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Grittybeard posted:I guess I was referring specifically to the highlighted part, which is way over the top and probably the writer purposely framing it that way more than anything. Although in the last decade it's hard to see where going to Jerry for advice on anything other than making money is worthwhile. JJ is one of the most successful owners in the league when it comes to everything that isn't personnel decisions, so the takeaway is to follow his business advice but also hire a GM
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FuzzySkinner posted:I was in Maryland the past week. a) Did you go to a chain place? b) This is a bad season for them as far as harvests.
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MrLogan posted:a) Did you go to a chain place? b) This is a bad season for them as far as harvests. Naw, tried to hit up the local joints. That would explain quite a bit though.
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The crab I've had in coastal GA towns makes me not want to eat crab anymore. Also, gently caress Michael Crabtree
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Chilichimp posted:Also, gently caress Michael Crabtree  I like michael crabtree.Also come eat crab in San Francisco we got the dungoness crab out the wazoo and it's good.
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Rasczak posted:JJ is one of the most successful owners in the league when it comes to everything that isn't personnel decisions, so the takeaway is to follow his business advice but also hire a GM Yeah, dude may be bad at managing personnel, but I imagine he knows his poo poo about the business end of things.
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Blitz7x posted:Raiders were PBR'd and Buffet'd Okay not really but it'd be more appropriate.
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Bip Roberts posted:How do you end up at Ruth's Chris in Texas? San Antonio has really bad food.
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Shrimpy posted:San Antonio has really bad food. Gonna do that Four Horseman Challenge
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So, something is going on. Apparently there's a plan for a new stadium, maybe.quote:For months, Quan has been predicting that a broad agreement for a new Raiders stadium, costing $900 million to $1.2 billion, would be worked out by the summer's end. What do land and infrastructure improvements go for these days? I love the non-answer on the 120 million, 'Great question! Moving on,' and absolutely ignoring the A's.
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Well the land is already there, but land in the bay area is of course monumentally expensive. Infrastructure too. It'd be impossible to even guess without knowing what is already there, what needs to be put in, whether there's remediation or cleanup to be done, whether an EIR has to be done and how long and expensive that would be, and of course, the real question is whether the oakland taxpayers would want to do it or not. Oakland already has high property taxes, and the area around the Colosseum is mostly poor people who can legitimately complain about a lack of services and security. But it is a step forward.
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Leperflesh posted:Well the land is already there, but land in the bay area is of course monumentally expensive. Infrastructure too. It'd be impossible to even guess without knowing what is already there, what needs to be put in, whether there's remediation or cleanup to be done, whether an EIR has to be done and how long and expensive that would be, and of course, the real question is whether the oakland taxpayers would want to do it or not. Oakland already has high property taxes, and the area around the Colosseum is mostly poor people who can legitimately complain about a lack of services and security. a draft EIR has been released, info is here http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK040453 I would much rather see the Raiders in Los Angeles as it puts them much closer to where I live, but I am in support of any deal that keeps them in California and the gently caress out of goddamn Texas
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I just don't want the Chargers to move to LA and the Raiders are my best bet to keep that dream alive.
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Lets get some contraction action going on
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This Coliseum City thing is reminding me of a similar project that Charles Wang, the former owner of the Islanders, wanted to do to Nassau Coliseum. A bit of backstory. Nassau Coliseum is the second oldest and second smallest NHL venue in existence. It's a rotting concrete lump in the middle of a massive parking lot on some of the most desirable land on the planet. It's in between two well rated colleges (Hofstra and Nassau Community), and down the road from huge Eisenhower Park. Average home prices LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET is in the 200k's. Mostly small single family homes on 1/8 acre lots. The Lighthouse Project would have taken the rotting corpse of the Coliseum and turned it into a quote:... plan originally included a renovation of the Coliseum, a 60-story tower designed to look like a lighthouse, housing, athletic facilities, a new minor league baseball stadium, restaurants, and a new hotel, at a projected overall cost of approximately $200 million. It looked fantastic. I was so pumped for it. Because I grew up on Long Island, and unless something drastic happened, I would have to move to somewhere far cheaper. 19 thousand jobs? Holy poo poo. If this project happened, if I could get in on that, I COULD STAY ON LONG ISLAND. And so could the Islanders, because holy poo poo, they were eager to get out of there. I could continue living in a place I really enjoyed, where I grew up, where all my friends lived, and support a team I liked. Nope! It was shut down faster then a nuclear waste dump. I was forced to move to Jacksonville and become a Jaguars fan. The Islanders are moving to Brooklyn. The Republicans and developers get their giant parking lot to turn into townhomes. gently caress you Kate Murray die and burn in hockey hell AAGGHHHH. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_Project So, good luck with Coliseum City. Hope you don't have Republicans. \/\/\/ 3.4bn. I think the 200m was going to be exclusively for just the ice hockey rink bit. \/\/\/ Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sounds like the problem was thinking you could build just a 60 story building, let alone anything else, for $200 million, rather than some sort of political boogey man. You can't even build a subway station in Virginia for $200 million.
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Well Cal spent 400 million to rebuild a lovely stadium so a new one for twice that isn't too bad.
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poo poo, Wazzu spent about $120m on a student rec center and the cougar football project has been dropping $$$ to expand the suites and media box and build a modest football operations building. at least all of it owns, but we still have the lowest capaxity stadium in the Pac-12 and one of the smaller stadiums in the country. at least it has a great atmosphere since there are only a very few "bad" seats (which, ironically, didn't exist until the new football operations building was built because they constructed a tunnel for players to come out, which is topped by sloped seating for a student superfan section but it juts out just enough to impede sight lines of the end zone for those sitting in the front of the corner. you can see it here https://www.facebook.com/TheCougarFootballProject/photos/pb.139563982814833.-2207520000.1409818995./503805353057359/?type=3&theater
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A&M just spent $450 million on renovating their stadium. I haven't been yet but hopefully they at least got rid of the piss troughs.
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computer parts posted:I haven't been yet but hopefully they at least got rid of the piss troughs. It's just not college ball without piss troughs. Next thing you know they'll have us sitting in actual seats instead of allocating 14 inches bleacher to you.
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computer parts posted:A&M just spent $450 million on renovating their stadium. I haven't been yet but hopefully they at least got rid of the piss troughs. Replaced by stalls with Grode jars
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Febreeze posted:Replaced by stalls with Grode jars quadruple the depth. triple the width. plug the drain. grode trough.
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wheez the roux posted:quadruple the depth. triple the width. plug the drain. Just give them a hose and have everyone pee on the floor, there's a drain
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Chokes McGee posted:Just give them a hose and have everyone pee on the floor, there's a drain I used to know someone that played football on a team that went on an exhibition tour of Italy in the 80s and he said one of the soccer stadiums they played in had a locker room with this feature a
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Sash! posted:I used to know someone that played football on a team that went on an exhibition tour of Italy in the 80s and he said one of the soccer stadiums they played in had a locker room with this feature a To bring this thread full circle the Raiders currently have a stadium where instead of peeing into drains the pee comes up from the drain all on it's own.
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