Confirmed with Link: All-Purpose Coyotes Arena Talk: Land Auction Date Set - 6/27

[Jakey53]

Once again Jamie never said he ran million dollar companies...... but in reality I have. FTR Jakey a million dollar company is a lemonade stand these days!!!

So you ran a lemonade stand. I do believe that. All cash business. Did you report ALL your income.

 

[Jakey53]

Haven’t heard anything about how Flames players have been treated. What’s the story there?

Markstrom. What would you say IF AM wanted the Flames deal with the COP? Would you be ok with that? I bet no one here would, or very few would.

 

[RemoAZ]

I'd put my money on you, me, or @Jamieh before AM on that one.

I run a million-dollar company, too. Most managers do. It is peanuts.

Hell I run one location with 10 employees that averages $200k a month so over $2 mil. I also got a breakfast burrito and drink yesterday at the Filiburtos next door and that was 15 freaking dollars! For a burrito and drink! A million dollar company is literally nothing anymore. I also finished 2nd in the district in profit last month and will receive zero bonus because my company jacked the budgets up to screw all the managers over. Now many are jumping ship. Can't wait to see how much the company loses to squeeze a few extra dollars out of the experienced people they have. Poor management is not exclusive to professional sports owners that's for sure.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

Poor management is not exclusive to professional sports owners that's for sure.

No doubt.

 

[TheLegend]

Hell I run one location with 10 employees that averages $200k a month so over $2 mil. I also got a breakfast burrito and drink yesterday at the Filiburtos next door and that was 15 freaking dollars! For a burrito and drink! A million dollar company is literally nothing anymore. I also finished 2nd in the district in profit last month and will receive zero bonus because my company jacked the budgets up to screw all the managers over. Now many are jumping ship. Can't wait to see how much the company loses to squeeze a few extra dollars out of the experienced people they have. Poor management is not exclusive to professional sports owners that's for sure.

$15 bucks??

Come out here..... 3 bucks cheaper.

 

[Bondurant]

Hell I run one location with 10 employees that averages $200k a month so over $2 mil. I also got a breakfast burrito and drink yesterday at the Filiburtos next door and that was 15 freaking dollars! For a burrito and drink! A million dollar company is literally nothing anymore. I also finished 2nd in the district in profit last month and will receive zero bonus because my company jacked the budgets up to screw all the managers over. Now many are jumping ship. Can't wait to see how much the company loses to squeeze a few extra dollars out of the experienced people they have. Poor management is not exclusive to professional sports owners that's for sure.

The prices at "hole in the wall" joints are scandalous these days. El Norteno is still cash only and one of these days they will have to start accepting cards because no one has that much cash on them these days.

See a lot more riffraff in line buying one item than I used to and I wonder how much of that is the prices. Ah, well. Might not matter. I am partially convinced most of these places are money laundering locations.

 

[DustyDangler]

Yet another striking contrast between Ryan Smith & Alex Meruelo in the speed in which each accomplished the purchase of ~100 acres.

 

[Desert Ice 11]

Because the building doesn't have the Physical space to make it hockey friendly. I've been to the building for Jazz games, it's an incredibly steep building which is great for basketball but how are you physically going to alter that?? outside of a complete renovation ala Seattle's rink.

It's all scam and a path for Ryan Smith to get a new Arena/District elsewhere. Have fun with that Utah!

I haven't even been inside the building but by looking at pictures, the cost to transform that building into what they'd like is an engineering nightmare. The NBA likely wouldn't allow it because it probably would risk losing seats for a period of time while the building gets reworked. We are talking adding a new concourse, demo the existing section and then installation of a new section. In phases that would take 3 to 5 years minimum with interruptions. The venue likely wouldn't be able to have concerts in the off seasons because of construction.

This is just from my experience with construction projects and every site is different but that is what I am seeing would likely happen.

 

[Knights2017]

I haven't even been inside the building but by looking at pictures, the cost to transform that building into what they'd like is an engineering nightmare. The NBA likely wouldn't allow it because it probably would risk losing seats for a period of time while the building gets reworked. We are talking adding a new concourse, demo the existing section and then installation of a new section. In phases that would take 3 to 5 years minimum with interruptions. The venue likely wouldn't be able to have concerts in the off seasons because of construction.

This is just from my experience with construction projects and every site is different but that is what I am seeing would likely happen.

You've explained my point perfectly.

It’s very possible we have a new arena in AZ before Utah.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

I haven't even been inside the building but by looking at pictures, the cost to transform that building into what they'd like is an engineering nightmare. The NBA likely wouldn't allow it because it probably would risk losing seats for a period of time while the building gets reworked. We are talking adding a new concourse, demo the existing section and then installation of a new section. In phases that would take 3 to 5 years minimum with interruptions. The venue likely wouldn't be able to have concerts in the off seasons because of construction.

This is just from my experience with construction projects and every site is different but that is what I am seeing would likely happen.

Yeah, but did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

 

[TheLegend]

Yeah, but did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

They don’t have magic fingers beds like Motel 6.

 

[Desert Ice 11]

They don’t have magic fingers beds like Motel 6.

A fingering bed? Tempting

 

[Jagged Ice]

Back when I was a kid my family took a road trip across the country. We stayed at some Shitts Creek style dive motels and my dad put a quarter in one of those vibrating beds and it malfunctioned and wouldn't shut off. The clerk was no help either. My parents slept on that loud vibrating piece of shit.

 

[TheLegend]

Back when I was a kid my family took a road trip across the country. We stayed at some Shitts Creek style dive motels and my dad put a quarter in one of those vibrating beds and it malfunctioned and wouldn't shut off. The clerk was no help either. My parents slept on that loud vibrating piece of shit.

Couldn’t unplug it??

 

[Jagged Ice]

Couldn’t unplug it??

Seems obvious but somehow no.

 

[Knights2017]

Is it June 27th yet?

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Seems obvious but somehow no.

First thing I thought, too, but sometimes even cheap motels go to great lengths to keep customers from tampering with in-room electronics. Just last month I was looking at youtube videos on how to hack an AC unit that was being annoying and finally decided it wasn't worth the risk.

Is it June 27th yet?

It's June 27 somewhere

 

[The Feckless Puck]

First thing I thought, too, but sometimes even cheap motels go to great lengths to keep customers from tampering with in-room electronics. Just last month I was looking at youtube videos on how to hack an AC unit that was being annoying and finally decided it wasn't worth the risk.

I seem to recall the massaging beds of my youth at the motels we used to stay in were hardwired to the building's power because of the coin-op mechanism, but I might be remembering wrong...

 

[Coyotedroppings]

Seems obvious but somehow no.

Odd, happened to me once, I just unplugged it.

 

[Bonsai Tree]

It’s just amazing how they’ve managed to miniaturize vibrators over the years.

 

[LAIslanderFan]

Hmmmm...I feel like I heard this story somewhere before?

 

[Dead Coyote]

Former Employee on Reddit (verified by Reddit) had an AMA up about the Coyotes/Meruelo and had a few choice words to say.

 

[LAIslanderFan]

Former Employee on Reddit (verified by Reddit) had an AMA up about the Coyotes/Meruelo and had a few choice words to say.

He speaks positively about the prior ownership (Barroway?) and claims they were a competent group? Now I'm really confused? Everything I've read on this site seems to state the opposite?

 

[Sinurgy]

Former Employee on Reddit (verified by Reddit) had an AMA up about the Coyotes/Meruelo and had a few choice words to say.

The Doan thing is simply unreal to me, especially coming from a nepo baby who has accomplished nothing but getting a degree from the University of Second Choice.

 

[Dead Coyote]

He speaks positively about the prior ownership (Barroway?) and claims they were a competent group? Now I'm really confused? Everything I've read on this site seems to state the opposite?

I think he's talking about compared to the Meruelo group.