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  1. who do you think
    So ignoring the Sunday issue... I know they don't own the Jazz anymore, but is Larry Miller corp or whatever still capable of being principal owners of a big league team, as far as we know? Or at this point are they just another group of yokels and pitchmen making websites and drawing on napkins while they wait for someone with actual money to come along, like Nashville? If it's the former I would think this puts their bid way out in front of all the other roll call cities. I think we've established that no one important wants to own/build anything MLB-related in Portland or Montreal, and Vegas entered the "two more weeks" meme zone a while ago.
  2. who do you think
    And at some point somebody in baseball with clout might ask if it's really worth blowing up their entire schedule just to be in Utah.
  3. who do you think
    And they need ("need") a new stadium because why exactly?
  4. who do you think
    Watch out, Western Conference
  5. who do you think
    If Utah's suddenly in the market for more sportz I would think NFL (since Sundays are apparently fine now) or NHL would be better fits.
  6. who do you think
    Has to be Celtics-Nets. The Celtics basically outsourced their rebuild and only have Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown because of that trade. The Nets even before making that deal were a sloppy mishmash of former fringe all-stars that was going nowhere. Neither Pierce or KG lasted two full seasons in Brooklyn; Pierce left in free agency after one, KG's corpse was sent back to Minnesota partway through year two. The Celtics finished better than the Nets in year two, then only got better while the Nets dropped into the bottom of the conference. Honestly the trade Phoenix just made for Durant might soon earn a place in this discussion. Durant will be 35 next year and has missed half the season every year since leaving GS, Chris Paul is officially old as :censored:, their other principal players are overrated and not gonna get any better, they handed a potential 26 year old franchise player to Brooklyn, and all of their first rounders in the second half of the 2020s (save 2026) are now tied up. If the Suns win the championship or at least come close enough to justify the gamble, it's fine, but if not...
  7. who do you think
    Good. The Mavs as an organization have gotten really arrogant and insufferable, and they deserve the embarrassment of being deadline buyers and still finishing bottom five in the conference. I hope Luka blows town at some point soon to take Cuban/the organization down another peg. Of course Luka himself isn't blameless in all of this either, he's not interested in anything that doesn't involve stuffing his stats.
  8. who do you think
    Okay, approached and then assaulted. Still not shedding tears, unless the guy really didn't do or say anything (which I doubt).
  9. who do you think
    > mouthy fatso yells insults at player then gets approached and intimidated by that player oh no that's horrible
  10. who do you think
    Kind of. There might be 2 or 3 seasons total since 2006 where the Kings have even finished top 10 in the conference. They've been wretched for a long time.
  11. who do you think
    At 35-37 it's a little late to start thinking about lottery odds. Anyway, watch the Celtics lose to the Spurs in Boston on Sunday. Just watch.
  12. who do you think
    Why is that? Charlotte is a footprint franchise in a transplant haven that cares way more about college ball; their lot in life is Monday and Wednesday night schedule filler for the marquee teams. Don't say Jordan, the NBA owes him nothing as an owner. Ewing was expected to be the great center of his time but oops bad knees.
  13. who do you think
    Gorman plans on retiring next year (after over 40 years) according to a recent Boston.com article. I wouldn't dare say that this is a good thing, because he's an excellent voice and broadcaster, but he has sounded tired and flat on a lot of telecasts since 2017 or so, and especially since Tommy passed away.
  14. who do you think
    The NHL rigging their lotteries would be dumb given how little impact a top player has compared to the NBA. But good news, the NHL is really dumb, so instead of rigging it or maybe just allowing this year's top prospect to land somewhere where he might be appreciated, they would totally cheat in order to send this year's top prospect down some black hole where he'll never be seen or heard from again, just so Bettman can more easily convince some government sandbillies in greater Phoenix to push another bogus stadium through so the NHL's most useless franchise can continue being useless, because this is a for-profit league and we need to Grow The Game, sorry you can't understand that sweetie-cakes.
  15. who do you think
    The NHL expands when they want cash; long-term health of the league is not their concern. There's a reason none of the other, better, more intelligent major leagues have cared to expand at all in the last two decades*, while Bettman spent the mid-2010s beating down doors in Vegas and Seattle looking for expansion partners. And then COVID happened and wiped out that whole take so now they have to expand again, oopsie poopsie. *Pushing three decades if you strike the righting-a-wrong expansions into familiar cities that were the NuBrowns, Texans, and Bobcats.
  16. who do you think
    I was gonna say in the other post that I wouldn't be too shocked if the Raiders up and decided to shuffle back to California at some point, if only because they're the Raiders and they're weird, and the NFL carouseled another team into Vegas in their place (wouldn't be that much dumber than the events that transpired in 2017)... but upon further review the Raiders kicked in $1B toward building Allegiant Stadium, so not happening. I do wonder if the Knights are at risk of getting myspaced if/when an NBA team moves in, since I would bet on them mimicking the Diamondbacks and slapping together a superteam within 2-3 years of their inception. Especially if LeBron is in the ownership group. Yeah, your specialty. Along with the "nuh-uh sweetie, this is what you ackshually said and this is what I ackshually said" twerk'n'jerk that you're looking to get going now. I didn't twist anything. When you first dropped this argument in this post, you specified Rays' fan support. Which implies that visiting fans shouldn't be considered. If there were more Red Sox road games at the Trop, we would come out for those, too. Think really, really hard about what kind of phenomenon could be occurring that would result in 11% of the Rays' home slate getting the same meager turnout from local Rays fans as 100% of the Rays' home slate. The rap on Mexico City that I remember is that it's really poor, and while there are 20+ million people in the area, only a portion of that population should be considered for sportz purposes. How much? Hell if I know. Half (10 million) is still a lot, on par with Chicago and GTA, to the point where leagues would probably be in much more of a hurry to move in if that was an accurate number to be working with. A quarter (5 million) puts it on par with Seattle, and there are plenty of cities below that with multiple big four teams. We still have the "so why hasn't it happened yet" question lingering. I don't think I buy altitude or language barriers as reasons why. I had to Google since I don't know anything about Pittsburgh, but St. Pete isn't that. The Cranberry equivalent here would be Palm Harbor or something.
  17. who do you think
    Hard to say. The A's (if they go there) would appear to be the obvious answer, but if Vegas builds them a new baseball-specific airplane hangar it will become a Marlins situation and we/they will be stuck with them. A nine-game slate of Rays games at the Trop would still be a desert if you kept opposing fans from attending. I'll let you try and figure out why. Put on your thinking scarf. (Or just continue spamming "math, sweetie" like an incurious twitteroid, in which case I'll get more memes ready.) Maybe I shouldn't have posted it, but only because it clearly distracted anyone from finishing the cumdumpster/Bob Nutting alley-oop that I offered up.
  18. who do you think
    Unlike the Rays and A's, who never go more than a few years between playoff berths, Pirates fans have good reason to be pissed off and disengaged. Save for 3 and a half random seasons last decade, nobody under the age of 35 remembers that franchise being anything other than a willing and consenting cumdumpster for the rest of baseball. But noooooo you can't just stealth merge them with the Rays and give them actual scouts and a player development program, teams for nobody that are really good at winning 88 games a year with no money and no fans are sacred and must be preserved!
  19. who do you think
    Owners short on cash again, huh? Atlanta Spirit figured out that could just have their events without the hockey-team-for-nobody clogging up arena availability and turned in the keys. You'd think that someone with authority over BB&T/FLA Live Arena would have come to the same conclusion by now regarding the Panthers.
  20. who do you think
    "You can't delete us, we had the bash brothers once! We matter!" No. Nobody cares. Chop chop. I think we outnumber the actual Rays fans here. (as if that's a high bar to clear) Absolutely seething. Go play banjo on the porch for a while. Ask the empty stadium. Also how can your stadium have sewage problems when nobody's there to use your toilets? Are those feral cats potty-trained?
  21. who do you think
    No it doesn't, no they don't. Every single post of yours makes me want to keep regurgitating the "nobody cares" bit. Are people are getting slimed with raw sewage between innings like some Nickelodeon show gone wrong? It's a baseball game. Visiting fans of popular teams don't seem to have a problem coming out. Go ask people from New England about the fan experience at Fenway before current ownership bought the team. They very nearly moved to Tampa (and would be in the same hell the Rays are in right now) until they were saved at the 11th hour. The Giants moving would have been unfortunate historically and probably worth going the extra mile for (which may have happened anyway), but the A's are a lifelong jobber franchise with no significant ties or rivals. They are not the same. Also, the fact that Giants games used to be empty when the A's were doing well, but now the Giants are a yearly sellout while the A's play to tumbleweeds, kinda supports the notion that Northern California isn't a two-team baseball region, huh?
  22. who do you think
    And we are once again back to the sad fact that nobody cares. This team doesn't play their home games in Mongolia. If anybody cared (and they have reason to, since like the Rays, Oakland consistently comes up with good players despite being broke and never goes very long between playoff appearances), they wouldn't be drawing Marlins-tier crowds at the ballpark. What is it with this forum and conflating a team's on-field success with the notion that they must be popular and relevant in their market?
  23. who do you think
    Disrupt the balance of what? The Giants sell out the park for eternity while the A's have been buried and forgotten for over two decades, so clearly Northern California is not a strong two-team region. The Dodgers, Angels, and Padres are apparently all relevant and competitive enough in their environment to buy up all of free agency between them every year. The A's in Vegas won't be siphoning any of those fans off. I see no problem. If only that dumbass 98 expansion never happened. The A's could have just bounced to Arizona by now and be doing their piddling hospitality house operation in the airplane hangar, and the Rays wouldn't exist in the first place.
  24. who do you think
    > their departure would upset the territorial balance in California the hell does that mean
  25. who do you think
    Just when I starting to get over those two Orlando losses.
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