The City of San Jose appears willing to amend the conditions for operating the stadium to remove this requirement. My understanding is that there will be a Planning Department director's hearing scheduled soon to accomplish this.
No disagreement here. But I can think of better things on which to spend several million dollars than exterior cladding for the stadium that diminishes its overall appearance. Talk about a waste of money.
When they say improvement, aren't they probably using it in the same sense as for IRS real estate treatment? So replacing the turf would be maintenance. Adding an exterior skin would be an improvement if it increased the value of the property, but if it only made it look different or better, it would probably be considered maintenance, like painting your house. Or like, if you enclosed the patio of your house, would that be a substantial improvement?
When I say a stadium "skin" is not an "improvement," I am using the latter term in the purely aesthetic sense.
The reality for almost every team in the world is that "you can't have _too_ nice things". There are short windows in a player's development where you can have a player better than your team, but the real trick in managing teams is in improving your team's overall goodness so that you can have nicer things while managing the day-to-day needs of acquiring players that are "in your league" and selling the players that are "out of your league" before you lose them for free. Just ask Ajax this season about trying to have nice things: https://www.goal.com/en-us/lists/th...e-a-fortune-on-de-/1wvyargvegmpt1upv43qcjqenr They'll make a ton of money. But if instead they tried to improve their performance in Champions League (they just made it out of their pool by drawing Bayern and beating Benfica) by holding onto their players, they'd instead end up with nothing, the players will leave for free when their contracts are up. So they are forced to sell their best players and make their team worse even though they are making it out of groups in the Champions League! That is just how it is. There is a pecking order of leagues and of teams and it take a long time to change your place and there is an upward limit on your place that is set by the overall place of your league, maybe with a temporary modifier based on top-4 in Champion's League. You can sometimes hold on to players that are "out of your league" by overpaying drastically in wages.
Again, that's your opinion. Except for those few "tiles" they had slapped on the side next to the front door of the FO we really never got to see what could be done with it. To re-quote a post from the previous page: "So, the upshot is we can't have nice things?"
Why is Nick Lima out of the Quakes' league while Zlatan is within the Galaxy's league? Why do we assume that money is the sole object in life?
If you design public art by committee, you most certainly won't. Parade of Floats, San Jose City Hall.
Not a good comparison. Zlatan already has tons of money, so signing the biggest contract possible isn't his most important factor. Nick, on the other hand, has a long way to go before he's financial well off enough for the paycheck to be of secondary importance. Every player has a small window of a few years to maximize their career earnings and they have to manage that carefully. Maybe one or two peak contracts will be offered to them, and they have to grab the opportunities when they can. No one can blame them for making the most of their financial interests while they can. Maybe Nick *really* wants to be a fire-fighter. So after signing that big Euro contract he can come back and afford a house in the same city that employs him! If so, money isn't his sole object, it just enables him to fulfill his sole object .
Picking teams for reasons other than money or challenge is a luxury for those at the ends of their long, successful careers. Of course the occasional exception happens. But I, for one, would love to see Lima carry the Quakes name abroad. I honestly think he'd do more good for the team as a source of money and prestige, getting some name recognition and proving you can come to the Quakes and go higher, than he can do for the team on the field in their current state. Maybe Almeyda is a miracle worker and all the seeds bloom together this spring. It could happen. But more likely, I think, is that middle of the pack is reasonably optimistic. I'd have to, you know, actually see the team play a game to work up any more enthusiasm than that =) As someone who follows Bundesliga and Champions League very closely, and EPL some, I just think that once you reach the level of "capable of helping a 1st tier Euro side", the path is clear. The only contrary thing I will say is that some early interviews with Lima showed he wasn't particularly a fan of watching soccer, so maybe the draw of "playing for the teams he watched growing up" isn't there. But the money still is, and the challenge still is.
A bit (ok way) off the subject and I read way too much into this....but back when the Quakes played Man Utd last summer....Man Utd TV interviewed two Quake players. First was Lima at half time, then post game with Fuentes. Did they interview them because they saw potential/were impressed by those two or were the randomly picked.... don't know why those interviews stuck out to me.....
Fuentes was 16 years old at the time, so there was that novelty, and Lima played well that game, especially against United's left back, Luke Shaw..
If it had a function, such as reducing or eliminating the substantial wind presence in the concourse, then it is possible that it is an improvement, even if the form of the stadium was not enhanced, however, If it did nothing about the windy concourse, I agree that no matter how much better people may think it'll look, it wouldn't be an improvement worth the cost.
Agreed. We have been sitting in the VIP seats and will be moving "upstairs" this year. For the US vs Costa Rica game, we ate in the VIP section before going up to our seats for the game. Noticeable difference from a windchill perspective.
Kaval assured me that when the office building was built next door, the wind tunnel effect would disappear. Obviously, it didn’t help, and the Avaya architects are very very bad at modeling. So if they calculsted that the skin would help mitigate the wind tunnel, I would have trouble believing them.
when I was a STH ours were in 106 row 17....if I were to be a STH again I would try to get the same seats.... great seats to watch Lima play (felt I needed to mention him since this is his thread....thought I was in the Avaya Stadium thread)
Lima plays right in front on me in BC3 for 50% of the time. I get to have lots of conversations with him... much like @TyffaneeSue with Salinas. I guess I'm better at it than she is
Congratulations to Nick on being named to the roster for the upcoming games vs Chile and Ecuador: https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/20...yers-usmnt-camp-ecuador-chile-orlando-houston
Tyf, someone recorded you cheering on Shea in NYC Looking for an additional coach @NYCFC? 😂 pic.twitter.com/uAMJeAAO5i— Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) March 10, 2019
Gregg Berhalter says Tyler Adams will play right back in this camp. DeAndre Yedlin will play as a winger. #USMNT— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) March 18, 2019
Did you see Lima’s face after getting subbed in NYRB? IMO very good coaching is happening; where there is ample competition at RFB & LFB with our younger players.