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  1. Sport
    And once upon a time those Penguins needed a couple generations to build their fanbase into what it is today. Penguins fans have only existed since 1967 (or 2005 depending on what month of the year you ask me) and it wasn't always a pillar of strength nor did it happen overnight. What did a 35 year old Penguins fan with a season ticket used to be? He/she used to be a kid who got hooked on the team in 91. This is what I'm saying. Those stains do wash out. I can't speak for Raleigh, but I can speak for Columbus where I'm from and my experience, right now, is people in their mid 20's recently out of OSU or OU or Miami or Bowling Green who were the children of Blackhawks and Penguins and Red Wings fans or, most likely, no team, are now Columbus Blue Jackets ticket and merch buyers because we grew up with them. It's very real. I don't get why it's so thoroughly brushed aside as fallacy on this board when the number of successful expansion and relocated franchises operating right now in North American sports proves my point for me. Look at the Tampa Bay Lightning. I just want to talk about why "when the kids grow up" is off the table here. Is it because it didn't/hasn't taken in Phoenix? Man, Phoenix.
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    Their issues are bigger and more complicated. It doesn't mean it's not true, though, because the entirety of the professional sports model depends on child fans growing up to become adult ticket buyers. That's how it works. I used to a kid who was a fan of the Cincinnati Reds and now I'm an adult who buys tickets to watch the Cincinnati Reds. It's happened in Tampa - The Tampa Bay Lightning have season ticket holders right now who were kids in 1992. not sure why that's regarded as this big myth on this message board.
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    We posted similar thoughts at almost the exact same time. High five! Yeah, okay, it is the worst stadium in the bigs. The Lightning seem to have good attendance with a centrally located arena. I don't see why the Rays wouldn't be the same. I was going to add a hypothetical: You're a disposable income having 35 year old with a couple kids who works in downtown Tampa and lives North of the city. Someone offers you free Rays tickets at 10 am for a 7 pm game. You're a huge Rays fan and so are your kids, but you're faced with this decision: go to the game which requires you to leave your downtown office at five, sit in rush hour traffic, pick up the kids, drive back through rush hour so about an hour there, across a bridge to St Pete, watch a full baseball game, drive 45 minutes back home, get home around 11/11:30, wake up and go to work the next day. Are you going to do all of that or are you just going to say you know just watching on TV at home sounds better? Most of the time I'm not interested in going through that slog just to see a game. A couple times this year friends have asked if I wanted to go to the Reds game that night and I left work and walked to the stadium. I can tell you right now if I had to do the crosstown shuffle to go to the game I wouldn't have said yes. Good team or not.
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    Sorry I can't blame the people of Tampa for not regularly visiting a bad stadium in an out of the way place. All of their problems stem from that fact alone. Their TV ratings tell me there's a fanbase there. I also don't understand why "people who were kids when the team first started are now adult fans with money" is verboten round these parts as if it's been debunked. That line of thinking makes sense. Baseball is not a commuter sport, not with 81 home dates, many of them during week days/nights. I love going to baseball games, and I've seen the Reds in person 10 times this season, but that's mostly because they're conveniently placed and easy. If they were in the St Pete equivalent of Cincinnati I'd probably have gone to 8 or 9 fewer games. I'm not driving 90 minute round trips to go see my team on a weeknight, especially after I've worked a full day downtown and live on the opposite side of the city. That's the reality for a lot of the Rays fanbase. You add that the stadium is maybe the worst in the majors and it's easy to calculate why they're struggling with attendance.
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    They actually wore it twice. Game 1 against the Broncos and Game 16 against the Browns. They lost both and then changed looks to their current goofemups the next season. The black pants made for a surprisingly good look. That whole season I wanted them to try the pants on the road with the white shirts, but they never did.
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    It's the brown helmet. When they went to navy they switched the S to white and left the D in orange. In the brown and orange set the whole logo was orange. There's clearly no white in the logo. The other clue is the word mark. The Blue set used a white outline and an orange drop shadow. The brown set used an orange outline and a brown drop shadow. It's clearly the latter in that photo.
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    I've asked that question of The Ringer before. "Who is this for?". That podcast popped up on my phone and I couldn't delete it fast enough. His Patriots bubble has made him really tone-deaf to the rest of the NFL fans. He's constantly complaining about Belichick NOT picking up an available player or spending two solid years bitching about deflategate. Even when they post something negative about the Patriots it's about how they didn't always have it so good: https://www.theringer.com/2017/8/9/16119282/new-england-patriots-belichick-brady-2000-team Suck a fart.
  9. Sport
    A friend of mine asked me to paint a picture of Lebron for him. Wacom tablet, Photoshop, round fan brush used in various sizes with smoothing and wet edges turned on.
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    "Prestige" sportswriting is done this way ---> Grandiose and/or Overly Ambitious Premise, bonus points if the premise is false or based on a vocal minority, "a lot of people are saying" topic (the Dave Lozo Special). Large black and and white photo in the header, type is left justified center and in an 18 point font so you know you be scrolling. It's laid out like this so you think it looks important. Start with something cloying like "HOPE. It's a four letter word. For Buford Thompson's son Maxwell growing up in the projects of INSERT CITY hope was the only four letter word he didn't hear" or some s*** like that. Every so often pull a quote from the article and blow it up way big and place it a few paragraphs before it shows up in the article. People love this because it's like foreshadowing for the thing you're reading. The other option is you "Memento" the article and jump around from present to the past. Also remember to drop an enormous photo in every few paragraphs so those of us reading at work can't copy/paste the article to an email so it looks like we're working. When you're ready to wrap it up "land the plane" and callback whatever stupid device you used in the opening paragraph. Easy joke for the "prestige" sportswriters: Parody all of the above by following those steps, but making your entire article about something trivial like "Worst Sports Movie Athletes: Where are they Now?". And then when you tweet the link you say something like "J school prepared me for this" or "this is the most important thing I've written in my career". The Athletic poached the two best Blue Jackets writers from the Columbus Dispatch and I'm thinking about subscribing because my other options for coverage of the team are fan blogs written by people without knowledge, writing ability, or access, Or, worse, blogs written by non-fan hacks who somehow have access, but also can't write.
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    He got injured a lot. He also hit his 500th and 600th home runs with the Reds. I remember his time with the team better than most I suspect.
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    It's a way better experience when travel to and fro is made as easy as possible for the majority of people in the metro area. It's such a basic concept and this is the reason any Seattle arena proposal not in the downtown core is a bad idea. I only went to see the TBirds in Renton once and I probably would not have often gone to Tukwila to watch the Seattle NHL Hockey Pucks play and I'm the target demo. NFL teams can get away with playing in the burbs, but almost all of those cases would be better for the team if they were downtown. I love when I go to a Bengals game I almost don't even have to think about travel. I just hop on a bus and it delivers me right there.
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    Fewer terrible Dave Lozo articles, at least.
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    This isn't sports media, but it involves the Ringer so I thought I'd put it here - Tried to listen to The Ringer's Game of Thrones podcast (maybe my first mistake) to hear some recap on season 7 episode 1 and I couldn't make it 10 minutes. It's more of the same reasons I don't like their other podcasts. Two gleeful dorks overly impressed with how nutty it is that they're this gulldarn dorky about a TV show and look how silly it is that they're taking it this seriously aren't we smart smart nerds? WE HAVE A WHOLE PODCAST ABOUT GAME OF THRONES WE ARE SO KOOKY The one woman, Mallory Rubin, has this voice that carries at a frequency that tickles my eardrums in such a way that makes me want to say "please stop yelling" even when she's speaking at a normal volume.
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    I listened to that podcast and it got pretty real. That part about ESPN being slow in the digital space actually felt correct to me. They STILL have problems with video on their website and no real podcasts that I've found worth subscribing to. And they were slow to recognize cord cutting. Everyone was, but that doesn't mean it's not a valid criticism of their management as well.
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    I don't think anyone's comparing either city, but you can go out and get hammered and lose money in a casino the night before a game in Pittsburgh also.
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    Teemue Selanne became so well known for his time with the Ducks that it's almost hard to believe he had some stopovers with their arch rival Sharks and then one with the Avs. and here's a rare photo of him without his Jofa bubble. That time Selanne and Kariya reunited for a season on the Avalanche.
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    I've never clicked on a link to a sports article and hoped a video would automatically play and I've never actually watched one of those autoplay videos. Furthermore, in the rare cases that I actually want to watch the video on espn.com it takes forever to load. I think Fox fired their writers because they have to honor Skip Bayless' albatross of a contract. That will end up being the Bobby Bonilla contract of sports television.
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    This logic makes all the sense in the world and I still don't like matte helmets. I guess I'm just not used to them or my hatred for matte football helmets is so strong that any application of it is upsetting to me.
  20. Sport
    There is already a logo for Quebec City to use. La Flammes
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    Mike & Mike was "The Odd Couple". It worked because they had two points of view on any given sports topic. He's a big football player, and he's a whimpy dork, what a wacky pairing! I liked them when I was still listening to sports talk radio, but that was over a decade ago. Since then they both turned into corporate shills and Greenberg started getting a little Hot Takey once that proved to be a useful way to get heard.
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    Question I've had for a while: Why do entire soccer leagues all use the same number font and why do they put the league's logo in the numbers?
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    I was half joking about this on twitter, but it's just crazy enough to maybe work. So we're going to have 31 teams on the draft floor for the foreseeable future. They used to have 5 rows of 6 tables, but now they'll have an odd number. I propose they still use 5 rows of 6, but the team who finishes with the worst record, regardless of what happens in the lottery, has to sit on the stage. We could call it the "Shame Pedestal" or something. You want to tank on purpose? Well then you're gonna have to sit in the corner with your dunce cap. Again, half serious idea here.
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    :censored: this league. This is why the World Cup had no juice. They don't hold it at regular enough intervals for it to mean anything. You can't just have a tournament whenever you feel like it and expect people to care. In 04 the only reason I watched the World Cup was because I knew it'd be the last best on best hockey we'd see for the next goddamn year. Won't even have that this time around. Scheduling lockouts, knowing a lockout is coming on the horizon is the single most annoying thing about being a hockey fan. "Hey honey, you wanna finally take that honeymoon? The NHL isn't playing in two winters. Maybe instead of spending thousands on season tickets we can go see Europe. Booked."
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    I thought about him for this thread, but came to the conclusion that the closest wrong uniform for him would be the short lived red alternates they wore when GABP first opened. every other uni he wore during his time with the team looks right. He wore the pullover uniforms in 4 all-star games and a World Series, the vested uniforms in his MVP year, the black heavy uniforms the last 6 years of his career which included 3 all star games.
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