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28 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

I imagine this is his voice:

 

 

When Dukey V is able to come up with a coherent sentence that isn't about ACC basketball and look smarter than the braintrust at MLB, something is very wrong.

17 hours ago, MJWalker45 said:

I think 2030 would be the measuring stick. If it's in China or Argentina you'll see a ton of new projects to get stadiums up to code. The US, Mexican and Canadian stadiums are already built or already in the process of being built. None of that will kill over 500 people, let alone 5,000. We're also not as dystopic a nation as people think. It's just that bad news gets more attention than good news.

Say what you will about the US, we're not using slaves to build state-of-the-art stadiums nor would the US World Cup require moving the event to November due to it being 122 degrees in the summer. This event also wouldn't bankrupt the US. Do the people running the Olympics/FIFA get off on leaving developing countries with white elephants they can't possibly maintain?

[checks date of story]

This story didn't come out on April 1st? They're actually serious?! This has to be, without a doubt, the absolute dumbest idea I've ever heard. And they expect both cities to give them new stadiums they'll use for half the season?! Someone needs to give the Rays owner a mental health test for the sake of MLB.

12 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

Jeff Bouchy, the league's #1 supporter recently sold his share of the Jacksonville Sharks.  The people over at Arenafan don't think there will be a 2020 season for the NAL and the revived Orlando Predators have not drawn all that well, playing to near empty crowds at the Amalie Center.

Okay, I was wrong that the Predators weren't revived. The fact that they're getting a lukewarm reception should be a big red flag to the Storm.

2 hours ago, AstroBull21 said:

I'll post here since this seems to be the thread in general about arena and indoor football news and rumors...

 

The Tampa Bay Storm might return in 2020 as part of the National Arena League.  

 

https://primetimesportstalk.com/2019/05/28/tampa-bay-storm-could-return-join-national-arena-league-in-2020/

Isn't the NAL allegedly in financial trouble (not that any of these leagues aren't but they're particularly in trouble)? They probably could get a pretty good draw still but if they're going to bring back the Storm, the Predators should return too.

On 5/22/2019 at 4:12 PM, BellaSpurs said:

If you’re not calling it loo-vul or loo-a-vul, your pissing me off tbh

I get this a lot too. I say where I'm from and people assume it's in Kansas. No, the important one with the barbecue, Chiefs, Royals and population is in Missouri.

1 hour ago, DG_Now said:

 

That story says the NCAA is immoral and the people who profit from it most are similarly bad.

 

How is Deadspin the bad guy there?

Because Deadspin is on par with Buzzfeed in reliability. Sometimes you see a good article but most of the time you get schlock that is designed to get clicks whether you agree or disagree with the article in question. And sometimes its out and out fake news.

Only way I can see some sort of interleague play work is if these leagues had a championship tournament to determine the best team in indoor football. 

The real question for that though would be why? 

On 4/29/2019 at 8:17 PM, The Six said:

 

Why must I look at this every time I go to Deadspin.

>Going to deadspin

I think we found the problem, boss.

5 hours ago, Sykotyk said:

He's been heavily involved in the Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village that's basically a giant scam on the city of Canton. The school district signed over their stadium to them with condition they could use it but the hall won't let the team use the locker rooms. Insisting that a new locker room be built for the school but still haven't built it. And the new stadium still isn't finished. And all the houses they bought have basically left an open hole around the hall now.  

At least C David Baker is an equal opportunity scammer. He'll rip you off if you're rich or poor. Oh no, I've never had memories of going to Brigade games the three years they were in town. I'm not bitter at all.

3 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

And Baker parlayed that "success" (and I use that term loosely) to run the Pro Football Hall of Fame a decade later.

I guess your only solace regarding punishment for him would have to wait until he dies. Then again, doesn't hurt that he networked with NFL owners and that's probably why he's still near the game at all. At least the amount of damage he can do here is minimized. 

C David Baker basically gave a team to anyone who could pay the expansion fee regardless if they could continue running the team and what a 5-year old would expect to happen out of that did. Since then, arena football has sort of become a version of minor league football without any official relationship to professional teams.

I was at this game when it happened. Should've known this day was going to be weird due to the Chiefs wearing white at home. Trent Green was lying on the ground for 10 minutes as the roster of convicts and degenerates Marvin Lewis called his players were taunting him as he was writhing in agony. 

5 hours ago, McCarthy said:

https://deadspin.com/the-one-ingredient-missing-from-this-disgusting-hot-dog-1833438926

 

Two things. First of all, calm down, Deadspin. This article is more self-indulgent than the article it's about. But Second of all, I don't care about the hot dog or Wilder's puff piece about the hot dog, and I don't care about Deadspin trashing Charlotte Wilder because I actually kind of agree with them when it comes to her - I must admit I find her sweaty and not a particularly deft writer and can't believe she landed a job with SI. Her article about the Patriots Super Bowl win read like a 2 am last minute paper for a freshman writing class. I don't understand her appeal, but Deadspin is far too cynical and nobody should spend too much time there, and they are being ultra grouchy here. 

 

I'm mostly posting this because it reminded me of something I noticed a while ago and it's growing and I hate it - It's this brand of online writing and podcasting where in substitution of having an actual personality, the entire schtick, the joke, is that you treat very trivial matters as if they're very important, like the breadth of how much you love a stupid thing is the joke. "I LOVE bad action movies, I wept during the latest Fast and the Furious movie, I waited in line for 3 days for John Wick 2 isnt that hilarious????" No. Don't misunderstand, it's not "never talk about trivial things" it's more like please stop acting like it's so WACKY that you went to Arizona to write about a hot dog and if you are gonna do that please write some jokes into the article. This is essentially The Ringer's entire bit.

 

In conclusion, calm down, Deadspin, you're not in a position to have a moral high ground, but also let's find some new angles besides "isn't it so funny how much we like this very dumb thing?".

 

Solution is to copy paste the link and put into an archive site like archive.is, archive.li or archive.fo, etc. Denies them clicks (and thus revenue) and freezes the article in that time in case they feel the need to gaslight their audience-I mean, edit the story later on.