Feeling the Brooklyn Heat?
Mangano tweets, "I ask the public to be patient. We will announce a new plan soon to show how we intend to keep the #isles"
Mmmmmkaaaaay?
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afrosupreme
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Oh, now we should wait until you get your ducks in order. You didn’t seem in the same rush when the isles weren’t threatening to go elsewhere.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...
by Turgeon1992 on Feb 3, 2012 2:04 PM EST via mobile reply actions
They're making a mix tape of all the Islanders' favorite songs
That will convince them to stay!
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
by PGI on Feb 3, 2012 2:18 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
"Patience"
Which has a better chance of paying off: Patience with the County, or patience with the rebuild?
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
What a fucking idiot
Maybe Mangano can suggest an areener on Newt’s moon base?
=d
by AP77 on Feb 3, 2012 5:18 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
Hilarious
The Lunar Craters. The black jerseys will finally make sense.
Not to get political, but when I heard about that Newt and the moon base all I could think of was this.
by afrosupreme on Feb 3, 2012 7:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
OMG the comments there
We’re doomed.
Anyway, Newt’s idea could not possibly keep me from thinking of this. My sister and still can’t enter a grocery store door without going, “Pshhht.”
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
If Youtube comments
are all that survive of our record, it will be a strange and sad story for future historians.
That’s a great clip. Reminds me of, “We’re also out of coffee.”
by afrosupreme on Feb 9, 2012 3:50 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
No sleep till!!
Brooklyn!!!
Should be the Isles theme song
in today's Newsday
Cuomo: Belmont casino doesn’t ‘make sense’
“My instinct is it would not make sense to have two [casinos] back-to-back at Aqueduct and Belmont,” Cuomo said in a meeting with Newsday’s editorial board. “My guess is that it would not make sense . . . from a planning point of view.”guess he’s never heard of Las Vegas.
The Shinnecock Indians might be the only people with worse luck than Wang and the Islanders.
“The idea that the world’s largest market can only support one facility at Aqueduct makes no sense,” said tribal spokeswoman Beverly Jensen. “Belmont could bring in hundreds of millions in revenue in Nassau County without losing one single job in Queens.”a SOCCER STADIUM?!?!
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano said Thursday that he is pursuing sports and entertainment options for Belmont, located in Elmont .
" Nassau County has received interest from a developer with the financial means to establish a soccer stadium complemented by mixed-use development, which would enhance the current raceway," Mangano said.
Where does Mangano come up with stuff?
to be fair
there has been an increasing movement to reestablish the Cosmos as an MLS team. I think they’d prefer to have it in Queens but maybe someone with money stepped up.
Definitely a poster at Lighthouse Hockey until 2015, then maybe somewhere else.
I would LOVE for the Cosmos to come back, and if it's on Long Island, bonus.
Queens would be fine too. Anything beats that hell drive to see the Red Bulls. 3 hours to go 40-50 miles is ridiculous.
Plus, though I root for the Red Bulls, I don't find them to be a very likeable team.
There’s no one on that team that I really find myself pulling for. I liked Angel when he was here, but that’s about it. Rogers, Marquez, McCarty, Richards – I just don’t like them. Ream is ok, Lindpere too….Henry is fine, but he spends 88 minutes standing around. Keel seems cool.
agreed
I can’t really get into MLS at the moment because I can’t get behind the idea of rooting for a team blatantly named after their corporate sponsor. The travel to get there is insane. If they put another team in one of the boroughs I’ll definitely get on the MLS bandwagon. I considered becoming a DC United fan for a bit but backed out of that.
Definitely a poster at Lighthouse Hockey until 2015, then maybe somewhere else.
MLS was so bad for a while, but the skill level is really improving.
Watch a game and it’s generally competitive with some decent skills, as opposed to 5-10 years ago when it looked like high school soccer. Still, you flip from MLS to EPL and you see a big difference, but you gotta take what you can get, I guess. Do like going to games though – once I actually friggin get there.
nothing against MLS but...
Building an outdoor stadium for soccer is the least of Nassau’s concerns.
Aren’t there like 20 home games in MLS? What’s going to be booked there that wouldn’t/couldn’t be booked at Barclay’s, MSG, CitiField, Yankee Stadium, Red Bull Arena? For outdoor concerts, Nassau already has the 15,000-seat Jones Beach Theater.
First, Mangano wants to fund a new Coliseum on the county dime. Then he throws in a minor league ballpark and indoor Track Field to add a few more elusive votes. Haven’t heard much about minor league ballpark since. i think he’s still holding onto a world class track field at Mitchel Field with a convention center. Now he vaguely mentions a soccer stadium in Belmont when last anyone heard, it was supposed to be a casino or backup for a new Coliseum.
Now it’s a possible soccer stadium? When this falls through because the county is nearly broke and has nothing to offer this potential developer (aside from free land with no taxes which doesn’t help the county finances and would cause a political brewhaha), what will be next? A world class ping-pong arena in Eisenhower Park?
Mangano is just throwing idea after lame idea out there, when there is no financing or adequate infrastructure to support these grans schemes. Dream big, but focus on reality. The voters in Nassau just slapped down a new building for the 40-year-old Islanders but he thinks a soccer stadium should be next on the agenda (whether privately financed or modestly subsidized)? All while he fails to present a reasonable budget to NIFA at any time during the last 2 or 3 years. Mind boggling ineptitude.
for a not so rosy review of how Harrison and the Red Bulls are working out, i submit this article for your leisure reading list.
I don't disagree, really.
For purely selfish reasons, I’d love to have the Cosmos on Long Island, but I doubt that would happen. i think they’d be better off in Queens. I assume they could have concerts there as well, not sure what else. No idea where this idea came from though.
One problem with the Red Bulls place is that there isn’t too much around. You can walk over to the Iron District (which is actually pretty cool) and have a nice Portuguese or Brazilian meal, but it’s a bit of a hike. And if you go in any other direction, it’s a dump right around the stadium. I wonder if there are any plans to develop more around that area.
Rooting for a team blatantly named after their sponsor
Yeah, that’s too much for me.
Though I’ve often thought of how if they blogged them it would be a bunch of “then the [scarlet man-cows] attacked down the wings…”
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Soccer would be huge, actually. I have no problem with that.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Feb 4, 2012 11:41 AM EST up reply actions
would be huge in Europe. In Nassau, I’m doubtful.
I’d have a problem with a 20k to 25k seat stadium off the Cross Island Parkway.
But almost everyone’s going to take the train, right?
Its right on the border by Queens
And Queens is very diverse- one of the most diverse counties in the entire nation. Theres a lot of soccer lovers living there- add that to the generally growing popularity of the sport and I think it would work.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Feb 7, 2012 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
I think he got a lot of crap for that quote of his regarding playing in Brooklyn that was put up on Twitter.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Feb 7, 2012 1:01 PM EST up reply actions
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