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  1. These renderings underwhelm me mainly because of the absence of what Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. (the ultimate owner of that 35-acre plot of land) and Bally's might build next to the ballpark. To me, that detail — or lack thereof — prevents the renderings from having a discernible sense of scale and thus keeps alive the big question of whether the ballpark can and does genuinely fit in a mere nine-acre corner of the plot, with a new Bally's-operated resort presumably filling the other 26 acres. On another note, while some contributors to this thread have discussed the proposed ballpark's resemblance to the Sydney Opera House, it should be noted also that the head of one of the architecture firms for the project claims that (a) the shape of traditional baseball pennants inspired the roof and (b) the ballpark's overall design resembles a "spherical" armadillo.
  2. Since others have touched on the Detroit Tigers-Pittsburgh Pirates league swap, @jlog3000, I will focus on another flaw that I see in your proposal. You have the National League have a team in Montréal again while keeping the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League, you insist that every MLB team have a prioritized interleague rival, and then ... you pass up the opportunity to create a Toronto vs. Montréal rivalry — an all-Canadian, seemingly no-brainer matchup — and instead give the new Montréal team a prioritized rivalry with ... the Boston Red Sox? Why? Is it just for the sake of having a baseball equivalent of Canadiens vs. Bruins? If prioritized interleague rivalries in MLB must exist, I think that a saner approach with this particular alignment of teams would be the Blue Jays vs. the new Montréal club, the Red Sox vs. the Philadelphia Phillies, the Tigers staying in the AL, the Pirates staying in the NL, and the Tigers and the Pirates being each other's prioritized rivals.
  3. From what I remember, the MAC revoked the past football-only membership of UMass because the Minutemen had insisted upon staying in the Atlantic-10 in other sports. Thus, I am curious as to how much of an edge -- if any -- the MAC holds over the A10 in media rights revenue these days. As for Western Kentucky University as a MAC member, that school has long had to deal with its home television market (Bowling Green, Kentucky) being one of the thirty smallest TV markets in the United States. Meanwhile, Middle Tennessee State University is within the Nashville TV market, one of the thirty largest in the United States. As nice as it would be for the MAC to add WKU by itself to get back to an even number of members, I am cynical enough to wonder if the MAC would rather take in the Hilltoppers only in conjunction with MTSU and (to even out the numbers) a third school.
  4. @TrueYankee26, if I am looking at this correctly, the Blackhawks are listed twice, both the Milwaukee and Norfolk teams have Admirals as their nickname, and San Antonio is home to both a relocated Sharks franchise and an expansion team.
  5. South Side Sox: Satire: Sharks swimming with the White Sox What if Jerry Reinsdorf and a would-be business partner of his went on Shark Tank to try to get money for their proposal for The 78?
  6. As sarcastic as this whole take seems to be, and as much of a slow-pitch softball as that interview is, at least the full article brings up Reinsdorf's threat to move the White Sox to the Tampa Bay area in the latter half of the 1980s and the resulting extraction of Illinois state tax money to keep the Pale Hose in Chicago via their current ballpark. Meanwhile, conspicuously absent from that whole interview and article is any mention of Reinsdorf's meeting with the mayor of Nashville two months ago, a detail that seems to undermine any notion that Reinsdorf is somehow more loyal to the Chicago area than are any and all of his co-investors in the Chisox. Finally, as much of a "stan" for a Nashville MLB team as I am, the difference in size between the Chicago and Nashville markets is such that I beg to differ with Reinsdorf's insinuation that a Nashville White Sox team would be worth more than that franchise has been as the Windy City's "junior" MLB club.
  7. In that kind of battle, I would take Jerry Reinsdorf and the White Sox over the McCaskey family and the Bears any day. At least to me, Reinsdorf, for all of his faults and flaws, gives off an impression of being very certain about what he wants. By contrast, the McCaskeys have seemed to spend many years hemming and hawing over where to locate a new stadium for the Bears, what kind of new stadium the Bears should have (e.g. seating capacity, permanently outdoor vs. retractable roof vs. permanently indoor, etc.), or even whether or not to have the Bears leave Soldier Field in the first place.
  8. The way that things are going, I would not be surprised if the A's are still without a plan in place for a new permanent home in any location by 2029. Another thing that would not surprise me is if MLB's next commissioner -- whoever that might be -- is much more aggressive about expansion than Rob Manfred has been. While Manfred has consistently conditioned any future addition of teams to MLB on firm resolutions of the respective ballpark situations of the A's and the Rays, his successor might not be so patient with regard to expansion.
  9. If I understand the report correctly, Jerry Reinsdorf seems to be pursuing funding from the State of Illinois, which is what he did for the current home of the White Sox more than three decades ago, rather than from the City of Chicago or Cook County.
  10. Ballpark Digest: Report: Reinsdorf to seek $1B in state money for new Chicago White Sox ballpark
  11. Here is how I would align the NBA if (a) the league expands to 32 teams and, as frequently rumored, puts those new franchises in the Las Vegas and Seattle markets; (b) the league reverts to two divisions per conference and uses the same names for divsions as when it last had two divisions in each conference; and (c) all of the existing teams stay in their current respective markets. Eastern Conference Atlantic Division Boston Celtics Brooklyn Nets Miami Heat New York Knickerbockers Orlando Magic Philadelphia 76ers Toronto Raptors Washington Wizards Central Division Atlanta Hawks Charlotte Hornets Chicago Bulls Cleveland Cavaliers Detroit Pistons Indiana Pacers Milwaukee Bucks Minnesota Timberwolves (conference shift) Western Conference Midwest Division Dallas Mavericks Denver Nuggets Houston Rockets Memphis Grizzlies New Orleans Pelicans Oklahoma City Thunder San Antonio Spurs Utah Jazz Pacific Division Golden State Warriors Las Vegas Battlers (expansion) Los Angeles Clippers Los Angeles Lakers Phoenix Suns Portland Trail Blazers Sacramento Kings Seattle SuperSonics (revival via expansion)
  12. "The Giants obviously still play there." That statement by Rob Manfred is one more reason for my longstanding suspicion that the MLB establishment has regarded the A's as a geographically expendable franchise and has seen Oakland as a geographically expendable location for a team.
  13. A "recruiter's error" would have been all too easy for Bud Selig to make. Lest we forget, Rob Manfred was the right-hand man of Selig -- who was himself an incompetent, corrupt, cronyistic abomination of a commissioner. Furthermore, Manfred was essentially hand-picked by Selig to be MLB's current commissioner; there were two other candidates (one of whom was backed by similarly incompetent and corrupt Jerry Reinsdorf), but favoritism by Selig seemed to be what swayed enough MLB team owners to pick Manfred. As for an example of Selig's cronyism, an apparently key reason why John Fisher is the present principal owner of the A's -- and why the future of the A's is in such turmoil right now -- is because one of Fisher's co-investors in the A's, Lew Wolff, was in the same fraternity at the same university at the same time as Selig.
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