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So im guessing no Zelarayan, right? Thats lame, im coming down for this game. Oh well. Guess ill have to get down to Columbus more this year to see the main attraction. I already decided im working less this year and spending more time with my family. Dragging everyone down to Cbus is a perfect excuse to not work!

Anyway....with no Lucas, how do we think were going to lineup? Will Caleb still go with the normal formation and just swap Zelarayan out for someone? Who makes sense at this point, all things considered? Give Matan a chance to steer the ship? Bring Pedro up to the 10, and maybe give Will Sands a start?

Maybe some sort of 3-4-3 action? Drop Zelarayan, add Anibaba to the backline? With Williams injured, I think that leaves us with no CB off the bench, but we could always just go switch up and go with 2 cbs if necessary.

Or possibly a 4-4-2 with Zardes up top with Berry. No scratch that, that would never happen in a world.

I heard we just signed a #10....

 

I certainly wouldn't bet on Lucas being available, but he was at practice last week, working off to the side along with Williams and Molino.

 

I hope we are privy to the long-awaited podcast by Pipa and @chr1st. Where in the world will they be going next?

 

Hard to Vite not knowing if Z will play he makes a huge difference

 

Federico Higuain forever.

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Goodbye Grandview Yards Nordecke Tailgate. How we barely knew thee.

 

I just want to k ow what possible leverage Nationwide had to get that quashed. I mean, besides " this is Columbus, we're Nationwide and you'll do as you're told, peasants"

 

This isn't on Nationwide, nor the Nordecke.

 

So does that leave the City of Grandview as the culprit?

 

Quit being cryptic and spill the beans or GTFO!!!!!!!! lol

 

I'm sure Jacob Myers will get to the bottom of this soon enough.

While we're waiting for that to happen, at the bottom of the Grandview Yard website, it says this:

"Grandview Yard is owned and developed by Nationwide Realty Investors"

Why would a business let the proletariat take up space on its property, eating and drinking for free, when it really wans them to go into one of the businesses that sell food and drink on said property? A base question is: is the parking lot operated by NRI or the city of Grandview?

I wonder if there are any liability issues involved, too. If only Nationwide knew how to get good insurance coverage arranged.

 

Getting very warm...

 

Don't you just hate a broad who flashes a bit of side boob and maybe some thigh but doesn't deliver the goods?

 

You mean the City of Grandview created a DORA for a parking lot they don't operate?

 

Rita Hayworth, gentlemen.

A goddess.

 

Well, in fairness municipalities don't normally own or control a DORA. Columbus doesn't own. or lease the Arena District. DORAs cover private land.

 

To be accurate, it's not that they created a DORA for land they don't own. It's that the city entered into an agreement allowing the Nordecke to host a tailgate on land they don't own.

 

Wonder if the street (Baldwin) is city owned or private. Move the party to the street. Guessing Grandview doesn't want to go against NRI who as the 800lbs gorilla gets what it wants in this city. Let's all remember per our beloved source of aaa info that Nationwide dictated dialing back the design of LDC. Both the Nordecke and City of Grandview gave it a great attempt, it just isn't viable in that spot. Thanks for trying, no harm, no foul.

 

It certainly doesn’t appear to me that NRI ended up having much input on the stadium design. I recall the initial reporting, from before we had actual renderings. But in the end, the stadium is architecturally distinct from the rest of the AD.

 

@speedye1 remembers correctly. IM said more than once that there were some really cool things that NRI nixed.

I have no idea what he is referring to but exactly, but have no reason to doubt him.

One thing I have noticed however is this: when Don Garber first saw the plans for the stadium he told some media assemblage or other (can't recall) that the new Crew building was "like something out of Star Wars" and waxed on about the appearnce being so unique and amazing.

And if you go back and look at the first drawings we saw - I'm far too lazy but I think someone posted a few of them not long ago - the exterior,, particularly the roof, is markedly different, with overlapping black chevrons reaching out into the sky.

This is nowhere to be seen in the finished product, and I believe that this design is at least part of what NRI made them change.

But this is Columbus, and the plebs take what the poohbahs allow them to have and shut up.

 

Well, I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle. LDC looks nothing like the red brick structures that make up the rest of the AD. In any event, I doubt NRI is to blame for the things that modestly bother us about the stadium; like the lack of yellow, the extreme audio levels, glitchy POS system, the place being locked while patrons stand outside in a thunderstorm, the carabiner logo, etc.

The roof, I can't say that I've seen a final drone shot of what it even looks like. All I know is that it seems to leak. The early renderings that showed skylights of some sort on the south end obviously weren't accurate, though my guess is that was due to cost.

I'm curious what whiz-bang features NRI nixed. In the end, the architects sure as hell look to have gotten much of what they wanted, in that the facility is distinct from the rest of the AD by my untrained eye.