Red Comet

Here's an idea, New York Streets or any other 2-bit entertainment operation: Do background checks on whoever you hire to handle security/luggage. That $20 or so will save you a lot of headaches later.

Wait, the National Arena League thought a team saying "Eff this crap, we're out of here" after having their goods ganked was worse for the league's image than the fact such a thing happened in the first place? 

After seeing a picture of the braintrust running the show, I can see why. 

24 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

They should’ve been watching The Fan.

Maybe, but Disney is to children what Oxycontin is to people in West Virginia

3 hours ago, the admiral said:

California is the worst designation of the three, you goobers! Did everyone like the Danny Glover remake of Angels in the Outfield that much?

A lot of posters here (myself included) were young children in 1994. Not all or most, but a lot. So, the answer is more likely than you think.

7 hours ago, dfwabel said:

 

Remember, a City Manager is hired and can only recommend items.  S/he can ask for the world, but if s/he fail, they will be gone quickly. 

They don't make policy, they recommend policy.

There are some places where a city manager has a lot of power. Like Kansas City. Artifact of an era where the city was run by a one-man Tammany Hall but it is still an example nonetheless.

I was right, Orange County is lowballing the sale of the Angels stadium land to Arte Moreno

This can only mean one thing. An artists depiction of the politicians war chests after selling the land for such a sweerheart deal:

20 minutes ago, pmoehrin said:

 

Its a BS explanation for not expanding.

 

So long as a team is playing in the worst ballpark in the Majors, there's always going to be an X number of teams to go. There's always going to be a worst ballpark, so you figure out how long it's going to be before every team is 100% satisfied with their ballpark situation.

Shhhhh, you're making too much sense. If there weren't available markets to expand to, then how else will billionaire owners and politicians be able to demand a taxpayer-funded stadium? Why, they'd have to make do and actually think of creative ways to make money and that's just not fair to people with sterile minds.

49 minutes ago, monkeypower said:

The Angels have agreed to stay in Anaheim until 2050 and the stadium (along with 133 surrounding acres) to be sold to a business partnership, which includes Arte Moreno, for $325 million.

 

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/04/angels-agree-to-stay-in-anaheim-through-2050-stadium-to-be-sold-for-325-million/

That's quite a sweetheart deal. I'm sure that it'll be a total coincidence that whoever negotiated this deal gets a massive war chest the next time they're up for re-election. 

We have a thread about the worst days in your life as a sports fan. How about the best? I'll start off with mine:

Mizzou beating Kansas in the 2007 Border War Game. Held at Arrowhead Stadium, #2 Kansas vs. #4 Missouri, College Gameday plus a raucous crowd. 

Best ending ever: 

Dante Hall ripping the most ridiculous punt return I've ever seen in 2003. Beat the Broncos and I got my first kiss at 13 from a very drunk woman. Feels good man. 

Edit: And I found the video of it!: 

The Royals winning the World Series in 2015.

And, this highlight to cap one of the best games of baseball I've ever seen: 

So, what are your favorites?

April 5, 2020 EDIT: The Chiefs winning Super Bowl LIV and the day we can all go back to watching sports after this nonsense is over.

12 minutes ago, DG_Now said:

I saw Jim Rome on one of the NFL studio shows and couldn't believe it.

 

Rome was a pioneer in hot take culture and seems to have mostly disappeared. He certainly isn't relevant anymore.

I could watch that moment when Jim Everett had enough of his BS on loop for a year. He's always been a clown.

32 minutes ago, jmac11281 said:

Since you are in the Philadelphia area, I have to ask...do they still have those Cordell and Cordell divorce ads on local sports radio? I haven't listened to sports radio in years now.

2 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

I hear them in the Bay Area whenever I’m visiting there and listening to sports talk radio. 

Same in Kansas City too. Definitely a nationwide thing. 

On that note, can't stand listening to sports radio here right now. Everyone is acting like the sky is falling because of how the game against the Titans went. And I just know that if the Chiefs win tonight they'll be talking about how they're a dark horse candidate to win the Super Bowl. It's like dating a woman with BPD at this rate.

If there's a market for progressive sports coverage, whatever these people congregate around will show that. If there isn't, there isn't. After all, Gawker is a private company and that means they get to do whatever they want, right?

I just hate smug pricks who act like being told to do their job is a horrible insult. I guess its only insulting if you say it in English rather than Mandarin, apparently. 

6 minutes ago, the admiral said:

The Deadspin brats are having a meltdown again.

You actually want me to write about sports for a sports website and not a 20 page screed on how Dragon Ball Z is problematic? Fascist! 

Fire them all and have the janitors write. Then again, I think the janitors would rather clean up crap than write it so I guess its a wash?

13 minutes ago, Walk-Off said:

Sorry about that, @Red Comet.  I was hoping that you were being sarcastic.

 

Anyway, to get this thread somewhat back on topic, have any of you ever read NewBallpark.org, a blog that has spent years covering the Athletics' lengthy, difficult quest to land a replacement for the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum?  I neither am an A's fan nor have any personal connection to Northern California, but I have nonetheless been reading that blog somewhat regularly for most of the nearly fifteen years that it has existed.  Both the blog's deep, steady coverage of the political and financial intrigue that has prolonged and complicated that club's pursuit of a new home venue and the many passionate comments that many readers have made about the matters covered by that blog have been enough to draw me into being a surprisingly frequent reader.

It's all copacetic. And thank you for the rabbit hole! I wonder how Charlie Finley feels now that the city he abandoned has a far nicer stadium than the Coliseum could ever be?

52 minutes ago, Walk-Off said:

Fixed.

Do I have to put an /s after any statement that would refer to Jeffrey Loria as a genius in anything except for being a welfare bum?

12 minutes ago, the admiral said:

The Marlins built a low-capacity stadium that failed to fix supply and demand and cost too much money to build. I don't like going under 35,000 or over 45,000. 

I don't think having a genius who spent more money on a garish barely-used contraption than most of his players helped either. 

1997 divisional round game against the Broncos. Bastards put Vasoline on their jerseys and that was a touchdown by Tony Gonzalez. Refs have been screwing things up for years.

Derrick Thomas's last game. All the Chiefs had to do was beat the Raiders at home to go to the playoffs. Had a 17 point lead, blew it and lost to Oakland at home for the first time in over a decade. Didn't know it at the time but Derrick Thomas would be dead only a month later.

2003 No-Punt Game

2006 home opener against the Bengals. Trent Green getting nearly decapitated was something I got to see in person. Let's just say that under Marvin Lewis, orange and black was a fitting color scheme for his squad.

2007 Big 12 Championship Game. I stand by that KU bribed the BCS Committee to screw Mizzou out of a major bowl game. I'm praying that KU's basketball program gets the death penalty. It would be karma for all their bull :censored:.

Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide in 2012.

2013 wild card game against the Colts. Hell, any playoff game against the Colts can count but blowing a 28-point lead in the 2nd half was a ballbuster. 

2014 Game 7 of the World Series. No MadBum? The Royals win in 5 that year. 

Yordano Ventura getting himself killed because he thought driving drunk was a good idea.

2018 AFC Championship Game. That wasn't a roughing the passer call.

Really puts the misery in Missouri now that I think about it.

16 minutes ago, Bucfan56 said:

 

Huh. My calculations are just a tad off somewhere, then. I had Branson, Missouri as my worst city. 

Its Vegas without gambling and even more washed-up hasbeens. Yakov Smirnov has made a king's fortune there. Nuff said.

Hell, my Dad got stiffed on installing awnings at Silver Dollar City back in the 90s. To this day he still calls it "Steal Your Dollar City"

4 minutes ago, Bucfan56 said:

I'd rather live in a trash can in the Bay Area than a mansion in America's Biggest Mistake of a City ©

Whatever floats your boat, Oscar.

Still, respect for sticking to your guns.

12 minutes ago, Bucfan56 said:

 

1). It isn't a cool city. 

2). It is an objective fact.

3). Those are both beside the point anyway because that's not even the issue. The SF Bay Area is just objectively a better area for, well, just about everything. 

4). Vegas is running out of natural resources, such as clean drinking water, and growing at alarmingly unsustainable levels. Within 50 years, Vegas will basically be the setting for Mad Max: Fury Road. Raiders will still probably be there, though. 

Except for cost of living. Sorry, I like the idea of living in my own place and not living in a pod for the same price I'm renting my apartment in downtown Kansas City for plus parking.

Seriously, there is no way that can be safe. Especially in such an earthquake-prone area.

2 hours ago, hawk36 said:

I'd say it's bad. The less gimmicky the better. Looking like a minor league organization (while technically true) isn't a direction I'd recommend. Look professional, stable, solid... like you are going to last longer than every other outdoor league. 

See, that's the dilemna. Do you go with what works and risk looking boring or do you go unconventional and risk looking ridiculous? Personally, I'd go with the latter but that's just me. 

100 years ago, Montgomery Ward and Sears were two of the biggest companies in the US. Now? One has been dead for nearly twenty years (the original company anyway) and one might as well be already dead. Companies that don't (or can't) change with the times will always be left behind no matter how big or connected they get. Entropy has been undefeated for billions of years and I don't see it losing now.

So, I guess there's some solace in that what is happening to Sports Illustrated is hardly unprecedented. 

Sign of the times, I'm afraid. Doesn't help when their core audience is dying off both in the biological and the technological sense.

1 minute ago, Still MIGHTY said:

 

Wait... WHAT?!

 

 

People got mad... about throwback jerseys???

Its 2019, I'm surprised there isn't some half-assed outrage bait article on why its bad that clouds are white.