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Yeah, I thin I flew to CDMX from EWR in around 5 hours. Travel time isn't a concern. The concern is that the altitude makes Denver feel like sea level. Monterrey, which is pretty wealthy in its own right, is only around 1,700' above sea level, as opposed to CDMX which is over 7,500'. Even Guadalajara is basically Denver.
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I only heard the post game interviews, that's it.
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My gods. How have they not realized that you absolutely cannot win a Super Bowl with Cousins? And does Cousins really think there will be a bidding war for him next offseason (after another fizzle-out?) If I'm him, I take whatever they offer me. If I'm them, I count down the days till that ridiculous guaranteed contract is over.
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Was just flipping through and caught the beginning of the DC game (my first XFL of the season). Man, that crowd sounded great! Very soccer-ish atmosphere there - seems like they've created a really fun fan experience there. If they could somehow replicate that everywhere, this thing might just work.
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Fair enough. I don’t mind screen printing / heat pressing, since some of these designs could be difficult to pull off with twill or the rubberized material, but I would agree that designs aside, some do have a “cheap” feeling to them, even if they’re not literally cheap. There are certainly a few that look like the letters were applied by the players themselves 5 minutes before the game starts, and the Netherlands jersey looks like something you’d buy in a tourist shop with its tiny and borderline-illegible “kingdom of the” addition.
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Here's some photos from the Venezuelan* major league. Why shouldn't Venezuela's national team reflect the aesthetic of its major league? I don't think anyone else should be held to the baseline that the US has set. Ironically, the US's cap logo and flag-S are, IMO, just as silly as some of the other designs. I'd much prefer a Yankees-inspired design, or some variation of some of the classic White Sox logos that intertwined S O X, but with U S A. *just using Venezuela as an example - the point applies to all countries.
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If they want it to look like a global event, then it should look like an American one. I know that's not exactly what you said, but it kinda is (and what others have said). Some of the designs absolutely suck - Great Britain's tiny wordmark, Canada's everything, Taiwan's logo, Italy, and even Cuba. But again, different parts of the world have different established aesthetics. I thought it was cool that Cuba seemed to always wear mono red in international tournaments. I think it's cool that the Latin-American countries are bright and colorful, which reflects aspects of their culture that are in stark contrast to the relatively conservative North American way of things. To look like a "global" event... it should look like a global event.
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I, for one, chuckled at the visual of the Pirate Parrot being surrounded by a circle of all the other team mascots right on the pitcher's mound. To stay on topic - regarding first team to move, I know it sounds ridiculous right now, but wouldn't it be the Golden Knights? I know they have good support, and the one game I saw on TV looked like a great atmosphere, but 1) there's no way the Raiders are leaving for 20-30 years after that stadium was built, 2) if the A's get a stadium, they'll be locked in regardless that they won't get good attendance, and 3) the NBA (IMO) would thrive there. Not saying the VGK are likely to move, but of the four, they're by default the most likely.
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I don't see the issue here at all. Sure some of the designs are completely terrible, but it's not MLB, and I like that some of the countries brought some flair to it rather than have it be the American standard of white v gray with mostly conservative designs. I'm surprised that anyone on these boards would be against teams having their own designers and/or manufacturers. I also don't love the assumption that every team uses the "manufacturer" (who often times isn't actually the manufacturer) to do the design work, when even at the top-tier levels, that's not 100% true (even if Nike and the like push it hard.)
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Does the Great Britain team not include people from the UK that aren't on the Island? Like if you're an ace pitcher from Belfast, are you ineligible?
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Cleveland deal. Problem solved.
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He's not really wrong though.
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It can totally work if the third color is black. Other than that, it's probably not a great idea.
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But you typically know what risks you're accepting when you decide to play a sport. For decades, NFL players weren't told what the real long-term effects of concussions were, so they couldn't reasonably accept the risk of CTE, suicidal depression, memory loss, etc. As you said, things affect people differently, but it's still a non-negligible risk that they should be aware of before consenting to play. Same with this turf. Unlike the CTE thing, where I think that information was intentionally withheld, I don't think anyone had the slightest clue about what was in the turf, as that research simply (I assume) wasn't being done at the time. But I also think that's irrelevant, and that based on the proof that's now coming out, anyone who played on it (and especially the families of those who died) should be lawyering up. I'm not sure that the unawareness of a risk lets a company off the hook. But maybe it does. I'm not a lawyer, just a humble guy posting on a message board about George Brett's butthole.
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An unintended consequence of the pitch clock is there will be reduced food/beer/merch sales in the park. It could be significant. If the 7th inning is 100 mins into the game rather than 130 (I'm just making up times), that's way less time before beer sales are cut off and they clean up the food stands. Also less time for people to wander around and buy random stuff while a pitcher is taking 45 seconds to scratch his balls in between pitches. At some point, that reduced revenue will be passed onto the fans either in higher prices for food/beer or higher tickets.
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NHL Anti-Thread: Bad Business Decision Aggregator
BBTV replied to The_Admiral's topic in Sports In General
"Hockey is about inclusion" - if your parents were rich enough to pay for ice time and equipment so you could play for your high school club team. I loved ice hockey when I was a kid, but never had a chance to play it because (at least where I grew up) you had to be rich. It didn't matter if you were gay, non-white, or of any other marginalized or discriminated-against group, it was all about the $$$. I know it's different in other areas (I think we had a whole thread about this, where I was surprised that even in Canada it's not as accessible as something like basketball is) but "hockey is inclusive" is a joke, even outside of DEI. -
I genuinely think that brain cancer caused by turf that thousands of athletes have been exposed to is a pretty freaking serious topic, but I'm willing to let it devolve into a discussion of George Brett's various butthole issues if that's the will of the people.
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Speaking of his world class A hole, he had a terrible case of hemorhoids during that 1980 WS. It's infamous. He had attendants running out to get Preparation H every day while they were in Phila, and he actually got pulled from a game because his world-class A hole was in so much pain. He got surgery after the WS. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/01/sports/brett-in-hospital-for-surgery.html https://www.inxmedical.com/blog/kansas-city-royals-george-brett-the-hemorrhoids-guy/#:~:text=In the 1980 World Series,to experiencing extreme hemorrhoid pain.
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Crap - my bad. It was Ken Brett, not George Brett. Ken did play for the Royals during the 1980 WS. Technically I never said George, but it's obviously implied.
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I didn't realized it was paywalled (though I subscribe) - I thought there was some free articles before it got walled. There's nothing I found that goes as deep, but here's a couple other articles that should be free: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-11832879/Dangerous-forever-chemicals-old-samples-turf-Phillies-Veterans-Stadium.html This is a different article from the Inquirer (much shorter, and focused simply on the testing) that might not be paywalled. https://www.inquirer.com/news/veterans-stadium-artificial-turf-samples-testing-pfas-forever-chemicals-cancer-20230307.html
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JFC, so the Sixers owner will own franchises that are rivals to the Flyers and Eagles. What’s next - he buys the Braves?
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NexTurf. A different product than FieldTurf. One that was so bad, the Ravens refused to play a preseason game on it and the game was cancelled. Edit: and it was only changed after the 2000 NFL season, so 2001 was the first non-Astroturf year.
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True about the colleges. Those guys spend a max of 4 years on the turf? From what I've read, that can be more than enough to have complications from the PFAS but the risk would certainly be higher for pro athletes that remain in the same city for a decade (which at one time was normal, vs today) and played on the same surface in half their road games too. I haven't read about football players getting the cancer, so maybe the 1 game / week limited their exposure enough? Though I assume most practice facilities at the time used the same turf.
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Everyone knows how bad the Astroturf field was at the old vet. It had seams that ended careers, and didn't have any padding under it so it was basically carpet on top of concrete. But what people outside of Phila may not know is that 6 former Phillies players that played on that turf have died from the same rare form of brain cancer (glioblastoma ), including a few franchise icons. Also two KC Royals (who they played in the World Series) also died of brain cancer (Ken Brett and Quisenberry). That cannot be a coincidence. I cannot believe that it took this long, but the local paper (as well as researchers from Notre Dame) did an investigation where they acquired pieces of the old turf (prior to when they replaced it with NexTurf, which had its own issues) and tested it for chemicals. Turns out it was loaded with 16 types of PFAS ("forever chemicals") that have a direct link to various cancers (though for some reason, they never researched if brain cancer was one) and even messes with your balls. This is a really interesting read, and shows that while everyone focused on the physical dangers of playing on turf - ripped up knees, concussions, skin burns, general knee degradation, etc., the invisibal threat was brain cancer. Makes me wonder if studies will be done in other cities that used the same brand of turf, or if this was unique to Philadelphia. Anyone from a city that had Astroturf know if brain cancer has been a thing with their players? This is LONG, and admittedly I started skimming before I got to the end, but I plan on getting through it when I get some more time. https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/astroturf-vet-artificial-turf-pfas-forever-chemicals-glioblastoma-cancer-phillies-1980-20230307.html
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so basically, only the color is fine.
