In California it depends on how much the area was built out prior to Prop 13. After Prop 13, HOAs for new areas came in vogue since there was a bunch of stuff like roads, curbs, sidewalks, sewers, etc that the cities used to provide but due to the drop in property taxes could no longer provide. Since homes on a dirt…

As owners of Dualstar Entertainment (holding company for their films) and a number of clothing lines for kids ages 4-14 that are sold at Walmart, their estimated net worth is somewhere between $300 million - $500 million each.

That is a function of limiting the house size to 487 instead of letting it grow with the population. That limit is just a statute and actually easy to change.

The 1988 Writers Strike really sunk the second season. Towards the end they were just running with whatever scripts they have on hand (including scripts from the aborted Star Trek: Phase II from the 1970s).

No. The only thing that matters is how many corporate headquarters are in the area who would be willing to pony up for season tickets\booths\etc at full price. The media market or population doesn’t matter much since the NFL contracts are national.

Contact with players do not count for ground rule doubles only the field, walls, etc. Hence the Canseco assisted home run elsewhere in this thread.

In this case baseball has the same written rule where yelling at an outfield player to confuse them would constitute interference. It’s often not called though by the umpires.

Reduce the season back to 154 games and use the extra days to deal with the rainouts that occasionally occur.

I have no idea on why the Nationals really wanted to go through with this game. First pitch at 10pm? Really? Just call it and try again tomorrow.

I’m good with the schedule. Being in sync with the FIFA schedule is overrated and would cause a large number of games to be scheduled in the dead of winter. Where there is snow and days of cold. Unless you go to an all southern league (no teams in any northern cities like New York, Chicago or Boston), you cannot…

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.