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This settles it. I have to travel to SD this summer. I have friends who transplanted there. Or I'm couch surfing on the goon couch.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 08:18 |
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Zurreco posted:
Aztec basketball, bro
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 08:41 |
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Reminds me, Petco Park is a nice ballpark. Also my dad and I trespassed into the park when it was under construction. My dad pissed on home plate. Good times.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 08:43 |
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Zurreco posted:Teaming up with the Raiders is a special kind of irony, though. No one in LA really gives a poo poo about the Chargers except for SD transplants, and forcing them to share a stadium with their rivals is basically going to crush any sort of fanbase for them. Seriously. If you are a neutral fan and the Raiders and Chargers both come to town, in what world do you root for the Chargers? Sure the Raiders have sucked the last decade, but still, I'd be on their bandwagon in 3 seconds.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 15:48 |
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San Diego has an estimated 2 billion dollar backlog of infrastructure maintenance, last I heard an over 1 billion pension unfunded pension liability, poor bike and transit infrastructure, and is already working with a reduced government workforce and services. How can anyone support giving the Spanos family taxpayer money, government subsidies, or any sort of free ride to provide a football team that has a marginal if any economic benefit to the region? Good luck to them I hope they find another municipality to trick or maybe they'll actually have to take a risk and privately finance something.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 16:47 |
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The average person still buys that "economic benefit" of sports teams bullshit. As if Americans will save their money without a sports team, instead of just spending more at the bar or department store.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:17 |
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Man, fans of teams that will never move coming in here and talking about how awesome and cool at is that two fanbases are about to lose their teams is a special kind of hosed up.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:22 |
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SA2K posted:Man, fans of teams that will never move coming in here and talking about how awesome and cool at is that two fanbases are about to lose their teams is a special kind of hosed up. I'd prefer the Chargers stay, personally. Why can't they renovate the hell out of Qualcomm, anyway? Is it just that too far gone?
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:28 |
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So which team is moving to San Antonio?
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:31 |
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StarcraftM posted:I'd prefer the Chargers stay, personally. Why can't they renovate the hell out of Qualcomm, anyway? Is it just that too far gone? It's way too far gone. The amount of renovations you'd need to do wouldn't be cost effective
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:44 |
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Seems like we'd save ourselves a lot of grief if we built stadiums to last 500 years.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:50 |
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Frackie Robinson posted:Seems like we'd save ourselves a lot of grief if we built stadiums to last 500 years. just build the field in a valley and let the people stand on the grass and hills around it. gently caress this concession stands and seats and video boards
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 18:04 |
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SA2K posted:The same Padres that can't fill one tenth of their stadium unless the Giants or Dodgers are in town? Reseller markets up 81%. YOU HOLD YOUR TONGUE!
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 18:22 |
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Would the league step in and try to control the LA market if both the Rams plan and the Chargers/Raiders shared stadium seem like they're coming together? Do they even mind? It seems like the Rams are the closest to actually moving but Oakland is also without any real traction on getting a stadium, but it just seems a little nuts that the league would be fine with two (and maybe three) owners just showing up in the same city in a year or two. Considering how the NFL fought tooth and nail against Davis the first time this happened and that the pattern in other leagues is for the commissioner to do whatever backroom poo poo needs to happen to extract a stadium deal out of a city (unless you're helping your buddy move his new team to Oklahoma I guess), it just seems completely out of left field for Goodell to be totally fine with trying to transplant three different franchises to a new city nearly simultaneously.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:00 |
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According to the LA Times
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:05 |
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I guess the moral is that only midwesterners who took off for LA to pursue an acting career read the LA times.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:17 |
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SA2K posted:Man, fans of teams that will never move coming in here and talking about how awesome and cool at is that two fanbases are about to lose their teams is a special kind of hosed up. THANK YOU! By the way, judging fanbases by how many of their hats or whatever you see is dumb. Everyone in St. Louis owns a Cardinals hat (and loves wearing them). I don't even really like baseball and I own one. No one owns a Rams hat - really who owns football hats that aren't stocking caps? the mean lunch lady fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Feb 21, 2015 |
# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:35 |
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Volkerball posted:I guess the moral is that only midwesterners who took off for LA to pursue an acting career read the LA times. There are a lot more Raiders fans in the midwest than Rams fans. It's not even close.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:47 |
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Nail Rat posted:There are a lot more Raiders fans in the midwest than Rams fans. It's not even close. I know one Raider fan (yours truly) and 0 Rams fans 4 hours north of St. Louis, so this holds up.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:48 |
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the raiders
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:54 |
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Blitz7x posted:According to the LA Times
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 22:23 |
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There's a rumor Mark Davis is willing to jump over to the NFC to move to LA. If there's any truth to that, it's a terrible idea.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:31 |
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hallik posted:There's a rumor Mark Davis is willing to jump over to the NFC to move to LA. If there's any truth to that, it's a terrible idea. It's an awful idea. But we're talking about Mark Davis here so I could see it.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:40 |
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Blitz7x posted:According to the LA Times Old white people still associate the Raiders with the Rodney King riots so it's no surprise they don't want them back.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 00:01 |
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Volkerball posted:They've been living off 1 year leases in one of the 2 or 3 shittiest stadiums in the entire league So who has the worst stadium in the league than?
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:13 |
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Yaws posted:So who has the worst stadium in the league than? edit, hell, in that order.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:28 |
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FedEx Field is so bad that Snyder already wants a new stadium less than 20 years after building it
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:31 |
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I would rather the Rams/Raiders come to LA and keep the Chargers in San Diego. Living in Orange County and not really having a hometown team (I know lots of people that don't think of the Chargers as a hometown team, despite them being an hour and a half away), I'll root for whatever team moves to LA. USC/UCLA football is way bigger around here than Chargers, I'm not surprised one bit by that LA Times poll.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 07:16 |
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Benne posted:FedEx Field is so bad that Snyder already wants a new stadium less than 20 years after building it To be fair that is largely self inflicted
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 20:35 |
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I don't really remember anything being particularly terrible about FedEx Field. It's sort of lovely to get to, it's not in DC, and the Redskins are bad, but other than that it seemed perfectly acceptable the few times I went.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:46 |
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tallkidwithglasses posted:Would the league step in and try to control the LA market if both the Rams plan and the Chargers/Raiders shared stadium seem like they're coming together? Do they even mind? A supreme Court case related to I think the Ram's move to St Louis basically says the league can't do poo poo to stop a team from moving.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 22:56 |
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Good news for San Diego, the GULLS ARE BACK!
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 02:42 |
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Top Hats Monthly posted:
hey, it made a great av
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 06:08 |
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Top Hats Monthly posted:Good news for San Diego, the GULLS ARE BACK! omg yes
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 06:55 |
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i feel bad for how lovely everyone elses fan base is
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 07:13 |
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What's the backstory behind those photos?
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 15:18 |
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They actually witnessed raiders football.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 16:16 |
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NC-17 posted:What's the backstory behind those photos? Raiders fans keep it real.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 16:26 |
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NC-17 posted:What's the backstory behind those photos? A lot of alcohol and a really bad team
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 16:50 |
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NC-17 posted:What's the backstory behind those photos? Raiders/Chargers season opener last year. The 2012 edition was better though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-59CrWrr4
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