Dave Dameshek

Oh, so it's a takeover.

So the Heat's arena gets taken over?

Yeah, you know, I think New York City, Manhattan, and all its advantages, you know, big spending and multiple teams per sport just about, that makes them unlikable.

L.A.

is that on the West Coast.

Everybody, the evil empire of the Pacific time zone is the Dodgers, obviously, and the Lakers to a large degree, too, and USC.

And so they kind of have to wear all that.

A good newer one is,

is the the ducks improbably nobody as i've said many times nobody cares about the anaheim ducks i've lived out here for a quarter century or more now no one has ever come up to me and been like hey you catch that anaheim game last night no one ever does it i think they have 20 000 fans those are the people who hold their season tickets i can't imagine that there are more than maybe like

a half dozen or so other people who don't gain access to Ducks games.

They're actually listening to them on the radio in the regular season or watching them on TV.

However...

Ducks-Sharks improbably is a real good one.

And I keep saying, if you would move the Ducks to Portland, it would get even juicier.

But as it stands, all of a sudden, West Coast-NHL rivalries are real good because Kings-Ducks ain't great.

It should be there, but just because they're close to each other, it hasn't really emerged.

And like I said, I think the hockey market is... I think it's good in LA, but the double down on teams in Southern California is completely unnecessary.

But...

I mean, if you had Seattle and Portland and Vancouver, but as it is, Vegas and L.A.

and all those teams in Colorado has yielded some pretty good ongoing rivalries, not unlike one that didn't exist in the Sunshine State at the turn of the millennium, Lightning Panthers.