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Old 05-06-2020, 03:06 PM
 
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San Diego-1 team for 3.5 million people
LA/OC-9 teams for 13 million people
Its a valid comparison because LA/OC, despite having all the outdoor activities and weather that San Diego has, is still able to sustain pro sports at a per capita rate that beats most cold-weather metro areas.
It's really not though. San Diego's media market is 29th largest in the nation, right above Salt Lake City and San Antonio and behind Nashville and Raleigh-Durham. It's not really an outlier.

LA's media market is nearly 5-6 times as large.
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Old 05-09-2020, 12:25 AM
 
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Comparing America’s second largest city to San Diego is hardly an apple to apple comparison, but yeah, San Diego should have at least 3 of the 4 major sports. We did when I was a kid, but two scumbag owners moved our NBA and NFL teams to LA.

Not too many cities get another chance when they lose a team to get another through expansion or relocation, and those that do are normally in cold weather cities. Baltimore, Cleveland, Minneapolis, and D.C. are markets in the last 25 years that lost teams and got replacements. Houston is on that list too, but they got the expansion NFL team over LA so the league could threaten nearly every city into building a new stadium, and it worked.

Pro Sports are great. I had season tickets to the Padres and Chargers for years, went to Clipper games as a kid, and played D-1 baseball in college so I have a deep love for sports. But they are no measure of a city. The fact I can surf arguably the best waves in the lower 48 with the warmest water on the West Coast, play a PGA tour course along the coast for $40-$60 a round, and sail amongst a multi America’s Cup winning skipper in races where the America’s Cup was held means more to me than watching millionaires play a game at exorbitant prices.
Americas cup skippers arent millionaires? PGA cup golfers arent millionaires? Surfing is a measure of a city? There are hundreds of places in the world with waves that blow away san diegos and most arent sewage and mission bay landfill effluent.

On that... americas finest toxic waste dump.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/...s-mission-bay/

Just to refresh some short memories. This place is a dump.
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Old 05-10-2020, 06:33 PM
 
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Americas cup skippers arent millionaires? PGA cup golfers arent millionaires? Surfing is a measure of a city? There are hundreds of places in the world with waves that blow away san diegos and most arent sewage and mission bay landfill effluent.

On that... americas finest toxic waste dump.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/...s-mission-bay/

Just to refresh some short memories. This place is a dump.
Melodramatic much? Get a life, loser.
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Old 05-10-2020, 10:24 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Melodramatic much? Get a life, loser.
Quoted for posterity.
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Old 05-11-2020, 03:11 AM
 
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Melodramatic much? Get a life, loser.
If you have something topical to contribute to the discussion, please, don't hold back.
Why did you feel the need for personal insults? I wasnt even replying to you.
So you dont have a problem with
four companies (Convair, Ryan, Rohr, and Astronautics) each year were generating 792,000 gallons of chromic, hydrofluoric, nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acids; dichromate; cyanide; and paint and oil wastes....

...in some cases, these toxic substances were buried in steel drums. Other times they were poured into unlined holes 15 to 20 feet deep, below the level of the groundwater."


Or the consistent efforts of several generations of city leaders to keep quiet about it. With no warnings whatsoever to people letting their children swim a stones throw away, no ongoing testing. Others do have a problem with it.
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Old 05-11-2020, 03:19 AM
 
Location: Huntsville Area
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I worked out there twice. The weather's great. But found the real estate in the city outrageously priced.
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Old 05-11-2020, 10:47 AM
 
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Should change the name to:
San Diego - America's Stinkiest City

Man, that red tide stink is strong today.
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Old 05-11-2020, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Sandy Eggo - Kensington
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Americas cup skippers arent millionaires? PGA cup golfers arent millionaires? Surfing is a measure of a city? There are hundreds of places in the world with waves that blow away san diegos and most arent sewage and mission bay landfill effluent.

On that... americas finest toxic waste dump.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/...s-mission-bay/

Just to refresh some short memories. This place is a dump.
Who links to an article written 20 years ago? From The Reader, nonetheless.
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Old 05-11-2020, 11:14 PM
 
Location: Sandy Eggo - Kensington
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As others already said, it was a marketing slogan after the City got butt hurt for losing the Republican Convention in the 70's. Somehow it just stuck after all these years. It's a safe slogan and not that catchy or memorable. How about the Big Burrito or The Rolled Taco? haha
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Old 05-12-2020, 01:05 PM
 
Location: San Diego CA>Tijuana, BC>San Antonio, TX
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The Big Burrito....ha! Now there is coffee all over my laptop, thanks SDURBANITE!
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