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Sneak Peek at the Seattle Water Bears' Metropolitans' New Arena
Posted by Goldy on Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:51 PM
- Sonicsarena.com
- Rendering of ice hockey rink and seating at proposed new Sonics arena.
Curious about what the proposed new Sonics arena might look like when configured for an NHL game? Well wonder no more: SonicsArena.com has a couple of renderings up online that has visions of Water Bears skating in Megan's head! (Yes, Megan has this ridiculous idea that the team should be named the Seattle Water Bears instead of what we all know it will be called: The Seattle Metropolitans. Silly Megan.)
As far as we know, Seattle doesn't even have an NHL ownership group put together yet, let alone a team in hand. But it's still fun to look at the pictures.
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I still say we should be the Seattle Chinooks. I know, not historical at all, but the Metropolitians is a stupid name. What would the mascot look like? A tall building?
But yeah, I am totally ready to root on the home team. Go Chinooks!
But yeah, I am totally ready to root on the home team. Go Chinooks!
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Water Bears are INDESTRUCTIBLE CREATURES!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
Also: Needs penalty boxes. The Water Bears are gonna fight. A lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
Also: Needs penalty boxes. The Water Bears are gonna fight. A lot.
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Sorry, Goldy: I don't know if Megan's right, necessarily, but you're wrong, based on the very simple notion that you can draw a Water Bear. You can't draw a "Metropolitan". And you can represent a water bear with northwest coastal art, or realistic art, etcetera. You can make a stuffed animal of it. Mind you, a Sockeye or Chinook (as mentioned upthread) fits this criterion as well, and I probably prefer those to Water Bear. But "Metropolitan" fails the test absolutely.
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What about the Seattle Hockeys? It's to the point, the mascot can be a puck, and it's easy to remember.
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@#7 There never was a team called the "Sonics". There were the Super-Sonics, named at a time when everyone thought Boeing was going to establish a huge industry outside Seattle building SST's (super-sonic transports, like the Concorde), and when most people in the country hadn't heard of Seattle, or had heard of it only because of Boeing.
But, yeah, the mascot wasn't an airplane. I don't go far enough back to be completely sure, but I doubt the mascot was ever an airplane.
But, yeah, the mascot wasn't an airplane. I don't go far enough back to be completely sure, but I doubt the mascot was ever an airplane.
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Plus, the name "Metropolitans" is already in use, sort of, by the New York Mets (short for Metropolitans). Didn't stop 'em before, but we're all much more sophistimacated nowadays.
I vote for The Seattle Chryseobacteria.
I vote for The Seattle Chryseobacteria.
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Water Bears seems to portend a loser when the game is played on ice. Metropolitans has great history. The Times piece a couple weeks ago convinced me they should take that name.
http://seattletimes.com/html/othersports…
http://seattletimes.com/html/othersports…
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@ 12, there are two Giants teams. They even used to live in the same city. And two Cardinals teams too, who also once called the same place home. That said, I wouldn't put it past today's sports teams not to sue...
I think it should be the Seattle Orcas, and the logo should look a lot like the Canuck's orca. Just to piss 'em off.
I think it should be the Seattle Orcas, and the logo should look a lot like the Canuck's orca. Just to piss 'em off.
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@6 behold: http://www.etsy.com/listing/107009945/pl… and http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Water-B…
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@ 13, I hate when new teams graft themselves onto the histories of teams now gone (especially when they live somewhere else under a different name). But, that ship has sailed. At least the old Metropolitans disappeared into oblivion.
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We should be the Seattle Freeze. Just think, our mascot could be a hipster, and when kids ask for a photo, he can say "we should totally do that sometime!" and then walk away.
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No! Not the water bears! Use the alternate common name of the tardigrade: Moss Piglets!
GO MOSS PIGLETS!
(Metropolitans suck, unless we shorten it to the 'Tans, just to be ironic)
GO MOSS PIGLETS!
(Metropolitans suck, unless we shorten it to the 'Tans, just to be ironic)
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Metropolitan is not fitting for the Pacific Northwest at all.
Metropolitan brings up images of elitist east coast pricks of the kind that The Stranger likes to politically pander to.
I am still against the stadium, I hope they have bread to go with the circus.
Metropolitan brings up images of elitist east coast pricks of the kind that The Stranger likes to politically pander to.
I am still against the stadium, I hope they have bread to go with the circus.
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what's a Metropolitan?
what's a Canuck? what's a Canadien? what's a Flyer? what's a Capital? what's a Wild? etc. etc.
the team name doesn't have to evoke a mascot, dammit.
the mascot can be a sea otter with attitude and a "let's go metros!" sign.
what's a Canuck? what's a Canadien? what's a Flyer? what's a Capital? what's a Wild? etc. etc.
the team name doesn't have to evoke a mascot, dammit.
the mascot can be a sea otter with attitude and a "let's go metros!" sign.
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@16, I hate when teams are stolen from a town when they are full of young talent and just a year or two from a championship.
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@24, years of losing to get picks and build a nucleus just to watch another city jump on the bandwagon.
All jokes aside, it was a pretty sad story about Steve Moore's brother.
All jokes aside, it was a pretty sad story about Steve Moore's brother.
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@ 26, yeah, but they weren't "stolen." The Sonics were, but the Nordiques were not. Above ground deals might bite for locals, but it wasn't like they came in saying they'd keep playing in Quebec.
@ 27, I don't think they would have won in 96 if they were still the Nordiques. Remember, the Avs got Roy halfway through that season. There's no way Montreal would have traded him to Quebec.
Anyway, I'm not sure what you mean about Steve Moore's brother. I looked up on wikipedia and saw that one of his brothers's wife died earlier this year. Is that what you meant?
@ 27, I don't think they would have won in 96 if they were still the Nordiques. Remember, the Avs got Roy halfway through that season. There's no way Montreal would have traded him to Quebec.
Anyway, I'm not sure what you mean about Steve Moore's brother. I looked up on wikipedia and saw that one of his brothers's wife died earlier this year. Is that what you meant?
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@28 - yeah, there's no way the Nordiques get Roy.
And yes, Dominic Moore's wife just died of liver cancer.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/rela…
And yes, Dominic Moore's wife just died of liver cancer.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/rela…
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THE SEATTLE GEODUCKS!
Totally kidding. I like Sockeyes, Steelheads and Cascades. Metropolitans is just... meh.
Totally kidding. I like Sockeyes, Steelheads and Cascades. Metropolitans is just... meh.
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Nice to see Goldy whoring for Chris Hansen, the bondholders, and the $350 million that could be spent on the schools he pretends to care about.
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Water Bears? Seriously? It's like "Seahawk." Sure, it'll grow on you, but nobody really knows what it is. Or cares. The only name that sucks worse is "Metropolitans."
Sports teams want something badass. Panthers. Predators. Grizzlies. The most badass creature on the Puget Sound is the Orca.
The Seattle Orca. Gonna fuck you up. Plus, they look cool. Damn right.
Sports teams want something badass. Panthers. Predators. Grizzlies. The most badass creature on the Puget Sound is the Orca.
The Seattle Orca. Gonna fuck you up. Plus, they look cool. Damn right.
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can't use Orcas, Vancouver's logo is fricking Orca breaking out of the ice. We got beat to the punch, damnit anyways
Not Metropolitans, people would call them the Metro's and other people would wonder why we named our team after our bus transit system or after well dressed straight men.
The Angry Animal Naming Convention will not steer us wrong. Go Seattle Wolves! Or Steelhead, or Chinook, Elk, Grizzlies- anything as long as it's pissed off
Not Metropolitans, people would call them the Metro's and other people would wonder why we named our team after our bus transit system or after well dressed straight men.
The Angry Animal Naming Convention will not steer us wrong. Go Seattle Wolves! Or Steelhead, or Chinook, Elk, Grizzlies- anything as long as it's pissed off
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Once we get the an NBA team it's really just questions of when and how for an NHL team. The city of Glendale rejected the latest deal to keep the Coyotes. And the proposed NHL realignment has the Western Conference with two less teams than the preposed Eastern Conference. We'll get an existing team (Coyotes or Blue Jackets) or an expansion team.
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The Seattle Dramatic Chipmunks. Something like this would look good on a jersey.
http://www.mike2.com/2012/07/13/dramatic…
http://www.mike2.com/2012/07/13/dramatic…
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I like "Seattle Freeze" too. Smart.
Though I'm still holding my breath for local pro sports franchise called "The Green River Killers."
Though I'm still holding my breath for local pro sports franchise called "The Green River Killers."
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Bravo @18. I would buy tickets to either the Moss Piglets or the Tans.
That hockey rink rendering is a thing of beauty, by the way.
That hockey rink rendering is a thing of beauty, by the way.
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No one believed Clay Bennett was keeping the Sonics in Seattle. He said he was moving them in the OKC papers. Roy was done in Montreal, and there's no way to say where he couldn't have gone. Buying a team stocked with talent is the quick route to a contender. Who is to say whether the fans have earned it? Colorado continues supports its team. Maybe the Avs can make the playoffs again after realignment.
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@ 47, Roy may have been done in Montreal, but the Nordiques were done in Quebec because of their market size and weak Canadian dollar. The provincial government wouldn't help, so that was that. Their 1995-96 season was destined to be played somewhere else.
Anyway, Roy himself said he wouldn't have played in Quebec because of their rivalry; and he was still a top goaltender, so it's really too unlikely to imagine the Canadiens trading him there, or elsewhere in their division, and preferably not in their conference. Teams in any major league avoid sending disgruntled stars to rivals. You don't want to make them better.
Anyway, Roy himself said he wouldn't have played in Quebec because of their rivalry; and he was still a top goaltender, so it's really too unlikely to imagine the Canadiens trading him there, or elsewhere in their division, and preferably not in their conference. Teams in any major league avoid sending disgruntled stars to rivals. You don't want to make them better.
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@48, it's your hypo. No need to tell me the Nords had moved and the Cdn dollar was then lower than the USD. There was a strike, and there was not a lot of support for a bailout. In any case, those deserving fans in Colorado waited less than a year for their Cup, but as you say they never would have won in Quebec.
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Hypothetical. I'd say Seahawk fans are deserving. Last year, Cheatin' Pete blew it, but this year they will be rewarded.
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