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It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
According to the league, which is where financial publications also skim such data, the Chargers are worth over 800 million. I reckon that's the perceived market value of the team. Any argument to the contrary certainly deserves merit if it's reasonable, in my opinion. But if we accept that value, then obviously, the Chargers are an important asset to the Spanos clan. When Alex bought out his partner, he tried to run the team and failed miserably, and ultimately turned it over to Dean who had a little more success. For quite a few years now, they've been grooming Michael for an eventual takeover. Could be that Dean would rather sit back and count profits at this point, I have no idea. I only know that Michael's next step is to take A.J. Smith's job at some point. As for the Chargers loyalty to San Diego, I entirely agree with you, there isn't any.
— November 15, 2010 8:57 p.m.
It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
"It is said that Dean Spanos really has little interest in the Chargers any more." I'm really curious how you came up with this. Last I checked, the Spanos fortune was worth around 1.2 billion, presuming this includes the Chargers. The Chargers are supposedly worth over 800 million. That's a substantial portion of the Spanos wealth-bucket. The development game is still stalled, and they're grooming Michael to take over as General Manager. I considered that a fairly active interest in the team.
— November 15, 2010 3:42 p.m.
It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
Notice Fabiani's tone? There will be no stadium.
— November 14, 2010 9:42 a.m.
It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
Fabiani resurfaced the other day, calling the latest attempt to get a stadium deal in place in San Diego a last-ditch effort. In other words, as I suspected all along, the Chargers know that there will be no stadium built here and the latest effort will amount to nothing more than giving Chargers fans just enough hope that they continue to buy tickets to the games until Los Angeles builds a stadium.
— November 14, 2010 9:40 a.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
There are expats that come down here to Baja and retire. Their entire existence up to that point was from the U.S.; and although perhaps they might have spent a lot of time in Baja vacationing, their entire geographical and cultural starting point for the ideologies that have shaped them have been based on that premise. Their particular idea of what freedom and liberty tastes like, say, red, white, and blue. They move into clusters amongst other similar expats for comfort and some semblance of community. I wouldn't think this to be unnatural at all under the circumstances. There are other expats that came here to live, not just retire. They work here (or work from here and cross the border daily along with many of their Mexican neighbors), breed and raise children here, and so on. They don't live in clusters, they live wherever is convenient. When you meet these types in Baja, you will note a marked difference between these types and the aforementioned. After a decade, and even more so beyond, their particular flavor of freedom and liberty changes a little bit. The perspective is quite different, and with that change in perspective comes the realization that Mexico is not the U.S. and the means to an end in the U.S. is not the means to an end in Mexico. When I would frequent some of the bars in Centro de Tijuana, I was a magnet for the retired expat. A gringo would poke his head into the bar, see me, and come in and sit close by. I am not unfriendly, and eventually they would strike up a conversation. After the second beer, I would find them ranting about this thing or that thing about Baja, he was waiting to unload on a gringo that would certainly understand. The problem was always the same, he was comparing all of his unpleasant experiences to where he came from, somewhere in the U.S. Another version of the retired expat is one that fills their time consumed by the injustices of Mexican life. Drug wars, rapes, child prostitution, and so on. Journalists killed because they got a little bit too specific in a story. While the cause may be seen as noble (and whatever you do, don't try and talk them out of it, it's a waste of damned time), the problem is that they are approaching everything from the same perspective they approached everything when they lived (and worked and bred and so on) in the U.S. It's like watching an Eskimo tackle housing issues in an equatorial jungle.
— November 13, 2010 10:47 p.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
Elliott's an interesting move. There's certainly no shortage of former U-T writers around town these days. He's no Duncan Shepherd, but I reckon he's acerbic enough ;)
— November 13, 2010 6 p.m.
Unthinkable — Raider Nation Rising
They're certainly better, but they're not good yet. You're being a little optimistic here. Besides, what with all of the improvements, don't forget, they still have Tom Cable and a seemingly senile Al Davis (who not long ago came within a whisker of firing his head coach), so odds are still pretty good that they'll still finish no better than 8-8.
— November 13, 2010 3:21 p.m.
LA Times Cites San Diego Public Corruption
Politicians do stupid things all of the time. Nothing surprises me anymore. Look at the result of the November election and the change in congress, it's obvious that once these people get into office they stop listening to you and me and do what's in their own best interest. Then the people vote them out and the cycle begins all over again.
— November 13, 2010 1:59 p.m.
Southwestern College School Board Calls Special Meeting
Re #10: The positive thing about it was that at least there was some change, apparently voters are trying to give them the message. When I read the election results I had to grin about that. Maybe it'll make the remaining board think about what their priorities should be.
— November 13, 2010 1:47 p.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
Maggie, listen, read your original statement: "I think this is downright disgusting that gringos are making money off of stories written by Mexican journalists." Now, how many U.S. articles have you ever read that began: "According to (insert foreign publication here), this happened..." Do you think for a moment that the writer of that piece owes something to the foreign publication? They don't! That's not how it's done! Don't you understand that? The writer quoted the source and wrote his piece on it. How many times have you seen El Mexicano or Frontera or other Mexican publications do the same thing? If the writer quotes the article word for word, then that's plagiarism, otherwise, when put in the words of the writer, it's proper journalism so long as the writer has the courtesy to quote the source. Everything else you've written about this argument is some attempt to win some non-existent battle. Now, feel free to post a hundred insulting and demeaning comments about me that have nothing to do with the discussion at hand, I'm taking a nap.
— November 13, 2010 2:50 a.m.
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It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
According to the league, which is where financial publications also skim such data, the Chargers are worth over 800 million. I reckon that's the perceived market value of the team. Any argument to the contrary certainly deserves merit if it's reasonable, in my opinion. But if we accept that value, then obviously, the Chargers are an important asset to the Spanos clan. When Alex bought out his partner, he tried to run the team and failed miserably, and ultimately turned it over to Dean who had a little more success. For quite a few years now, they've been grooming Michael for an eventual takeover. Could be that Dean would rather sit back and count profits at this point, I have no idea. I only know that Michael's next step is to take A.J. Smith's job at some point. As for the Chargers loyalty to San Diego, I entirely agree with you, there isn't any.— November 15, 2010 8:57 p.m.
It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
"It is said that Dean Spanos really has little interest in the Chargers any more." I'm really curious how you came up with this. Last I checked, the Spanos fortune was worth around 1.2 billion, presuming this includes the Chargers. The Chargers are supposedly worth over 800 million. That's a substantial portion of the Spanos wealth-bucket. The development game is still stalled, and they're grooming Michael to take over as General Manager. I considered that a fairly active interest in the team.— November 15, 2010 3:42 p.m.
It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
Notice Fabiani's tone? There will be no stadium.— November 14, 2010 9:42 a.m.
It's Not Just Chargers Who Would Fleece Insolvent Political Entity
Fabiani resurfaced the other day, calling the latest attempt to get a stadium deal in place in San Diego a last-ditch effort. In other words, as I suspected all along, the Chargers know that there will be no stadium built here and the latest effort will amount to nothing more than giving Chargers fans just enough hope that they continue to buy tickets to the games until Los Angeles builds a stadium.— November 14, 2010 9:40 a.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
There are expats that come down here to Baja and retire. Their entire existence up to that point was from the U.S.; and although perhaps they might have spent a lot of time in Baja vacationing, their entire geographical and cultural starting point for the ideologies that have shaped them have been based on that premise. Their particular idea of what freedom and liberty tastes like, say, red, white, and blue. They move into clusters amongst other similar expats for comfort and some semblance of community. I wouldn't think this to be unnatural at all under the circumstances. There are other expats that came here to live, not just retire. They work here (or work from here and cross the border daily along with many of their Mexican neighbors), breed and raise children here, and so on. They don't live in clusters, they live wherever is convenient. When you meet these types in Baja, you will note a marked difference between these types and the aforementioned. After a decade, and even more so beyond, their particular flavor of freedom and liberty changes a little bit. The perspective is quite different, and with that change in perspective comes the realization that Mexico is not the U.S. and the means to an end in the U.S. is not the means to an end in Mexico. When I would frequent some of the bars in Centro de Tijuana, I was a magnet for the retired expat. A gringo would poke his head into the bar, see me, and come in and sit close by. I am not unfriendly, and eventually they would strike up a conversation. After the second beer, I would find them ranting about this thing or that thing about Baja, he was waiting to unload on a gringo that would certainly understand. The problem was always the same, he was comparing all of his unpleasant experiences to where he came from, somewhere in the U.S. Another version of the retired expat is one that fills their time consumed by the injustices of Mexican life. Drug wars, rapes, child prostitution, and so on. Journalists killed because they got a little bit too specific in a story. While the cause may be seen as noble (and whatever you do, don't try and talk them out of it, it's a waste of damned time), the problem is that they are approaching everything from the same perspective they approached everything when they lived (and worked and bred and so on) in the U.S. It's like watching an Eskimo tackle housing issues in an equatorial jungle.— November 13, 2010 10:47 p.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
Elliott's an interesting move. There's certainly no shortage of former U-T writers around town these days. He's no Duncan Shepherd, but I reckon he's acerbic enough ;)— November 13, 2010 6 p.m.
Unthinkable — Raider Nation Rising
They're certainly better, but they're not good yet. You're being a little optimistic here. Besides, what with all of the improvements, don't forget, they still have Tom Cable and a seemingly senile Al Davis (who not long ago came within a whisker of firing his head coach), so odds are still pretty good that they'll still finish no better than 8-8.— November 13, 2010 3:21 p.m.
LA Times Cites San Diego Public Corruption
Politicians do stupid things all of the time. Nothing surprises me anymore. Look at the result of the November election and the change in congress, it's obvious that once these people get into office they stop listening to you and me and do what's in their own best interest. Then the people vote them out and the cycle begins all over again.— November 13, 2010 1:59 p.m.
Southwestern College School Board Calls Special Meeting
Re #10: The positive thing about it was that at least there was some change, apparently voters are trying to give them the message. When I read the election results I had to grin about that. Maybe it'll make the remaining board think about what their priorities should be.— November 13, 2010 1:47 p.m.
Florida Man Shot Outside Rosarito Beach Bakery
Maggie, listen, read your original statement: "I think this is downright disgusting that gringos are making money off of stories written by Mexican journalists." Now, how many U.S. articles have you ever read that began: "According to (insert foreign publication here), this happened..." Do you think for a moment that the writer of that piece owes something to the foreign publication? They don't! That's not how it's done! Don't you understand that? The writer quoted the source and wrote his piece on it. How many times have you seen El Mexicano or Frontera or other Mexican publications do the same thing? If the writer quotes the article word for word, then that's plagiarism, otherwise, when put in the words of the writer, it's proper journalism so long as the writer has the courtesy to quote the source. Everything else you've written about this argument is some attempt to win some non-existent battle. Now, feel free to post a hundred insulting and demeaning comments about me that have nothing to do with the discussion at hand, I'm taking a nap.— November 13, 2010 2:50 a.m.