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    Image of contains_hot_liquid contains_hot_liquid
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    Sorry for the intra-gawker media incest, but this is too good not to share:


    [tinyurl.com]

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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    Citi Field has announced that its concessions will be operated by IRS Burger.


    Let's see...I'll have four tax burgers, one IRS-wich, withhold the lettuce, four dependent-sized sodas, and a FICA-ccino.

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    Image of Chamomiles Davis Chamomiles Davis
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    And people wonder why socialism is still popular.
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    Image of Dany Heatley Speedwagon Dany Heatley Speedwagon
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    In other words, government, business, sports are really all part of the same greedy monster


    Gamblor?

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    Image of Raskolnikov Raskolnikov
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    It figures that Cristiano's team is sponsored by a company that flopped.
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    Image of Doyle McPoyle Doyle McPoyle
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    This is the first time relief in any form has been associated with the Mets in years.
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    Image of Colonel Dubby Colonel Dubby
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    Regulations are for commies. I, for one, welcome our financial sector overlords.
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    Image of contains_hot_liquid contains_hot_liquid
    11/26/08

    @Colonel Dubby: Who are now, of course, communists.
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    Image of Gourmet Spud Gourmet Spud
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    I hear you loud and clear, Dashiell.
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    Image of MattinglysSideburns MattinglysSideburns
    11/26/08

    In reply to Citi Field and Manchester United: Your Tax Dollars At Work
    Sure, rip on United for using bailout money, but say nothing of Aston Villa's consorting with election tamperers.
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    Image of Wyshynski Wyshynski
    11/24/08

    In reply to Is The NHL Gaining On The NBA (Again)?
    And yet neither of these stories deals with what can only be called The NHL Closer Effect.
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    Image of Weed Against Speed Weed Against Speed
    11/24/08

    @Wyshynski: Never heard of it.
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    Image of Raskolnikov Raskolnikov
    11/24/08

    In reply to Is The NHL Gaining On The NBA (Again)?
    What about the NBA's dominance in "Swag Level"?
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    Image of Jews For Purple Jesus Jews For Purple Jesus
    11/24/08

    In reply to Is The NHL Gaining On The NBA (Again)?
    But even more ominous for the NBA is something called the "Enthusiasm Gap."


    I've always thought that the number of groupies spreading their legs for players was getting out of control.

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    Image of HockeyMountain HockeyMountain
    11/24/08

    In reply to Is The NHL Gaining On The NBA (Again)?
    There's a very simple reason that attendance has declined in the NBA, and it has nothing to do with the sport's fans losing interest. It's because the NBA is available on a wide variety of television networks that people have actually heard of and have access to. The NBA is on ESPN Wednesdays and Fridays, TNT on Thursdays, and on ABC every Sunday beginning in January. Oh, and the late stages of the playoffs and Finals are also nationally televised on ABC


    Ah yes the ol' "People aren't buying tickets because it's too popular" argument. I was going to argue for hockey, but logic like this is irrefutable.

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    Image of drewheyman drewheyman
    11/24/08

    @HockeyMountain: I would say basketball is a more popular corporate seat than hockey is, so the lower bowl is all corporate and sitting in the upper for the average fan kinda stinks.


    I'd say that is a driver of lower attendance in the NBA.

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    11/24/08

    @drewheyman: I was just floored by the guy's logic, which is to say he makes none.


    There are certainly legitimate possible reasons, but "People watch it on TV so they don't go to the Arena" is about as weak an argument as there is.

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    Image of Matt Sussman Matt Sussman
    11/24/08

    In reply to Is The NHL Gaining On The NBA (Again)?
    It's a dead heat in Seattle.
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    Image of Steve U Steve U
    11/24/08

    @Matt Sussman: +1 for cruelty.
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    Image of ArkansasFred ArkansasFred
    11/24/08

    In reply to Is The NHL Gaining On The NBA (Again)?
    I don't think merchandise sales are necessarily an accurate barometer. For instance, I bought this because I'm a collector of worthless chotchkeys that bear no resemblance whatsoever to the player they're supposed to be:


    [www.fansedge.com]

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    Image of I Party With Smoot I Party With Smoot
    11/24/08

    @ArkansasFred: Udonis Haslem plays for the Sixers?
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