’s Flag.

“Flags as Merch” is how we get to the New Zealand flag referendum (which thankfully failed) and why I’m starting to find the bluntness of “Seal on a Bedsheet” refreshing. You can’t really make that bad design marketable.

10 hours ago, Cujo said:

 

That flag/symbol is overkill out here. Anyone in Colorado seen sporting "that goofy Cubs logo with a sun in it looking ass logo" is either tourist or is someone who just moved here from out-of-state. Locals steer clear of it these days, as it's basically the easy way to spot an outsider/poser.

I moved to Denver in 2019 and I go out of my way to avoid Colorado flag merchandise. Hell, the Denver flag is a better design, but even that feels ripe for co-opting by transplants.

I can see more points in favor of “Seal on a Bedsheet” these days.

1 hour ago, zubazpirate said:

It has nowhere near the gravitas of a place like Hong Kong, Dubai, Heathrow, etc.

Don’t forget the brutalist beauty of CDG.

I regularly fly between DEN and SFO. DEN feels like the largest airport I’ve been to in the US, mostly because I have to cross over three terminals on the shuttles to get to Southwest. My O’Hare experiences have all been rather quick and generally pleasant. There was no big crossing over into a distant terminal.

40 minutes ago, Sodboy13 said:

"Hey, maybe even longer!" --the Arizona Coyotes

I gotta repost this:

Evergreen image here!

15 minutes ago, infrared41 said:

 

You wouldn't be able to avoid the airport.

I’ve never been to the Atlanta airport, but that’s mostly because the furthest south I’ve been is St. Louis and I never fly Delta.

Pn the CCSLC airport rankings, how does Atlanta fare compared to Denver, O’Hare, and Sky Harbor (to name a few I’ve been to on layovers)?

Imagine how bad it'd be if Stroud regressed this season and stayed that way.

2 hours ago, MNtwins3 said:

Reds have desperately needed to drop black for like 20 years at this point

That and it’s a gimmicky “old timey” font that you’d find on Creative Market for $20. It’s also one of Brandiose’s first baseball projects and purging Brandiose is always preferred.

1 minute ago, infrared41 said:

 

Cocaine and steroids.

I mean, I have thought about the Station to Station diet lately.

10 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

I still don't think the move is going to happen. Too many fragile moving parts.

I mean, Vegas doesn't really want the A's and all the Fisher plans depend on public money. SLC is a pipe dream and Sacramento would be beyond stupid. Portland doesn't particularly want the A's either.

Just now, Dilbert said:

we really bout to put these guys in Mullett Arena for three seasons arent we ?

I mean, they can get stuck at their Spring Training facility for the whole season, right? I don't think the Oakland crowds or potential Vegas crowds would be much bigger than an average ST game.

1 hour ago, The_Admiral said:

 

Baseball is all of those things. It's a constant through the years and it's a wacky carnival with eccentric players. It shaped the English language more than any sport. There's enough bandwidth to honor all the things baseball has been without taking anything away.

True, but I've just been having a mental block with all the romanticism stuff in sports lately. The "Norman Rockwell-like garbage" comment in particular comes from me falling out of love with a lot of Americana material as a whole, especially in all of my self-discovery. It's more of a "me problem" than anything else. No judgement on my end if that's what you see in the game, the mysticism is something I just can't connect with anymore.

Anybody else ever go through this kind of disconnect? Is there any way to get that feeling back?

12 minutes ago, FiddySicks said:

 

A bit of a sidebar here, but if you’re looking for a lot of crazy old baseball stories like that, check out The Dollop podcast. It’s FANTASTIC. 

Thanks! Crime in Sports is similarly pretty fun, especially when they talk about old timey baseball and wrestling. No joke, the podcast is how I got into wrestling.

Yup, the false importance and “mystical Americana nature” really bugs me, if that makes sense. I’d rather emphasize what Ball Four or literally any pre-WWI baseball stories do, which is the wackiness and the often-rebellious nature of the players.
 

It’s so much more entertaining than the Norman Rockwell-like garbage.

Let’s be real here: Hall of Fames are mostly pointless. They’re plaques or busts in museums dedicated to the larger sport. Just let the individual teams honor the players they want (retired numbers, statues, etc.) and we can use the stats to decide who is and isn’t the best and the morality behind the stuff. Let them join the music museum in Cleveland in the “disregarded” pit.
 

Like, the Bills aren’t racing to put up a statue of OJ Simpson and the Phillies halted their tribute to Pete Rose. The teams should be in charge.

9 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

 

 

Irrelevant.

 

We could certainly find something contemptible about every single pro athlete. While it's perfectly sensible to criticise a pro athlete — or anyone else — for his or her bad behaviour, we should be intellectually honest enough to recognise the greatest players purely on the basis of their performance, while understanding that doing so amounts to no endorsement of any other action those players have taken during their lives.

Those are perfectly reasonable reasons to exclude somebody. Hardly easy to blow off beating up your pregnant wife or the horrors that Mindy McCready went through.

If Clemens did get inducted, I’d want the whole crowd chanting Mindy’s name and for people to remember him as the man who destroyed her life and not the baseball player he was. He should get the Jimmy Snuka treatment, where he’s a monster first and a good athlete second.

There’s intellectual honesty and then there’s the basic human desire to kick monsters out of prominent places. I know to side with the latter more often than not.

And once again, Pete Rose has excused himself from society by transporting a minor across state lines with the intent of sex. In other words, he should be treated the same way we treat people like Lorne Armstrong.

It’s the funniest moment with a guy wearing a Red Sox cap.

I can’t wait for his defense of Altuve, Springer, and Beltran.

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Like, for what reason would anyone want to fund a project with the Angels at the main tenant? Who does that work for other than whoever owns the Angels? 

Not many. They’re not the only baseball team in the area and the Dodgers are much more embedded in the local culture than the Angels ever were/will be. Disney had the right idea trying to court the Orange County demographic (by force due to funding renovations with public money), but even then it felt half-hearted. The Angels as a main tenant are never going to be worth it to Greater Los Angeles or Orange County.
 

We can joke about the Mets, White Sox, and A’s all we want, but the Angels really are the most useless “second team” in all of baseball. Hell, the Clippers have more to show for their existence in the past 15 years than the Angels.