CLEVELAND, Ohio, – A residential tower at the nuCLEus project in downtown Cleveland could stand 54 stories– or 647 feet– high, making it the city’s fourth tallest building.
The developers behind the skyline changing nuCLEus proposal filed their first crop of renderings with the city Thursday. The images show how Stark Enterprises of Cleveland and J-Dek Investments Ltd. of Solon hope to fit apartments, offices, stores, restaurants, hotel rooms, parking garages and — possibly — a few dozen condominiums onto a 3-acre site in the Gateway District.
J-Dek and Stark also confirmed that they’ve hired NBBJ as the lead architect on the project, which now carries an estimated price tag of $380 million to $400 million.Bialosky + Partners Architects, a local firm, will assist NBBJ designers from Columbus, New York and Shanghai.
Well holy shit. Is this Cleveland or is this the Capitol of Panem? I’m almost expecting President Snow to come buzzing out of a window in a hovercraft on the way to the ceremony to begin the 75th Hunger Games (aka the Third Quarter Quell for you n00bs out there)
Judging by the fine, eloquent, poignant commenters from the Cleveland.com article you’d think this was the worst piece of architecture ever drawn in the world:
Let’s take a look at Toronto’s skyline as “quinnanderson” said:
Looks pretty nice to me
FLAMING SCORCHING HOT TAKE here from Ohiodood
the_truth bringing it strong
Typical Cleveland attitude
But here’s my favorite:
Hey wakeupcle, you just got BURNED, bro!
It’s utopian as fuck and futuristic. I personally love it. This is only the first draft so there’ll be a lot more rendering and designs. I’m excited to see what the final design looks like.
College football. A sport littered with rivalries and downright hatred between fanbases. Ohio State-Michigan, Auburn-Alabama, Oregon State-Oregon. The most passionate and insane fans call the college side home on the gridiron.
In the past three games, Ohio State has played some pretty “hateable” competition; Michigan (obviously); Wisconsin (Big Ten rival, have had some great matchups with the Bucks the past couple of years); and my personally most hated school/state in the US- Alabama. 3 schools that are easy to hate if you’re a Buckeye fan. But what about Ohio State’s opponent in the national championship games? There’s nothing really to hate about Oregon, right?
Wrong.
There’s plenty to do with the University of Oregon that’ll sharpen your Hatred Knife. From Phil Knight to their uniforms to their mascot, here are the Top 10 reasons to hate the Oregon Ducks presented in no order (except #1… #1 is in a class all by itself)
Honorable Mention:
KISS- Keep It Simple, Stupid. Short & quick and to the point while presenting a valid statement. Hipsters. Fucking. Suck. Oregon has tons of hipsters.
If A=B and B=C then A=C.
Hipsters suck… so that means Oregon sucks. Yeah your face just got melted off due to the Transitive Property.
Top 10 in no order (except #1)
10. Their uniforms are trash
Oh, I know how we can be cool. Let’s have a different uniform combination EVERY game ever. GREAT IDEA!! Sure, lets leave our uniform decision up to an 11 year old with ADHD who hasn’t taken his Ritalin in 5 months.
I imagine the conversation to go something like this every week:
“Hey this neon green will go good with a dark purple”
“But Phil, purple isn’t one of our school colors”
“Shut up, we just released the new Kobe 9s, we’re using purple!”
Fuck school colors. Fuck tradition. Let’s wear whatever Nike is pushing that month.
Joey Bosa summed it up perfectly
9. This snowball fight video
Oh, no big deal just members of the Oregon football team pelting professors in the face with snowballs. Slap on the wrist here, slap on wrist there. Jerks.
8. Marcus Mariota
He’s so perfect. So great. What a choir boy. Nah. You’re a QB in a very quarterback friendly system. You don’t hear much from Jeremiah Massoli or Darron Thomas nowadays, do you? What about Dennis Dixon? Oh, that’s right they were all Oregon QBs who had great college careers but flamed out in the NFL. The next Oregon QB will throw for 30 TDs and rush for 15 TDs. Snore. The QB after that will do the same. And the one after that and the one after that. Not impressed.
ESPN, please get off your knees
7. They thought this was hilarious after the FSU game
Making fun of a horrible & unspeakable act? Classy.
6. They run a dirty program
You think tattoos are bad? They gave away shaving supplies aka FREE RAZORS. Now I don’t know about you but any university that gives away deadly weapons like that shouldn’t be a university. The administration at Oregon should be ashamed.
Laser tag and MINI GOLF? Throw the book at them. Dirty I tell you. DIRTY!
5. Oregon is in bed with Phil Knight
The whole university is run by the co-founder of some company that builds shoes; Phil Knight.
When Phil Knight gets to his suite at Autzen Stadium to watch his beloved Oregon Ducks, he can put on his headset and listen to the Ducks’ coaches call plays.
Without Knight, Oregon would be thrilled to go to the Holiday Bowl. Without Knight, Oregon would be asking for money instead of printing it.
No, most of Knight’s spending is about recruiting. He spends to excess in order to impress high school kids.
By the time Knight is done with this football facility, he will have spent more than $300 million transforming Oregon athletics.
I’s sure none of the athletes there NEVER get any under the table perks. Never.
4. Their mascot
It’s bad enough when your mascot is a duck. It’s even worse when it’s a blatant ripoff of the least intimidating Disney cartoon character ever.
3. Chip Kelly screwed the Browns over
It started off with this
Which led to this and everyone got excited:
But wait….
Welp. Fuck.
Chip Kelly I hate you and hate the program that you built.
2. Their basketball court
Who signed off on this? No doubt one of the ugliest sporting venues in the United States
Because NOTHING says “basketball” like a forest painted onto a hardwood court.
1. This song
Remember the 90’s smash hit “Return of the Mack?” You know the classic song that goes “You lied to me…” Awesome song, right? Put that on at any party/at any bar and you’re the hit of the night…
Well…
The University of Oregon took that classic, spit on it, stepped on it, ran it over with a lawnmower, cut it up with a machete and then buried it in the backyard with their rendition titled “Return of the Quack.”
Imagine the sound of Stephen Hawking having sex, mix that with Flo from Progressive’s voice, add knives & forks scratching on a plate… Take all of those sounds and add them together… and you’ll have the same musical pitch and melody of this “song.” It doesn’t help that the singers each sound like a Cocker Spaniel getting neutered. If you don’t believe me, just give it a listen.
FUCK that song. Sick Casey Matthews reference btw…
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PS- I didn’t really hate the Oregon football team before compiling this list but after working on this I talked myself into genuinely hating them. I do respect them but the hate flows strong through my veins.
I don’t know why I keep doing this. I’m not even that big of a Dolan/Shapiro/Antonetti guy. There have definitely been times where I’ve sworn out loud at the Dolans just like everybody else. Yeah, they don’t make it rain like the Yankees. Or the Dodgers. Or even the White Sox, Rockies or Padres. They’re not great at drafting. I wouldn’t argue otherwise. But over the past 5 years, Baseball Prospectus has ranked the Tribe farm system as about the 15th best in the big leagues on average. Directly in the middle of the pack. It was even as high as 3rd and 7th in 2010 and 2011, respectively. I obviously understand that it’s just one site’s opinion but I think it’s pretty much a similar story most anywhere you look. There are other good things about our farm other than Francisco Lindor.
In light of how the Cavs season and Browns off-season is going, it (should) makes you appreciate what you have as an Indians fan. What’s the most important thing for a front office (besides winning, which neither the Browns nor Cavs have done nearly as much as the Indians in the past couple years)? Continuity. That word is LOL-worthy over at Browns camp in Berea. 8 head coaches, 12 offensive and 10 defensive coordinators (feel free to check me on that) in the 15 years they’ve been back. The Cavs have had four head coaches, er 3 since they hired the same one again three years after firing him, and 3 GMs in the past 5 years.
The Indians? Mark Shapiro held the General Manager position for ten years (named Executive of the Year by The Sporting News in 2005 and 2007) before handing it off to Chris Antonetti after the 2010 season (Antonetti himself has been with the Indians since 1999). The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Dolans have owned the team since 2000.
But…but….we hired a new manager two years ago! That’s not continuity!
You’re right. It isn’t. But the hiring of Terry Francona is ARGUMENT NUMBER ONE that the Indians most certainly do not have the worst front office in Cleveland. And if you’re trying to measure the immeasurable “desire to win” of each respective front office? How about hiring a coach who has won a championship in his sport before like the Indians did with Tito? Let’s take a look at the last 5 NBA and NFL Champions:
…so I definitely thought there would be way more returning champion coaches before I took a half hour to put that thing together. But it supports my point nonetheless. Every single coach in both sports over the past 5 years has had some amount of success before winning a championship. Wouldn’t a front office that “wants to win” hire a coach who has proven he knows what it takes to get the job done?
Pettine: zero head coach experience. Chud: zero head coach experience. Shurmur: zero head coach experience. Mangini: three years HC experience, one Wild Card appearance (lost), followed by a 4-12 year and one of the most epic collapses in recent memory (8-3 start, 9-7 final record in 2008). Combined record with the Browns? 25-55. But that front office wants to win.
Mike Brown: at the time of hire, zero head coach experience. Byron Scott: OK fine he was a pretty good coach. Mike Brown again: lol. David Blatt: zero NBA head coach experience. Their combined records with the Cavs (starting in 2010 with Brown)? 116-232. But that front office wants to win.
It’s not accidental I’m just looking at the past 5 years. Honestly it really doesn’t matter how far you go back with the Browns, it just gets worse. The Cavs were the closest thing we’ve seen to a championship team during LeBron’s first tenure here. But that was all about him, not about some genius maneuvering by the front office or Mike Brown out coaching people. We won 17 games in 2002 and lucked into the first overall pick the year the greatest basketball player of our (possibly any) generation was available. If anything, the Cavaliers front office dropped the fucking ball big time by not being able to surround him with enough talent TO win a championship.
So quite simply, if you agree with the top of this list:
…I respect your opinion but you seriously could not be more wrong.
The only real knock that keeps coming back from Indians haters/fans is that the Dolans don’t spend money. The original ClevelandSC guy and I had a financial back and forth a couple months ago, so I’m not going to re-hash that here, but I will say this: like the hiring of Francona, the fact that the Dolans don’t spend money how people want them to actually reinforces my argument (to a point).
The people who clamor for the Scherzers, Sandovals and Shields don’t realize how things need to be done in a small market. There are no years where you “go for it”. There’s no real “re-building” years. It’s a constant battle to draft and acquire young, controllable talent that can produce at the major league level for a little bit, maybe even lock some of them up at a reasonable price (see: Kipnis, Brantley, Gomes). But if you don’t, you need to shop that talent before they hit the open market in order to acquire more young, controllable guys.
People were already bitching about the Swisher and Bourn signings like two weeks after they happened. Those were two big contracts for the Indians to give out. Now this winter people are already talking about getting them off the books because they’re making too much. Can you imagine what would happen if those were some of your “big name” guys making 80, 90, 100 mil? We wouldn’t be locking up some of our young talent, that’s for sure. Teams like the Yankees can afford to take those chances since they can just go right back to the well and get another guy. They can afford to swim as fast as they can because if they get tired and pass out or get attacked by a shark, they can pay the coast guard to come save them. We can’t do that. We have to constantly tread water and hope to god we hit land.
Let’s take a look at Toronto’s skyline as “quinnanderson” said:
Bottlegate 