An Open Letter to Sonics Fans

By TokenCanadian, Section NBA
Posted on Tue Aug 05 2008 at 10:56 AM EST
More on: Seattle, Sonics, Supersonics, Winnipeg, Jets, basketball, hockey, Gary Bettman, David Stern, Canada (all tags)

By Scott Gilmour

Dear Seattle;

First off, we would like to officially welcome you to our hell. You see, our city is a charter member of that small fraternity of places that know what it's like to lose their team. Actually, let us rephrase that: have their team ripped away from them under the watchful eye of a short, New York-living commissioner with a law degree. More than that, we felt that we should pull you aside for a man-to-man, city-to-city talk. The kind of talk that almost certainly has to take place in an old bar over a tall pint of beer.

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