Welcome to (failed) TED Talk - TED is dead.

[Dirty Old Man]

That's the state law.


BTW.... ABC15 was reporting at 11pm that a steady stream of people have been showing up to drop their ballots off today.

Wearing Yotes jerseys? Yes?

 

[AZviaNJ]

Come

Say we get a YES tonight. I’m not expecting that, but say it happens. How much more crap do guys think will pop up to put the whole thing at risk again? Wild law suits, crazy judges, other unexpected nightmares?

Come on dude!

 

[The Feckless Puck]

Say we get a YES tonight. I’m not expecting that, but say it happens. How much more crap do guys think will pop up to put the whole thing at risk again? Wild law suits, crazy judges, other unexpected nightmares?

Look at it this way - all of that stuff is like Kari Lake's post-election lawsuits... easily dismissible with the facts available at hand. (Also, isn't it fascinating that two of the biggest bad-faith actors in the past couple of years share the same initials, "K" and "L"? )

 

[bluesXwinXtheXcup]

Man I hope this gets approved...

 

[The Feckless Puck]

I hereby promise that if TED passes, I will live long enough to be present for opening night at the new barn.

It's not a lot to promise, but I figure every little miniscule speck of positive karma helps us at this point.

 

[Nowotny]

Read a quote from a Tempe resident re: the TED in an ABC 15 story, and her comment (paraphrased) about why she is voting no was this:

"They need to put their arena farther away from the metropolitan area."

I think it was at that exact moment that my brain broke for good on this whole subject. Now I'm just going to sit here, lightly drooling, with a vacant and bemused look on my face, waiting for my inevitable demise.

I hope that person like that will be happy when after lengthy struggle landfill is finally cleaned up and low income housing is built there....100% financed by taxpayers money

I've got a macanudo set aside to celebrate your victory. Sending positive vibes from up north!

Macanudo for victory and scotch for defeat?Sounds about right....

 

[Jagged Ice]

I've got a macanudo set aside to celebrate your victory. Sending positive vibes from up north!

If it passes, I'm taking a Davidoff to the lounge tonight.
Big "If".

I’m surprised we haven’t seen any numbers yet, especially with so many early ballots being sent in.

Thought maybe we'd see some exit polling as well. I guess at 8PM we get a pass or fail. I'm struggling at work today.

 

[Summer Rose]

God, I'm nervous.

 

[GhostofTommyBolin]

If it passes, the name on it will be "<insert name of entity who paid the most> Arena".

 

[LuckyNumber11]

I've been running through the doomsday scenario all day where we lose and have to move. Ugh, I'm not a prayer but I've said one today!

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

If it passes, I'm taking a Davidoff to the lounge tonight.
Big "If".

You have a lot more spending money than I have I'll smoke mine to your good health if it does pass

 

[Bonsai Tree]

I hereby promise that if TED passes, I will live long enough to be present for opening night at the new barn.

It's not a lot to promise, but I figure every little miniscule speck of positive karma helps us at this point.

Have a beer with me at the game?

 

[RABBIT]

I keep hoping to see some kind of inside information that gives us an idea where this is headed, but also trying to wrap my head around the idea of essentially getting a yes or no answer on if this team is staying in Arizona after 8 PM

 

[Edenjung]

Look at it this way - all of that stuff is like Kari Lake's post-election lawsuits... easily dismissible with the facts available at hand. (Also, isn't it fascinating that two of the biggest bad-faith actors in the past couple of years share the same initials, "K" and "L"? )

As someone whose initials are P.-K.L.H.
I resent that notion. I am Not a Karen and will never be one.
For further questions ask my representative Abe Simpson.
This Press conference is over.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

I hope that person like that will be happy when after lengthy struggle landfill is finally cleaned up and low income housing is built there....100% financed by taxpayers money

Well, if Lauren Kuby is involved, whatever would get built there would be paying her a rich "consultation fee" and would likely get a 50-year GPLET in the name of "incentives for a worthy cause." And I'll bet you 10 bucks that what would eventually go there is not low-income housing or, indeed, anything that the "No" campaign has been touting as part of the opportunity cost - it would be some other commercial development that provides kickbacks to the current Tempe 1st "champions."

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the hockey team is the only reason why this has a shot at failing, because it's an easy target for the NIMBYs. If you took the Coyotes out of it and built TED nearly to identical specs, it wouldn't have even been an issue. Just another fun thing about being a fan of this franchise.

I've been running through the doomsday scenario all day where we lose and have to move. Ugh, I'm not a prayer but I've said one today!

I'll be honest - I'm not nearly as on edge about this as I might have been about 5 years ago, when I was still a STH and I was far more invested in the team's future. They already left me behind once to go to Tempe, and it broke my heart a bit in a way that won't ever heal (mostly for how they moved, rather than the fact that they moved at all, but that's another story). So if they end up going to Houston, then I'll be sad, but I won't be shocked. We've had way more than our share of additional chances to get this to work, and there's never going to be a better option for the Coyotes in Arizona than the TED, so if Tempe votes it down... well... that will, as they say, be that.

Have a beer with me at the game?

It will be my first beer since I was 6 (another fun story for another time) but sure!

 

[TheLegend]

 

[rt]

Staying positive, I see!


What's wrong with the dog house?

I tend to brace for impact.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

I don't know whether to be hopeful or skeptical about this.

Normally, the older voters are the biggest NIMBYs, but it seems like the younger voters would be the ones buying the fiction that the alternatives like low-income housing and parks and community centers are actually a) real options for the land and b) an enticing prospect for commercial developers who want to profit off the land.

Meh. Best not to overthink it.

 

[MIGs Dog]

I'm struggling at work today.

Hopefully, you're not a brain surgeon.

 

[Jagged Ice]

You have a lot more spending money than I have I'll smoke mine to your good health if it does pass

It's a special occasion cigar. My daily is the Dunbarton Mi Querida.

 

[NORiculous]

https://elections.maricopa.gov/results-and-data/election-results.htm#ElectionResultsSearch

Results page^^^

Which one gives the results? You have 4 results.

 

[rt]

I stopped with the cigars when I stopped with the booze. I used to got with Padron, Olivia, and Gurkha most often, as I recall.

Which one gives the results? You have 4 results.

301 302 and 303

 

[MayDayMayDay]

Which one gives the results? You have 4 results.

Props 301, 302 and 303. All three require a Yes for the proposal to pass.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

Good luck guys.
I hope it's a positive result for you guys to get that arena and keep the team.

 

[Jagged Ice]

Which one gives the results? You have 4 results.

Disregard the Carefree tax. That's a separate election in a different city unrelated to the Yotes.