It wasn’t for trying though. DC tried though to get a corporate sponsor for both Nationals and RFK. The asking price was and still is too high for any takers and RFK ran into some legal issues because of the site lease.

The one thing about the ‘84 games that was different from all the others is that because Montreal disaster the IOC literally needed to beg Los Angeles to host it which gave them free reign to run it properly and not be forced to sink a ton of money into new stadium or one time use facilities. Added to the fact that…

And don’t forget the two years worth of Pepsi. Trade won’t work otherwise.

Bottom of the 9th, they don’t apply either. The goal is to get on base. Walk, passed ball on strike 3, hit by pitch, bunt, or swinging hit. It doesn’t matter. Just get on base however you can.

Hold open doesn’t effect he automation of the pump you just need to be there to hold the handle.

Most gas stations now have automated pumps that work with a credit card 24 a day. It’s just the convenience portion that’ll be closed.

No, the roof is slanted because it’s a baseball dome. The result is the catwalks for the cable stayed dome are down much lower than the Georgia Dome, because it was built in a football configuration has a nice even roof since the stands at even levels makes more sense. Doing that at Topicana would result in a huge…

They’re support rings to hold the roof together. Since the Tropicana Field has a slanted roof. It’s a rare dome built for baseball only, so the roof angles away from home to decrease the volume of air that needs to be cooled. As such, the outfield rings are rather low to the ground and are occasionally hit by a long…

The CBA limits the agent cut of the contract to 3% of the total and agents have been known to undercut each other to get a player to sign, sometimes as little as 1%. (Agents have other ways to make more though like running the player’s charity foundation).

A CD-R that old would likely be non-functional at this point anyway. The longest lifespan of a CD-R is around 10 years due to the chemicals that allow the disk to be written break down, meaning the 10 year old disk is likely a coaster at this point.

It’s only 3rd place for now, at the current growth rates, Olathe is likely to overtake it sometime around 2020 (it’s growing fast, while KCK is not).

It’s fairly common actually. It gives the university cash for the building, lets an entity who knows how to run a hospital run it, and gets the expenses and liabilities off the University’s books.

If you read between the lines of those who posted on twitter it’s more that these folks were up for contract renewal and ESPN passed on renewing them. If Gruden’s contract wasn’t up it may make more sense to keep it in place until renewal time and not paid the penalties of laying him off. .

The NFL draft location was announced on 1 Sept 2016, and likely most of the hotels were booked by the NFL at either that point or slightly before.

Why have the field crew do this though? The review is done at the MLB HQ in NYC. Just have them send a letter, tweet, vine or whatever out or explain it and not waste the field crews time. The didn’t have a say in the final ruling anyway.

One note, is that Washington did all that to get another player, Andi Sullivan, who may go pro-this year (well before she tore her ACL), and not Pugh. I don’t think they were aware that Pugh was going to go pro at all.

At a certain distance high-speed rail stop being competitive. From DC to NYC, sure, but from DC to say Denver, not so much because even at the current state of the art you’d be looking at an all day train trip (assuming you don’t stop anywhere intermediate).

In the NHL and NFL the games keep going until someone wins the playoffs even if regular season games end in a tie  

The letter says that he doesn’t need any direct money from the city, just for the city to vacate a block of land and grant a waiver on admissions tax to the arena.

The one at the end of the game, there was only contact because the offensive lineman reach up and tried to stop him. As such it was incidental since it was initiated by the offensive lineman, not someone on the defense.