you’re right. i believe the chargers want a stadium in the gaslamp district which is right where the padres stadium is. lots of bars and restaurants. my guess is spanos feels it will make for a better fan experience and draw more crowds. san diego wants to build where the old stadium is which is more on the outskirts.

i don’t care so much.

i just don’t know that it would make much sense for spanos to move there.

it’d make much more sense for the raiders to move there but it doesn’t sound like the league really wants them there.

zn wrote:

and if you remove hollywood and the smog and the traffic and the grime i don’t know where else you could go to get great mexican, soul food, korean, persian, ethiopian, jewish deli, peruvian, japanese, chinese food within a 20 mile radius.

extremely diverse city albeit very segregated too. but i love it.

Portland Maine (where I does reside) is a kind of restaurant mecca. (I don’t know if you;ve heard that but it’s true). We have mexican, korean, ethiopian, jewish deli, japanese, thai, and chinese within a smaller radius.

I don’t think we have persian though. Just indian. No soul food.

I will say this though. They don’t do mexican right up here. They don’t seem to quite get it, OR they turn it into artsy nouveau variants.

One of the things I miss about living in southern cal is real honest mom and pop mexican.

Oh well.

ooh. i forgot salvadoran food as well.

the mom and pop shops here go for miles. it’s great. but yeah. i also understand la is not for everyone.

Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

Well, i’m not sure i understand humans.
Why would humans ‘want’ to live in LA ?
The smog? The traffic? The murder rate?
The earth quakes?

w
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“New York is something awful, something monstrous.
I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world’s greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.”
Federico G Lorca

What?

No matter where you are in LA, you are within a mile of a drive through burger place, a shopping mall, and a cineplex. And drive time is less than an hour.

well if you’re talking about murder rate, st louis has los angeles beat. probably not true of west virginia.

and if you remove hollywood and the smog and the traffic and the grime i don’t know where else you could go to get great mexican, soul food, korean, persian, ethiopian, jewish deli, peruvian, japanese, chinese food within a 20 mile radius.

extremely diverse city albeit very segregated too. but i love it.

he’s better off staying in san diego just to keep another team from moving in. he’ll then have the san diego market as well as part of the orange county market. he’d be dumb to move in with stan.

zn wrote:

http://theramshuddle.com/topic/wagoner-jeff-fisher-well-aware-of-challenges-of-relocation/

“I’ve been through that experience,” Fisher said. “It’s not an easy experience, but you can do things right. And you can make mistakes if you’re not careful. Stan and I have discussed this at length, even at the time he hired me four years ago, because I’ve been through that experience. So we have a pretty good idea of how to handle it.”

yeah. that’s what i thought. so kroenke’s been planning this for at least 4 years.

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Sure enough, during the middle of the 1962 season, during contract negotiations with the Oakland Raiders, he blurted out, “Aw, hell, I’ll just play for nothing.” So they offered him nothing. And he accepted their offer. He played six games, living in the Long Beach area the entire time, joining the team every week just prior to kickoff, kicking the most inexpensive five field goals in the history of professional football.

wow. that’s pretty funny.

well look at what happened with FIFA. not just talking about kroenke but the nfl.

on the surface everything seems to be on the up and up. but who knows.

PA Ram wrote:

Well, I appreciate the question but really–shouldn’t we be keeping focused on which celebrities will be appearing at the new stadium insterad of this BORRRRR—-RRING football stuff?

But since the question is posed:

I like the article really.

I want them to keep Johnson. I want them to draft a WR with the first pick. It’s not that I would mind a QB but I think the fastest way to help right now is to bring in a stud receiver. And I’m not sold that any of the young QBs available will be better than Mannion anyway. Maybe bring another young one in the 3rd round.

that’s a good idea. wr first and qb in the later rounds. i do like wentz in the first but i doubt he’ll be available then.

this is the crown jewel that the league had been wanting. they weren’t going to let it get away. and like has been mentioned here before by others it’s the leverage they’re going to use when negotiating the new TV deal.

i just wonder if this will somehow come back to bite them in the ass. one can hope.

yes. i agree with everything that’s been said here.

franke was definitely a must read after every rams game.

just sad. i feel so bad for all the st louis rams fans. i have a real bad taste in my mouth for kroenke, demoff, and even fisher right now.

ah well.

why would the owners never even ask to look at the carson and st louis plans? not disagreeing or anything. i find it odd that they would just take goodell’s word on that.

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yeah. i don’t think it matters who the coordinator is if they can’t get that qb situation figured out. rgiii anyone???