yeah but he could consider using the Ducks as a recruiting school and the Beavers...given the Beavs baseball excellence ...hire Pat Casey to coach a major league team in Portland....I know there are all these reasons for not doing it but I'd still love it to happen
I'm not aware of any college level coach that made the jump to MLB. It's a different ball game esp with handling pitchers. Most managers are ex players. It's a very closed circuit. Although I am sure Casey could adapt.
Well, it could have happened over 13 years ago. The Grand Ronde Tribe offered to pay for 100% of the cost of a baseball stadium (at the time estimated at $350 million) in exchange for the right to open an casino close to Portland. At the time, Oregon was in a recession and the asshole Ted Kulongoski, who's No. 1 campaign promise was to do everything possible to create new jobs, flat out refused to even talk to the Grand Ronde tribe about the idea. It would have gotten us a major league baseball team, a free state-of-the-art stadium, a new casino and created a ton of jobs. Because Kulongowski was morally opposed to gaming, he refused to even consider it. I don't fucking get it. We have several casinos scattered around the remote parts of the state, but that asshole would rather people drive for hours, often tired, to get to a crappy casino in the middle of nowhere, when a casino in the PDX area would create lots of jobs and bring in out of state revenue from tourists. Shit, we've had state run video poker forever. So, the govenrmnet can't be THAT opposed to gaming. Glynn said Kulongoski would still like to see the Expos move to Oregon. “He loves, loves, loves baseball, but it has to make financial sense for the state and it has to make financial sense for the city,” she said. Well dumbass, a FREE fucking stadium would have made a HELL of a lot of "financial sense", don't ya think??? Jeezus, most people can't say no to a free lunch. This douchebag said no to a free stadium. Still pisses me off... BNM
I'd love the Portland Mavericks. It has the connection with the former hockey and baseball teams. Plus there are PDXers who think they are mavericks merely for shopping at places that aren't listed on Yelp... so it works perfectly.
Every high school gym and most driveways in Oregon could accommodate the crowds for 3 on 3 basketball.
So you can participate in it? You're probably one of those middle-aged rec league guys who nicknames his jump shot.
Nobody seems to want our dirty Indian money (including Seattle with a tribe up there offering to build an arena for basketball I believe.)
Kulongoski really pissed me off. I voted for the asshole because his No. 1 campaign promise was to create jobs, and then as SOON as he was sworn in he shot down MLB and a world class casio that would have both generated jobs without costing the tax payers a cent. Fucking lying politicians that lie! BNM
If you build me a new garage I will let you run a poker game in the basement on Thursday nights. barfo
I remember this. I was so mad. I've often thought Oregon should turn a certain county at the coast or in central Oregon into a gambling destination. The tax revenue could help pay for so much.
