What would you like in a new stadium? (Part IV)

People have a lot of love for Tony and Alba's on this board. I went to the one on Soquel in Santa Cruz and wasn't impressed at all. What am I missing? Did I get the wrong pie? Did I go to the wrong location? (sorry to be off topic)

 

Well my uncle and aunt Tony & Alba actually had to sell and franchise those Santa Cruz or over the hill stores, out. They are no longer owned privately and the quality has suffered big time. I believe they are using the same recipes but they are also using unfresh stuff and generic cheese, pasta, sauces etc etc....The ones in Mountain View & Stevens Creek is still family owned
It just goes to show you as John Doyle said when you franchise a restaurant out as AEG did with the Quakes, the quality suffers...and the proof is in the pizza.....

 

Thanks falvo. I'll check out one of the ones over the hill. It's too bad the locations they sold got to keep the name - I think it's bringing the brand down. That's the nature of the frachising beast I guess.

 

Well that coupled with inflation and the fact that the owners are no longer involved with the day to day making of the dough and everything else, it just doesn't happen too much anymore.

If you go to Stevens Creek ask for a family memeber to make it but you know even if they aren't there, it might not be as good as it once was. Oh well......

 

Re: i'm sure it's been mentioned.....

Some of those sections behind the goal no longer have the metal benches.

 

Never been less than fabulous at lunchtime at Stevens Creek. Slice/pasta + salad + bread = . This quality must go to the Epicenter.

 

Yeah when they pay attention and the owners are there to oversee what's going on, its pretty good. When they are careless it suffers. I guess any restaurant is like that.

 

Was it my imagination or did I see a Ferris Wheel outside Pizza Hut Park in Dallas?

 

Re: i'm sure it's been mentioned.....

Don't know and don't care. All I know is that the benches aren't there and at least some of it was done by the team itself. It was an example, leave the inter-Texan bitchfest for MLS General.

 

I herd Lew during halftime talk about the new stadium and he referred to uncle Phil and said that he got him involved with buying the club. He said the new SSS will be a 15-18k seater and that for big matches, they will use the 49er facilty in Santa Clara.

 

Really? What was the context? Were you eavesdropping or was he speaking to you?

 

He mentioned it during the halftime show in an interview made by John Shroeder on tv during the match & he said it's a healthy sport and that they have a couple a lot more votes to get through but the mayor told him things look good and that they're gonna get there somehow.

 

I wish John Shrader would have asked Lew (while he seemed to be praising uncle Phill in the interview) why Phil/AEG didn't just sell him the club?

 

OMG, falvo, you just revived my anti-AEG hatred again. It lies not too far below the surface. Too bad the question was not given.

 

And what do you think would have been his answer do you suppose ?

 

Probably something to this effect......

"But that freaking Phill didn't want to sell it to me becuase he is such a stupid lousy tight wad....& I forgot he is such jerk!"

 

What would I like in a new stadium?

1 - Leg Room
2 - Good Food Choices
3 - Terrace sections for supporters groups (OK I admit this is a fantasy)

 

How about a page out of English grounds and name the stands. Instead of simply calling them East or West sides, how about calling them, for example, The Troy Dayak Stand, The El Camino Stand, or whatever.

 

One rich guy's not going to bag on another rich guy publicly, not in this situation. I'm a teacher. Students always want me to bag on a teacher they don't like, I'm not going to do that -- even if I agree with the students that the teacher in question is a jerk. It's not professional and it burns bridges. Lew's going to try to avoid burning bridges in the MLS rich-guy club.

 

It's also possible that AEG wanted too much money for the team. After all, it was obviously a championship team, so we can bet that the price would have been substantially higher than what Wolff paid for the expansion club, even with the need to establish the organization considered. Wolff may love soccer or baseball, but his heart is in business.

 

Yeah that is true. I worked and personally knew the people involved in a stock option scandal and one guy blamed the other but one got convicted of federal crimes while the other one didn't......Even though they both hated each other, because they were both partners in crime, they weren't about to turn in each other publicly....its kind of like the mafia...the higher you go the nire crooked it becomes...

 

I was going back through some old posts for a good laugh and this picture caught my eye. From one of my best post (IMHO) and nobody even commented on it.

It compares a small and tight Fratton Park and the Ugly US style SSS HDC.
Everything's scaled the same and it shows how much of Fratton could fit in front of the
front row at th HDC. Looks like over half the capacity of BS could sit closer than the closet seat at the HDC.



It's a good illustration of proper utilization of space. Fratton is brilliant in that regard. Yes it might be a falling down piece of dung, but even so the game experience has to be much better that HDC (haven't been there myself).

This:


Is clearly better than this:

 

I want whatever will cause less complaints from the board denizens. So my list would be:

1. No railings
2. Extra legroom/butt room
3. Area to tailgate
4. Good beer selection in the stands and possibly a beer garden
5. Roof
6. Full sized field (75x115) or at least the ability to have that if Frank wants to use it, if not it's his call
7. Big HD scoreboard.
8. 18-20k capacity

8. My own personal want would be the big light standards they have in their renderings.

That should make everyone happy.