I hope The NY Times article is actually right. Speculation about a minority purchase with a long term complete buy-in option make sense for any buyer. It's how Leeds United were just purchased outright. Please, please let it be Leonsis.
Hockey team plays open attacking style Hockey team builds and retains young talented players Hockey team wins way more games then they lose Hockey team always considered a top team in the NHL I don't follow basketball That's why I like him. What do you not like?
He just re-signed the face of the franchise to a "Designated Player" (Yes they have it too) supermax contract, have their 3 max contracts locked up for years, and just paid the luxury tax for the first time ever to do so. Wiz are top 4 in the East bare minimum for the forseeable future barring the extraordinary.
I can't think of many things that would be worse. To me it would as bad as the team moving...because I would cease all support of this club...as I did for the Skins 7-8 years ago (I was a fan for 30+ years). Snyder owning the team would be apocalyptic to my black-and-red fandom.
I would have to strongly consider my allegiances with this club if Snyder bought it. Please please god be anybody else.
So what? If the team still failed on the pitch, and the game day experience was worse in every way, why would that be made up for by us having semi-famous players failing instead of no-name players failing? That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
Kojo Nmandi will have a spot about the "sale" on his WAMU radio show today according to the channel's on air announcements
This was all that was up on his site, no specifics of "who, what, when" http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/...ffensive-t-shirt-the-future-of-d-c-s-msl-team
Him buying the club alone wouldn't kill my allegiance to the club but the accumulation of the moves he and his FO would make would inevitably do so.
Not much to say in support of the little turd except he has a wealth of experience in firing coaches and that would be job 1. So open that wallet
I am going to guess you've followed the Caps for about 3-5 years - because prior to that you would have said very few of these things about how the Caps were run. i like a lot about Ted, but there are things to not like for sure. When United has a USL team as good as the Hershey Bears, we can compare youth preparation One thing that's consistent most years with either team: The ability to make the first round of the playoffs then dramatically fail to advance (after making season ticket holders buy the playoff tix)
I have always disliked the DC football team so it's not because of that at all (in fact to me him being their owner is fantastic) - but I ********ing hate Dan Snyder with the heat of a white dwarf star.
Had some Honeydos so I missed it but it seems he has archives up the following day http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows.
It begins about 39:11 into the podcast. It was a call-in show. Nothing was on that topic for several minutes. 45:15 Chris in Georgetown called in remembering going to the first MLS Cup in Foxboro Stadium in 1995. He used Pirlo as an example of a player to be brought in. Then someone wrote in about the city owning the team and shortly after the show ended.
ah yes, and what a great MLS Cup that was in 1995. hey, wait, if the District bought DC United then they could just renovated RFK and have the team play there, right?
I made the point here about Goff being a shill for the front office going back over 10 years, when he was parroting laughable ridiculous stories being trotted out by the team via Dave Kasper and Piotr Nowak. Far too many brushed it off with ridiculous excuses for Goff, despite the fact that he continued to leak negative information about players CONSTANTLY, while portraying those clowns as competent and/or of good character. I had a personal situation with Kasper at the beginning of Soehn's tenure here that cemented for me that my initial impressions of Goff's handling of the team were right on the money.