The_Admiral Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Well, no, because they budgeted for sales tax revenue from adjacent properties to pay for it and those revenues never materialized. At least one culturally bankrupt gimp has gone to the Jimmy Buffett restaurant. Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 So it's come to this: http://www.azcentral...t.html#commentsGlendale officials this week considered offering up City Hall and the main police station as collateral to obtain a $41 million loan to cover sports-related debts.The city would use the money to cover payments to the National Hockey League and potentially to make payments on Camelback Ranch stadium, the city's spring-training ballpark.Glendale officials acknowledged the proposal wouldn't bring the city any savings."This is by no means a money-saving exercise," Interim City Manager Horatio Skeete said. "This exercise would basically allow us the freedom to do a couple things: spread the payments of the $25 million that is currently owed to the NHL and to shore up ourselves for the (Camelback Ranch payments) that are coming due."No one talks enough about how that Camelback Ranch thing is just as much a disaster as the Coyotes/Jobberdome. "It has two team facilities separated by a fully stocked pond! We didn't pay for it!"You can't fight City Hall, but apparently you can pawn it off.EDIT: oh andhttp://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2012/06/20/20120620glendale-possible-sales-tax-hike-referendum.html Glendale is expected to trim $1.1 million from police, fire and other city departments in an effort to avert a referendum to repeal the sales-tax hike the City Council passed last week.. . .The latest cuts follow a painful budgeting process that included the layoff of nearly 50 employees and service cuts as the city shored up a $35 million shortfall in its operating budget for the coming fiscal year, which opens July 1.Some of the budget woes come as the city plans to pay potential Phoenix Coyotes buyer Greg Jamison $17 million in the coming fiscal year to manage the city-owned Jobing.com Arena.Interim City Manager Horatio Skeete said if the tax increase was repealed, the city would have to consider whether it could pay the arena-management fee.Sports.This is actually a decent plan if you ask me. It makes it easier for angry residents of Glendale to riot and burn down the Jobber without those pesky public safety groups getting in the way. Quote On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Admiral Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yeah, just collect insurance after the arson. I'll help burn it down. Of course, I will require a considerable Riot Management Fee for my services, but when you consider that I'm assuming the risk, you're actually coming out ahead! Quote ♫ oh yeah, board goes on, long after the thrill of postin' is gone ♫ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgesL Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I may get kicked off the boards for saying this, but Bettman's attempt, combined with Glendale's attempt to keep the team in Phoenix is like Communism. It's a great idea at first, but it doesn't work in the long run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiddySicks Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I may get kicked off the boards for saying this, but Bettman's attempt, combined with Glendale's attempt to keep the team in Phoenix is like Communism. It's a great idea at first, but it doesn't work in the long run.Except that unlike communism, nobody ever considered Bettman's attempt to keep the team in Arizona a good idea. Quote On 11/19/2012 at 7:23 PM, oldschoolvikings said: She’s still half convinced “Chris Creamer” is a porn site.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Someone call the National Guard. Quote 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOldRoman Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 At least one culturally bankrupt gimp has gone to the Jimmy Buffett restaurant.If it's anything like Cheeseburger in Paradise in Downers Grove, it has really good burgers and great drinks. Is that merely sustenance for the proletariat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sodboy13 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 At least one culturally bankrupt gimp has gone to the Jimmy Buffett restaurant.If it's anything like Cheeseburger in Paradise in Downers Grove, it has really good burgers and great drinks. Is that merely sustenance for the proletariat?There are dozens of places throughout the city and suburbs where one can get a really good burger and a really good drink without being subjected to the Coral Reefer aesthetic. We are not in an area short on great meat.Jimmy Buffett concerts strike me as a place where the uptight pretend to be laid-back. I think of his restaurants and home beverage systems as an extension of that lifestyle. Quote On 1/25/2013 at 1:53 PM, 'Atom said: For all the bird de lis haters I think the bird de lis isnt supposed to be a pelican and a fleur de lis I think its just a fleur de lis with a pelicans head. Thats what it looks like to me. Also the flair around the tip of the beak is just flair that fleur de lis have sometimes source I am from NOLA. PotD: 10/19/07, 08/25/08, 07/22/10, 08/13/10, 04/15/11, 05/19/11, 01/02/12, and 01/05/12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS85 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around? Quote Quote "You are nothing more than a small cancer on this message board. You are not entertaining, you are a complete joke." twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin W. Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this. Quote Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (CHL - 2018 Orr Cup Champions) Chicago Rivermen (UBA/WBL - 2014, 2015, 2017 Intercontinental Cup Champions) King's Own Hexham FC (BIP - 2022 Saint's Cup Champions) Portland Explorers (EFL - Elite Bowl XIX Champions) Real San Diego (UPL) Red Bull Seattle (ULL - 2018, 2019, 2020 Gait Cup Champions) Vancouver Huskies (CL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I thought of setting up an organized crime ring in their city first. Quote On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I thought of setting up an organized crime ring in their city first.Own a hockey team. No money down. No returns expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustDevil61 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?The image that came to my mind was the Futurama episode where Bender pawns off his body. The key differences here are that, first, he profited financially for it, and second, he got the body back in the end.I don't see Glendale making a profit over this or retaining their infrastructure anytime soon, should they be able to go through with this. Goldwater would have to be idiots to not do a single thing about this now--but I don't see that happening.How soon can these wackos be recalled? Quote http://i.imgur.com/Pyc5qRH.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/RDXvxFE.gif LED Sig Credits to packerfan21396 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gothamite Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this."Without our hockey team, how will we show the rest of Arizona that Glendale is a virbrant metropolis, the equal of Paris or New York?" Quote The Green Bay Packers Uniform Database! Now in a handy blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceCap Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this.Just give it a few pages. Soon we'll have the Coyotes faithful in here demanding proof for our "ludicrous" claims that Glendale is literally selling itself to keep this team.This will be because they would not have read the past ten pages (that contain such proof) because they "couldn't bring themselves to read pages of totally not fact-based Coyotes bashing." Quote PotD 26/2/12 1/7/15 2020 BASS Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal Regular Season Champion 2021 BASS NFL Pick'em Regular Season Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this."Without our hockey team, how will we show the rest of Arizona that Glendale is a virbrant metropolis, the equal of Paris or New York?"They'd have been better spent building an Eiffel Tower if that was their intention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger77 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this.Just give it a few pages. Soon we'll have the Coyotes faithful in here demanding proof for our "ludicrous" claims that Glendale is literally selling itself to keep this team.This will be because they would not have read the past ten pages (that contain such proof) because they "couldn't bring themselves to read pages of totally not fact-based Coyotes bashing." You're just jealous that the Coyotes had a better season than the Leafs! orWhy do you hate Shane Doan? orIts a Phoenix thing, you wouldn't understand! Quote PotD May 11th, 2011looooooogodud: June 7th 2010 - July 5th 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this."Without our hockey team, how will we show the rest of Arizona that Glendale is a virbrant metropolis, the equal of Paris or New York?"I liked this comment better. "The petition going around now is to bring this decision to a vote, not for the peoples' voices to be heard, but for the deal to be killed by people who oppose any sort of government action to help improve the economy."Last I checked that is exactly WHY we vote in this country. It's the way people's voices are heard, and if those voices say kill the deal because it's crap than it will be done. If they want people to vote their way they have just as much time to convince the people of Glendale to vote with them. But considering their mortgaging their city away to do it... THAT is why they don't want people to vote, they know it's a bad deal and they haven't cared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBubba Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this.Just give it a few pages. Soon we'll have the Coyotes faithful in here demanding proof for our "ludicrous" claims that Glendale is literally selling itself to keep this team.This will be because they would not have read the past ten pages (that contain such proof) because they "couldn't bring themselves to read pages of totally not fact-based Coyotes bashing." You're just jealous that the Coyotes had a better season than the Leafs! orWhy do you hate Shane Doan? orIts a Phoenix thing, you wouldn't understand! You're just Canadian hockey supremacists, that's all! You can't stand to have less than 30 teams in Canada! You're just jealous that the US has more teams than Canada! Let me guess, we have to move the Rangers and Red Wings too? Don't tell me that's not the same thing!!1!!!!11 Quote Nobody cares about your humungous-big signature. PotD: 29/1/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgesL Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 So let me get this straight - Glendale would rather mortage the very skeleton of their city's infrastructure in order to keep the Phoenix Coyotes around?I just don't get it. I don't understand how any Coyotes fan can defend this."Without our hockey team, how will we show the rest of Arizona that Glendale is a virbrant metropolis, the equal of Paris or New York?"I'm pretty sure there are other features that Glendale can support and provide for the public and the tourists. But it can't be just a hockey team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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