I expect the Royals will be looking for a new city willing to take the knee, kiss the ring, and pony up the dollars.
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I bet Portland OR would offer the Royal’s owner $1 Billion for a new Stadium. Lots of cities without major league pro sports that are willing to buy.
Houston finances its sports teams via the hotel room tax and a tax on rental cars. Promoters were able to convince the public that out-of-towners would be paying the bill. Of course, that hotel & rental car tax revenue could be used to give people a break on the City’s high property taxes.
intercst
Perhaps cities should own their own damn teams in some form, and design the stadiums and other iinfrastructure to delight in and profit from the ownership.
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They sell stadium naming rights, how long before they go all the way and just sell team naming rights? The San Francisco Intels, the New York Mastercards, the Florida Waste Managements!
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They are selling advertising space on the player’s uniforms. The Nike “swoosh” has been in evidence for some years. Now I see a team with the Occidental Petroleum logo on their left shoulder. The Detroit Tigers have a patch promoting a regional grocery store on their shoulder.
Some years ago, I suggested, with tongue firmly in cheek, that team owners require players to bring sponsorship with them. Then each time a pitcher starts an inning, each time a player steps up to the plate, and each time a player makes a play on a ball, they stop the game for an advert by one of that player’s sponsors.
-“this inning of pitching brought to you by Right Guard deodorant”.
-“this plate appearance brought to you by Stroh’s beer.”
-“that catch brought to you by Cruex”
TPTB seem to have figured out people will sit still for a little over three hours. Football games are stretched to that length. Baseball games became stretched to that length, so MLB changed the rules to speed up play, but, I have noticed, when a game is televised, it tends to still take three hours, so they must have filled the time freed by the speeded play with more advertising. If they implement Plan Steve for individual player sponsors, they would probably need to cut game length to five or six innings, to keep total game time in the three hour range, with all the extra advertising.
/rant
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The ultimate oxymoron. Florida is mismanaging shyte.
They can always move to Oakland like they did in '68.
Off the top of my head, the last 2 privately funded stadiums built (at least for football) has been in Denver and LA.
Yea, what is it with professional football. The game is supposed to start at Noon. Guess what it starts at 12:07. It’s rediculous that a 60 minute game should last 3 1/2 hours. Don’t get me started on basketball. Two minutes in basketball can last 15 minutes.
I don’t watch baseball … WAAAAAAYYYYYYY too slow.
??? it is?
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What about the Washington Apples!
Or maybe the Detroit AutoZones?
Mike
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It’s a lot faster now with the new rule changes.
The bases are bigger to improve player safety and may also encourage more aggressive baserunning. Pitchers can only disengage from the pitching rubber twice per plate appearance. And there’s a new pitch clock that gives players 30 seconds to resume play between batters. Between pitches, pitchers have 15 seconds with nobody on and 20 seconds if there is a baserunner.
Andy
Guessing from your moniker you golf. How do you feel about watching golf tournaments?
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The last few years I’ve started watching the 15 minute highlight reel on youtube that appears shortly after the game ends. Much more efficient than sitting through the commercials and just as enjoyable.
intercst
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I’d like to see some defense in golf. What would be more exciting than having your playing partner stationed at the end of the tee box with a catcher’s mitt to “defend against the drive”?
intercst
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The Los Angeles Oscars. Or maybe Donkeys. Or maybe Fruits&Nuts. Gotta keep the Dodger name though, as it fits us as dam well as it did Brooklyn. But the Angels? Nah. E.G., Bill the Cat is a big fan:
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living in Mexico but I will always be a Los Angeles surfer dude.
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Statistically, the ball is only in motion for about 8 minutes per NFL game, so a 15 minute highlight reel is only 7 minutes of wasted time, instead of 3 hours of wasted time. You are right. Much more efficient.
Steve
No need to sit through commericals – just use your DVR.
DB2
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I do that sometimes, when trying to watch a movie. MeTV runs a creature feature on Saturday nights. Some of the films they run, I enjoy. But they pack the show with unfunny schtick and commercials. They used to have a 2 hour block, to show movies that usually run 90 minutes or less. Then they expanded the block to 2 1/2 hours, to stuff in more advertising and unfunny schtick, for the same <90 minute films. A pretty horrible content to garbage ratio: 40% garbage, so, if I want to see a film, I fire up the DVR, then skip the garbage on the replay.
The evening network “news” is pretty grim too. The first 15 minutes has the “news”, and the daily weather hysteria. The second half of the broadcast runs three minutes of advertising, then thirty seconds of content, three more minutes of advertising, then thirty seconds of content, repeating that advertising/content ratio until they run out the clock. So the content/garbage ratio of the second half of the national “news” is 85% garbage.
But the winner is still football. 3 1/4 hours, for 8 minutes of play, works out to 96% garbage.
Steve
You wouldn’t believe how many great naps I’ve enjoyed while watching golf tournaments. Only problem is you have to watch out for the boss or before you know it the channel will have mysteriously changed to QVC.
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