OT: Kansas City Islanders?
KC has been teased by the Penguins recently, but the Islanders definitely have less of a local fan base, and a worse bureaucracy to deal with getting any new construction done than the Penguins did. Wang is getting impatient.
Of course, there's no island anywhere near KC. Scouts? Blades? A new name entirely?
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I say keep Islanders
It would be high comedy for the most central team in the NHL to be named “Islanders” and would make as much sense as the Los Angeles Lakers or Utah Jazz.
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With the current weather conditions...
I’m thinking it would be equally awesome, nonsensical name-wise, if the Miami Heat moved to KC. Maybe we could even steal the Flint Tropics Halftime Show for the Sprint Center.
"Now…put that in your [BLEEP]ing pipe and smoke it."
I'm puffing away, Hal.
by Sweep_the_Leg on Jan 16, 2009 12:21 PM EST up reply actions
Kansas City Humidity
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by focs on Jan 16, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
hee hee
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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 16, 2009 1:13 PM EST up reply actions
If the Heat ever moved to KC
they should definitely be re-named “the Barbecue.”
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Or the Cincinnati Royals NBA franchise
When they moved here. We coulda had two teams called “the Kansas City Royals.”
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hockey!
yes! i like hockey but really can’t get into since i don’t have a favorite team. i play as the penguins on my older hockey games, but it’s kinda lame since the center on Line 1 is Mario Lemieux.
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“We decided to keep the name Islanders as a tribute to both that little piece of landfill in Swope Park Lake and, of course, to the island in the Kansas River near the 18th Street Bridge where Bigfoot lives.”
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by jonfmorse on Jan 16, 2009 7:02 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I don't even understand this and it made me laugh
are we still going to hang during game threads this season, morse?
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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 16, 2009 7:17 PM EST up reply actions
I don't know.
I mean, at the rate things are going, by April I may have parlayed my former six-figure job with 12 years of experience into a graveyard shift gig at the local QuikTrip.
I do know it’s highly unlikely I’ll have MLBEI or even MLBTV, which actually drove my participation last summer.
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You can always "watch" the games on MLB.com
Their little gameday thing is pretty decent. And it uses Pitch f/x to show you where the pitches actually were with respect to the strike zone. You do lose a bit of flavor though…
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by Scott McKinney on Jan 17, 2009 2:16 AM EST up reply actions
that's pretty much all I did these past couple seasons
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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 17, 2009 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
Kansas City Penguins
Would have been awesome.
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
yes
that would have made me actually take a trip or three to come and watch.
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I hate it when one drops their egg on the ice, though
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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 17, 2009 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
They can still do it
would be kind of fun to watch the Penguins play the Penguins in a giant orgy of Penguiness.
Maybe thats just me.
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by kcbottom9th on Jan 17, 2009 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
New nickname possibilities
Kansas City Inlanders (might be the cheapest transition — only one letter needs changing)
Kansas City Peninsulars
Kansas City Mainlanders
Kansas City Continentals
I think I like the Kansas City Continentals best…alliterative, also has that cool snootiness factor to it that would be hilarious when combined with hockey. Get a monocled, Ascot-wearing mascot, and you’re all set. Maybe some help from Christopher Walken, too.
by mikewormdog on Jan 17, 2009 6:01 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
For some reason I thought of this
Judge: I sentence you to a lifetime on Monster Island!
Lisa Simpson: Monster Island!?!?
Judge: Don’t worry, its just a name.
[cut to Lisa Simpson running away from monsters on Monster Island]
Lisa Simpson: He said it was just a name!
Man Running: What he meant was, Monster Island is actually a peninsula!
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To try to appease some fans across the state line
perhaps we should take an example from the California, um, Los Angeles, um, of Anaheim, CA Angels.
The Kansas City Metropolitan Areas of Kansas and Missouri Continentals.
Although, I prefer, The Kansas City Metropolitan Areas of Kansas and Missouri Limestone Bluffs. Or, even better, contextually,
The Kansas City Metropolitan Areas of Kansas and Missouri Frozen Fountains.
meat
reminds me of this...
Carl: Hey, I heard we’re goin’ to Ape Island.
Lenny: Yeah, to capture a giant ape.
Carl: I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.
Charlie: Candy Apple Island? What do they got there?
Carl: Apes. But they’re not so big.
The Kansas City
Candy Apples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111 Hockey dudes would never figure out a way to make fun of that name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111
I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.
by philofthenorth on Jan 18, 2009 12:24 AM EST up reply actions
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