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At least the O.co Coliseum or whatever the :censored: it's called this week, while it is a piece of :censored: pit, is outdoors. Baseball was not meant to be played inside a :censored:ing Costco. The worst stadium in baseball is "The Trop".

I've sat in the upper deck of the Coliseum. The seats are pointed at second base. You gotta look straight down to see the pitcher and catcher. Meanwhile wind blows mist into your face at 20 mph. The Trop is ugly as sin but at least it doesn't physically harm you. The stadium is so bad that even if the A's went 162-0, the Giants would still have better attendance than them.

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At least the O.co Coliseum or whatever the :censored: it's called this week, while it is a piece of :censored: pit, is outdoors. Baseball was not meant to be played inside a :censored:ing Costco. The worst stadium in baseball is "The Trop".

I've sat in the upper deck of the Coliseum. The seats are pointed at second base. You gotta look straight down to see the pitcher and catcher. Meanwhile wind blows mist into your face at 20 mph. The Trop is ugly as sin but at least it doesn't physically harm you. The stadium is so bad that even if the A's went 162-0, the Giants would still have better attendance than them.

I've been to games at both Tropicana Field and the Oakland Coliseum. The Trop makes the Coliseum look like a palace.

But really, neither stadium is THAT bad. Old Yankee Stadium (at the end) and Aloha Stadium in Hawaii are tied for being the worst buildings I've ever been in, let alone stadiums.

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And sorry to go off topic again, but the guy who commented on the record playoff drought awhile back is right on the money. Put that kind of suck in any market and you will see attendance struggles.

As a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs I find this argument faulty.

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And sorry to go off topic again, but the guy who commented on the record playoff drought awhile back is right on the money. Put that kind of suck in any market and you will see attendance struggles.

As a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs I find this argument faulty.

I'll second that.

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And sorry to go off topic again, but the guy who commented on the record playoff drought awhile back is right on the money. Put that kind of suck in any market and you will see attendance struggles.

As a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs I find this argument faulty.

The Maple Leafs are also a cultural institution that's been around since (might as well be) 1100 A.D. in a city that knows and loves hockey. That's not a fair comparison.

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And sorry to go off topic again, but the guy who commented on the record playoff drought awhile back is right on the money. Put that kind of suck in any market and you will see attendance struggles.

As a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs I find this argument faulty.

The Maple Leafs are also a cultural institution that's been around since (might as well be) 1100 A.D. in a city that knows and loves hockey. That's not a fair comparison.

what it should have said is any American market. Hockey is not a cultural institution in the states as it is in Canada. Prolonged periods of suck will kill any market. especially the ones in sunbelt markets where football is a cultural institution.

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Hockey is not a cultural institution in the states as it is in Canada.

Well, not all of the states. It certainly is in Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, and parts of others. People in those states often have more in common with Canadians, culturally speaking, than with Americans born and raised in the southeast or southwest. That's what made last winter's Olympic hockey fervor so stupid to me. All these guys grew up with more or less the same climate, same English dialect, same value system, same bad food, whatever, and everyone was running around like it was some Miracle on Ice showdown or something. Just dumb.

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Can we please please PLEASE get back on topic? This is ridiculous.

I find the speculation of the Predators uniforms very interesting. Especially since rumors exist involving the testing of a gold colored jersey, possibly being used as a home uniform. I would definitely appreciate the unique nature of this jersey, considering yellow/gold is not used at all as a jersey color in the league as of now. The only recent yellow jerseys I can think of were the Bruins pooh bear jersey, Bruins winter classic, and the Predators infamous alternates.

Which brings up the question: will the Preds choose mustard or the bright yellow they use now? I'm a little iffy about both shades. The mustard is sickly and the yellow would be blinding. Either way, I think that reebok gave the Preds one of the worst jersey changes with the Edge redesign and they definitely have an opportunity to improve things.

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NBA teams that miss the playoffs for long stretches have horrible attendance. You can't just expect hockey to get 41 sellouts in every market. Not one of major sports has great attendance for all 30+ teams. Green Bay and Pittsburgh sell out, but Jacksonville does not. Tons of MLB teams have bad attendance, including the Blue Jays.

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And sorry to go off topic again, but the guy who commented on the record playoff drought awhile back is right on the money. Put that kind of suck in any market and you will see attendance struggles.

As a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs I find this argument faulty.

The Maple Leafs are also a cultural institution that's been around since (might as well be) 1100 A.D. in a city that knows and loves hockey. That's not a fair comparison.

He said "any" market. He even bolded "any." Last I checked that's a pretty open-ended comparison.

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Can we please please PLEASE get back on topic? This is ridiculous.

I find the speculation of the Predators uniforms very interesting. Especially since rumors exist involving the testing of a gold colored jersey, possibly being used as a home uniform. I would definitely appreciate the unique nature of this jersey, considering yellow/gold is not used at all as a jersey color in the league as of now. The only recent yellow jerseys I can think of were the Bruins pooh bear jersey, Bruins winter classic, and the Predators infamous alternates.

Which brings up the question: will the Preds choose mustard or the bright yellow they use now? I'm a little iffy about both shades. The mustard is sickly and the yellow would be blinding. Either way, I think that reebok gave the Preds one of the worst jersey changes with the Edge redesign and they definitely have an opportunity to improve things.

For memories sake...

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i guess not... :roll: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Every discussion ever could go on a hundred better tangents than the baby-poo sweaters of the Cliff Ronning era. I'm not sorry.

You should be. I do not want to scroll through 5 pages of winnipeg/relocation talk that should be moved to here. (And i'm pretty sure those uniforms were introduced the same year ronning was traded.)

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One time at a Panera outside St. Louis (they call it Saint Louis Bread Company there!), I remember that I stood in line with an obese woman in a baby-poo Cliff Ronning sweater. Either there was enough overlap for her to commission a custom sweater, or someone has taken creative liberties with the proud history of the Nashville Predators and commissioned an intentionally anachronistic article of clothing so as to simultaneously glorify Nashville, Cliff Ronning, and baby poo, all notwithstanding the glaring historical inaccuracy for which no one shall stand. I also remember that I paid like eight bucks for a freakin' panini; what gives.

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Every discussion ever could go on a hundred better tangents than the baby-poo sweaters of the Cliff Ronning era. I'm not sorry.

You should be. I do not want to scroll through 5 pages of winnipeg/relocation talk that should be moved to here. (And i'm pretty sure those uniforms were introduced the same year ronning was traded.)

And there's speculation regarding the Winnipeg team's identity that should probably go here. Topics go off-topic. No need to get bent out of shape about it. I get the desire to steer a topic back on course, but I just think it's silly when people post stuff like "can we please get back on topic?," imploring us to return to the original topic of discussion, indicating that they're upset that an online discussion concerning hockey sweaters has veered off topic. It just strikes me as silly.

Topics will go off-topic when there's nothing regarding the topic to discuss. We've heard all the rumours, we've all speculated, discussed, theorized, and analyzed leaked info. At this point there's nothing to discuss until a picture is leaked or a team unveils their new look. So things have gone off-topic in light of that development. And that's ok. Things will get back on topic when those leaks and/or unveils occur.

If you want to discuss the Nashville Predators' yellow sweaters, I'll say if they use yellow as a primary sweater colour it should be used in place of white for road games and it has to be standard athletic gold. If they use that mustard poo colour again it'll be a disaster.

As to the Panthers' problems, it's not the NHL's job to see that the Panthers don't suck. Even if it's the result of poor ownership a ruined market is a ruined market and should be moved. No one shows up for games and the tv ratings are horrible. If this persists any longer the Earth's going to be salted. The cause will be a distant secondary concern to the primary issue of the market being unworkable.

They never should have left the city of Miami.

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One time at a Panera outside St. Louis (they call it Saint Louis Bread Company there!), I remember that I stood in line with an obese woman in a baby-poo Cliff Ronning sweater. Either there was enough overlap for her to commission a custom sweater, or someone has taken creative liberties with the proud history of the Nashville Predators and commissioned an intentionally anachronistic article of clothing so as to simultaneously glorify Nashville, Cliff Ronning, and baby poo, all notwithstanding the glaring historical inaccuracy for which no one shall stand. I also remember that I paid like eight bucks for a freakin' panini; what gives.

I was in Panera the other day. So. Freakin'. Expensive. Wasn't too crazy about the panini I had, either.

Now with the Predators, is it gonna be that their home jerseys will be yellow and the roads white? I'm not sure about that, I feel they need a navy jersey in there somewhere. Granted, I didn't mind the mustard alts that much

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Personally I hope the Nashville Predators don't go the all-gold/yellow/mustard route. It would be fine as an alternate jersey, but that's a personal pet peeve I have with sports identities, is when they don't have a white home or away jersey in their entire uniform set.

So how much do we all want to bet that True North unveils the new Winnipeg NHL teams' identity this Thursday, the day after the Stanley Cup Final?

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