Killion
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lame duck (n.)
1761, "any disabled person or thing;" especially Stock Exchange slang for "defaulter."
A lame duck is a man who cannot pay his differences, and is said to waddle off. [Thomas Love Peacock, "Gryll Grange," 1861]
Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lame+duck
... thank you for the link & etymological lesson.
So they need to negotiate a new arena deal with AEG. Shouldn't they get started on that now?
Yes indeed. Something that shouldve been done last spring. Just common sense. Everyone from broadcasters to sponsors, seasons ticket holders, management & players, everybody. You cant be flying by the seat of your pants year by year. Ice Arizona thinks they got kicked in the crotch and fine. You dont lie around wallowing on the ice crying about it. Crawl to the bench, get your mind & body together. Get over it. Lost a battle but your in the middle of a war. So rather than taking ineffective pot shots, making idiotic proclamations & creating artificial deadlines for oneself, get real, get a deal done with AEG & get on with it. That they havent does nothing but give rise to the theory that yeah, done like dinner, teams moving next year. Only they can silence this. Making a bad situation worse in not getting a deal done with AEG and I mean like yesterday. Its only natural people are going to assume the worst. So, you get out in front of it. The longer it goes on the worse its gonna get for them. Masochists, completely incompetent, power struggle going on with outsized ego's running wild or whats the deal?