Coyote Auction: when you're not sure what to say, draw a cartoon

Watching these two pigs argue about who gets to fuck over this coyote.

…few things cheer me up like a kid crying on TV

And in the same post, too!

Per Brahm Resnick, via Puck Daddy:

“NHL bid leaves door open to rejecting arena lease after coming season and selling team to out-of-town buyer.”

Looks like all the NHL’s bid amounts to is trying to delay for another year, and hope someone comes along in that timeframe to buy the team from them whose name isn’t Balsillie. I’m really curious to hear Mirtle’s take/interpretation on the details of the bid itself. From what I’m understanding (???) from the comments over there, I guess the NHL basically sublets the team through current owner Jerry Moyes’ company, and then somehow a year later, magically, the NHL can sell the team and move it, while Moyes’ company is still holding the lease, but no longer has a team to play with that lease? Thus, the NHL is able to sell the team, while somehow making Moyes’ company eat the lease penalties? I don’t know, maybe I’m retarded because I think this all sounds like hocus pocus bullshit that shouldn’t work from any perspective (How the hell is it legal for a sports league to own one of its member teams???), but I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually magically works out where someone else besides the NHL ends up being the last one at the table with the bill still needing to be paid.

I don’t know, I can’t keep up with Gerald and J Michael Neal over there on this stuff, they know a lot more about the lawyering and accounting that I’ll ever know, so I guess I keep getting stuck on stupid points or asking dumb questions.

In the end, I hope Balsillie gets the team. I don’t know that you can ever fix the rift that’s been created between the Coyotes and the Phoenix area by this process, especially considering the shape of the situation prior to the bankruptcy filing anyways, and the numerous already existing problems. Tell Phoenix you’re sorry, and keep them in mind for a possible expansion team sometime, but give it up for now and let the wounds heal. Its nothing about the fact that it doesn’t snow in Phoenix and that it does in Hamilton, its just ultimately the best all around solution for now.

Let Balsillie take the team to Hamilton (a far better and likely to succeed destination than Kansas City or Las Vegas or Winnipeg), and cut your losses. He is a businessman, and once he’s in the club, he’ll shape up considerably, as he finally got what he wanted, though I’m sure there will be lingering resentment there, but its not like he’s going to try to drag down the league if he is a part of it. Be happy to get an owner for the team who very clearly wants the team, wants them where they are (Hamilton) and can afford them, especially given the economic climate and the recent past history of teams having difficulty finding new owners, finding owners who don’t want to move the team, or finding owners who can’t actually afford a team. Besides, anyone who can actually start a pissing match with Bettman is alright by me.

One nice thing that I’ve begun to appreciate a lot more during this mess, and other ownership messes in the NHL: the Red Wings have had one owner in the last ~30 years, who has wanted the team, wanted them where they were at, and wanted to win. Regardless of anything else, on the ice, in the front office, whatever, that alone gives them a head start ahead of half the teams in this league. Look at Phoenix or Atlanta or Tampa or a bunch of other teams and see what a trainwreck for ownership gets you. The value of good ownership shouldn’t be underestimated. Giving that to another franchise in the Hamilton Blackberries is ultimately a good thing, long-term, for the league.

yay cartoon and for the first time ever Earl used the word fuck!!!
I did a double take..

that mean earl u made the transition to be a dodger fan?

RK uses it and I figured you preparing yourself to come to a dodger game where that word will be vital to your expierence there

p.s. yea we fucken one a game for once GO BLUE CREW!!!

p.s.s. when will this stupid coyote saga be over..

HA! Fuckin’ Sleek. It’s stuff like this that keeps me coming back during the crappy summer months.

(The cartoon, that is. The ’Yotes situation rather sucks.)

I vote that you post all your cartoons after midnight going forward*.

*Yeesh, I guess since I’m at the office, it’s some sort of requirement to use phrases like “going forward.” Sorry.

mostly what distinguishes late posts from early ones is the freedom found in liquor.

Indeed. I have awoke a time or two and thought, “I wonder what I wrote last night?”

The comic book geek in me would have loved it if you explored the Dark Phoenix saga angle. It could have even been a series where you transition into Inferno. If Balsillie bought the team, you could have pasted his head onto Madelyne Pryor’s body from Silvestri’s Uncanny 241 cover. And then maybe a toon down the line where Cable represents the Hamilton team as half man/half Blackberry.

Five for Howling is having a coloring contest. I like the idea. Could be funny as hell.

Nice cartoon Sleek. Pigs hahaha. Reminds me of bacon. Which reminds me how much I love bacon. mmmmmm