America's Cup

[Lhalo]

Team USA has staged one of the biggest comebacks in the history of the race and will battle New Zealand tomorrow for the cup. Check it out if you get a chance.

[mrwicked]

been watching it live. 

its damn amazing - those boats are crazy. 

[Sully151]

Those boats are so fast they make their own wind.

[Tank]

Those boats are so fast they make their own wind.

 

big deal. st1ckboy makes his own wind all day every day.

[DowningRules]

F'ing hate that it's so hard to find on tv.  I don't get the g'damn NBC Sports channel.  ANyone know if it can be watched online?  And what time?  1pm?  Please don't tell me I have to go to a sports bar to watch the America's Cup.

[katie]

F'ing hate that it's so hard to find on tv. I don't get the g'damn NBC Sports channel. ANyone know if it can be watched online? And what time? 1pm? Please don't tell me I have to go to a sports bar to watch the America's Cup.

Just go to SF

[mrwicked]

i think nbc sports will air the finale tomorrow.

yeah watching it live is where its at. i dont even have to leave home, its fantastic.

[EE_]

Replays and live broadcast here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericasCup

 

50 mph on the water is fast.

[Biergott]

USA! USA! USA! Absolutely throttled NZ today. Complete beatdown.

[nate]

The Oracle team is unstoppable.  Elon Musk is a stud.

[halobob]

Watched the final, that noise made by the boats is annoying.  USA USA USA!

[Lhalo]

The Oracle team is unstoppable. Elon Musk is a stud.

Larry Ellison.

Elon Musk is PayPal and Tesla.

[nate]

They are the same person to me lol.  I stand corrected.

[mrwicked]

yeah musk is not in the same category $$ wise as larry.

larry decided he loves hawaii so much.. he bought an entire island (lanai).

his house near me is crazy, and he's always tooling around in his killer bugati veyron.

so rad he was able to bring the race here. and the next one since they won.

[nate]

True.

Both are silicon valley royalty.

 

Ellison is like the second richest man in America though right?

[Tank]

The Oracle team is unstoppable.  Elon Musk is a stud.

 

i thought elon musk was the substance you spread around your campsite to keep deer from eating your food.

[nate]

that's Stickboy Musk.

[Mudville]

That prevents everyone from wanting to eat.

[Vernster52]

How the hell did they fall so far behind in the first place?

[gotbeer]

How the hell did they fall so far behind in the first place?

 

well, they started with a 2 win penalty for some cheating violation.  I don't remember what it was, but I hear Downing turned them in when he was spying on them.  

[Sully151]

I hope the next America's Cup Regatta will be in San Francisco too. Seemed like a great location for the boats and for fans.

That was truly an amazing comeback.

[Lhalo]

I hope the next America's Cup Regatta will be in San Francisco too. Seemed like a great location for the boats and for fans.

That was truly an amazing comeback.

I'd be willing to make a vacation up there to see the next one. Time to plan a trip to the Mark Hopkins so I can watch the race from my room wearing nothing but slippers while drinking a glass of scotch.

[DowningRules]

F NBC Sports.  Like 99% of the rest of the country I don't get this useless channel and I couldn't get to a bar to watch the race.  I figured I'd watch the youtube feed, but that was blacked out, no thanks to NBC.  And I was too busy/lazy to work around youtube. 

 

I'm pretty sure the next America's Cup MUST be in S.F. since the Cup technically stays with the sponsoring yacht club.  I don't think Ellison, despite his riches can choose where to have the next race.  Pretty funny that Ellison, instead of going with the more traditional and elite St. Francis Yacht Club simply purchased another yacht club to have control over most everything. 

 

That's one thing you typically can't buy with the elite yacht clubs:  admittance.  So, you just need to buy your own.  Problem solved.

[mrwicked]

Actually Ellison was a member of the St Francis, but the talks broke down (you're right, it's because he wanted more control than they were willing to give, also they wanted to choose the boat name), so the owner of the Golden Gate (which was near bankruptcy) called him and they got a deal done.

Golden Gate: 2, St Francis: 0.

 

And he does get to choose. That's why it was here in SF this year, they won in Valencia, Spain so they got to choose where to hold it next.

Of course Larry wanted it in his backyard.

Plus he got a monster ton of real estate development deals if he paid to fix up some of the older piers. 

 

good book on the subject here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Billionaire-Mechanic-Sailings-Greatest/dp/0802121357

[Sully151]

I believe the regatta can be held anywhere in the current winners country.