Thomas

Phew...

There is a 0 percent chance the Angels leave the LA area. Zero.

Albuquerque Angels.

Book it. Done.

You laugh but I bet he'll never have to do dishes again. During the season at least.

pizz never played baseball by his own admission and hud was(is?) on weed.

we're lucky to have who we've got.

Honestly weed probably helped him. Likely calmed him down some and helped him focus his number of concurrent thoughts to single digits. 

Probably doesn't make much sense money wise for the Angels but it would be nice to mix up the color commentators to get different perspectives. Even if their mic skills aren't necessarily the best, it would be okay since the increased insight would more than make for their deficiencies.

The stadium needs to be useful 365 days a year to justify significant money being thrown at it. I just don't know how more restaurants, hotels, or shopping can be terribly lucrative in an area saturated with them. Even if they would make the going to the game experience greatly improved. KC seems to be the most apt comparison for option to improve the stadium. The two downsides being that:

Kauffman stadium was a nicer facility than the Big A prior to its renovation.

They were able to convince voters for significant public funding by tying it to improvements on Arrowhead as well, even if they didn't get the rolling roof to be shared between the two facilities.

However having seen a game there it was a very nice experience. Many of the changes they made I would love to see made if possible at the Big A. Especially the underground concessions/bathrooms located underneath the field/concourse seating about halfway down the foul lines on each side. The hall of fame they built is a must do IMHO.  Tearing down the front facade of the stadium to expand the concourses and team store is a must. It was nice being in a team store that didn't feel like a oversized walk-in closet. They also have done a good job making the outfield seem welcoming and giving additional entertainment options that was never really implemented well with the last renovations to the Big A. 

I can't see why they can't do a better job with seating this time to enhance sight lines a bit and offer more leg space in sections. Reducing the overall seating by a few thousand and creating scarcity probably wouldn't hurt the team's pocketbook either. I know the stadium internals are apparently rather frightening but I am hardly an expert to hazard a guess on just how difficult it would be to fix. It's either salvageable or a huge money pit but not enough information has been provided on this account.

But as I said I have no idea where this money is going to come from. Maybe COA coughs up some money in exchange for the right to develop the surrounding land now that the NFL is a pipedream. That could be a win win for the two sides if the development enhances the ballpark experience  Certainly though it won't be enough to cover all the costs. Naming rights to the stadium may help as well but still are falling well short of the 3-400 million required to even think about useful renovations. 

My own preference would be to de-Disney..um...fy the inside ballpark experience but to actually increase it on the exterior.  Not so much theme park ride or giant hats, though they may be the best place-meet-someone spot in sports, but have it match the resort theme of the resort areas. Make it feel like you are going on a mini-resort vacation. Considering the traffic you face getting there it could be useful. You will need to make your own environment like the Rangers did with their ballpark with no handy option already existing. Whatever they can do to remove the oasis in a parking lot feel it has now.  Also technology needs to be embraced with better wifi options, in house production, and in general give a reason to go instead of watching from home.  

Kings played well tonight. A great effort. Just wasn't meant to be. Might as well take advantage of home ice with game 7 since it happens so rarely for the kings

They should change the name back to Anaheim Angels. Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is stupid.

That was the best game the Kings have played in the playoffs.  I like sitting in the premier section at staples because it has the best view of the ice but the fans in that area don't get too loud.  Hopefully game 7 or round 3 will be different in that respect.  Will be interesting to see if the Sharks will hold serve at home and force game 7.

Yeah all the damn corporations buy the seats for the Laker games and nothing but suits sitting there but they really do have the best view of the ice there is no denying that.

Developers hated the PS3. Maybe publishers didn't like needing multiple disks but development wise the PS3 was a nightmare. Xbox has a modified Windows OS so it was very easy to develop for. That is why for a long time games came out on the 360 first.

The one drag of Blu-ray (in 2007) was the limited transfer rate. 

Well that didn't suck! Complete team effort for a complete 60 minutes.

 Everything I've heard surrounding this next-gen is developers praising Sony's approach and how easy they have been to work with to meet what they need and want from a gaming console and a few of those same developers have actually been outspoken about XBox and not liking the direction they are heading in, which is likely moving away from games as the main purpose of the console. Not to mention I like the stable of first party developers that Sony has more than what Microsoft has, so the exclusive games I anticipate will appeal to me more on Sony's end than the XBox One.

After dealing with the cell technology for over a decade I have to imagine anything that isn't cell technology is going to be looked upon extremely favorably by developers. I don't think it's a coincidence that both Microsoft and Sony have almost for all intents and purposes identical specs. I think developers and game publishers have unprecedented sway in the console market now. Which is why I think Microsoft and I'm going to imagine Sony eventually this year will announce protections against used games to at least some degree. But I think the developers were sick and tired of designing to games for two completely different architectures.

And I'm not sure why people would be confused about Xbox's role in Microsoft's overall strategy. They have been open since the original Xbox that is designed to control the living room so to speak. Sony used the PS3 to win the next GEN media format. And certainly had eyes on the entertainment aspect that consoles play. Sony had room to make up for in this regard coming from the last generation. Of course Microsoft then promptly flushed whatever goodwill it had earned with the core gamers, the Kinect not withstanding.

I picked up a 2011 Panasonic Viera 60" Plasma last year. Definitely a fave. They really do require proper ambient light control as that glass screen is a glare magnet otherwise.

One of these days I'll swap out my Denon for a HDMI capable receiver and network capable. One of these days...

The games I got from them always sat around collecting dust, usually next to my netflix discs.

What if we call it center field left, center field center, and center field right?

Completely anecdotal but the Europeans I have worked with are the most racist people I have ever dealt with. And that is saying something. This comment would be a 1 on the scale of things I've heard. 

Seriously though, can we just retire this "joke". Fried chicken is the food of the gods and we should all unite in its awesomeness. 

i think it would probably be wise to short gamestop now.

Forget gamestop. At least they sell new gear. Short gamefly with everything you got.

what an underwhelming presentation. who cares about tv and ANOTHER damn call of duty?

Not sure about the TV functionality, though it looked neat, but the Call of Duty is stupidly popular in the mainstream. I don't get it either but you can't argue the numbers. 

Wasn't so concerned about the parental controls as I was just the fact that people most likely prefer to play on their own accounts for achievements and similar. But as now that fee is in question entirely I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Vague but sort of an answer.

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Wasn't so concerned about the parental controls as I was just the fact that people most likely prefer to play on their own accounts for achievements and similar. But as now that fee is in question entirely I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Yeah but what I wonder is if they pushed something their family accounts or some other tied accounts so that there will there be ways of getting around that legitimately.

Mental note, no more sexy calls to Chuck at night.

I wonder how they are going to address multiple users on the same console with the new used game feature. I mean if one of my kids want to play one of my games, such as grand theft auto or something else violent, then do they have to use my account to do so?

The used game feature for the new Xbox shouldn't be a big surprise anyone. They declared that GameStop was a bigger threat to the industry than pirates. But as this change is being pushed by the game developers themselves I'm still gonna be shocked if Sony doesn't equip the PS4 with similar features by the time the PS4 is released. If the Kinect 2 comes close to meeting the promise of the Kinect 1 that I think Xbox has an advantage on that front. I am just not sure with all the different delivery systems for television how they're going to actually deliver the promises they gave at the reveal. And damn is it a big ugly machine. And this is from someone who loves big ugly technical machines.