Worst Sports Break-ups

Fritz and the ex-Mrs. Kekich remained married. Kekich and the former Mrs. Peterson didn't.

 

Hartford and the Whalers.

 

The double A Yard Goats have green and blue as their primary colors and play Brass Bonanza after some home runs.

 

I understand UConn's band plays it as well when the Huskies are in Hartford

 

I cried the day when the Browns left for Baltimore. Little did I know those tears would be replaced with varying degrees of extreme anger, frustration, apathy, frequent disbelief with events on and off the field and joyful moments few and far between over the past 24 years since they've been back. It's like the girlfriend you begged to come back to you but her one requirement to get back with you is she gets to kick you in the balls every Sunday at 1 p.m.

 

How hot is the sex?

Wear a cup.

 

This has been discussed in depth on other threads, but I think the apathy runs both ways there. The fans might like the A's, but the city's leadership appears that it would rather be lowered feet first into boiling oil than build a new stadium to replace the one that is universally considered an outdated dump.

 

I think the city was excited to keep the A's in Oakland and was willing to help tremendously to get the Howard Terminal location cleared. But in California, there is very little appetite for taxpayer funded stadiums for teams. Oakland was prepared to spend about $375 million for the area. I think the bad faith came from the A's ownership because Oakland wanted them to pony up more of the costs.

 

The whole A's-Oakland relationship has been poisoned pretty much since Day One when Charlie Finley started threatening to move the team the day he arrived in town -- after having threatened to move it every single day he owned it in KC.
Shit, Finley was even part of an ownership group that bid to buy the team in 52-53 from the Mack family back in Philly (they lost out to Arnold Johnson, the Yankee stooge/puppet).

What we needed, about 75 years ago, was a federal law saying that any professional sports franchise which plays its games in a facility primarily financed by public money, can never move the franchise. Ever.

The thing is now, the franchises don't just want the stadiums built for them (although they do want that), now it's the "stadium districts," with bars, restaurants, retail and parking, surrounding the parks -- they want all that too.

 

Me and the L.A. Rams.