I had another topic in mind today, and it will have to wait until this weekend. It will still be appropriate – even if the Coyotes prevail against the Avalanche later tonight. But the arena atmosphere last night took on a metaphorical quality that I will extrapolate in detail. Anyway, today “news” broke about people who are experts in municipal bond markets, specifically, Glendale bond markets. Not only are they reporters, but they have degrees in complex financial systems too.
Awesome. They might have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Based on the logic, I should be writing professionally – I mean I’m not trained, but I can sling coherent words together and stuff. Been doing that awhile now.
If I were in Matt Hulsizer’s spot, I’d be secretly wondering if all of this is worth the trouble. I guess I’m less patient than he is.
Because of his patience, we get the blogosphere and media sphere whipped up in a frenzy on undocumented and whispered “sources” that will only speak on background. I’m always slightly confused as to why, especially when we’re talking about sports. It’s not like they’re dealing with classified secrets of national security.
They’re dealing with hockey and the sports industry. I’m glad their priorities are in the right spot.
Hulsizer has been waiting out this saga of owning a bona-fide hockey team. Glendale’s city council voted for the lease agreement and the fans should have heard a press conference about the transfer of ownership a few weeks later. We’re approaching the All-Star break and it has been eerily quiet. Because of that silence, people get to make stuff up and write using these “unnamed” sources, and people with a journalistic background can pretty much say what they want and it gets passed as gospel. What’s worse is that people believe them. A very wise teacher taught me to believe half of what I read and none of what I hear. Always verify. Seems like too much work for people to do, I guess.
If there is any doubt about the financial ramifications if this deal should fail, head on over to CoyotesHipCheck, where Z4Defense lays it out for you neat and proper-like.
I won’t get into any pissing contest more than I already have because quite frankly, what I have to say is read by very few and my words don’t matter a whole bunch because of my lack of influence within the hockey blogosphere. I will say this though: if the river-card falls and if the 60% favorite ends up losing this hand and the Coyotes split, I won’t blame dumb luck.
I’ll blame the Goldwater Institute for butting in where they aren’t wanted.
I’ll blame the mainstream blogosphere for taking pot-shots at our community just because they can.
I’ll blame the process where municipalities competed and the franchise took the best deal (I mean, the citizens of Glendale wanted the hockey team right? Because I wasn’t here then, I’d love to have some history lesson on how that went down. I’m still very stymied about the whole thing).
I’ll blame the city of Glendale for acting so slowly, then and now.
I’ll blame a certain Canadian billionaire for starting this mess up (and dumb owners who listened to their Mephistophilis thinking that this was a clean and easy break).
I’ll blame (once I put on my tin-foil hat squarely on) any attorney or potential owner that could be “influencing” the situation with the Goldwater Institute.
and I’ll blame the media markets up there for their “convenient amnesia” (because the Ottawa Senators had ownership issues, the Vancouver Canucks had attendance issues, and no one seems to quite remember the dark times of their own cycle of hockey but love to point out how we don’t get it down here).
I just want this deal finalized so that the naysayers, in both U.S. and Canadian locales, can just shut (insert the appropriate expletive) up.
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