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As far as I know, the point of that beverage is so that the designated driver/recovering alcoholic has something to do with his hands at a party. So, what sort of loser drinks 3 of them?
Also, Chrome keeps fucking underlining "moustache" when CLEARLY that is the CORRECT spelling.
So, Fish could have been voting to kill the deal when he voted no?
He shrugged.
"I'm an independent voice on council," he said.
Good luck with that.
Actually I fully expect him to side with Fish on things like this. If Fish wants something big that means a council member has to have a pair and admit they know more about something than regular folk that just read press releases from whatever random interest group they signed up for and repeated their talking points. Well, I don't know that I'd trust them.
On the radio this afternoon Paulson pegged the chance of this thing actually happening at 80%, something he's been loathe to do in the past.
Supposing that's true, what I want to know is: will the team be called the Timbers? Will they be bumped and upgraded, or does a whole new franchise/history begin?
I mean this seriously. It seems to me as if a simple team promotion would help the chance of survival, rather than picking some new stupid name with no local history or identification... (Don't expect the Timber army to ditch all their cool scarves and chants to follow the Portland "Caffeine" or some such new age garbage). Shit, bring back Timber Jim for a season and give him some MLS money (what's that, like 12K a year?)
Really though.
Squirting coffee through my nose at the thought of poor wittle Mattie drowning in nonbeers after throwing in with Bogdanski and coming up craps.
Poor Amanda appeared to have been swayed by a 7 year old report presented by the Blazers VP. That was a bizarre episode...
But 3? Seriously, are you out of tap water?
The team is staying the Timbers. We will move to a more stable league. If we didn't go to MLS, and Vancouver goes to MLS (which is likely), we would be the only remaining USL team on this coast. The closest team would be in Austin, TX. We would be flying great distances to get to every away game. The team couldn't survive under those conditions, and would likely move or fold. Then we wouldn't have any soccer team paying rent for use of PGE, and a major part of local culture would be dead.
At the time, Fish was running a TV commercial highlighting Adams's role in the 2001 PGE Park renovation, which had only just imploded to leave the city holding the bag on ~$30 million in debt. He was quite outspoken about how the hollow man and his erstwhile (and present) overlords, Janik, Katz, and Mazziotti, had cut a terrible deal, and how he would not be responsible for wasting public monies in the same way.
Memories are as miniscule as paychecks in this town, but I would imagine that there could easily have been a little memory-charged grumbling had he changed his tune this time around.
Regrets for my pedantry here, and thanks for the fine coverage of the present developments in this case.