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ParanoidObsessive 12/30/19 12:29:49 PM #55:	Monopoman posted... It's not 82 games on the road, it's 41 games on the road and 41 games at home + playoffs potentially. Yeah, but because of how games are scheduled, it's not like all the home games are lumped together in one bundle. Like I mentioned in my analysis earlier, you're still probably traveling about 50 times even without playoffs. The longest you'd ever be in one place for a home game stretch is 4-5 games (about 8-10 days), and there are times when you may fly in for one home game and have to fly right out again, giving you 2 days "home" tops. What makes it so painful is that you really only get about two days or so in any given city before you have to go to the next one, so your life basically becomes "catch a flight, check in to a hotel, go to a game, stay a night or two, check out, catch a flight". For six months. With an occasional week break where you stay in the home city until the next spate of away games (which may not even be a plus if your "home" city isn't YOUR home, and isn't interesting in and of itself - you'd probably find more worthwhile things to do in your extra time in NYC or Vegas than you would in Winnipeg or Tampa, for example). LinkPizza posted... Monopoman posted... Well one thing people are neglecting here is the season is not a full year and half of these games would be on their home grounds. Well, if your favorite team is local... If not, then it may be closer to 82 games on the road... This - I live in NJ, but "my team" is the Avs. The home games would actually be farther away from my house than most of the away games. I'd still be living out of a hotel 82 games straight. I still wouldn't see my house or anyone in my life for six months. Which, incidentally, is another problem with this scenario - if you're in a committed relationship/married (and god help you if you have kids), nothing in the rules says you get to take your partner with you, or that anyone would pay for their travel/hotel if they did. So you aren't just throwing away all of your normal life responsibilities and obligations (which may include whatever career you've managed to establish for yourself), you're basically abandoning your significant other for half a year. Again, this deal is much more appealing if you're alone, doing odd jobs, and don't really have a place of your own. It gets a lot worse when you have family/friends, pets, a career you love, and have put down roots in one place, where seriously disrupting your life for six months can have negative ramifications for years to come. 20 year old me would have leapt at a deal like this. 40 year old me would tell you to go fuck yourself. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:932239375] in You are gi... [t:78288763]...</cite> <quote><cite>Monopoman posted...</cite> <quote>It's not 82 games on the road, it's 41 games on the road and 41 games at home + playoffs potentially.</quote> Yeah, but because of how games are scheduled, it's not like all the home games are lumped together in one bundle. Like I mentioned in my analysis earlier, you're still probably traveling about 50 times even without playoffs. The longest you'd ever be in one place for a home game stretch is 4-5 games (about 8-10 days), and there are times when you may fly in for one home game and have to fly right out again, giving you 2 days "home" tops. What makes it so painful is that you really only get about two days or so in any given city before you have to go to the next one, so your life basically becomes "catch a flight, check in to a hotel, go to a game, stay a night or two, check out, catch a flight". For six months. With an occasional week break where you stay in the home city until the next spate of away games (which may not even be a plus if your "home" city isn't YOUR home, and isn't interesting in and of itself - you'd probably find more worthwhile things to do in your extra time in NYC or Vegas than you would in Winnipeg or Tampa, for example). <cite>LinkPizza posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Monopoman posted...</cite> <quote>Well one thing people are neglecting here is the season is not a full year and half of these games would be on their home grounds.</quote> Well, if your favorite team is local... If not, then it may be closer to 82 games on the road...</quote> This - I live in NJ, but "my team" is the Avs. The home games would actually be farther away from my house than most of the away games. I'd still be living out of a hotel 82 games straight. I still wouldn't see my house or anyone in my life for six months. Which, incidentally, is another problem with this scenario - if you're in a committed relationship/married (and god help you if you have kids), nothing in the rules says you get to take your partner with you, or that anyone would pay for their travel/hotel if they did. So you aren't just throwing away all of your normal life responsibilities and obligations (which may include whatever career you've managed to establish for yourself), you're basically abandoning your significant other for half a year. Again, this deal is much more appealing if you're alone, doing odd jobs, and don't really have a place of your own. It gets a lot worse when you have family/friends, pets, a career you love, and have put down roots in one place, where seriously disrupting your life for six months can have negative ramifications for years to come. 20 year old me would have leapt at a deal like this. 40 year old me would tell you to go fuck yourself. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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