Afternoon Royals Links: Royals Feelin' Good, But New Monsters in Canada Lurk
by Freneau on Sep 22, 2009 3:25 PM EDT
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PrintRoyals, Baseball Stuff, Islanders in KC, and the grab bag:
Royals:
- ROYALS: Translating 12-9 | Upon Further Review
- Royally Speaking: Lost among all the Tejeda/Davies comparisons....
- Brett Cecil Vs. Luke Hochevar - Minor League Ball
- Why are the Royals doing this? " KC Monarchy
Baseball:
- The Productive Out: King of the East
- Broadcaster Jim Garchow died Sunday " Chukars Corner
- Cecil Cooper out as Astros' manager: Did he get a raw deal? - The Crawfish Boxes
- Young A's on a roll - SweetSpot by Rob Neyer - ESPN
- Torre Makes His Team Worse | FanGraphs Baseball
- The Bottom Line - Boston Red Sox news and analysis (Varitek discussion)
- Boston Red Sox - The other evil empire - The Boston Globe
Grab Bag:
- Off to Kansas City for Islanders hockey, wee wee - Lighthouse Hockey
- Kansas City faces the preseason test - From The Rink
- As Isles' future is decided, Kansas City's NHL future is debated - Puck Daddy - NHL - Yahoo! Sports
- Brian Rudman : Pagan pyromania is misguided - Opinion - NZ Herald News
- Chris Fowler Feels Clemson Fan's Pain (Not Really) - College Football - Deadspin
- Megan Fox Will Kick You In The Boner - Megan Fox - Deadspin
- Cammy: A New Canadian Lake Monster? - Yahoo! News
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The Jolie comparison is rather apt
That hadn’t occurred to me. Good link, I don’t usually read that kind of thing but I found myself going “YEAH, preach it!”
I guess in ten years she’ll be married to Justin Timberlake with 10 babies running around.
I want the Islanders!
No way hockey works here, but it would be sweet for 10 years or so until it jumps to a better location.
Hockey in the winter in downtown would rule.
I'd rather have the NBA
But the NHL would be neat too. Personally, I wish they would start pushing for an AHL team.
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either would be cool really...
I dont see and NBA team moving in the near future though
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
by averagegatsby on Sep 22, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Is the Sprint Center
in line to get any Final Fours soon? It’s not quite the anchor tenant they’re looking for, but at least it’s high-level basketball.
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Never mind
I looked it up – the Final Four venues are set through 2016, and KC isn’t on the list. Looks like it’s all domed football stadiums, so if that’s the way the NCAA is going on Final Fours, KC isn’t hosting one for a long, long, long time.
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Yeah, a Final Four had mentioned as a possibilty
AT Arrowhead if the rolling roof had passed. NCAA wants 80,000 tickets instead of caring about decent seats for a basketball game.
I used to work with an old man that told me. Son, every workplace has a dumbass, if you don't have one where you work, then I'm afraid you're it.
i hate the ncaa
final four venues are worse than super bowl venues, which is pathetic.
KC was just awarded
A first/second round site for 2013.
I never understood why we would renovate two old stadiums in the middle of nowhere and not even put the rolling roof on and maximize the investment. I was against renovations, but if they were going to renovate – DO IT RIGHT!
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A major interstate junction is not "the middle of nowhere".
The stadiums have great interstate access without the headaches of driving through downtown.
Freaken lake monsters
I found a pic of Cammy this new Canadian lake monster, and he/she is pissed!! Notice V eyebrows indicating high level of irritation.
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Sep 22, 2009 4:55 PM EDT reply actions
A Homestar Runner Reference?!?!?!
Well done!
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by ratherfantastic on Sep 22, 2009 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
Wait?
are the Islanders moving to KC? Or are they just playing a game in KC?
Desperately hoping for Desperate Measures
Just playing a pre-season exhibition game
But many speculate that it is a testing ground for moving the Islanders there if the “Lighthouse” project that includes an upgraded Nassau Coliseum falls through.
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You're in NY
What is the sense of whether they are serious about leaving or if this is all just bargaining? I think a lot of people here don’t think its serious, but that’s probably cause we’re still jaded about the Penguins affair.
There is some speculation that the NHL is in for a rash of relocations soon, and that if Jim Balisille is awarded the Coyotes against the wishes of the NHL and moves them to Hamilton against their wishes, other buyers will follow suit and the NHL won’t be able to control it.
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The sense from Islanders fans
Is that Charles Wang is dead serious about moving the team if the Lighthouse project doesn’t get approved. Nassau Coliseum is probably the worst venue currently being used in North America for professional sports, and Wang doesn’t want just a new Coliseum (which the town of Hempstead indicated it’s willing to give him), he wants to turn the Coliseum area into a larger overall destination, with upgraded public transit as part of the deal – sort of the way Cleveland and San Diego and Baltimore built new stadiums as merely a part of a whole neighborhood overhaul. Uniondale, where the Coliseum is, is pretty much in the middle of nowhere – even more so than Kauffman Stadium – and public transit there is pretty much zero. Wang wants people to want to be in the area where the hockey game is going to be.
And since Wang would be keeping the team, he doesn’t face the obstacles that Balisille does in trying to buy in to the NHL in the first place. The New York metro area is already served by two other NHL teams, so I don’t think the NHL would block a move out on the grounds of not wanting to leave the New York market.
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That said...
it’s hard to say if Kansas City is the # 1 destination in his mind, but it’s got to be on the short list.
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Well the Sprint Center is definitely in the kind of area that he would want
Though I don’t know if there’s public transportation from the suburbs to it.
It's a nice arena
But he might not necessarily feel the city’s fans will support it.
I know Saskatoon has been on his list as well, and they’ve been going nuts for pre-season Islander games.
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Saskatoon?
Does he realize the “metro” area poplulation is only ~200,000?
I guess if the Islanders move there, maybe Fargo can get the Coyotes.
by Gopherballs on Sep 23, 2009 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions
The surest way to kill the league would be to put more teams in AAA type cities
Kansas City would support it, but I doubt we’d go crazy for it. I’d probably go to about the same number of hockey games as I do Royals games, proportionally adjusted of course, and I watch zero hockey. Hockey games are fun to be at, not so much fun to watch on TV.
I've read
The NHL really wants to go to big markets. They want Houston supposedly. But it will probably come down to “where can we make the most money” and the deal that AEG set out for the Sprint Center was a pretty good one, at least in the short term.
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Yes, but it would be
a RABID 200,000 (plus all of Saskatchewan and possibly Manitoba would be their fan base), as opposed to a lukewarm several millions. Phoenix is a good example of what a lukewarm large market will do for a team.
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Yea
But corporate support means more and more. I don’t think Saskatoon has that many Fortune 500 companies. Sad, but tthats a huge driving force – not level of intensity of hockey-love. That’s why Atlanta and Nashville get teams, not Quebec and Winnipeg.
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Saskatchewan/Manitoba is the size of two Californias
If someone living in, say, Regina wants to go to a game, he or she would have a 7 hour round trip. For someone in Winnipeg, it is 8 to 9 hours each way.
Yes, but there's also
the fact that their media market would be the entirety of two provinces. That’s several million who WILL WATCH HOCKEY for advertisers to target, several million for merchandising, probably a few home games every year played in Winnipeg or Regina would be major sell-outs…
Saskatoon alone is not the limit of the team’s reach.
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He said at the hearing
That eight cities have contacted him. I would venture to say the eight are:
Kansas City, Las Vegas, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Hartford, Saskatoon, Houston for sure.
Harder to say who the other would be. Seattle doesn’t really have an NHL arena, and they rejected an arena for their beloved Sonics. Milwaukee doesn’t seem to have much momentum for it. Oklahoma City? Quebec City?
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Hamilton is the prize there
The Toronto suburban market could support another team.
I agree
But I don’t think the NHL wants to gives its premiere franchise any competition, particularly considering how lousy the Leafs have been for decades.
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Hamilton is a suburb of Toronto
the same way Newark is a suburb of New York City
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by Matt Klaassen on Sep 23, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Then put the arena in the equivalent of East Rutherford
and call them the Ontario Lion-Cats.
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