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    Not to mention that solar powered desalination is becoming more and more of a thing. Granted what MIT has is merely a small-scale functional prototype but I can only imagine that the demand for something like this plus drastic upscaling as fresh water sources get harder and harder to come by will only get bigger. The conversation on water reminds me of what I heard about oil growing up and now the issue isn’t peak oil supply as it is peak oil demand. Difference in this scenario is that water is a hell of a lot more renewable than oil. You could probably repurpose those oil pipelines for water as oil demand keeps declining. Granted you’d have to clean the hell out of them but there you go. If Vegas is going to decline, I don’t think water demand or supply will be the main factor so much as it is Vegas (and Nevada by extension) losing its exclusivity on sports gambling and thus down the line it’s relative exclusivity on high-end gambling+entertainment. And as more and more states legalize sports betting, the countdown to that time has long since begun.
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    I remember that the Royals were approached to move to the NL Central before the Brewers but they refused and then you had the situation with the Astros this past decade. So, the team would have to consent to relocating to another division or league.
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    I was about to say, anyone thinking you could plop a place like Lambeau, Gillette or Arrowhead in the middle of a downtown has a couple of screws loose. Baseball or hockey/basketball? Sure, as long as the city in question has the infrastructure to handle transportation of people to and from the game and there’s a decent nightlife to be had after the game. Some places, however, would be disastrous to have a downtown stadium right now. Like Kansas City as the only mass transit we currently have aside from the bus system is a 2 mile long streetcar from the River Market to the WWI Museum. Trying to get 30-40,000 (maybe more like 20-30,000 but still) people to a baseball stadium for 80 or so nights a year would be a disaster right now so naturally the idea is under consideration. Of course, as for the Rays right now? Looks like Nashville is back on the menu, boys. If this move does happen, my guess is that the Tigers or whatever the team in Cleveland is called by then and the relocated Rays would switch divisions. First they need a stadium, however.
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    At least Austin has a pretty bright future. The only way a team stays viable in Vegas is if Vegas maintains its relative monopoly on high-end gambling/entertainment. Forget the potential future water issues, what do you think is going to happen the more states legalize sports gambling and/or decide to host their own palatial casinos?
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    Only in Wisconsin would you see uniforms that cheesy.
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    We haven't even seen how Las Vegas will truly support the Raiders yet as the pandemic sabotaged their debut season there. Why the hell are people thinking that they can support the A's and now an NBA team?
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    Welcome back!

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    No, they should keep the Athletics name. Also, IIRC the only reason the Supersonics name didn't move to Oklahoma City with the team is because the City of Seattle made a similar agreement to what the City of Cleveland made with Art Modell except apparently the Thunder would hold all the history until the Sonics return to Seattle. Considering that Oakland didn't attempt to do that with Mark Davis vis a vis the Raiders, there is no way that Oakland would do that for the A's.
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    Just paid $7/mo., somebody else match me bro! Or just get rid of ads for me, that would be great too.
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    This isn’t even the first time the A’s have been outclassed in their market by their National League counterpart after long overshadowing them to the point they want to move. Same thing happened in Philadelphia.
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    I always thought the rationale behind Vegas is the increasing trend of fans traveling to see their teams play. Hell, I remember when the Vikings came to Arrowhead and it seemed like a third of the stadium was screaming Skol. In 2019 too, so it wasn't like this was pre-Andy Reid. And that's to a place that is a cow pasture compared to Vegas. So, sports leagues decided to combine Vegas's tourist destination status and gambling and thought it would be a great experiment. I don't get the logic either, but I'm not some big-brained accountant working for a sports league.
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    Oakland is ran by dribbling morons? Say it ain’t so.
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    Might as well have pro kickball at this point.
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    Social media is cancer and I have never had my opinion of someone improve after reading their social media feed.
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    Just get me one season of Gary Thorne and Bill Clement and I’ll be happy. Or hell, put Steve Levy on lead broadcasts.
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    Safari. I don’t get it nearly as bad as I did with Android Google but it is still an issue that happens a lot more than it should. EDIT: I’m a dumbass, it’s Google Chrome on Android not Android Google.
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    So, how would we go about making it so that mobile version is actually usable and not a haven of viruses?
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    Yeah, I encounter that a lot too. I would gladly donate a chunk of change so this site can have some decent anti-virus protection. Love the community, love the members, hate the redirects.
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    Everything I’m seeing with this is so 90s it hurts. To the extreme.
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    Yeah, I do. I have to remember that for every average person there is at least one out of two people dumber than that person. Dear God, I hope I don’t see the Chiefs wearing black. I saw those mock-ups all around the city that people bought at Wal-Mart growing up. Total coincidence it was always the People of Walmart variety of fan too that would drive a 92 Camaro covered in Hatchet Man stickers. No, just, no.
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    @henburg has the right idea. Last thing I want to see is Nike deciding that the NFL should be a laboratory like the NBA and the University of Oregon are. It’s fine for the NBA because there are far fewer elements in an NBA uniform set thus making many different looks for each team viable. And Oregon is intimately tied to Nike by way of Phil Knight so of course they’re a guinea pig. That and it gives Oregon quite the recruiting pull. But the last thing I want to see is the Seahawks Neon Green uniforms against the Broncos in all orange helmet to cleats. Nobody wants to see that.
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    No disagreement with you there.
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    It’s less about soccer and more about how a bunch of workers would be sacrificed for what would now amount to nothing. It’s more the breaking point for the workers in the region than anything about soccer. If you look at the demographic situation in the UAE, like Qatar, you’ll find that the natives who are living in luxury are vastly outnumbered by the workers they lord over. And Oman, the immigrant workers are almost the same number as the native Omanis. It’s not going to be pretty in the long run anyway but the breaking point would be sped up by a couple decades. If it starts in one Gulf State, it’ll inevitably spread.
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    As I said, they have it coming, but the after effects would probably knock the world into a depression due to skyrocketing fossil fuel costs. Especially if it spreads to the other Gulf States. I know this seems like it has nothing to do with the World Cup, but these workers have been abused long before Qatar was “awarded” the World Cup and will continue long afterwards. Take away the World Cup and that will likely be the breaking point for yet another round of chaos in the Middle East.
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    I stand by what I said. The people in charge of Qatar are degenerate psychopaths (where isn’t that the case, though?) but it is too late to move something of this scale. And if you did move it at this point, revolution would probably be inevitable considering that now 7,000 lives have been lost for what is now no reason. Maybe they have it coming but gas is already too expensive as it is. Qatar falls into chaos and gas is $6.00/gallon. Forget that.
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