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  1. I'm periodically adding a few teams. The goal is 1 per week but I'm leaving open if I'm not able. Here's the first two: The Region SC and Oak Park SC. https://pcgd.co/the-region https://pcgd.co/oak-park
  2. The sleeves were originally raglan but it always was more or less what you see now.
  3. Its been 4 long years since my last post here. My departure wasn't about anything other than just a slow decrease of posting until I stopped. I lurked for a bit after that without really posting. I've now moved to Portland, OR and had a kid, so my time really is even more limited. However, with the pandemic happening, I got a chance to update my website (www.pcgd.co) and with that, I decided to make a home for The America League project I did back in 2013. I've updated the stories and mockups, created a full history of the league with yearly results, added a map, listed champions, and have mapped out the next two levels on the America League Pyramid. I thought anyone that was around back then, would appreciate seeing the updates! https://pcgd.co/america-league-all
  4. How does Kansas give them more access to St. Louis than Illinois does? St. Louis is like 60/40 Missouri/Illinois now. Missouri hates Kansas. Maybe I'm missing something? Speaking of, although it worked out better for Missouri football going to the SEC, Missouri should be in the Big Ten over Rutgers. I know the timelines are different so it's not an either or situation, but Missouri feels like a Big Ten team way more than Rutgers and it would have been a nice way to tie Nebraska into the footprint a bit more. Kinda feel the same way about Maryland but not as much... Although a part of me is really interested in all of this expansion stuff and I love to imagine scenarios where the Big Ten and SEC have 20 teams, I hate what its done to college sports. Nothing makes sense, (I know its a bad joke, but the Big 12 has 10 teams, the Big Ten has 14 teams) teams only play 3/4 of the teams in football and some teams twice and others once in basketball...non-revenue sports having to travel from Nebraska to New Jersey for a regular season game...Big Ten basketball tournament is going to be in NYC and DC....its just not like it used to be...
  5. I still don't understand how the NFL is getting a pass for admonishing St Louis for requesting an extra $100 million yet they turned around less than a month later and just gave it to Oakland/San Diego. That's a dickin'.
  6. So now trusting the owners he spoke with is blackmail? Never change.
  7. Except in this case, St. Louis is more like a husband who's decided not to sleep with wife any more, and after a couple years of rejection she starts to look around for someone who would appreciate her. Not to mention that all the while the husband's been flirting with a certain red-headed floozy downtown. Well its more like a husband (Lets call him Stan) left his wife (Angela) for another (LouAnn). Then his LouAnn stopped sleeping with him, acted kinda racist, and let herself go a bit, but all in all is still quite fetching to most, just isn't sleeping with Stan as much. Angela meanwhile, has got a ton of work done on herself, so Stan starts flirting with her a bit. But now Stan starts abusing new wife, threatening getting back together with Angela, calling out all of LouAnn's flaws on Facebook for the world to see. People don't really like LouAnn on Facebook though because they find her insufferable for her massive bird collection. So now, Facebook hates both of them. In the end, Stan probably will end up with Angela and live happily ever after. LouAnn will be sad for awhile, but she'll in reality be happier in the end knowing that she has her birds and can go back to ignoring Stan and his friends like she has already done with her ex-boyfriends the Silna brothers.
  8. Claiming sales taxes belong to the NFL is a new low for any corporation. St. Louis is in no way a blameless victim but that still kills me. http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2015/10/26/10011/rams-stadium-bill-still-uses-hated-game-day-taxes-for-city-share-nfl-says-get-your-own-money-thats-ours/
  9. I thought I heard somewhere this was a pretty known issue and it's not normal at other stadiums.
  10. Naming rights deals are not the same as the taxes generated by sales of tickets, concessions, etc. Yes, companies ask for tax breaks in order to move into a location all the time, and that conversation over the morality of that is one worth having. Also the arguement that the public should get naming rights moneies on publicly owned or financed stadiums is one worth having. However the teams generally don't publicly state they should get all those sales tax dollars because they generated the original purchase. That's like Target saying they are entitled to the sales tax on all your purchases, I've never heard another sport or company make that statement before. They propose new taxes specifically for construction costs, but not they are entitled to taxes generated by them. That is a new level of absurdity. When a league rises to a new level of greed I don't think the response should be "you're other favorite teams does something similar!" I mean, what arguement are you even trying to make here? It's like you're agreeing with him but just throwing a jab in there towards the Cardinals to make sure he doesn't get a point out there. Also, Busch Stadium was mostly Privately financed. $45 million of the 365 was public dollars. Most other MLB stadiums in recent years have the opposite ratio.
  11. They've been the "official mover" of the Rams for over 10 years. I designed a Rams themed graphic for them when I lived in St Louis in 2004.
  12. I kinda glazed over after the first episode, but wasn't that a pointless plot point in True Detectice season 2?
  13. Oh man that thing is obscene. Imagine a 200 foot tall cross made from shed materials. Even if I don't like it, I get that people want to tell everyone they're Christian, I just don't understand making it so ugly and obtrusive. Also, because its basically halfway between my mom and I, we occasionally meet there. There's actually a pretty decent restaurant near there (Firefly Grill) that makes you go…"Wait this is Effingham!?"
  14. Really? It feels closed even when it's open.
  15. This is a high stakes game of musical chairs. 3 teams simultaneously burning bridges and only 2 can move to LA. This could be amazing.
  16. Having grown up 10 miles from Urbana, it is mostly Bears, Colts and Packer fans. Lots of Cardinal fans, lots of Cubs fans, even White Sox fans. I don't remember a single Rams fan in the 10 years I lived there while the team was in St Louis.
  17. The only "open air" thing about Indy that works is the large window that looks out to downtown. Otherwise the roof is pointless. How many football stadiums with retractable roofs are actually substantial enough to feel like an outdoor stadium? Baseball ones usually have more space that opens, but to me both Houston and Milwaukee still feel like domes even with the roofs open. I think you sacrafice quite a bit when you go retractable no matter what. Edit: sorry skimmed your last thought a bit too much and you acknowledged what I said before I said it. I'll leave it though for the comment about baseball ones too.
  18. SB had potential but lacks character. Everything else is top notch.
  19. I used to do colleges more. Florida Tech Lightning and Vermont Maple Syrup Gathers. Pretty sure I stole Lightning from Tampa Bay, and Maple Syrup Gatherers was a joke I think i heard somewhere, but I did uniforms and everything. You guys aren't alone.
  20. I'm all for prosecuting counterfeiters but 175 years in prison is harsh as hell. Even the 15 years is harsh. We really need to examine prison terms in this country, some of them are waaaaaaay out of line with others.
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