This exact thing happened in Glendale Arizona - works for football which is only 8 mostly weekend days per year. It’s worked horribly for the hockey team, which is looking for a new home after a little over 10 years. Oh the mixed-use development is also doing horribly, because when you want good food you go somewhere…

My new rage-target are “Republicans” who pledge to “change the party from within”. You and what army? Even conservatives see the damage Trump is doing to the party, not to mention the fact that he got elected on promising exactly zero conservative policies. The quicker the Democrats become the dominant party THEN…

Coulda had Curry with that pick aaaaaaarrrrrgh.

And also, there is no other stadium here that can compete for those really big football games. Sun Devil stadium is undergoing renovation and will be nice, but won’t hold nearly as many people as University of Phoenix Stadium does. So it’s competitive with other metropolitan areas, sure, but the only option in the…

That’s kind of what I figured, and you might be right, but I’ve lived in the Phoenix area for almost 15 years and here’s my take on that area. It was farmland before they put the hockey arena there in 2003, and they added the football stadium in 2006. Despite all this there are often vacant spaces in the shopping and…

This is an interesting perspective from an out of towner. But where were you working? How close? Did you check out any of the other entertainment districts in the valley? I say this because it doesn’t sound like they really had to compete for your dollar, whereas for locals they absolutely do.

This is true. I was just stating my opinion that geographically it makes the most sense. I get that’s not how those things work, especially in Arizona.

I wanted to blame the U too, but you need some knowledge of local politics (although it’s increasingly becoming a national ALEC-type issue) - the University gets its ass handed to it every year at budget time by an increasingly hostile legislature - if they bucked legislative wishes on this one they would have been…

https://www.trulia.com/home_prices/Arizona/Phoenix-heat_map/ Couldn’t paste an image, but this map does a better job of telling a similar story.

This is just an ok map, and there’s no legend, but basically you want people from the NE area of the map to be able to get to your games. As someone mentioned earlier, for the Cardinals that location doesn’t matter because most games are on weekends and it’s only 8 games to start with. When you’re battling rush hour…

It’s disappointing re: Cillizza. I’ve been a Tony Kornheiser show devotee for decades now and hadn’t heard of Cillizza before he showed up on that show. The character he plays is pretty hilarious... but sadly based on how he thinks about politics in public it appears it’s just a character. As long as you win the…

I’m really torn on this - the patriot in me wants everyone to get the chance to wash themselves of ever supporting this clown but.... a big part of me wants EVERYONE who supported him that holds office to pay some sort of price, even if it’s just a primary challenge. It’s not really good enough that we survive this,…

This is definitely a valid view. However I subscribe to the “let’s not normalize the quasi-fascist” point of view, and I think that the fact that they are not attended or sparsely attended serves as a pretty defining line in the sand. Whether or not that changes votes, well, I think that ship has sailed. We’re in the…

Oh I’ll check up on the carnage, that’s for sure! Just don’t want an account.

I hate twitter so I can’t... but someone please create a fake Elizabeth Warren account.

So it’s perfectly fine that the Dems decided not to show up then too! Oh wait...

I think also, unfortunately, it’s just a microcosm of the uphill battle Democrats always face against Republicans. It’s incredibly easy to NOT make the government work, or to make it seem untrustworthy. It’s incredibly easy to promise lower taxes and the removal of regulations when you can assume those actions have no…

When I read this piece on The Ringer, I liked the points it made. Every single one of these pieces I read (although some of the newspaper endorsements have sacked up and done it) does an equally pissy job saying “it’s a binary choice, as much as we’ve vilified Hillary she’s basically a replacement level Dem just like…

Can’t say definitively as I was not there (sounds like you weren’t either), but I don’t think that was the case last night. This was an historic game on the schedule, and season tickets sold out, and single game tickets sold out. AND people who begrudgingly sold theirs in many cases took less if they could ensure a…

Ok, I know it was tape delayed... but watching it “live” during broadcast there was no way Michael Torres made it to the buzzer in time, based on the clock they were displaying. I’m not saying kick him out because he missed the buzzer by less than a second but just revise the clock during the broadcast maybe? Just me?