U of M Leads All of FCS in Overall Ticket Revenue

[mthoopsfan]

I have a fully developed brain and eyes - don't need any pundit telling me what to think. I used to spend considerable time in Portland during youthful summers. We'd venture out unsupervised in the downtown area for hours and hours. I dont recall seeing a single homeless person - certainly no businesses had their windows boarded up - and the public parks were full of Families with kids, dogs, picnics, and frisbees. I loved it. That environment is gone - it is not even close to the same. Yes, I have described it as a poop because that is the most precise language I can use.

I would never let my children go there for extended stays during the summer under any circumstance. None. It's a real shame.

I have not been to Seattle in years...Is South Lake Union in the city?

Yet you call it a $hithole. So you really have no damn idea what it's like. And yes, SLU is in the heart of the city, essentially downtown.

South Lake Union is not downtown, although I suppose it may be stretching that way. It is east and northeast of the Space Needle, towards I-5 and Capitol Hill. It is off of Queen Anne's Hill. Below Lake Union. Above Bell Town. Amazon put a big facility there. The area businesses struggled when Amazon was working remotely during the pandemic.

To me, downtown Seattle is south of Bell Town, and perhaps also Bell Town.

 

[EverettGriz]

Yet you call it a $hithole. So you really have no damn idea what it's like. And yes, SLU is in the heart of the city, essentially downtown.

South Lake Union is not downtown, although I suppose it may be stretching that way. It is east and northeast of the Space Needle, towards I-5 and Capitol Hill. It is off of Queen Anne's Hill. Below Lake Union. Above Bell Town. Amazon put a big facility there. The area businesses struggled when Amazon was working remotely during the pandemic.

To me, downtown Seattle is south of Bell Town, and perhaps also Bell Town.

Uh, yeah, I pretty much know exactly where it is, thanks.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Nothing substantive to add to what Seattle looks like now, but I'll say this: I can't do winter anymore, but I wish I could afford a summer home Webster Point in Laurelhurst and have season tix to the M's.

You don't want that, CDA. Buncha homeless and druggies there. Just ask anyone who hasn't been there in decades but watches entertainment news.

:lol: You're probably right. I saw on the "news" that someone assaulted someone in downtown Seattle over seven miles away from there, and I thought, "How can that happen in a quiet little metro area of 3.5 million people? What are the odds? Everyone living there must be exactly like that and/or very cool with it."

I swear that some family members back home think I live in DTLA and deal with sh*t like that every day. I've spent a lot of time in a lot of urban cores, and they all have good and bad parts. The only way I can explain so it makes sense to them is to ask what it was like walking through the dumpy trailer park in their town that day. "Oh, we don't go there." Exactly.

 

[mthoopsfan]

South Lake Union is not downtown, although I suppose it may be stretching that way. It is east and northeast of the Space Needle, towards I-5 and Capitol Hill. It is off of Queen Anne's Hill. Below Lake Union. Above Bell Town. Amazon put a big facility there. The area businesses struggled when Amazon was working remotely during the pandemic.

To me, downtown Seattle is south of Bell Town, and perhaps also Bell Town.

Uh, yeah, I pretty much know exactly where it is, thanks.

You do now after I corrected you.

 

[SoldierGriz]

I have a fully developed brain and eyes - don't need any pundit telling me what to think. I used to spend considerable time in Portland during youthful summers. We'd venture out unsupervised in the downtown area for hours and hours. I dont recall seeing a single homeless person - certainly no businesses had their windows boarded up - and the public parks were full of Families with kids, dogs, picnics, and frisbees. I loved it. That environment is gone - it is not even close to the same. Yes, I have described it as a poop because that is the most precise language I can use.

I would never let my children go there for extended stays during the summer under any circumstance. None. It's a real shame.

I have not been to Seattle in years...Is South Lake Union in the city?

Yet you call it a $hithole. So you really have no damn idea what it's like. And yes, SLU is in the heart of the city, essentially downtown.

Dude - I was originally talking about Sacramento based on my visit there about 18 months ago. Then, I was talking about Portland - which is widely known as a s..h.i.t. hole for a dozen-or-so reasons. I said I had not been to Seattle in a long time and asked you a question.

Why are you so friggin' soyed up about this? Too many ecstasy laced lattes from the open-air drug market in SLU?

 

[EverettGriz]

Uh, yeah, I pretty much know exactly where it is, thanks.

You do now after I corrected you.

:roll:

 

[CDAGRIZ]

Yet you call it a $hithole. So you really have no damn idea what it's like. And yes, SLU is in the heart of the city, essentially downtown.

Dude - I was originally talking about Sacramento based on my visit there about 18 months ago. Then, I was talking about Portland - which is widely known as a s..h.i.t. hole for a dozen-or-so reasons. I said I had not been to Seattle in a long time and asked you a question.

Why are you so friggin' soyed up about this? Too many ecstasy laced lattes from the open-air drug market in SLU?

He can't afford those, bro. He obviously lives in a tent city and shoots heroin all day before going to ANTIFA riots and trans Pride parades. They're all the same. Saw it on the news.

 

[SoldierGriz]

South Lake Union is not downtown, although I suppose it may be stretching that way. It is east and northeast of the Space Needle, towards I-5 and Capitol Hill. It is off of Queen Anne's Hill. Below Lake Union. Above Bell Town. Amazon put a big facility there. The area businesses struggled when Amazon was working remotely during the pandemic.

To me, downtown Seattle is south of Bell Town, and perhaps also Bell Town.

Uh, yeah, I pretty much know exactly where it is, thanks.

So, not downtown? Let me guess - gentrified area where all the hipsters live, visit, and socialize. Probably has a live music scene (folksy west coast style) with high-end food trucks. Vintage stores (clothing/vinyl albums/old-school bongs) line the streets. There are a bunch of independent coffee shops and chic bookstores. There are boutiques carrying throw-back hippy clothes, but also have a nice collection of modern hipster choices. There is at least one custom bicycle shop and a skate-board shop where you can find a board with a marijuana leaf on it if you are so inclined. Drug dealers are white dudes - travel around on electric scooters. Most of the visitors and residents know them by name and have them on speed dial. Their deals are not secret - carried out in plain site. You are guaranteed to see dozens or hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed.

Am I close? I haven't been there.

 

[SoldierGriz]

Dude - I was originally talking about Sacramento based on my visit there about 18 months ago. Then, I was talking about Portland - which is widely known as a s..h.i.t. hole for a dozen-or-so reasons. I said I had not been to Seattle in a long time and asked you a question.

Why are you so friggin' soyed up about this? Too many ecstasy laced lattes from the open-air drug market in SLU?

He can't afford those, bro. He obviously lives in a tent city and shoots heroin all day before going to ANTIFA riots and trans Pride parades. They're all the same. Saw it on the news.

See my last post - SLU must be where he parties and plays - I think I nailed the area...but not sure.

 

[ElrodGrizzly]

Soooooo, how about those Grizzlies......

 

[SoldierGriz]

Soooooo, how about those Grizzlies......

Thankfully they are not playing SLU - hear they have a damn good NLI fund going - hard to believe because they have neither Stitt nor Hauck.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

He can't afford those, bro. He obviously lives in a tent city and shoots heroin all day before going to ANTIFA riots and trans Pride parades. They're all the same. Saw it on the news.

See my last post - SLU must be where he parties and plays - I think I nailed the area...but not sure.

Not sure, either. Looks pretty good on StreetView. Tesla dealership on Republican Street (not even kidding).

 

[SoldierGriz]

See my last post - SLU must be where he parties and plays - I think I nailed the area...but not sure.

Not sure, either. Looks pretty good on StreetView. Tesla dealership on Republican Street (not even kidding).

Crap - missed that in my narrative. It was low hanging fruit and I blew it.

For a minute - I thought I might have a future in writing marketing bits after I retire from the Army (soon).

But, with that EV swing and miss...back to the resume drawing board.

 

[SaskGriz]

Uh, yeah, I pretty much know exactly where it is, thanks.

So, not downtown? Let me guess - gentrified area where all the hipsters live, visit, and socialize. Probably has a live music scene (folksy west coast style) with high-end food trucks. Vintage stores (clothing/vinyl albums/old-school bongs) line the streets. There are a bunch of independent coffee shops and chic bookstores. There are boutiques carrying throw-back hippy clothes, but also have a nice collection of modern hipster choices. There is at least one custom bicycle shop and a skate-board shop where you can find a board with a marijuana leaf on it if you are so inclined. Drug dealers are white dudes - travel around on electric scooters. Most of the visitors and residents know them by name and have them on speed dial. Their deals are not secret - carried out in plain site. You are guaranteed to see dozens or hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed.

Am I close? I haven't been there.

So Missoula?

 

[EverettGriz]

Uh, yeah, I pretty much know exactly where it is, thanks.

So, not downtown? Let me guess - gentrified area where all the hipsters live, visit, and socialize. Probably has a live music scene (folksy west coast style) with high-end food trucks. Vintage stores (clothing/vinyl albums/old-school bongs) line the streets. There are a bunch of independent coffee shops and chic bookstores. There are boutiques carrying throw-back hippy clothes, but also have a nice collection of modern hipster choices. There is at least one custom bicycle shop and a skate-board shop where you can find a board with a marijuana leaf on it if you are so inclined. Drug dealers are white dudes - travel around on electric scooters. Most of the visitors and residents know them by name and have them on speed dial. Their deals are not secret - carried out in plain site. You are guaranteed to see dozens or hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed.

Am I close? I haven't been there.

It's part of what we in these poor, dead, drug-filled cities in which no one wants to live call "The Downtown Core", so named because somehow growth is so great in these places in which no one wants to live that the downtown area has expanded well beyond it's original boundaries.

And no. You're not even remotely close. You're obviously thinking of Belltown, in itself an absolutely FANTAAAASTIC neighborhood.

 

[mthoopsfan]

"South Lake Union resides in a pristine location on the shore of Lake Union to the north and off the coast of Elliot Bay to the west. Situated just two miles from downtown Seattle, South Lake Union offers beautiful bayside and lakeside views, a scenic cityscape, and access to everything Seattle has to offer."

Is Griz Stadium in downtown Missoula?

 

[SoldierGriz]

So, not downtown? Let me guess - gentrified area where all the hipsters live, visit, and socialize. Probably has a live music scene (folksy west coast style) with high-end food trucks. Vintage stores (clothing/vinyl albums/old-school bongs) line the streets. There are a bunch of independent coffee shops and chic bookstores. There are boutiques carrying throw-back hippy clothes, but also have a nice collection of modern hipster choices. There is at least one custom bicycle shop and a skate-board shop where you can find a board with a marijuana leaf on it if you are so inclined. Drug dealers are white dudes - travel around on electric scooters. Most of the visitors and residents know them by name and have them on speed dial. Their deals are not secret - carried out in plain site. You are guaranteed to see dozens or hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed.

Am I close? I haven't been there.

It's part of what we in these poor, dead, drug-filled cities in which no one wants to live call "The Downtown Core", so named because somehow growth is so great in these places in which no one wants to live that the downtown area has expanded well beyond it's original boundaries.

And no. You're not even remotely close. You're obviously thinking of Belltown, in itself an absolutely FANTAAAASTIC neighborhood.

Please tell us you don't think a neighborhood with "hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed"....is FANTAAAASTIC. Or do you?

 

[kemajic]

Nothing happens. Probably because I don't have a Twitter account.

That's odd. Not that you don't have an account. I don't tweet, either. Maybe my phone is still logged in from an old account or something. At any rate, it might be worth it to make a burner account and disallow notifications just so you can see stuff? A lot of Griz/FCS info seems to be shared there.

I don't use a phone for internet and don't plan to. A modern desktop, Win 11. If I can't get the information that way, I don't need it. Some posters are kind enough to post text or links.

 

[EverettGriz]

It's part of what we in these poor, dead, drug-filled cities in which no one wants to live call "The Downtown Core", so named because somehow growth is so great in these places in which no one wants to live that the downtown area has expanded well beyond it's original boundaries.

And no. You're not even remotely close. You're obviously thinking of Belltown, in itself an absolutely FANTAAAASTIC neighborhood.

Please tell us you don't think a neighborhood with "hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed"....is FANTAAAASTIC. Or do you?

Mmmmkay, Tucker.

 

[SoldierGriz]

Please tell us you don't think a neighborhood with "hundreds of pride flags and BLM Banners flying high. There is not a single American flag in sight - not allowed"....is FANTAAAASTIC. Or do you?

Mmmmkay, Tucker.

Dude - you are the one who just confirmed you think a neighborhood with hundreds of pride flags and BLM banners flying high - a neighborhood that does not allow the flying of the American Flag is FANTAAAASTIC.

You could have just said - I" stopped reading your post - it was too long. Of course, I don't think a neighborhood that prohibits the American flag from flying is FANTAAAASTIC."

or

"I don't think any flag should be prohibited from flying - get off your high horse Soldier."

Either one is better dude...Either one or perhaps a hundred others are better than that response. But, you do you...Belltown style.

Mmmmkay Rachel?