AlternatePersonMan @ AlternatePersonMan @lemmy.world

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Milwaukee and Chicago are an hour and a half apart. Milwaukee county is about 1 million people. So it's not small.

I'm not even saying their isn't logic in tapping the big markets, but two that are on top of each other? And using that as the reason not to put teams elsewhere? That just doesn't make sense. At least go to San Diego.

The issue is that Bettman has repeatedly not given teams to cities because he wants to spread the sport geographically. For example Milwaukee will never get a team because Bettman figures those people can either be fans of Minnesota or Chicago. Yet the LA and Anaheim arenas are just 35 minutes apart. I'm pretty sure if Anaheim didn't have a team their fan base would just watch the Kings play.

I completely forgot about that embarrassing fiasco.

What a joke.

Bettman is a laundry list of massive failures.

Besides giving into homophobia and other ethical issues, he's not even good from a business perspective.

Look at the growth of other sports compared to hockey during his tenure. Multiple failed teams and moves. Phoenix is a joke. There are 3 teams in CA and 2 in FLA... Despite wanting to spread the NHL to new regions.

He's made TV viewing a nightmare. You can't just buy an NHL package. There are home game blackouts, games and multiple networks that aren't packaged together for away games. And most recently this dipshit decided to make the boards a green screen with moving fucking ads DURING PLAY. As if hockey wasn't challenging enough to track the play.

Fuck Bettman.

These are cool. I love the concept.

Also, any body that can give itself money at the cost of ethics will do so. See Congress and their stock portfolios, police and civil forfeiture, executives and mortgaging the future of their companies, etc.

To humanity. They are a disgrace to humanity.

Just ask him who has the best golf courses, the most luxurious, the most valuable. Or maybe who's the best at avoiding taxes...

More like streets behind.

Is there a website? I'm just finding Instagram and I pretty much hate that.

Cute. Another fine for a company with deep pockets. So... Cost of business.

That makes more sense.

I know the real idea behind it. I just never liked it being summarized as defund. It's more like restructure. Personally, I would be much more aggressive with an overall. It's rotten top to bottom.

Ugh, "defund the police" is a terrible phrase if you actually want the movement to succeed. I wish they would have gone with something along the lines of "police reform". Immediately every conservative glommed onto "now they want to abolish all police!"

We do need a massive overhaul to police. Unfortunately that means better marketing of the idea of it's going to happen.

There used to be like 20 major airlines, now it's basically 2, and a handful of smaller choices.

Yay for mergers.

I did not know about this... And I happen to have a Synology nas.

I would argue he's our worst president ever. Andrew Jackson, etc. etc. Absolutely shitty, but those guys were flying blind without history to learn from, and their atrocities were sadly socially acceptable at the time. Reagan destroyed everything right this country had done, and enabled the future monsters to come. He brought religion to the front of American politics, destroyed the regulations that protected us, brought unfathomable debt, the war on drugs, the list goes on.

The Orange Shit Stain is probably a worse person, but he arrived on Reagan's back.

That makes sense. Places like Arizona make my jaw drop.

You sir, have made me laugh.

Golf? I need to do some research. I'd be lining up more useless garbage like cruise ships, coal energy, gas powered mowers, and all of the 'recyclable' garbage that isn't. Also styrofoam. Fuck styrofoam.

If I recall correctly, there is a ton of foreign money buying up all the housing in Canada, which drives up pricing.