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September 21, 2006
It came from the Blogosphere...
SportsBiz - The Business of Sports Illuminated, Nets Still Heading to Brooklyn, But Renew in Jersey First
The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, of which the new arena is to be the centerpiece, has been delayed and the Nets didn't want to take any chances on problems in New Jersey, according to Nets offcicials.
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The new lease agreement with New Jersey allows the team to move to Brooklyn when the project is complete without penalty. However, if for some reason, the Brooklyn porject falls through and the team wants to move somewhere else, it could be assessed penalties as high as $12.1 million.
Left Behinds, Links about crazy sh*t done by greedy people in Brooklyn
Illustrating what's wrong and what's right with the blogosphere, we're going ahead and linking a blog that's linking us linking another blog.
Via NoLandGrab, Will at onNYTurf describes how the MTA is now planning service cuts to close their deficit, in a year when they gave away $50 million in fare cuts to tourists, and are trying or tried to give away far more than that to the Jets and Bruce Ratner. Fun shit. Don't say we didn't warn you.
NoLandGrab: Back in January '06, the Left Behinds DID warn everyone of exactly the same [insert your own expletive here]. Now we're feeling ornery too.
NBACCION, Parece que los Nets retrasan su mudanza a Brooklyn
Los New Jersey Nets han llegado a un acuerdo para seguir jugando en el Continental Airlines Arena hasta el año 2013, por lo que en principio aplazan su idea original de jugar en su nuevo campo de Brooklyn la temporada 2009-1010.Si el equipo de East Rutherford decidiese abandonar el Continental Airlines Arena antes de tiempo deberá pagar una cláusula de indemnización con con cifras millonarias.En 2004 Bruce Ratner compró los Nets, y desde entonces está tratando de llevarse la franquicia a Brooklyn, que no cuenta con ninguna franquicia profesional. En el proyecto es capital el babellón para 18.000 espectadores que piensa construirse.
Translation for those whose Spanish is still limited to, "Su casa es Bruce casa."
Posted by lumi at September 21, 2006 8:30 AM