Confirmed with Link: Senators are for sale - and it’s a Gong Show
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Pro sports is one of the only sources of truly original content in a world starved for it. It's why the NFL owns the world. When a Walton (Walmart) stepped up to buy an NFL team, pro team owners everywhere heard the opening of Pink Floyd's Money. The thing is, with the rare exception of ultra-expensive expansion, they're not making any more teams. Rich people should be and will be falling over themselves to get a piece of a team, any team, because they become available less often than a good RD. Stocks go up and down, but pro sports teams only go up.
PoutineSp00nZ
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If Reynolds is flying into Ottawa for the game you have to think he's coming to have some talks with various people.
Looks like he's serious as hell.
Looks like he's serious as hell.
“Transport billionaire Michael Andlauer is the early favourite to be the next owner of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, as the former beer-league goalie goes up against some of Canada’s wealthiest entrepreneurs in a battle for membership in hockey’s most exclusive club.”
www.theglobeandmail.com
Billionaire Michael Andlauer early favourite in the battle to buy NHL’s Ottawa Senators
Actor Ryan Reynolds confirms in a Tonight Show interview with Jimmy Fallon he is interested in being the face of a consortium that buys the team: ‘a fancy way of saying I need a sugar mommy or a sugar daddy’
www.theglobeandmail.com
Yak
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Nice for Reynolds to show up to the game.I wasn't sure he was serious but after last night and then being in Ottawa next day shows legit seriousness. He knows he would be minority stake holder but star power is always good for the Sens and NHL.
I’ll do “letting the cat out of the bag”, though…
It’s another of the hilariously long list of British Naval sayings that have evolved into modern idiom. This one refers to letting the cat o’ nine tails out of its bag to extract the truth from some poor sailer tied to the mast.
Now we just use it to refer to someone letting the truth out…
Love these things. For anyone interested “To Rule the Waves” is an excellent book on British, and thus global, naval history and influence.
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“Transport billionaire Michael Andlauer is the early favourite to be the next owner of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, as the former beer-league goalie goes up against some of Canada’s wealthiest entrepreneurs in a battle for membership in hockey’s most exclusive club.”
Billionaire Michael Andlauer early favourite in the battle to buy NHL’s Ottawa Senators
Actor Ryan Reynolds confirms in a Tonight Show interview with Jimmy Fallon he is interested in being the face of a consortium that buys the team: ‘a fancy way of saying I need a sugar mommy or a sugar daddy’
He’s worth $1.1B. Doesn’t seem like he could go it alone considering the team will likely fetch close to $1B.
Hopefully it’s a big group that gets it and not another businessman from Toronto who’s poor by NHL owner standards, which Andlauer is. He’d be penny pinching from day one unless there’s another billionaire going in with him.
As a reminder, Melnyk bought the team for $130M when he was worth close to $2B.
Gil Gunderson
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Andlauer owns 20% of the Habs. Would he not need to give up his stake or does that not apply to minority ownership?
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I’d take these articles with a grain of salt tbh. These are legit billionaires out there competing to buy this team, and my guess is they’re willing to play hardball to make it happen. Who knows who’s leaking what and for what reason“Transport billionaire Michael Andlauer is the early favourite to be the next owner of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, as the former beer-league goalie goes up against some of Canada’s wealthiest entrepreneurs in a battle for membership in hockey’s most exclusive club.”
Billionaire Michael Andlauer early favourite in the battle to buy NHL’s Ottawa Senators
Actor Ryan Reynolds confirms in a Tonight Show interview with Jimmy Fallon he is interested in being the face of a consortium that buys the team: ‘a fancy way of saying I need a sugar mommy or a sugar daddy’
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NO, it’s actually Champing
Definition of CHAMPING AT THE BIT
waiting in an impatient way to do something… See the full definition
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Doubt he was in town to “talk turkey”…but did see him in conversation with Chris Phillips?
Far as I know, he’s the first to have direct talks with a team representative (Phillips” and they say the “early bird catches the worm” BUT the “second mouse get the cheese”!
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Bruce said he was sitting with bankers that have overseen many NHL team transactions
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In the Ryan Reynolds movie "Waiting" they say "chomping at the bit" as part of a line. So I'm with our future hockey ruler and the script he approved nearly 20 years ago.NO, it’s actually Champing
Definition of CHAMPING AT THE BIT
waiting in an impatient way to do something… See the full definition
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He was chatting with Chris and Erin Phillips and signing some autographs for fans. It was pretty awesome.
Having some star power and ex-sens players associated with new ownership will help for sure. You want people that the fans have a positive association with being the face of the ownership group.
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Thanks for sharing. I had a feeling Bettman might have a favorite that he's likely been dealing with for awhile. Andlauer's worth is only $1.1 B though & that was a little lower than I thought for a NHL team owner. Interesting stuff all-in-all nonetheless.“Transport billionaire Michael Andlauer is the early favourite to be the next owner of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, as the former beer-league goalie goes up against some of Canada’s wealthiest entrepreneurs in a battle for membership in hockey’s most exclusive club.”
Billionaire Michael Andlauer early favourite in the battle to buy NHL’s Ottawa Senators
Actor Ryan Reynolds confirms in a Tonight Show interview with Jimmy Fallon he is interested in being the face of a consortium that buys the team: ‘a fancy way of saying I need a sugar mommy or a sugar daddy’
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Very Stable Genius
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And that was wrong, so you can be wrong too.
Some people hear “ there’s a bathroom on the right” and that is incorrect, and others hear “there’s a Bad Moon on the rise”…. And they would be correct
YouGotAStuGoing
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Champing is technically correct, but chomping is widely accepted. This isn't like a then/than situation.
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So when A mistake is repeated often enough, it becomes “accepted” but those who don’t know the correct phrase?Champing is technically correct, but chomping is widely accepted. This isn't like a then/than situation.
you know who does that? Low knowledge people, who also use then instead of than, and people who use there instead of their or they’re.
“A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse.”
Yes Monty Python got that wrong…
YouGotAStuGoing
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You're wrong, man. Language evolves. You may not like it — I understand being stuck in your ways, much as I am with the word 'literally' also meaning 'not literally' — but culture causes shifts in the way language is used all the time.
BonHoonLayneCornell
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As with many of these old british born idioms, society corrected them to something people can naturally infer and not have to read history books to understand.
"champing at the bit can sound funny to people who aren't familiar with the idiom or the obsolete sense of champ, while most English speakers can infer the meaning of chomping at the bit."
"champing at the bit can sound funny to people who aren't familiar with the idiom or the obsolete sense of champ, while most English speakers can infer the meaning of chomping at the bit."
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