Let me add to your allegory: sure, your girlfriend left you for a 33-year old scumbag, but I can understand why. You didn’t support your girlfriend when she was in the slums. Sure, she wasn’t the best looking girlfriend in the world. She had stinky breath, bad acne, and a camel toe, but that’s no excuse to stop spending time with her. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what you did. You started spending more late nights at work, or out training for a marathon, or maybe the other thing Winnipeg says Seattle fans  good at, drinking their sorrows away at the bar. And what happened? She found true love at 2 in the morning while shopping for Neutrogena facewash. Frankly, I don’t blame your gf for choosing Wal-Mart employee of the month. At least he wanted her.

See, Seattle fans, you didn’t start showing up for the games until you realized you were about to lose your team. You all grew tired of the losses and forgot what it means to be a real fan. Being a real fan means you go to the games against LA and Detroit, even though your team was bound to lose, and you don’t leave when trailing by 20 with 5 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. “Save Our Sonics” didn’t work, because the Sonics knew they weren’t yours anymore. You didn’t actually care.

Oklahoma City, on the other hand, even cared about a team they didn’t own. They sold out every Hornets game that came to the little 2-bit good for nothing city.

Sadly, the Sonics owner did what any CEO would do with profits down over several years. He re-shaped the product. Why wouldn’t he? He owns the damn thing. He didn’t burn it to the ground, he moved it to a place that had recently proven it could support an NBA franchise. It may be full of cowboys and have the 48th largest television market in the nation, but will that make a difference when Durant walks onto the floor and sees a sell-out crowd in the stands? NO. In fact, it might encourage the team to win. But what would a busy city like Seattle know about that?

So what should you really do, Seattle fans? Forget about the NBA? Why not? You already know how to forget the team that belongs to you. Maybe you can throw your support to the Wizards. We at least know it won’t require you to leave your home and actually drive to a game. Who needs a rooting interest when you can’t make it to the arena in the first place? Go ahead, curse the Commish and drink to his death. I mean, it’s not his job to manage the league or anything. I’m sure you, sitting in your La-Z-Boy, know better than he. And I’m sure his decision wasn’t based on your uninvolvement in your teams existence at all. He probably did it to spite Seattle, or whatever other reason helps you sleep at night.

In the end, the sad fact is this: Seattle is experiencing the consequences of its own actions, or rather, inaction. They got what was coming to a city who gave up on their own team. If Seattle will be known for anything, it will be that.

So Winnipeg, I will take one small piece of advice from you. I’ll forget the Sonics. The who? Go OKC Thunder!

Well said, too.  The Sonics ditching Seattle for Oklahoma City is such a JV move.  

By the way, more reason to hate Oklahoma City as the move has delayed the release of the 2008-2009 NBA schedule.