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  1. Gothamite
    Selig is no Bettman. He didn't kill off the Montreal fanbase, Montreal did. Bud would make the move you describe if it made any financial sense. Fund a stadium, and the Rays will start learning French. Until then, they'll remain the closest thing baseball has to the Coyotes.
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    Allez les Frelons!
  3. Gothamite
    Wow. That's pathetic.
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    Last season, the Coyotes had a Thursday home game against the Kings in October and drew something like 6,400. Movin' on up! One of the biggest sport leagues in the world and one of it's teams is drawing less than 8,000.... Even some CJHL teams get more than 6,400. Ten years ago, we were watching to see when the Vermont Expos would draw more than the Montreal parent club. Now, I guess we'll wait to see if the Portland Pirates can outdraw the Coyotes on any given night.
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    Are you sure? That's usually a league decision. At least it was with MLB and the NFL.
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    Wisconsin has a long and glorious Civil War history. Hey, I'm still upset about Lloyd Petit dropping his bid for an expansion franchise in 1990.
  7. Gothamite
    Is this new? I thought the Stars were one of the sunbelt success stories. Or is it just a "we only support winners" thing?
  8. Gothamite
    Cardinals-you-were-always-our-favorite-anyway Boulevard?
  9. Gothamite
    Not enough to keep the mall out of bankruptcy, though.
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    At least raising the debt ceiling is legitimate economic theory to correct the business cycle in hard times. Keynes would plotz if he saw what Bettman was trying to do with the Coyotes.
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    I don't think that follows at all. There is great demand for Maple Leafs tickets. That doesn't necessarily mean that any other team in the area would be able to capitalize on the unmet demand.
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    Yeah, at least they're trending in the right direction. Help me out - could that be a function of slashing payroll? What's their labor situation?
  13. Gothamite
    Two teams? Operating income is income minus expenses, right? Or what we mortals usually call a profit? So unless there are expenses not accounted for in that chart, then it appears a dozen teams turned a profit last year. Which, by the way, doesn't make it any less pathetic. Look at all that orange and red, especially the coyotes. OITGDNHL.
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    How cool would it be to have Toronto and Montreal in the same division?
  15. Gothamite
    Broadcast territory only matters when teams claim media markets outside their city but without teams of their own. Case in point the Orioles and Washington. Local clubs share without problem: Dodgers/Angels in LA, Cubs/White Sox in Chicago, Yankees/Mets/Rays in New York. Keep in mind, I wasn't seriously suggesting that the Rays could, should or will be moved to Brooklyn. I was responding to the notion that they could be moved to Connecticut. Jersey makes even less sense than Connecticut.
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    Yeah, if MLB was going to plunk a team down in the middle of other teams' territory, it wouldn't be Connecticut. Not enough upside. It would have to be some place like... oh, I don't know... It's right there on the tip of my tongue... Some major sports-crazy metropolitan area. A place with its own civic identity and a booming population... A major media outlet that could easily absorb another team... I'll have to get back to you.
  17. Gothamite
    Sounds like one fan's wishful thinking. Maybe a guy who lives in Fairfield.
  18. Gothamite
    Yes, we all know that. Sometimes we use "Tampa" as shorthand for "Tampa Bay" or "Tampa Bay region," because we all know what we mean. I try to spell it out each time, unless I'm responding to a direct point, but sometimes it's not worth the extraneous verbiage.
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    We will see. But until then, the Rays will continue to be squeezed by a fanbase that doesn't really like the team and won't come out to the ballpark no matter how competitive the team is on the field. Something will give. "Untenable business model" suggests that the Rays won't be in Tampa Bay as long as you would like to think they will be.
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    Agree to disagree on both those statements.
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    And these words of, um, wisdom from the Commish:
  22. Gothamite
    And that's the kicker. They might as well move to Montreal, Brooklyn or Portland as Tampa.
  23. Gothamite
    Perhaps. But I wouldn't put all my hopes in that basket if I were Tampa Bay.
  24. Gothamite
    You're presuming that the owners won't start looking around for a new city for ten years. Not a presumption I would make.
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    That's not the way it works. If a city wants to get a team, if it wants to keep a team, it pays for at least a sizeable chunk of a new ballpark. Been that way for sixty years, and Tampa Bay residents are hardly on solid moral ground to challenge that now. The "value of the franchise" is meaningless, since it only comes into play when the owners decide to sell. When you have an ownership group as good as this one, you don't want them to have to sell. If they're making a profit, then it's only because they slashed expenses this year. Which is, as he said, untenable as an ongoing business model. They can't get people out to watch one of the best young teams in baseball. They can't sell out playoff games. Now people aren't even watching the games on television. That's gone beyond being a struggling market into an outright failure. No, there's another reason. A much better one. They could leave because there aren't enough fans in Tampa to make it worth staying.
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