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Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
An interesting, somewhat related side note: I just read in Forbes that Alex Spanos is the 6th richest NFL owner with an estimated 1.1 billion dollars in net worth. No idea if this is accurate. The Chargers team net worth is an estimated 907 million.
— October 1, 2010 8:18 p.m.
Arellano Félix cartel’s reputation credited to Ramón’s sadistic flair
Blogdelnarco is often a tool of the smugglers, they receive a lot of video from them. Is it useful? Perhaps, in that you won't see the reality of this from most other sources. Curiously, some good neutral sources in Mexico that existed on Facebook have been suspended, without explanation. It is widely believed that the Mexican government is responsible, that in attempting to limit the information available to the smugglers is also accomplished through social networking control. I would expect that blogdenarco will also be shut down at some point, if the videos from the narcos themselves continue to appear. Whatever anonymity this blogger ostensibly has, well, one would be surprised at the resources here. But the main thing to take note of, is that the locations of the blog entries are not centered on one particular cartel or specifically in one area, although there is often repetition in the locations.
— October 1, 2010 4:16 p.m.
Gimmick
Glad you enjoyed it, Ms. Grant. After Colossio's assassination, my perspective about Mexico and about Tijuana changed a lot. I think it did for everyone here. The third construct that I could have brought in (likely muddying up everything just a little too much), would have been the war on the cartels. It is not insignificant in itself, but rather it's remarkable how the average Tijuanense seems to feel that this, too, is not so much of a problem than it is a tragic nuisance. In other words, the falling of the World Trade Center, ostensibly in the name of a God, had much more of a negative effect on Tijuana than did the assassination of the man who certainly would have become the next President of Mexico; and a much more negative effect than the war against drug smuggling and the turf battles to control that trade.
— October 1, 2010 2:45 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
My son did three years in the Army and then three in the reserves, but spent most of his time deployed in Iraq. The only fun he had was when he was stationed in Germany, schooling for tank recovery and repair. They don't make a lot of money, and the work isn't for cupcakes. Plus, there's the whole getting shot at thing. He lost a couple of pals there to RPG's. I think if you serve your country for four years, then health care is appropriate, along with paid schooling which he is now taking advantage of. He also works, and he uses his health care through his employer. I believe he's studying to become an EMT, working full time and taking night courses. I never joined the service because there weren't any wars going on - I was too young for Viet Nam and too old for Desert Storm. In between, there wasn't a need. I don't regret it. I don't need to see the world. I see enough from where I'm at.
— October 1, 2010 2:33 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
Re #81: I believe that minimum service in the Navy and Marine Corps is four years. The Army is three years, but I know that in the Army if you sign up for a three-year hitch you are automatically in the Army National Guard for another three. At this point in time, your Guard duty will include deployment.
— October 1, 2010 1:45 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
Re #32: I'm certain that you missed most of his broadcasts, and also certain that you missed his eulogy of the late great Don Cornell. Madden is retired.
— October 1, 2010 12:20 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
SP - John Madden is a sweet, sweet man. Back in the day, his Raiders beat the snot out of the Chargers continuously so I'm certain he has some great memories there ;) Yeah, six years for PETCO, amazing isn't it?
— September 30, 2010 11:31 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
Official Padres attendance for 2010: 2,131,774 For PETCO, since its opening, here are the previous years: 2004 - 3,040,046 2005 - 2,832,039 2006 - 2,659,732 2007 - 2,790,074 2008 - 2,427,535 2009 - 1,922,603 Previous to PETCO, when the stadium was called Jack Murphy, the only times the Padres drew more than 2,131,774 was in 1985 when they drew 2,210,352 and in 1996 when they drew 2,187,886. During the Qualcomm years, the attendance was as follows: 1997 - 2,089,333 1998 - 2,555,874 1999 - 2,523,538 2000 - 2,423,149 2001 - 2,378,128 2002 - 2,220,416 2003 - 2,030,084 In Qualcomm, the capacity for baseball was 50,000 until 1986 where bleacher additions raised capacity to 58,433 until 1997 when improvements upped the capacity to 67,544. In comparison, the capacity for PETCO is 42,445. Is there a decrease in attendance at PETCO, excluding last year, in comparison with 2004 through 2008? Yes. Is it drastic? I don't think so. However, there's some data for everyone to chew on. (Side note: The Padres just lost to the Cubs, the last regular season home game of 2010. They are three games behind San Francisco with three games to play, so they would need a sweep of the Giants starting tomorrow in order to force a one-game play-off at PETCO. To win the wild card, the Padres need for the Braves to lose at least two of their three games hosting the Phillies while the Padres must sweep the Giants. Should the Padres tie the Braves in the standings for the wild card, they would play one game in Atlanta to determine the winner.)
— September 30, 2010 6:53 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
Re #21: Personally, I couldn't care less, I've turned down free tickets to see the Chargers play, I have no intention of attending another professional football game unless I'm in the press box and being paid to do so. My argument is on behalf of fans that do attend and it is based on their input, and my criteria for judging Qualcomm so harshly comes from personal experience of being inside of the stadium, on the field, numerous times. Note that football fans in Washington D.C. complain about Fed-Ex Field, they miss the experience of RFK Stadium even though the newer venue is much more accommodating for a professional football team. So, you never know. The Chargers certainly CAN play at Qualcomm for at least another decade, although maintenance costs are beginning to skyrocket. Note that the home opener failed to sell out and now this Sunday's game is going to fail to sell out. This isn't because Qualcomm is not a great venue to watch a game, it is mostly economics and less than stellar opponents. So far as a new football stadium in San Diego, it isn't going to happen, and I agree with the majority here that believe it shouldn't happen if public funding is part of the equation. My argument about Qualcomm is entirely separate from that issue. I think it is furcated to argue that since a new stadium can't be built then the existing one is just wonderful. Qualcomm is a useful venue, it simply isn't useful for the Chargers or the Padres. And I watched a lot of Padres games there and had a great time, never complained, but I fully understood why the Padres wanted a new stadium. Like you, I find it reprehensible what Moores was permitted to get away with, but setting that aside along with the way it was financed, PETCO is a far superior venue than Qualcomm for baseball.
— September 30, 2010 2:48 p.m.
Pb sucks, and I'm old!
Brilliant, Ms. Grant.
— September 30, 2010 1:45 p.m.
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Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
An interesting, somewhat related side note: I just read in Forbes that Alex Spanos is the 6th richest NFL owner with an estimated 1.1 billion dollars in net worth. No idea if this is accurate. The Chargers team net worth is an estimated 907 million.— October 1, 2010 8:18 p.m.
Arellano Félix cartel’s reputation credited to Ramón’s sadistic flair
Blogdelnarco is often a tool of the smugglers, they receive a lot of video from them. Is it useful? Perhaps, in that you won't see the reality of this from most other sources. Curiously, some good neutral sources in Mexico that existed on Facebook have been suspended, without explanation. It is widely believed that the Mexican government is responsible, that in attempting to limit the information available to the smugglers is also accomplished through social networking control. I would expect that blogdenarco will also be shut down at some point, if the videos from the narcos themselves continue to appear. Whatever anonymity this blogger ostensibly has, well, one would be surprised at the resources here. But the main thing to take note of, is that the locations of the blog entries are not centered on one particular cartel or specifically in one area, although there is often repetition in the locations.— October 1, 2010 4:16 p.m.
Gimmick
Glad you enjoyed it, Ms. Grant. After Colossio's assassination, my perspective about Mexico and about Tijuana changed a lot. I think it did for everyone here. The third construct that I could have brought in (likely muddying up everything just a little too much), would have been the war on the cartels. It is not insignificant in itself, but rather it's remarkable how the average Tijuanense seems to feel that this, too, is not so much of a problem than it is a tragic nuisance. In other words, the falling of the World Trade Center, ostensibly in the name of a God, had much more of a negative effect on Tijuana than did the assassination of the man who certainly would have become the next President of Mexico; and a much more negative effect than the war against drug smuggling and the turf battles to control that trade.— October 1, 2010 2:45 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
My son did three years in the Army and then three in the reserves, but spent most of his time deployed in Iraq. The only fun he had was when he was stationed in Germany, schooling for tank recovery and repair. They don't make a lot of money, and the work isn't for cupcakes. Plus, there's the whole getting shot at thing. He lost a couple of pals there to RPG's. I think if you serve your country for four years, then health care is appropriate, along with paid schooling which he is now taking advantage of. He also works, and he uses his health care through his employer. I believe he's studying to become an EMT, working full time and taking night courses. I never joined the service because there weren't any wars going on - I was too young for Viet Nam and too old for Desert Storm. In between, there wasn't a need. I don't regret it. I don't need to see the world. I see enough from where I'm at.— October 1, 2010 2:33 p.m.
Pssst! Howd'ya Like to Retire with $300,000 a Year of Taxpayer Moolah
Re #81: I believe that minimum service in the Navy and Marine Corps is four years. The Army is three years, but I know that in the Army if you sign up for a three-year hitch you are automatically in the Army National Guard for another three. At this point in time, your Guard duty will include deployment.— October 1, 2010 1:45 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
Re #32: I'm certain that you missed most of his broadcasts, and also certain that you missed his eulogy of the late great Don Cornell. Madden is retired.— October 1, 2010 12:20 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
SP - John Madden is a sweet, sweet man. Back in the day, his Raiders beat the snot out of the Chargers continuously so I'm certain he has some great memories there ;) Yeah, six years for PETCO, amazing isn't it?— September 30, 2010 11:31 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
Official Padres attendance for 2010: 2,131,774 For PETCO, since its opening, here are the previous years: 2004 - 3,040,046 2005 - 2,832,039 2006 - 2,659,732 2007 - 2,790,074 2008 - 2,427,535 2009 - 1,922,603 Previous to PETCO, when the stadium was called Jack Murphy, the only times the Padres drew more than 2,131,774 was in 1985 when they drew 2,210,352 and in 1996 when they drew 2,187,886. During the Qualcomm years, the attendance was as follows: 1997 - 2,089,333 1998 - 2,555,874 1999 - 2,523,538 2000 - 2,423,149 2001 - 2,378,128 2002 - 2,220,416 2003 - 2,030,084 In Qualcomm, the capacity for baseball was 50,000 until 1986 where bleacher additions raised capacity to 58,433 until 1997 when improvements upped the capacity to 67,544. In comparison, the capacity for PETCO is 42,445. Is there a decrease in attendance at PETCO, excluding last year, in comparison with 2004 through 2008? Yes. Is it drastic? I don't think so. However, there's some data for everyone to chew on. (Side note: The Padres just lost to the Cubs, the last regular season home game of 2010. They are three games behind San Francisco with three games to play, so they would need a sweep of the Giants starting tomorrow in order to force a one-game play-off at PETCO. To win the wild card, the Padres need for the Braves to lose at least two of their three games hosting the Phillies while the Padres must sweep the Giants. Should the Padres tie the Braves in the standings for the wild card, they would play one game in Atlanta to determine the winner.)— September 30, 2010 6:53 p.m.
Price Slashes, Improved Team Haven't Helped Padres
Re #21: Personally, I couldn't care less, I've turned down free tickets to see the Chargers play, I have no intention of attending another professional football game unless I'm in the press box and being paid to do so. My argument is on behalf of fans that do attend and it is based on their input, and my criteria for judging Qualcomm so harshly comes from personal experience of being inside of the stadium, on the field, numerous times. Note that football fans in Washington D.C. complain about Fed-Ex Field, they miss the experience of RFK Stadium even though the newer venue is much more accommodating for a professional football team. So, you never know. The Chargers certainly CAN play at Qualcomm for at least another decade, although maintenance costs are beginning to skyrocket. Note that the home opener failed to sell out and now this Sunday's game is going to fail to sell out. This isn't because Qualcomm is not a great venue to watch a game, it is mostly economics and less than stellar opponents. So far as a new football stadium in San Diego, it isn't going to happen, and I agree with the majority here that believe it shouldn't happen if public funding is part of the equation. My argument about Qualcomm is entirely separate from that issue. I think it is furcated to argue that since a new stadium can't be built then the existing one is just wonderful. Qualcomm is a useful venue, it simply isn't useful for the Chargers or the Padres. And I watched a lot of Padres games there and had a great time, never complained, but I fully understood why the Padres wanted a new stadium. Like you, I find it reprehensible what Moores was permitted to get away with, but setting that aside along with the way it was financed, PETCO is a far superior venue than Qualcomm for baseball.— September 30, 2010 2:48 p.m.
Pb sucks, and I'm old!
Brilliant, Ms. Grant.— September 30, 2010 1:45 p.m.