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The 50 mile drive would have been here (downtown Cleveland to Geneva).

Wow, I can't believe they were going to have the thing in Geneva. That's a crazy long drive to any large hotels. What a dumb place to build that kind of a facility.

Be that as it may, in so far as your future online internet forum posts are concerned, you should be more wordy and verbose going forward.

I'm no Colt fan, but to be fair I'm pretty sure it was Seneca Wallace who made that throw.

Chester is actually a US route (322) just like Euclid, but Prospect is neither a US route nor a state route (same as Carnegie).

I really think the PD is wrong there. They do mention about Riverside having 1,949 students but it being 8-12. Isn't Mayfield also 8-12? I would bet the 2,200 includes 8th graders. The OHSAA enrollment numbers show 1,074 total students in grades 9-11, so 2,200 actually still seems high if you include 8th graders. EDIT: The ODE report card for Mayfield High School says 1,995 students for the entire school, which is grades 8-12. http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2010-2011/BUILD/023325.pdf Nice work, somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain I was aware that Mayfield High School was 8th-12th. Orange also used to be 8th-12th, but I'm not sure that's the case anymore. Other than that and the one you mentioned, I can't think of many other 8th-12th schools in NEO. It's a bit of an odd grade configuration for high school. Mentor used to be 10th-12th but I'm fairly certain it's moved to the more standard 9th-12th. There don't seem to be a lot of 10th-12th schools around anymore, either. I always thought Mentor was a 4 year school. Most schools OHSAA members changed to 4 year schools in the mid to late 80s. I lived in Mentor until 1992, and it was definitely still 10-12 at that time. The junior high schools were 7-9 and the elementary schools were K-6.

I don't know if the northern part of campus is safer, I don't pay that close attention to the crime statistics or bulletins. In regards to closing streets off, if that's not an option, they should at least try to do some things to slow down the traffic along Prospect and even Chester. I know that the speed limit on those streets in the campus area is 25 mph, but people usually drive much faster when they can. With the new developments and retail, maybe including some street parking (like you see along Coventry or Mayfield in Littly Italy) would make it easier for pedestrians and force drivers to slow down a bit, while also giving the campus a more unified feel. It would at least be an effective means of slimming the roadway, but the problem with relying on street parking to do that is that you have so many feet of clearance at intersections that widens the crossing width at intersections, exactly where the crossing widths should instead be narrowest... The parking lane could end (curb cuts back in) right before the intersection to narrow the street up to the through lane width. I believe Indianapolis does this on some streets.

What's going to hurt attendance the most is the fact that they started off the last two seasons in a promising fashion. Now, even if they are in first place next year halfway through the season, many people likely will think they are going to inevitably collapse anyway, so why go.

Yeah, this is absolutely insane. On July 26, the Indians beat Verlander for the second time this season to take the 3-game series against the Tigers. They were 50-49, and although they had been playing worse than they were at the start of the season, they were still above .500 and only 3.5 games out of first place. Since then they are 5-27. That span is 1/5 of the season and their winning percentage is 0.156 in that time. To give you an idea of how bad they have been in the last month-plus-a-bit, if they continued on a pace like that for an entire season, they would end up 25-137. No team since 1900 has had a winning percentage under 0.235, and the only team ever to have a winning percentage worse than what the Indians have had during this stretch is the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who were 20-134. Put another way, the Indians are averaging alternating between getting swept one series, and winning 1 out of 3 the next (they are slightly worse than averaging winning 1 out of 6 games). That does not make for a watchable team.

Was anything ever done to correct the issues at the garage? I noticed that the shoring supports are all gone. Does this mean they have fixed anything?

I thought 79 MPH was the top speed all the way from CHI to NYC. As an unrelated note, I recently rode Amtrak from CHI to IND, and the top speed on that stretch is 59 MPH, and I verified that we were right on that speed for much of the trip with my phone's GPS speedometer. The track actually isn't bad except for one stretch of about 30 miles on the old Monon Railroad (which is crazy bumpy), so I'm not sure why the top speed is so low.

He mentions the train hits 130 MPH. ???

I really think the PD is wrong there. They do mention about Riverside having 1,949 students but it being 8-12. Isn't Mayfield also 8-12? I would bet the 2,200 includes 8th graders. The OHSAA enrollment numbers show 1,074 total students in grades 9-11, so 2,200 actually still seems high if you include 8th graders. EDIT: The ODE report card for Mayfield High School says 1,995 students for the entire school, which is grades 8-12. http://www.ode.state.oh.us/reportcardfiles/2010-2011/BUILD/023325.pdf

I would assume they meant 2575 rooms filled per night from the way it was worded.

Mayfield cannot be that big. It wasn't long ago that they wavered between D1 and D2 in football, and I don't think the size of the school is rapidly expanding.

Brunswick is actually slightly larger than Strongsville now, although both are smaller than Mentor. Lorain and Mentor are almost identical in size. Fairfield (near Cincinnati) is the largest public high school in the state. As far as number of boys in grades 9-11 (which is what the OHSAA uses to determine divisions in boys sports) Fairfield and St. Xavier are nearly identical, with St. Ignatius close behind them. http://www.ohsaa.org/members/hsenroll11.htm

I have heard that story as well. I believe the biggest problem the league had with Mentor is that they were much larger than many of the schools (obviously), but especially Mayfield, South, North, and Maple Heights, none of which were D2 in football at the time (and I believe that some are D3 under the new alignment). I heard they were told they needed to split into two high schools or they were out of the league. I believe this was either 1990 or 1991.

What he probably means by "it didn't solve anything" is just what you said...now 271 needs to be widened, and if they did that, then 422 and 480 would need to be widened, then 77 and 176, etc. And by the time they were all widened, enough new sprawl would have been enabled to cause them all to need to be widened again. However, I will say that as freeway widening projects go, SR 8 was one of the better ones, as freeways are meant to connect cities rather than just facilitate sprawl, and SR 8 does at least provide another Cleveland to Akron connection. The real wastes are those such as the widening of SR 2, which will just keep offloading the traffic backups further east.

Mentor did leave the GCC well before it broke up. They left around 1990 and Nordonia joined a few years later. MTS, how old are the old days you're referring to? I only know GCC history back to the early 1980s, so if you're referring to a time before that I guess I wouldn't know. But I do know that none of those teams were in the GCC from the early 80s on. You said "Even after Mentor left, teams still had to travel to Lorain County", but Mentor didn't leave until at least 1990. Or were they in the conference long ago and left two different times?

MTS, I think you're getting the GCC mixed up with another conference. None of those teams were ever in it, and no school west of Euclid/Brush/Maple Heights was in the conference. Clevelander17 is right about the only 9 teams to ever play in that conference, except that there were actually never more than 8 in the conference at one time (Nordonia left a couple years after Mentor left).

Yeah, I believe you have it pretty much correct. But the GCC broke up more because the school sizes varied than travel problems (the furthest schools were no more than 30 min apart after Mentor was booted).

MTS, I think we've had this discussion before, but I'm pretty sure you're referring to the WRC, which was formed from teams leaving the GCC, which wasn't all that spread out. The WRC spanned a much larger area and eventually many teams broke off into the already existing LEL to make it a two division conference.

I think Weeden is a better quarterback overall, but he needs a decent line. Unfortunately, we don't have that, so I think McCoy, with his scrambling ability and playmaking after getting flushed out of the pocket, will have more success here. Of course, I'd prefer that we improve our line, because no matter who the quarterback is, it's going to be a long season if our blocking continues to be abysmal.

??? She was painting the letters on.

Why is it that rail is the only mode of travel expected to be profitable?